Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-27
REPUBLICAN STUuTiFICATION
Compare Their Cause by Past Professions and
Present Record.

Ed. STANDARD:
If the statements Of John Moody on
trusts be true, and that they are, few
will dispute, does it not emphatically
corroborate the prediction Of Abraham
Lincoln, about the close of the war,
" That corporations would become en-
throned, an era OF corruption in high
places would follow, and the money
power Of the country would endeavor to
prolons its reign by working upon the
prejudice of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the republic is destroyed?"
If our Republican friends will take
the trouble to read Lincoln's message
to Congress in '6l, they will find this
memorable warning by the greatest
statesmen of his day. 1t was his first
message to Congress "In my present
condition could scarcely be justified
were J to omit warning voice against
the approach OF returning despotism.
There is one point to which I ask a
brief attention. 1t is the effort to
place capital on an equal footing with,
if not ADORE labor, in the structure of
government. Let them beware of
snrrendering political power which
they have, and which, if surrendered,
will surely be used to close the door of
advancement against such as they and
to fix new disabilities and burdens
upon them, till all OF liberty shall be
lost"
Is it not the height OF pusillanimous
repudiation of principles enunciated
by the martyred President, under
present conditions, for the d. o. p. to
boast of Republican prosperity?
What constitutes prosperous gov
ernment? Is it one in which the peo-
pie have little or nothing to say as to
the laws by which they are governed?
Is il one dictated by mob of money.
sharks, who control our Congress, and
who have succeeded in securing legis-
lation for their individual benefit for
the last forty yearsi
Is it prosperous government that,
figuratively speaking, thrusts its hands
in the pockets of one man and takes
the contents thereof to give to anoth-
er, Ia protection! II these are signs
OF a prosperous government, then are
the contentious of our Republican
friends true, and they should be con-
tinued in power indefinitely. If there
is an intelligent Republican willing to
stultify his reputation as a man Of
sense by asserting that this country is
not run by corporate greed. 1 want to
look at him. l need a scare-crow to
keep the birds out of my garden, and I
think he'll fill the bill.
This is supposed to be government
of, for and by the people. Is itf l
guess not, if it's governed by the cor
porations, and it looks very much like
it when few hundred trusts control
about one.fourth OF the aggregate
wealth of the country; when all our
means OF production and distribution
most all our mines, factories, oil
wells, railroads and steamship lines
are under their control. One would
hardly consider himself a free man,
unless he was fool, if another owned
and controlled all his tools Of labor,
including the store house OF Nature,
from which he draws his sustenance.
If "full dinner pail" is the height of
ones ambition, the slave ought to be
happy, for his master furnished that
from a mercenary standpoint, not be-
cause he had any love for the slave.
Neither have the great capitalists of
to-day any love for the men who pile
up their wealth by their incessant and
unremitting toll. As w. J. Bryan
truly says, "They hold the dollar
above the man." and sacrifice hun.
dreds Of thousands of men to crafty
their inordinate ambition, as though
they were ordinary chattels. And yet
in the face OF these facts, and with the
warnings Of Lincoln, whom they hypo'
critically claim as their leader, staring
them in the face, the d. o. p. have the
unmitigated gall and stupendous au
dacity to blow about Republican pros
perity! &c. Coo.