254 HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL. 



Sectional hate and its other self, party prejudice, have been the 

 means by which monopoly has been enabled to bind the people ; and a 

 blind subserviency to party and designing party leaders has been the 

 means by which it has accomplished what in other countries it obtained 

 by violence, bloodshed, conquest, and other forms of oppression. 



The favorite method of those who " toil not neither do they spin," is 

 to array those whom they wish to rob against each other. This once 

 accomplished, the rest is easy. Nor is the robbery of industry and a 

 virtual enslavement of the laboring people all the harm that has come 

 from this the most blighting curse that ever came upon the people of 

 free America. It has arrayed brother against brother, and made 

 enemies of those who, by every tie that binds men's hearts together, 

 should have been friends. 



Neither time nor space will allow a detail of methods resorted to by 

 those who " alienate the people only to prey upon them." It is through 

 false politics, and politicians more false and designing, that they seek to 

 accomplish their ends, and they have so far succeeded. All have heard 

 the cry of the campaign howler. I shall not attempt to describe him. 

 He is the bane of civilization, the enemy of liberty and humanity. His 

 mission is to stir up old animosities, engender new strifes, fight over 

 dead issues, and write platforms to be read before election and dis- 

 regarded and forgotten afterwards. He is an " oily " fellow. He has 

 been selected for his fitness for the work he is to perform. With him 

 " it is lawful to deceive, to hire Hessians, to purchase mercenaries, to 

 kill, to mutilate, to destroy," anything for success. It makes him 

 exceedingly " weary " should any one suggest that the politics of our 

 country be placed upon a higher plane. He worships no god but his 

 own ambition, and that ambition is to be the " cutest " trickster and 

 slyest deceiver of his party ; for well he knows that those who prey upon 

 the people and wealth producers will see his " transcendent ability " and 

 pay well for his treason to the interests he is supposed to represent, and 

 heap "honors" upon him. 



There is no sympathy in his heart for the miseries of the millions who, 

 by reason of his infamous schemes, are robbed of home, happiness, and 

 all hope of the future. There is no tear in his eye as the hapless family 

 the heartbroken father, the sad-faced and weeping mother, and the 

 sorrowing children find themselves driven from their home to become 

 helpless wanderers up and down the earth. He has never heard the 

 sigh come up from the bosom of his wife as she listens to the reading 

 of the foreclosure summons. Little cares he though tears may fall like 

 rain, though hearts may break, though hope may go out forever from 



