Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-10

welded in national politics by the
letter carries and in city politics by
the police and fremen. Everybody
knows the power of more than t.
900, 900 pensioners in federal cleo
tons. Add to the public servants
now on the pay roll all employees of
street railways, interuban railways,
gas companies, electric light COM
panies, telephone companies, and
steam railways, and the business of
government would be completely in
the hands of Office holders. With
the employees combined for continu-
ally higher wages, shorter hours,
and greater privileges, the state
government in the end would remain
in the control of the political ma
chine that made the most liberal
concessions to these employees. In
deed, the employees themselves
would be a machine and administer
the government for their personal
profit.
Add national Socialism to mu-
nicipal and state Socialism, and
Mexicanization of the United States
would be anaccomplished fact. With
the federal office holders in control
of trunk lines, telegraph, steamship,
and mines, they would have prac-
tically all the industries of the coun-
try at their mercy. The producer
and the shipper would be in the
power of the office holders.
The national political machine
I would have a community of interest
with the state machine. and all of
them would be welded into a har-
monious whole. To complete the
system only government savings
banks, which Mr.. Bryan also favors,
would be needed. Then organized
politics would control the savings
as well as the transportation and
industries of the people. The
scheme of government of the Office
holders, by the office holders, and
for the Office holders, would be
complete.
BY means of his influence over
the office holders and the industries
of Mexico, Diaz has kept himself
in the presidency for life. The
elections have been little more than
sham, a form, a meaningless cere-
mony. BY his control of the mill
tary and the office holders of cen
tralized republic, Napoleon Ill,
was able to make himself emperor
of the French despite the radical.
revolutionary, republican instincts
and traditions of the French people.
Once established in the presidency
his control of the huge and intricate
machinery of centralized govern
ment made the achievement OF
empire easy, regardless of the
cheapness of his methods, the
scandal of his personal history, and
the insincerity of his pretensions.
''All that Diaz accomplished in
Mexico and Louis Napoleon in
France, Mr.. Bryan would make pos.
sible in the United States by con.
structing a government dominated
by office holders concerned chiefly
in perpetuating their Jobs. And
this triple state Socialism is advoc-
ated in the name of democratic
principles, to which it is opposed
in the spirit and in everything which
has made the republic a republic in
fact as well as in name.
If Mr.. Bryan's plans could
possibly be carried out. which we
refuse to believe, Voltaire's defni.
tion of government would be actua'
lized in the United States, two-thirds
of the people would be paying al
they could to support the othei
third to maintain an aristo cracy oi
Office holders, if you please, respon
sible only to themselves.
As between the republican party
and the triple state Socialism oi
William Jennings BRYAN, the Ameri
can people, under protest will take
the republican party, extravaganza,
high tariff, big stick, Theodore