Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-22
The Toiler and the SpO.ler.

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article Which opens Is follows:
"Ev-rv man uhory,r canned ad"llar !
,4.rN man Who hy toll and patient I'll /
f.r, Ia hullt ~, 3, Iu-.u, ~ Won In /
himself a r,.-p"n~ihr position; every /
man wlu has muhc. III the bank at /
home to live IN. every man III t'lI>itrS>.
whether he hc employer or cmrl"Nr. !
-l,nll take h~cl. For W face Il nation
Al danger that threatens I" stop our
earnings and wipe ont "ur satinya; that
threatens H. cat oil onr weekly pay en-
v..lorr4 that threatens to throw us into !
a chaos Of hard times.
1t is the danger OF the Big stick.
We live in q splendidiy prosperous
country Eut our prosperity was not
gained in night. 1t was earned hy
long wears Of patient effort. 1t was won
by decades Of struggle for world mark |
cts. 1t was brought about through tn"
concerted energy of the farmer. the oil
man, the steel man, the manufacturer.
the miner, the merchant. 1t was made
possible largely by the railroads.
=" Now the Spoicr is abroad in this
land OF tolers. The Big Stick is his
weapon. And his purpose is not to
build up but Ia tear down. Not t" cor
rect and to help, but to wrcak vengeance,
and To destroy.
1t may lr true as MIR. Bryan OBJ
serves that President Roosevelt is
not responsible for the recent tinan-
cial furry, which. us he states, was
caused by the gamblers of Wall
street In 1893. the depression WAS
charged against the Cleveland adj
ministration. whereas the trouble
had begun prior. during Harrison $
term. Republican orators Travelled
about the country telling the voters
the hard times were occaSiOncd by the
Wilson tariff bill and principally on
that issue elected Mckinley. In 1897
and 1898, there was a shortage of
wheat in Southern Russia, and a
famine in the whcat-producing sec
ton of India, in which the natives
were starving by the hundreds of
thousands. Crops were good in the
United States. The farmers wheat.
grown in Washington and elsewhere,
found a good market. Such indi-
viduals as our comic Cushman, and
talkative Jones, told the voters how
the Dingley bill had brought pros
perity at their doors; all was lovely
and the bird of Jove scared heaven
ward. Such talk has a very PERM
ciouS effect, in that it has made a
great proportion of the voting popu
lation believe the government makes
good or bad times, which is not gen.
orally true, but the trouble is with
"pluteS, who handle and manipulate
the country's resources till the time
comes when there must be a crash,
in spite of q well-meaning Admins
tratiOn at the head of public affairs
The MARKHAM Socialists assert the
government is only committee of
the capitalist class, to exploit the
producers of wealth, and the Repub-
lican party seconds this idea from
its rostrums and through its press,
by telling the voters that, if this
party succeeds, it will bring pros
perity to the masses. When it fails
to keep its promises in this behalf,
discomfort abounds in the land and
the spirit of anarchism stalks abroad.
Good sound economic fruit cannot be
gathered from tree planted in the
soil of political falsehOod. A given
party may meet with temporary sue
cess by using such detestable meth
DDS, but the time will arrive when
the reaction will set in, then there
will be a weeping, wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth.
QUEEN AMELIA ON A DIPLOMATIC
VISIT. Somewhat akin to the mis-
sion of Hadassah, an orphan brought
up by her cousin Mordecai an officer
in the household of AhasueruS, the
Persian Monarch, is that of Amelia.
consort of King Carlos, sent to in
fiuence King Edward. by interesting