The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-08-05
COMPARISONS
AND PARALLEL
The Way Things Look to the Exc
Grated of Sinister Eye.
tn THRIFTY FARMERS WILL SELL
1bov are Never Satisfied Happy
Marriage-Institue and Ex-
aminatiOnS.

The Tribune has been execrated be.
cause it has dared to say that politics
ia no more dominated by vicious and
danraved men than are banks, stores,
churches and tiresides; that political
usrties are no more controlled by
dishonest tricksters than are COM
mercial clubs, fraternal societies and
religious organizations. There are
in the world a great many people like
the old Methodist preacher who said
that his most inspiring religious
pFiviloge was the opportunity he en-
loved to stand up once week and
abuse the popes. Without that de-
yotional exercise, he feared he would
soon become a backslider. And it is
50 with a great many civic reformers.
The fuel that feeds their patriotic
zeal is abuse of politicians. With
4 out that stimulation, they would be
liable to let the country. go to the
devil.
The Tribune has not said that
banks, stores, churches, and firesides
are dominated by vicious and deprav-
cd men. 1t has not said that COM
merciaL clubs, fraternal societies and
religious org Inizations are controlled
by dishonest tricksters. 1t has mere
& ly alleged that in these will be found
in fair proportion all the evil Ella
ments that are found in politics and
political organizations. 1t would be
avery easy matter to prove that
every human organization is more or
less Vitiated by evil influences, but
the progress Of the world proves that
upon the whole the good dominates
II We had mind to make out a case,
against banks, stores, commercial
clubs and tiresides what a convinc-
Ing array of defalcations, breaches of
trust, short weights, adulterations,
Representations, cruelty, divorce
and intidelity we could marshal in
evidence. If we had a mind to pill
lOry churches aud fraternaI societies
what an Inspiration the record would
anOrd! What stories of ignorance,
lanatlelsm, war, devastation, in
humanity, persecution and assassina-
tlon 1t reveals If we were moved to
MAKE comparison, would not the re-
SulI be rather more ia Iorable to
politics than finance? If we wished
" araW parallel might we not truth
lully affirm that churchmen in
&lSated the inquisition and invented
'l0 rack and thumbscrew; Politi-
clans smashed them. Churchmen
sSAOllshed courts of heresy and
burned untold innocent victims .at
'u0 stake; politicians demolished the
'Ouf's and put out the fires. Church
l'a ,s quoted Scripture to prove the
0'ial'y OF slavery; Politicians scorn-
VI 'ue lnhuman dogma and broke the
WALLS OF bondage. Churchmen de-
SIauoa woman and put upon her
"D.'0 oosom the lying brand of in
,Ol'y; politicians lifted her up
a aau enthroned her queen of the uni
'0 Ohurchmen brought holy mes
e'S ulfect from the throne of their
sOu' sanctioning and commanding
'samy; politicians would have no
Ont Ut'uleree with such a god, and they
Insts Sue!r loot upon the neck of his
nn'. aS.'ul dogma. But such showing, der
no1;t. ol;Uty as 1t is, does not prove tn t
s.a '0S Is clean or politicians guilt
na,;., G' IL does prove, however that
a..t ''oS and politicians average up
ton and that is our eonten-
ocnlotp io VINO become fashionably in
,,o ,' u With political reform virus
Data '''uOm @ able to justly discrimi-
ton =. Iney IL charge every manifesto
corrnn. W. uiSnonesty in public life to
fsa. fup' politics. They ignore, the
IN thn @' all political power resides
rail-, people. They do not seem to
sDpaaS IV mat when they charge wide
rsIsa - political corruption they ar
m n n.s sue popular conscience. They
That 'sily n",.I oblivious to the plain fact
ina wiz. tt,itleal conditions are chang
hat a"a ,'n kaleidoscope rapidity, and
ssOna oty a Turn of the wheel pr .,duces
bssn,;e 10" beauty or combination of
bat sS' t.o They forget or never knew.
has basa Ou Washington to Roosevelt
gress on an almost unbroken pro-
pssslmist~sa GI~ard and upward. Their
dat aans, ,c vanity plunges them into
ble, th pan of inconsistency which en-
aarvsIn@ 0@ to see in the same people
lily, nH.i mus Intelligence, sound intee-
''aled statesmanship. polit-