The Greeley tribune., 1904-10-26
We Are Striving to be Leaders

have seemed If party gets corrupt and
throw that party and in another the corpo-
rations and the demagogues play the same old
again, and then the party just corrupt
then the people damn politics and politicians but
ter of fact they ought to damn themselves for their ig
norance Of political matters and their
ercsng the highest privilege and the most sacred right
and duty in all the wordthe right to vote and participate
in the affairs of their government They cannot
this rightly unless they do it integently. Is
while to spend little time to learn and know?
have been to the great political meetings par
ties and listened to the eoquence their
nave the secret caucus that does the will OF
two or three selfish who
not the people these great principles
fish ends and then when in the conventions
pay for this insdious force controlled like many
into doing exactly what has been decreed in the darkness
reality of it allwhe only the foam and the
tfnH aps to = W what grnnng eerng sneerng
thought the people do not know-they do
YOUNG MEN BARRED
have seen young men, honorable ambitious be-
longing to the other of the political parties
who wished to devote themselves principles OF those
parties and to the service of their country swept aside
in their honorable ambitions without opportunity
or chance because in the paid agents
OF selfish interests, who and the peoples
rights get together and decree that they dangerous
because they are honest know this thing done and
If they do they lie in their hearts. ~
There are good in both parties Just as there are
honorable officials serving people put up by both par
es put understand 1t is not necessary the machine
"u'
shouid be bad But do not forget the main pont that
they generally see to 1t that the for the i'm
positions like the Legislature the councils and too
oten the sacred bench. whom they think thew
can count upon to stay with seshness and greed and he
tray the people for the hope rewards from than
they know the innocent or and
olnd to real conditions, when comes to conict he
tween what is good for the people and what M 4.
good Tor sehshness and greed. And MANY of those
men VINO are honest and to do their dntv
are constantly beset and plagued rated by these n
naences % I until 1t Is almost necessary consequence that
%nen the real test comes knowing as they do that their
Iuture pocaliy depends not peonIe hut unnn
ne secre. caucus controlled by few hired men Of tho
sensh interests they betray the peope and
tese ,ase gods They know well that when bav
W. i sacred trust and their honor the neonle
no mater now willing and how anxious are generav nn
ss 10 rescue them from the grinding of the
tnae De wnen once offended They know fbat the
% wen vote for them unless they are upon the
cke ana they know they get upon the n.rt
ss ha waen tn the party is owned like much
lhey run he gauntlet, beginning with the ns oect,n
anu uue consideration OF these selfish interests ord 49,
.he party caucus made of the hired men NJ these nh
ana the tools and the bosses who ara o he s
ratner tnan the people, and they succeed r,th s
system, they must fail with the people for thev . e M
esta conn, ana against the people their inter
noIIt,cs ] h Every wy man or woman who has been in
@ Knows what say is truth and that thu m
1--WE pUwes SPEAK OF are Just as Nero was ana +h
know tney are Just relentless when It suits he ney