756 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



both the old parties favor. Yet, they are powerless to 

 effect them, because the organized party machine is 

 opposed. And men who have stood prominently forward 

 in favor of such measures have been crushed out of public 

 life. Where is the brilliant Bwing and the faithful Van 

 Wyck? 



' 'Just in proportion to the strength of the independent 

 and third party movements outside of old party lines, may 

 independent men in the old party ranks urge and advocate 

 progressive measures. But were all third party and inde- 

 pendent movements to cease, then the members of the old 

 parties dare not go beyond the duly prescribed platform of 

 platitudes. It has been independent thinkers, outside of 

 party politicians, who have led the way in educating the 

 people upon the political and economic principles now advo- 

 cated by reformers inside and outside of party lines. It 

 was independent movements that called public attention to 

 those issues, and have kept them prominently before the 

 people in spite of fierce partisan opposition. It has been 

 through the influence of such agitations that whatever 

 slight and partial reforms effected the past twenty years 

 have been carried. And in the future new parties and 

 independent movements will lead the way in every polit- 

 ical reform, and in every practically progressive economic 

 measure. ' ' 



It is quite natural that the most violent protests come 

 from those whose interests have been so well protected of 

 late years by the representatives of the people that is, the 

 capitalists. If a new party is formed it will be by the 

 people. Thomas Jefferson said: 



U I am not among those who fear the people. They, 

 and not the rich, are our dependence for continued free- 

 dom." The great masses of the people are demanding 

 either a new policy of the old parties or a new party which 

 shall receive its vitality from the vital issues of the hour. 



