The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-17

treasured institution of Massachusetts,,
it violates Interstate comfy and in
vites rebuke- Read these wild and
wicked words:
"Senator Lodges recent speech in
favor OF ship subsidies is one of those
utterances which seem to indicate that
many of our politicians take the
American people for nation of
idiots. Whatever our nation
al disease may be, severe or trivial,
fever or anemia, quacks of the Lodge
school have one sovereign panacea:
Bleed the patientl'"
Mr.. Lodge holds full hand of di-
plomas. He is A. B., LII. b., Phi. d.,
LII. d. He is member Of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society and a
Fellow of the American Academy.
He is not practicing politics and lec-
turing on political economy without a
license. To call him a 'tquack, I"
then. is to make an assertion not only
regretably inurbane, but technically
incorrect.
1t is not merely inurbane, but shock
ing, to say of any saying Of this ac-
complished statesman, SO loved and
trusted in Massachusetts, that it in
dlcates belief on his part that the
American people are idiots. MIR.
Lodge rests always upon the bosom
of the people. For him no manipula-
tion of primaries or conventions, no
mean interest in the distribution of
the offices, no doctrining of platforms.
no suppression or sophistication of the
popular will. He lies upon the great
heart of Massachusetts,, his watch in
his hand, registering every beat of
that young and impetuous organ.
There ought to be painting in the
Boston Art Museum or the Fogg
Museum at Cambridge of this beauti-
full, this almost religious attitude and
scene. A subscription.sfor the purpose
is now in circulation in the Essex
Club.
What word or deed of Mr.. Lodges
has stirred this squall in Oregon? Mr..
Lodge saw that some $4,000 Massa-
chusetts republicans were dissatisfied
with the DINGHY tariff or pining for
reciprocity. Naturally he was sud-
dened. Could be not make diver
sion? Could he not at least drive the
bedeviled tariff reforming Gadarene
swine in to the drink? So he shouted
for ship subsidies. He defended, en-
couraged and patronized the Atlantic
Ocean. Much has been lost to Mas
sachusetts, mainly by the unfeeling
and wicked conduct of her tariff re-
vising republicans. Much more may
yet be lost. Mount Tom may be
leveled to the ground. The cranber-
ry interest may fail for want of irriga-
tion or the decline of Turkey. Three
members of the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery Company have become
moderated teetotalers, temporarily at
least. Nelson Appleton Miles and
reform may be rejected by
the democratic bosses. Medford rum
has gone from Medford. The Sacred
Goldfish may be shredded into break
fast balls, but all is not lost. Stand
ing on the narrow neck of land which
is Nahant. Mr.. Lodge gazes seaward
and cries:
"The ocean on which we found our
is still there. The coast
is ours, natural monopoly that can
not be taken from us. -
The tariff reformers can't steal the
ocean, the coast or the senator. The
ocean hugs the coast. The coast hugs
the ocean. The senator gathers both
in his all-enfolding arms. Mas
hugs herself for pride and
JOY in such a piece of water, such
land. a little rocky, and such son.
Even uttermost Oregon should ven
crate Mr.. Lodge. He protects the
ocean. Nobody knows what con-
tariff tearer like Governor
Douglas would do to the ocean If Mr..
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