7l8 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



timental politics. Too much sentiment and not enough 

 sense. The first thing to do is to remove all these obstacles. 

 How is it to be done? By education. Suppose a man, 

 driving along the road with a loaded wagon, should get 

 into a mud-hole, and his team be unable to pull it out. 

 Directly another man comes along, and is requested to help 

 pull the wagon out. Now, suppose they differ as to the best 

 method of getting the wagon out, one wanting to pull it 

 out backwards, and the other forwards. Would it not be 

 foolishness for each one to undertake to carry out his plan? 

 Common sense would teach that they must both pull the 

 same way. Yet the farmers and laborers of America have 

 been pulling against each other for years. The politicians 

 and "bosses" have them hitched up to different ends of 

 the wagon, and continue to apply the party lash whenever 

 they undertake to unite and pull the same way. This is 

 what we call party prejudice. A better name would be torn- 

 foolishness. 



u If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye 

 be not consumed one of another." Galatians v: 15. 



Abraham Lincoln said: "The money power will 

 endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the preju- 

 dices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few 

 hands, and liberty destroyed." 



The immortal Washington, in his farewell address, 

 uttered the following warning: 



"I have already intimated to you the danger of par- 

 ties in the State, with particular reference to the founding 

 of them upon geographical discriminations. Let me now 

 take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the 

 most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the 

 spirit of party generally. 



u This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our 

 nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the 

 human mind. It exists in different shapes in all govern- 



