The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-31
RHETORIC VS. FACT
A BRIEF TALK ON GOVERNMENT
 BY PLUTOCRACY.-
"savoyard" Considers . sephoporic Ut- teranee of the President and the Bearing Thereupon of Recent Disclosures About Campaign
 Contributions.

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 In that vast and vociferous State paper the President sent to Congress | to the extent of 26.000 words and up-
 wards. Mir. Roosevelt said some "un- disputed things with a very solemn air" He told deal of news to Con- gress and recommended more uncon- | stitutionality than any other President of our history. Here Is gem in this | wonderful cluster of gems that escaped | most of us: This government Is not and never shall be government by plutocracy. This government Is not and never shall be government by moh."
 That is sophomoric: in some quar- ters it will pass for patriotism: it is tinsel. 1t don't ring true; it is hyper hole; it is cheap: 1t savers of the it is immensely un-Presidential When Theodore Roosevelt shall have gone to supper and a certain cohvocation of polite worms 'are cen at him." at the board where the fat king and the lean begEar are as one. how does he know what this people will do? Was President ever before so prasmatic? Resides that. if the President has read the testimony in the insurance investigations in his home town. suspicion might creep into his mind
 
 racy in our affairs already. The regu- lar assessment of the larger life in- surance companies for campaign funds for the party of great moral ideas appears to have been $S0.000 each quadrennially. and a third class Kentucky lawyer can make it getting money under false pretenses. at that If the cold steel of the law were put to Mir. cortelyou's Republican National Committee. Mir. Corteiyou. as Post master General. would be necessitated to issue a 'fraud order" against the whole shebang.
 Here it is. The G. o. P. that made the ray money greenback. and is the pioneer of fiat money party of our his tory, has regularly sold to the insur- ance companies of New York certain elusive "gnld standard" three several and distinct times. The whole bilin of 'em say that was what they bought Did they get it? Only a piece. Today there is fiat in this gold standard they have regularly sold. to the extent of 50 per centum. in over half billion of the "standard' and "basic." and full legal tender money of the land. I sup pose they sold the gold standard In 1898 and 1902. as we'll, and it is quite likely they will again sell it in 1906.
 MT. President speaks very indignant ly about the scandaious contributions of the corporations to the Republican
 
 rage and very close kin to govern ment by plutocracy." My friend Champ Clark tells me that he is insured In one of these companies that gave $50.- 900. A part of that $50.000 was Champ Clarks money. and thus he got to be. the fat is fried Now you may dip Champ Clark into the Ohio river at Pittsburg, where the stream js running ice, in January. and drink pretty hot Democratic soup at New Orleans the following July--aIl you have to do is to dip your spoon in the river, and yet Champ Clark. who presided over the Democratic National Convention, Is down in that insurance companys books as a purveyor of Republican boo de.
 Of course 1t was poodle. Was 1t paid into the coffers of the c. O. P. embedded? If the law were put to them. could not you put the insurance company into the penitentiary for em bezzlement and indict the party-of great moral ideas as an accessory? Certainly you could, for that is exactly what 1t is and all it Is. ..-.
 Now what boots 1t if the President of the United States gets red in the eye about it. and MT. Cortelvou keeps silent. Why should Roosevelt tear up all the sapiings he can lay hands on If his Postmaster General shall keep a muzzle in his mouth. Roosevelt says 1t was wicked. Why should not Mir. Cortelyou confess to the extent Of wickedness?
 Remember, it Is q Republican affair If they get that much out of the in- surance companies, who shall com pute what they got out of the banks, the railroads, the tariff ring. the su- gar trust. the beef trust, Standard oil and the rest of them? Pursue it to a finish and you would mighty cracy" standing round somewhere and very busy. What did they want with | all those millions? More important what did they do with them? We all remember how angry Mr. Roosevelt | was about Judge Parkers speech. ! opine he would roar like a suckling dove if he had that thing to meet since , these disclosures.
 The public will not be satisfied un Committee tells the names of all who | furnished the poodle and Chairman | Cortelyou discloses what. he bought | with it. It Is true that they say that | there is no occasion for these gentle men to open their mouths. believe Hamlet was once played with the part | of Hamlet left out
 Why should not they depose? They got the poodle. for the insurance com panies testify to that. How much was it? The President will not deny that it Is the public's right to know. Bliss and Cortelyou are the only two who know all about it. We cannot suspect these gentlemen burning 'the books as did one chairman of Republican, National Committee after ths firm of Loyalty and Plety had liberally sub scribed to buy an election for the party of Great Moral Ideas"
 No, the thing won't he settled till | the great party of moral ideas purges its conscience. It is a big job. but 1t is necessary. and will have to be done sooner or later.