Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-06-25
BY Ben EIanford.

go and Eat Grass !"
IF the people have no bread, why
don't they eat cake?"
So says the national convention of
the republican party to the more than
five million unemployed men in the
United States. What sweet consola-
tion to them and the twenty millions
of people dependent on them.
We are a prosperous people, de-
clared the leaders of the convention.
We have wealth to the value of
$40, 200. 100000, more than one
quarter of all the wealth on earth.
We make more than one-third of
the worlds modern manufactured
products.
The republican convention was
opened each day with prayer, and
by a different clergyman-but there
is no evidence that IL was closed with
benediction.
The delegates considered them
selves "the people, and therefore
were prosperous. 1t was a conven-
ton of lawyers, office holders and
millionaires. Why shouldn't Senator
Burrows be prosperous? For thirty
nine years he has drawn pay from
city, county, state or national treas
ury. Why shouldn't Senator Lodge
Harvard Law School thirty-three
years ago, and has been fed at the
public crib for twenty-five of the
years since past. These worthless fear
lest socialism would have the ma
ton own the people"
1t was worth while to look at the
delegates. also their women folks.
The noticeable things about the lat
ter were their grossness, stoutness,
lfatness-and dullness. The next
thing to be noticed about the women
was their clothes-or the lack of
them. The men were not nearly as
gross and vulgar looking as the wo-
men. Men in politics must lead ac-
tive lives, even II they are wealthy,
and the result is that most of them
keep the fat well worked off. But
how cruel they looked. Cruelty and
craft were their most prominent char
acteristics. A glance at these repub-
lican delegates showed that they were
individualists indeed. They belonged
to the species of the birds and beasts
of prey-vulture, and jackal and wolf,
and tiger. These are the real indi-
vidualists-the men who win by tooth
and claw. And just as the great
beasts of prey are disappearing. so
! in due time-not far distant-shall
these men and women of prey disap-
pear likewise.
OF the country's sl1O. 900, 900. 900
of wealth, the people who attended
the republican convention had their
own share they had the share of these
five millions of jobless men. Why
should they not declare their conf
dence in the plenty and prosperity of
the future?"
Why should they not hail with
confidence the signs now manifest of
complete restoration of business
prosperity" They had plenty. They
were prosperous.
Why should they not after a column
Of fulsome laudation of Roosevelt and
the republican party. very modcstly
declare their gratitude for Gods
bounty'-particular as IL cost them
nothing. Doubtless those delegates
would have thought it sacreligious to
have expressed their gratitude to the
men whose labor produced that
bounty.
nGbllcan party has demonstrated that
the party's leaders are mad and blind
Old Burrows talked of Temporary
panic" while five millions of desperate
men were vainly searching for work
He babbled OF the 10000 of immi-
grants who had landed on our shores
months past and while he was talking
emigration exceeded immigration.
Senator Lodge was eloquent over
the traditions Of the Grand Old Party,
and Burrows drooled out a phrase TO
the effect that the candidate must
have the qualities OF Lincoln and
Grant-then the convention nom