Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — Why They Turn Populists. [ARTICLE]

Why They Turn Populists.

Peru Sentinel: A prominent farmer of Miami county, in discussing the political situation with the editor of the Sentinel, a few days ago, asked \Chy it is that so many have lost faith in the two old parties and joined the Populist ~rf~tdmUpftrt.y io as worthless as-44 is represented to be? “Many” is a vague expression, but let that pass. The explanation is easy. A man who is the victim of a disease often gets impatient', loses faith in his regular physician, and becomes the prey of an ignorant and consciousless quack that may come along with a patent nostrum, warranted to .cure anything froST small pax to ingrowing nailsMany a man has been killed by quacks because be didn’t have the patience to get well slowly under the care of a competent physician,' and that’s what’s the matter with a great many people. Demagogues and political charlatans thrive upon the calamity and the credulity of the discouraged poor, just as quacks thrive upon the wretchedness and desperation of the discouraged sick. Hard times always bring to the surface a lot of demagogues whose pretentious to leadership would in quieter times have been gfeeted with derision and contempt, and people begin to experiment with political nostrums and deliberately’ incur the danger of destruction in the hope of finding a cure. Any thoughtful man who will let his eye sweep over the job lot of politicians that Populism has called to the front, and make a note of the fool born schemes they have invented, must readily admit that nothing but the folly of despair could have made possible such men and such measures. It is one of the worst features of hard times that such political quacks are raised up to aggravate the evil they profess to cure, to obstruct the operation of effective remedies aigl gather spoils from the miseries of the people. They are the creatures of evil conditions, just as the maggotis a creature of corruption and stench, a manifestation of decay. For the “Minneapolis Binders,” go to N. Warner <fc Son. Also the Woods Mower.