Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-08-09
Personal, but Pertinent.

Lewiston Tribune, an alleged dem
Ocratic newspaper, to call all who
have the temerity to differ from its
profound opinion as anarchists
and "Herr Most's." To be called
an anarchist is enough to take the
starch out of any good citizen Is
backbone. The epithet settles it
There is no replying to an impreg-
nable argument like that!
Some few weeks since the f. p.
published a little paragraf to the
effect that in the days to come
3" the land will be owned only by
those who use it; the loaf of bread
will be the standard of value; the
howell and palace will vanish, and
happy homes, industrious people,
equality, fraternity, and exact and
equal justice to all will rule tri-
umphantly throughout this broad
and happy land"
The self-styled democratic Tri-
bune, with characteristic AFRO
gance, promptly dubbed this as an
anarchist utterance, and the editor
hereof as a disciple of Herr Most
The facts that the conditions hoped
for have been the dream of philos-
ophers and thinkers in all ages,
and that such distinguished demo-
Gratis as Jesus Christ, Thomas JEFF
ferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham
Lincoln, and, in recent days, four
judges of the U. S. supreme court,
and q multitude of lesser lights,
have expressed the same thought
and the same high aspirations for
the betterment of humanity, had
no weight with the bogus democ-
racy of the Tribune. In its ankle
ty to stab the f. p. in the back, it
has put itself on record as an open
and avowed enemy of the common
people! AS an aristocratic gold
bug democratic organ, getting it's
financial and mental support direct
from aristocratic official circles in
Washington, we can readily I'M
derstand the Tribune's aversion
to a standard of value based on an
actual necessary of life; such a
standard would deprive the gold
dollar of all it's value. But it's
opposition to more equitable dis
tribution of the land among the
homeless, and its hostility to the
idea that the people should be
happy, prosperous and contented
under a regime of exact and equal
justice to all, is something utterly
beyond our comprehension. Are
we to infer that the Affords adj
vOcate the antithesis of these
things? ESQ, they were born sew
eral hundred years too late. They
are relics of the dark ages, when
the divine right of kings, feudal
monopoly of the land, hereditary
Legislators, the laws of entail and
primogeniture, and other legisla-
ton designed to perpetuate land
monopoly and class distinctions,
ruled the world unchallenged. If
the Affords had lived in 1776 they
would doubtless have called Jeffer-
son an impious blasphemer for
proclaiming to the world the until
then unheard-of doctrine that all
men are created free and equal,
and are entitled to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness!
If the silk-stocking Tribune is
standing on such platform it is
no particular concern of ours, fur.
ther than that they are masquer
aiding as democrats under false
pretenses. The beliefs and utter
ances of the Lewiston cuckoos may
be good democracy among tn,
platform boilers and traitors il
Washington, but such sentiment
and such people are repudiated b.
the rank and file of the democratic
party everywhere. We sugges
to our tenderfoot friends anothe
interview with that ancient mule