Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-02-02
signed by individuals, or by a sur
ETY. company, is a promoter, rath-
or than a preventive of crime
Columbus Telegram.

column article in which be scores
the republican party, the demo-
cratic party, the trusts and the
people. Read what he says and
if you don't entirely agree with
him, you will admit that be has
spoken the true conditions in many
respects:
Roosevelt is an expectancy. Let
him do his utmost and he will
prove but a feather in hell. The
triumvirs who have the iron claw
of power on the strings in Repub-
lican noses will let Mr.. Roosevelt
have just enough empty success to
make the fools at the other end of
the strings believe they have a
catch of whales when they've got
only suckers. That is the history
of thirty years legislation, and the
'lumb and driven people have been
contented with it. When the COR
porations found that railroad leg
islation was inevitable, they set
about sharing it, and gave US all
manner of high sounding and
widely lauded commissions" that
rave had as much power as a mos
quito in a cyclone. The Sherman
antitrust law was passed fifteen
years ago with the result that the
executive branch of the govern
ncnt has slept and lodged and
played truant. and when forced t"
yhe wall actually discredited the
law by saying it was sickly bant-
ling afflicted with measles, Group,
nmmer complaint and the entire
category of infantile disorders.
Bah! the people are fools, and the
word fool doesn't half express
heir condition. For three and
thirty years and more monopoly
'reliminaries and proceedings have
teen going on, and men and wom-
n of insight and patriotism have
cen throwing out warning signals
. f the breakers ahead. The ex-
'Ioiters replied with the hard
names of calamity bowler, " an
,rchist" and 4 few dozen more
:hoice epithets, the babbling fools
joining in the chorus, and tn the
md that their rascality and lying
might be intrenched, they first
subsidized and bribcd and then
fought up the press of the cities,
and to perpetuate their power have
made raid on the higher schools
IF learning.
Now cometh Tommy Lawson
in a one-horse shay filled with fine
fray of flashing fireworks and
rushing expose. The dear pro-
BE, what of them? For a century
hey have patted themselves on
The back and exhausted the lang
,age for words of self-praise for
heir own vanity to feed on, de
'laring that they are the universal
Yankee nation, able to lick the
Earth and all the inhabitants there
#; that they are freer, more en-
'ightened and wiser than all Gods
.:reation, past. present and future
Now behold the amazement of the
pigmy self-conceits at Lawson'>
disclosures! The infamy has been
going on before their faces with
heir active consent and assistance.
md while the details were to
large extent secret the labyrinthian
trncture Of lawless iniquity of
monopoly and pl'.t 'cracy has grown
{, Lnelr hands until d monster of
t:'eir own creation, stronger than
the government itself. is drawing
suck from the vitals of society.
The republican party and the
segment of the democratic party
with ''fixurehead" Cleveland for
j'ss-idol, have done it. How may
the lost ground be recovered2
One way-kill the republican party
hy keeping it in power-the demo-
Cratic party is dead. The voting
{ mls when they begin to stagger
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