748 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



America. This is made possible by the nearly equal 

 division of the labor forces between the two great political 

 parties. This power dictates the policy of these parties 

 by threatening to withdraw its support from the one which 

 refuses to accede to its demands. They must yield or 

 suffer defeat. The people are influenced by prejudice; and 

 the representatives of the people, by the money of cor- 

 porations and the emoluments of office. To influence 

 legislation the people must grasp this balance of power 

 and drive King Mammon from his stronghold. To do 

 this they must surrender their political prejudices. They 

 must be ready to act, as the money power is, with 

 any party that will serve their interests. They must be 

 judges of what measures are best for them, and once agreed 

 on these measures they must be a unit in their efforts at 

 having them enacted into law. The demands of labor 

 should be presented to the dominant party in the county, 

 district, State and Nation, with the demand that they shall 

 be incorporated into their platform, accompanied with the 

 pledge to use every effort to carry them into effect. This 

 pledge should be accompanied with the nomination of men 

 who are known to be honest and upright, and whose inter- 

 ests are identical with those of the laboring masses. No 

 equivocation should be allowed ; they should be adopted 

 as a whole and without reservation. If rejected by the 

 dominant party, whichever it be, the labor organizations 

 should then, either take independent action or submit them 

 to the minority party, as they deem best. This would not be 

 forming a third party, while, at the same time, it would be 

 putting a test which, if the existing political parties refused 

 to accede to, would present the occasion of giving coherence 

 to the independent element, which would eventually result 

 in the disintegration of the existing parties, and the forma- 

 tion of a new one, founded upon principles of justice and 

 equity, and willing to espouse the cause of oppressed labor. 



