If the present vicious financial system,
which is paralyzing business, concentrating the
wealth in a few hands and reducing the mass
es to poverty and ignorance, is allowed to con
tinue a few more years, nothing short of a
revolution will regain and maintain the liber
ties bequeathed to us by the fathers.
For a long time we have had in’this country
two parties with but one head.
Did not Mr. Gassaway Davis, one of the
nominees of the last democratic convention,
make haste to tell Wall Street democrats that
the two platforms were nearly identical?
Now we are informed by dispatches in the
democratic dailies that Mr. Taggart, chairman
of the national committee, says that Bryan
will be the democratic nominee and Taft the
republican nominee and that they will be nom
inated on the same platform.
Then why two old party conventions? And
why should they have two sets of nominees,
if it is not to be a mere sham fight for the
spoils of office?
Every intelligent man knows that the two
old parties are responsible for the present
unsatisfactory conditions upon us.
The corporate attorneys and members of the
great trusts and corporations of the country
are generally about half and half democrats
and republicans. They, with the subsidized
and muzzled press, shape the policies of both
old parties.
If a conservative course suits them best,
they play conservative. If the radicals look
strong and the people clamor greatly for a
change, then they play radical till after the
election. Then, then, then, the people be
damned.
Comrades, patriots, shun such dangerous
alignments. In the language of the immortal
Groves, “Hold your ballot sacred.”
Uphold the hands of those who are fighting
your battle.
