Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-09-23

ties, are the most inhuman and un-Christian-
like that ever existed under government
claiming to be OF and for the people
Nature has provided our country bountifully
with resources TO sustain all OF her children
with the necessities and comforts of life, while
the Republican and Democratic parties for the
past thirty years have been trying to thwart
her purpose through special legislation, by
granting to favored few the resources of the
land. Life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness is d delusion where the Opportunities and
means of sustaining life not free und unre-
stricted to all the people The right to work
and receive the fun product OF their toll be-
longs to all persons in q free government.
Land, water, light, heat. transportation and
the transmission of news being necessities,
should be controlled by the government in the
interest of all the people.
TARIFF LEO isLAr1oN.
The tariff legislation of the Republican and
Democratic parties for the past thirty years
has been sham battle to divert the attention
of the American people from the greater evils
that were depressing them. Under the plea OF
protecting American labor, building up na tlonal
industries and giving prosperity TO the people.
the tariff legislation of the old political parties
has differed only in percentage. not IN princi-
pie. Both parties have compelled our indus
trial classes to compete with foreign wages;
submit to the displacement of manual labor by
labor saving machinery-owned and controlled
by capitalists. Underline policy OF both po-
litical parties the wealth of the Nation has
been concentrated in the bands Of "A few, in
building up trusts and monopolies whereby
three-fourths OF the wealth of the Nation is
owned by less than per cent Of the people.
During the sham battle over the tariff question
the debts OF the American people, private, cor
porate and public, have increased twenty
thousand million of dollars, after expectation
of two thousand million dollars in gold, silver
ana products of AmericanlaDor III excess OF our
import during the same period. The protec-
ton given to homes for the people is noted in
the fact that forty years ago the most of our
people owned their homes, when today 90 per
cent OF the American people are living in rented
or mortgaged homes, while twenty-seven for
eign Syndicates own in this country twenty-one
million acres of land. The protection given to
labor by the old parties may be seen in the
thousands of men, unemployed. tramping
through the country seeking work; in the
"sweat shops, OF the large cities: the weavers
of New Bedford; and the coal and iron miners
of Pennsylvania and adjacent states, strug
Cling for food to give them strength 10 work.
Under the tariff and financial legislation OF
both old parties the most disastrous money
panics have convulsed our industrial system
silver has been deprived of free coinage at our
mints-the volume of money TO meet the de-
mands OF business has been restricted, where
by 80, 900 OF the most enterprising business
firms throughout the country, in the last thir-
ty-iive years. have been compelled to fail with
lars, which resulted in closing down factories
and business enterprises and caused untold
suffering to millions of wealth-producing citi-
zens who have been made paupers and deprived
OF comforta Die homes and living wages and spoil
lation of business enterprises still continues,
for the want of money.at the rate of over twelve
thousand failures per annum and these are
called Republican good times as compared
with the financial failures under the late DEM
ocratic administration. During this period of
strangling the business interests of the Nation,
twelve thousand banks, controlling the money
of the country, have added to their profits
thirty-twO hundred millions OF dollars, leaving
their capital unimpaired. The government
has curtailed the coming and issuing of money
to the extent that the people are compelled to
pay from per cent to 10 per cent interest for
the use of money, when the average annual IN