The Greeley tribune., 1906-07-26
Little Lessons in Politics
BY Independent Voter
BY Independent Voter.

Last weeks letter told some of
the requisites of a good judge and 1t
did not detract from the strength
of the article because 1t was clipped
from another paper. This week f.
]. Hulaniski has written for this
department a strong article entitled
IA Power for righteousness at
Work" 1t is we'll worth careful
reading, and will bear pondering
over.
A greater power than we poor.
blind, pollywogs wigging around on
this mundane sphere like the live
things in beef trust meat, Is con-
tinually at work Tor good and right
enousness and the lbetterment OF
mankind. That Almighty Train
gets in on schedule time and never
varies a minute or second. The
great Conductor has all passengers
under His special care, and everyone
OF us, great or small, rich or poor,
black or white, will be landed at
the station to which our ticket
reads.
A sure and fateful nemesis Is
on the trail now Of many corpora
tion magnates, corrupt politicians
biased judges, combinations of capital
which plunder the poor and oppress-
ed, and the thieves and scamps In
whatsoever walk in life who defy
the law and fatten like great fat
spiders from the financial life
blood of the victims caught in their
webs Of iniquity.
President Garfield was on his way
to consumate a political deal which
would have disrupted the Rpublican
party, when bolt of lightning out
of clear sky hauled him hither by
an unseen hand. Arthur stepped in.
to the breach, healed the Blaine
Conklin sore and many great and
good things we're thus accomplished
for the nation which otherwise would
not have materialized. Fate was
there.
Mckinley was elected second
time over Bryan through a direct
bargain and sale plot engineered by
Mark Hanna, as corrupt a political
pirate as ever scuttled the national
ship of state, who held up Wall
street and spent millions to accom-
plish the plot, with the spcific un-
derstanding that he himself was to
be the next chief executive Of Amer
lea. Roosevelt, governor of New
York, was showing signs of antagon-
ism to corruption in high places, and
to get him forever out of the way,
1t was decided by Mark Hanna and
Tom Platt to bury him alive in the
heretofore never falling sepulchre of
the vice presidency. Again the di-
rector of the Great Silence moved
the power of destiny, and by the
death Of Mckinley this man who
contended for "a square deal' for
the people emerged from the vice
presidential grave where he had been
entombed by corrupt influences, and
became President of the United
States, dictator to the schemers and
master of the situation. And the
Power that is continually at work
for righteousness and betterment
stood by and smiled.
The ''big stick" began to swing
In circles over the heads of the
financial lice upon the body politic
and the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the
trusts and the Shylocks and money
changers, whose ancestors Christ
lashed from the temple, plotted the
overthrow of Roosevelt and the sub
stitutton of Mark Hanna as executive
and official head of our government.
And then again spoke the Power,
form out the Great Somewhere, and
Mark Hanna was given back to the
dust of Mother Earth.
Since then what has happened? Mil
lionaire magnates who have robbed
the widows and orphans Of colossal
fortunes through life insurance com.
panies, giving hundreds of thousands
to political corruption funds, are
leVeled to the mud and dust; some
are dead, others fugitives from Just.
Ice, covering and hiding in Europe.
!. Where Is Hazen Hyde, who drank
champagne from a harlot's Slipper
while those he plundered toiled for
bread?
Ihe great and powerful beef trust,
which murdered over 5000 American
soldiers In Cuba and the Philippines
with its diseased meats and embalm-
eo putrefactions, is on the run now