Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-29
MISERY AND WANT
Staring People in the Face at
 the Present Time.
CAUSE REPUBLICAN, MISRULR

So It is Asserted by Those Who Would
 Turn the Rascals Shortage Of
 Coal and the High Price of It and
 of Meat and Other Necessary Com
 modities the Sole Topic of the Hour.
 Voters are Becoming Worked Up to
 a High Pitch and. if They Were
 Given Chance To-day They Would
 Probably Consign the Republican
 Party to Oblivion.
 The seriousness of inc sit,atlon that confronts the whole neonIa1 of this country at the threshold of win- ter IS forcing itself upon cyervbo,lv and while the subject is painfuI 9o those who are responsible for it. still IT has now reached point where they can no longer shirk responsibility. A pima man can now see the source of the evil and while the guilty parties are making q supreme effort to con- vince the public that they have the remedy ready and intend to apply iE at the first opportunity 1t docs not seem credible that any great number Will take stock in them. Some of the strongest republicans in Waterbury nave their hands raised against the sh1liy-shallying policy of their own party towards the coal barons and make no bones of stating that noth- ing short of horizontal change will save the country from being left at the mercy of a few men. It is very inopportune time for members of the party that stands accused with what we are up against to-day to be run ming for a public office and 1t is hard to conceive what, the stump speakers can trump up to talk about that will hoodwink electors into giving them another trial. But it is not to be sup posed that the men who are making millions out of the conditions they have brought about will be short of excuses and plaudible ones, too. Here in Waterbury we will be told that the man whom the party has nominated to represent us in Washington, where all the great schemes receive the sanction of law, is our neighbOr and friend, good fellow and all that and that we are in duty bound to support him even though another car of coal never stopped at Waterbury. Famisl for want of fuel, let your children live if they can without other neccSz saries of life but vote for the candi date of the party that has pauperized you and come what may, all will be well. If people are shallow minQed enough to be misIed by this kind of doctrine, that is their privilege, but it seems we have reached stage where change is absolutely necps sfcs so no man can make more judiciOus use of his vote than by using 1t in that direction. Party affiliations and personal likes and dislikes should be laid aside for the time being and the voice of the people heard in unison against the high-handed method now being used under the guise of law to crush labor and put the price of household commodities out of reach of probably nine-tenths of the people. Of course the game cannot last much longer unless those who are suffering most continue to uphold the system, something which they are not likely to do If there ever was time when notifies should be thrown to the winds if is at the coming election, when every man will have an opportunity to say whether or not he approves or letting a handful of men own this country. Every voter should ask him. self if his empty coal bin and scant Iarder are not sufficient warning 70 nrompt him to look to himself ana his family and leave the politicians +o +ake care of themselves, The pres'- dan+ of one of our big concerns t0ta A representative of this paper to-day ttlaI ba had no hesitation in stating that the country is on the verge of one ot +hc worst caIamities in its history and tbat he didn't sec how those wilo are guiding the ships of state could dls- Claim responsibility for it.