Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-04-06


revolutionize y life, a county, a State,
a nation it will revolutionize the civ
ilization of the world; and you never
can tell where you are going to get an
idea, and You can never tell what an
idea is going to do with you when you
get it Cor it gets you); and / want
some of you Republicans who came
merely for curiosity (and all Republi-
cans come merely for curiosity, &C
cording to Republican papers-just
curiosity, l want some of you who
came for curiosity to take this idea
home with you, and let it burrow into
your brain, and see if the idea will
not develope into political independ-
ence.
Striking Porcine Simile
/ got the idea from some hogs-you
can get it from me. / was riding
through Iowa and saw some hogs root
ing i'll the fields, and the first thought
that came to me was that those hogs
were destroying great deal of ground /;
and then my thoughts ran back to the
time when l lived upon q farm where
we owned hogs, and l recollected the
fact that we used to put ring into
the hogs nose. What for; to keep
him from getting fat? No; we were
more interested in his getting fat than
the hog WAS. The longer he was in
getting fat, the longer he lived. But
why did we put ring in the hogs
nose? So that while he was getting
fat he wouldn't destroy more than he
was worth. And the thought came to
me that government was a process by
which you may put rings in the noses
of hogs. We are all selfish, and every
law is merely an act to put a ring in
the nose OF some human hog. And I
have faith in our government because
the people in their better moments
will place restrictions upon them
selves so that in hours of temptation
they will not trespass upon the rights
OF their neighbors, and their neighbors
cannot trespass upon the rights of
others. Republicans, don't you think
it is time to put ring in the nose of
this plutocratic hog? Don't you think
that it is time for you to pass a law
that will make it impossible for trust
magnate to destroy more than he is
worth, while he is getting rich? My
friends, if you want to extinguish the
trust, you have got TO take the extin-
guisher out OF the hands OF the trust.
Just as long as the trusts elect men to
Office, just so long will they control
those whom they are sending into
nH nd so nj.
trust can tell 80 we'll into which party
it ought to 60, while 30 many Repub-
licans can't tell into which they ought
to go? Is it not strange that q trust
has so much better judgment of its
party then some of the Republicans
have of their interests? Is it not
strange that while all of the trusts are
getting into the Republican party,
there are some Republicans who re-
ioice at it, because they think it will
help them to win . political victory.
Your party spent more money in 80,
to elect its President than was spent
by all your previous candidates since
the war. Why didn't you ask where
the money came from? You did not
contribute it; not one man in q hum
dred in the Republican party contrib.
uted to the national campaign fund,
and not one man in hundred in the
Republican has any influence with the
administration after the campaign.
A Natural ResuIt-And You Like IT,"
Can you expect that the men who
control your elections for you will pass
an income-tax? They favor a gold
standard but hide behind the mask of
international bimetalism. They favor
financial trust, but don't dare to put
it in their national platform.
Not one word was said in go, by the
Republican platform in regard to re-
firing the greenbacks and substituting
bank notes, and any man who will in
vestigate the situation will find that a
secret promise was made by Republi.
can leaders that they would retire the
grecnback; and when the campaign
was over they proceeded to carry out
the agreement, and bill has become
a law that increases the power of the
banks to issue notes and decreases the
tax on national bank circulation.
You are paying war taxes. Read that
bill and you Will find that national
banks are paying now only half OF the
tax thst they were paying before the
war came. The Republican party has
not had time to take the taxes off your
warrants, but they did have time TO
reduce the tax on national bank cur
rency one.:.alf. You are to-day, Re-
publicans, standing inactive, while
trusts grow and fatten and thrive.
Your party not only protects the peo-
pie who plumber you when laws are TO
be passed, but your party also makes
o law for the express purpose of taking
money out OF your pockets and put
ting money into the pockets of these
other people. Go out and try to buy
a bond under this new law. and then
lay it away, and you will have only
the bond. But let national bank
buy one Of the same bonds. 1t can
dispose of the bond and get its money
back for the face value of the bond in
bank notes and draw interest besides.
You can either eat your cake Or keep
it, but the banks can eat and keep it
too. Not only this. That bill con-
templates a permanent and increasing
debt, on which the interest is to be
paid by you and the profits to be gath
cred in by the national banks. l will
venture to say that there is not Re-
publican in this audience, unless he be
connected with q national bank or has
money in it, or is the son of banker,
or expects to marry bankers daugh.
ter; l will venture to state that there
is no one here, unless connected some
what with the national bank that be-
lieves that permanent national debt
is blessing; and yet that bill provides
for q permanent national bank-bill
currency, based on bonds. How are
you going to have it based on bonds
unless you have q permanent debt on
which to base itf How are you going
to have an increasing currency suffi-
cient to meet the needs OF business,
unless you have an increasing debt