THE REMEDY. 757 



The men who control the policies of the old parties are 

 opposed to either a change of policies or the formation of 

 a new party. Thus the contest widens and deepens. 



There are only two sides to the question, and both the 

 two great political parties, by their policies and their acts, 

 occupy one side. Look at their platforms and their records! 

 What have they done for the people? They have simply 

 boasted of their records and sought to perpetuate their 

 power on the glory of the past. On every vital issue of 

 the day they occupy a position with the capitalist. This 

 condition must be changed. These policies must be dropped 

 or the masses of the people will be forced into poverty. It 

 is for the people to determine which is easier, to "turn the 

 rascals out," who control the policies of the parties, or to 

 organize a new party upon the vital principles which effect 

 the interests of labor. 



The duty of every patriotic citizen is plain. Liberty, 

 justice and equality should be the watchword. The suc- 

 cess of party should be a secondary consideration. Parties 

 should be the citizen's servants and not his master. A 

 man owes allegiance to party only so long as that party 

 serves his interests. With regard to the tendencies of the 

 two parties to ignore the questions relating to the public 

 good, James Russell Lowell says: 



1 ' If the dangers and temptations of parties be such as 

 I have indicated, and I do not think that I have overstated 

 them, it is for the interest of the best men in both parties 

 that there should be a neutral body, not large enough to 

 form a party by itself; nay, which would lose its power for 

 good if it attempted to form such a party, and yet large 

 enough to moderate between both, and to make both more 

 cautious in the choice of candidates and in their connivance 

 with evil practices. If the politicians must look after the 

 parties, there should be somebody to look after the politi- 

 cians; somebody to ask disagreeable questions and to utter 



