Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-28
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

and should be respected for their hon
esty. They are born, live, marry,
propagate the race, vote, pay taxes,
meet their just obligations, create
wealth, etc., and in so doing are the
sinews for the upbuilding of a mighty
nation. A great many of these repub-
1icans vote this ticket because their
fathers or grandfathers before them
did, others vote it because it is the
party of Abraham Lincoln for whom
they probably cast their first vote. "A
wonderful change however has come
over the republican party in recent
years. The republican party of Mark
Hanna no more resembles the republic
can party of Lincoln than does kiss
by mail resemble one by moonlight.
masses had voice in the doings of the
republican party. Today the republic
can party is simply the servant of the
plutocrats, the Gibralter rock of cod
fish aristocracy. At it's shrine wor-
ship those who fatten by the toll of
others. It's chief apostles are the
great money lords, the protective tariff
beneficiaries, the managers of trusts
and monopolies, the mergers of rail
ways, the sworn enemies of unionsm,
the spectators who gamble in life's
necessaries and the great daily news
papers which pander to plutocracy,
fake up coats-of-arms for the got-rich.
quick parvenues and prove their I'M
Americanism by bowling down before
every rotten spawn of European royal
ty that visits our shores. Thus has
the party of Lincoln, Lovejoy and
Liberty degenerated, thus does
wealth make the man, want of it the
fellow" This worship of wealth is
permeating every strata of society and
destroying mankind's highest ideals.
The American arstocracy nine-tenths
of which is found in the republican
party, is based altogether upon Doodle,
the aristocracy of birth having not vet
fully developed, that of brains being
still undreamed of in their philosophy.
1t matters precious little nowadays
whether ones parents were people of
culture or Crow Indians; whether they
were deitied or damned, if he but have
the dough" 1t matters even less
whether he accumulate wealth in a
learned profession or as a publcs cavern
ger, by genius or jackasserie, by de-
veloping the latent resources of the
earth, hewlng civilization out of the
wilderness, transforming the wild
frontier into happy homes. by bribery
securing the passage of unjust laws or
IN a thousand and one other ways fat
tening upon the misfortune of his fell
lows, II he but have it. 1t is pettinp
so that millionaire soap boiler stands
upon the same social level with the
highest prosperous exponent of the law
-hl9he as he accumulates millions.
Those whom we of the common herd
are expected to make our lowest bows
are not the Edisons and Fields. NIer-
Ganthalers and IryingS. the Fran<1jns
and Marconis, but the RocLafellers
and Morgans, Russell Sapes and
Astors, NanderbiltS and Goulds. peo-
pie guiltless of all intelligence eycent
the vulpine instinct and having moth
ing to recommend them EXCEPT that
money which Prof. Agassiz was ..toc
busy to make The Gould fortune
was founded by a peddler of mons.
traps, the Vanderbilt fortune by tb.
economy of Dutch tishwife. the \ sto,
by trader in the skins of pole pussies
and the Mackay by streak of bull
luck that lifted it's proprietors aboy,