The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-08-26
THE TEN LIVING QUESTIONS.

Trough Rider Or Judee7
Shall the people Of the United States
have the next four years personal or
constitutional goyernment--the sover-
eighty of a party dictator or the SOW
ereignity Of the people-a rough rider
OF a judge for chief magistrate?
Il--Reforn the Tariff.
shall the tariff never be revised ex
cent with the consent and under the
direction Of its benehciaries-by the
friends o. ITS abuses, it's extortions and
its determinations or shall It be re-
vised In judicial spirit by the
friends OF the masses and for the com
mon weal?"
lli-curh the Trusts.
Shall monopolies like the heef trust
controlling universal necessaries OF
life. continue TO receive the protection
Of a sheltering tariff. and enjoy still
longer indulgence in the non-enforce-
ment Of anti-trust laws by reason Of
their enormous contributions to party
campaign funds and their potential in
iuence with party leaders2
Iv-The Abuse Of Powers.
Shall the action of the president In
ridding himself of the one successful
trust protector in order to placate the
corporations making his former
private secretary and head of the dc
partmeut Of commerce a campaign
fund solicitor from the very corpora
tions he was appointed to diligently
inyestigate''-in appointing railroad
corporation official secretary Of the
navy and a political agent Of the
Southern Pacific railroad 20 the head
Of the department to supervise and
curb corporations (all to aiG his own
campaienl l--shar this surrender Of
the rough rider" be approved by the
peopleg
v--No Corporation Rule.
Shall the rule Of corrupt corpora
tons IN politics and their controlling
influence in government be further en-
larged and confirmed by continuing in
power a party closely allied with them
by the granting Of special privileges in
the tariff. by the election Of corpora
tion agents to congress and to state
offices and through the reconstruction
of the cabinet to meet their views.
vI-stop the Extravaganza.
shal, we continue policy of reck-
less extravaganza. as evidenced by the
expenditure OF more than $500 GOO GOO
during the last four years, or shall we
return to reasonable economy?
vli-cheek the Corruption.
Shall corruption bred of too long a
lease OF power, as instanced in the
half-sisolosed postal frauds, in the
land oftico scandals in the pension
abuses. IN the sale Of offices and neso.
tiaticn Of corrup. public contracts by
Senator's Dietrich aud Burton. in the
purchase OF seat in the senate by the
Democrat w. A. Clark. ratified by Re
publican senators. and in ascendancy
and executive recognition OF notorious
corrupuonists and professional spoils,
men. be condcncd and continued?
viil--No elg Stick siuster.
shall the attitude OF the United
States toward foreign nations he ihlt
Of bully with big stick" and oh p
on his shoulder. or shall We re.urn 10
the policy Of Washington and Jerer-
SON peace and friendship with all
nations enlangling alliances with
none -miuding our own business and
expecting other nations 10 do the
same7
ix-what VIII the Fllipinos 90 TO us2
Shall we continue tho malevoleat ef-
feet upon ourselges Of socalled "ben-
evolent assimilation" in the Philip
pines until it is too late 10 withdraw
from that deplorable and un-Amerlean
adventure in Asiatic colonialism-
which becomes all the more dangerous
the more We impose uDoI them ghe
veneer Of our civilization-and until
the hyhrid and forever alien races OF
those islands shall be Incorporate
into our body polite or cast he die
in our national conventions as tae
delegate from Hawaii did At kansas
cny IN 1900; 10 participate IN our eles.
tions. 10 81. in our CONGRESS and event.
ually to help to govern those who now
by fierce Impose upon them govern.
meni without consent and taxation
without representation
x-ALes tik'naVs rtatesss', t9
shall We. forty years after The end