Graham guardian., 1908-08-21

the government.
They are now entrenched in the
United States Senate. The con-
trolling members that great body
are merely the livin g Photographs,
speaking out orders they receive
from the Trusts in Iron, from the
Trusts in Steel, the Trusts in
Railroads, the Trusts in Oil, the
Trusts in Money.
These same trusts have reached
out to take possession of the
courts. In the lower courts, they
have been partially successful.
In the days not far gone some
judges of the inferior federal courts
rode up and down the country on
passes and spent their vacations
going over the country with their
families or their friends in private
ears furnished by the railroads.
An euterpris,ng Chicago news
paper reproduced copies of letters
taken from ream of applications
on the part of Judge Grosscup for
railroad passes for himself, for his
relatives, for his friends, and for
the crowd of men who hang around
courts and sometimes do dirty
work with dirty jurors.
A few years ago every summer
there appeared in the society
columns of the Little Rock news
papers a notice that certain tcder
al judge was spending the summer
in the West with his family, having
been taken there in a private car
belonging to one of the leading
railroad men of st. Louis.
The World truly says Opposition
is necessary when judges who be.
long to the dominating polltica
party BECOME so brazen as this.
And while the big corporations
and the big trusts control national
senates, the little fellows exercise
about the same control ovev state
senates.
Mr.. Roosevelt may have halted
these seekers after all things, but
Mr.. Taft is q pleasant gentleman,
and to his mind whatever exists is
not far wrong. Neither the ills oi
life nor the ills of government
worry bim.
1t is about time the Opposition
party came into control. The
Republicans have been the domina.
ting party for twelve years. Under
1t the country reached pinnacle
of prosperity. Under it we came
into an era of Organized Loot
Under it, also, the country was
flung into financial panic which,
for quickness and paralyzing force,
is unequaled in the money history
of this country. Only the Inherent
strength of the nation saved us
from financial and business chaos
TO cure this money paralysi
Mr.. Rockefeller did not choose to
permit the plan Of the American
Banking Association to be tried.
He had plan of his own, and the
United States senator whose daugh.
ter married his son forced the plan
into that great body, through the
lower house and forced Mr.. Roose.
welt to sign it. ....
Mr.. Aldrich's financial bill ia
not acceptable to any thinking
banker in the United States, out.
side of the little crew of vultures
that roost around the corner of
Nassau and Wall streets, and yet
lots of these men still profess TO
see in the Republican purity a spirit
of progress and good busines IS
which they allege is not in the
Democratic party.
We need opposl ion, and strong
opposition.
We need the united strength of
all the Democrats of 1886 and 1904
behind the Democratic ticket of
1908.
And we believe when the Amer
lean people weigh the force of
the Tendency to Usurpation, 0oloss
sal Graft and the Czardom of ag
gregated cash in the senate, the
house, in the courts and in the
White House itself, there is going