Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-04
TIE WORLD OF CHANGE.

We are living in Il wonderful age.
Things improbable and almost impos-
sibe transpire and we do not wonder.
In this day of liquid air, x-rays, wire
less telegraphy and airships, few
would be surprised if III a few years
the sphinxriddle of perpetual motion
would be solved, and steam and elect
richly banshed to take their places
with the cradle and the spinning wheel.
Great changes are likewise taking
pla &c in the moral, religious, social
and political world. Evolution and
revolution, two of natures mightiest
forces are at work. Change is the Or
der of the day. The church of our
fathers is fast getting to be thing of
the past Religion is still mighty
good thing to have, but too much of it
is sometimes an awful handicap in the
mad race for dollars. In business and
political life the golden rule has chang
ed to read, edo others before they get
an opportunity to break itof intoyou. :"
''Thou shalt be as mean as the law
will permit for Glove one another. ~
Here is food for study, vast field for
thought and material sufficient to fill
the world with books. But it is in pol
itcs that we behold the most import
ant changes. These are vital and
bring us face to face with conditions
that affect us both individually and
collectively. While the ethiopian can
not change his skin nor the leopard
his spots," political parties and their
leaders can change their skins, spots,
principles and policies, and justly so
too, but the average partisan is so alfred
color blind and prejudiced that he re-
fuses to believe his own eyes and us
ua1y votes with them shut. 1t seems
to be an imnutable law of nature for
the demons of one age to become the
gods of the next. The democratic party
was rocked in the cradle of Liberty
and marched in the front ranks of
progress. With Andrew Jackson as
it's leader it caused the money trust to
hit the ground almighty hard. After
Jackson, however, the democratic party
became an apostate and in the days of
Lincoln was found on the wrong side
of the slavery question. The republi-
can party was rocked in the same
cradle and came into the world to kill
African slavery. In the morning of its
youth. with Abraham Lincoln as its
leader, it stood for the rights of man,
white and black. But in the last six
years, with Mark Hanna as it's leader,
it has been and is on the wrong side
of all the social, industrial and econom-
ic questions, and with it are found in
solid phalanx the oppressors of the
iation of Clevelandism and the regen-
GRAFTON OF Democracy was the political
miracle of the age. From a position
of extreme conservatism it instantly
became not only the most aggressive.
but the most progressive party in
America. Like the eagle its youth
was renewed and once more it became
party of the people. So great has
been the change and so sound the posi-.
ton of Democracy on all vital issues
that we can quote in it's defense no,
only the teachings of Thomas Jeffer,
son, but the teachings of Abraham
Lincoln. With the same authorities
we can condemn modern Republicanisn
and rebuke its leaders from MARI
Hanna to Tom Carter and from Ton
Carter down to Deacon Marceys anC
Julius Caesar Lyndes. Judged by