Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-11-01

preparing Tor II by buying up our
cheap silver at 60 cents per ounce
and coming it ut the European
mints Mt the rate OF 41.S3 and
$1.37 per ounce for circulation
among their people.
The republican shibboleth Of
prosperity and full dinner pail"
might be good campaign cry il
there were to he no more presi-
Dental elections. The prosperity
argument has been put before the
people in its grossest and most
material form. "If you have
enough to eat you ought to be sat
isfied, and in gratitude you should
vote the republican tick-tv'
Such is the republican slogan in
this campaign. 1t ia sword
which cuts two ways. II the re-
publican party can give the laborer
a full dinner pail, why can not it
also give him house and lot, u
piano. and other little Injuries
which We are accustomed to as
sociate with the American home?
The full dinner pail argument is
precisely similar to the "Forty
acres and u Mule" which the re-
pnblicans promised the negroes
after their emancipation. The
coons voted the republican ticket
for years upon the strength Of that
promise. and they are now at.
tempting to scduce the white Ia
borer upon the identical PROPOSE
ton Of a full dinner pail.
The fact that there is grave
social peril in the doctrine that the
party in power can give the la
borer full dinner pail or any.
thing else, cuts no ice with the re-
publicans. It is an insane and
idotic doctrine TO teach, because
it's tendency is to make the labor
ling man dependent upon the
bounty OF the government instead
Of relying upon his own individual
exertions; and in the long run il
will be found a suicidal doctrine
for any political party to practic.
or preach, since it leads to til.
making of promises which are i'm
possible Of fulfillment, and is thu.
sure to entail political disaster soor
or late, besides leading straight t.
the destruction of individuality
effort and responsibility, winding
up in vicious pat"rnaIism, if no
in state socialism outright. Tn,
workingman is already beginning
to ask himeelf why it is that thu
republican party only gives him /,
''full' dinner pail, while it give
to the other fellow for whom h,
works a castle in Spain or Europe
steam yachts, race horses ant
every comfort and luxury OF life
Judge Hepburn and Poker Bill
Mcconnell made no friends 70
themselves or their party by thci
absurd distortions OF frozen fact
in their speeches here last week
Mcconnell has outlived his useful
ness and is now nothing but al
office-holding hack; but from Judg
Hepburn the people expected
decent regard for the facts of his
tory. Tho judge justified the in
justice of the republican polio
towards the Filippinos by citin
previous injustices practiced b.
this government. In other word
Judge Hepburn believes that tw
wrongs make one right! His ana
logy of the western territories a
government ''without the conseu
Of the governed" is particular
inappropriate and misleading. A
a matter Of fact the situation wa
reversed. The governments Of tn
United States was 80 good to u
that it paid the expenses OF the al
ministration Of territorial affair,
so that instead of having "Taxs
ton without Representation" "
had Representation without Taxa
ton. But even if Heyburn's ide
was correct, these terri t0rial 60,
r ernments were but temporary err
J ations erected for temporary pul
, poses. The treaties by which "
acquired them distinctly spccifi :.
that they were to be admitted I
the sister hood OF states, and the
citizens a. the equal of other cit
zens Of the Republic. One by on
3 these territories have been ad
J mitted and the few that are le
: will soon be in the Union. An
: whatever of injustice there was j
4 governing the people of these tel
r ritories without their consent wa
' simply because their was no rem
Eedy, and it was distinctly under
: stood that it was to be righted jus
, as soon as the territories p 'ssesse
< the population aud wealth t
y govern themselves as soverig
E states Of the American Unior
Moreover, these territories wei
' settled by American citizens VIII
1 had been educated in self-goverl
+ ment in other states, and the te
ritorial legislatures were give
ample power under their Organ
y laws to enact any and all kinds I
legislation for the territories whic
did not conflict with the Constitl
8 ton OF the United States. Flu
: thormOre. these territories WEI