The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-16
CHANGE is SURE TO COME
Voters Are Tired OF Fraud and Graft
ing in All the Departments
Of the Government.

The democrats are united a. they have
cot been before for ten years. and Par
ker and Davis will receive the normal
vote OF the party With a good many re-
fruits from their opponents. The re-
publicans are split into factions on sew
sral issues. Nearly all the old Hanna
machine men are d%isgruntled. as they
zee a young element OF their party in
he saddle and they vii! not pull hard
IN the traces unless they are paid for
heir work either in money or promises.
In West virginia, Delaware. New York
New Jersey. Massachusetts, and Wis
,onsin the rival republican factions are
ntent on defeating each other and one
or the other faction have 10 faith in or
Owe for Candidate Roosevelt. though
most OF them declare they viii vote
,or him In these and other states there
are minor factions and important re-
publicans who. while keeping within
party lines. are opposed 10 their candi-
iate FOR president and DO not mind say
ng 50 Ia private conversation. The
glamour of the Rough Rider has worn
N and the business interests Of the
country have more weight IN politics
than the impcrialistic element
That IS the great danger 10 the Rough
Rider. The farmers have discovered
hat the trusts are bleeding them and
that the high price Of wheat is more than
offset by the Increased ost Of what
hey buy. The workingmen are organ
izing politically for their protection.
for the republican majority in congress
refused TO listen 10 their prayer
FOR legislation for the eight-hour bill.
he anti-lniuuction bin and other lesser
laws labor thinks necessary for its sal
yation All the republican leaders favor
the open shop and most Of them are
openly Ia sympathy with the Parry or
s"anizatiou Of protected trusts and
manufacturers
Wages are being reduced and strikes
IRE numerous and the cost Of living is
still advancing. which does not inspire
confidence in the economic policies OF
he republican party Of those who are
suffering from loss OF wages and in
reased cost OF food.
The trusts have decreased the profits
of the small -storekeepcrs. while rents
and household expenses are higher
han ever before and the opportunities
Tor increased business are monoPoiized
By the great department stores which
ian purchase from the trusts At much
.ess than the small st%orekeeper has -
pay.
People with limited incomes find
their expenses have increased while
their revenues are stationary. All these
people are inquiring Why the trust
should be protected by the :arin In sell
Ing their products al the highest pos
sibio price here and a much lower price
IN foreign countries. Many of the vot
RS have discovered that the tariff pre-
vents competition and fosters mo-
uopolv and the increased cost for
their products which the m~onop0lists
.harge Is a much greater tax than the
government receives.
The revenues Of the United States are
declining and the expenses are greater
tnal ever beloIt III tune ~ ftdNt' NJ
,nlv have the expenses Of the govern
ment increased much faster in proper
|, ton than the population. but neither
President Roosevelt. nor his cabinet,
nor the republican majority in con-
rress have offered any solution Of the
problem They are all intent on let
ling well enough alone. and have par
alyzed the industries Of the country
with a do-nothing policy by fighting al
proposals for reform.
The government departments are OK
| rayagant and filled with grafters which
the republican party has refused to in
| yostirate. although evidence was pien-
tfuI that but a beginning had been made
in exposing the frauds through a parti-