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9-   rolled from the scaffold beneath the axywhose ¢stead:y  
.d   · beat_ fell like -a machine for perpetual motion till action ’ ~
o-   wore out its iron heart. Such was the power of the  
11   masses in a despotism. How much greater is it in a ,
w g_QjQ_ ,government where the people bear.-rule and where they vt
ry   have the ballot to right their wrongs? The echo of that g
  great conflict has not died away, but is heard in the T  
1e   deepening voice of the masses demanding justice. They _
  have ceased to petition and to plead and to beg, and now j
iis     they assert their- rights and they demand. They demand j
of   the restoration of the principles upon which our fore- .
.k- _   fathers founded our Republic, that "governments derive ,
d.   their just power from the consent of the governed ; they ··
fic   hold that all men are created equal and have a right  
ny,   ’'._ i to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? *?
av-   They demand a patriotism that shall rise above par- °
rat of tisanism, and all that is done shall be for the good of ;.
of   the country ; they hold that if wealth must be centralized .
od,   it shall not be used as a means to obtain legislation  
ib- i-`p , favorable to those who possess it, but the laws shall be Q}
  the same for the princely palace of the multi-millionaire  
red g   and the humblest home domed by these American heav- g
len   ens; they hold that the government is the safest V,
3ut l   repository and most responsible trustee for all inonopo-V ,',
in ~ ii lies of transportation and communication, as it now is,  
hat , i of the interstate streams and the coast; they demand a jj
ple, » -1 fiscal policy based upon the taxable capacity of the citi-  
sof izens in support of the government; they insist on a  
pof     commercial policy that shall first be favorable to our- T  
his   selves, then friendly towards all other nations; they  
rich   demand a monetary system that shall preserve our  
2 of _. national credit, yet shall give to no class any self-con- j
and - ceived privileges, but one which shall be equitably fair 1
had ii and historically just to all sections of the nation; they  
shat _ _ assert that our electoral system shall be so reconstructed  
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