The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-04-04
Reform Propaganda Is Exposed

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The democratic members of the house of repre-
sentatives announce their willingness to aid the
republicans in enacting all the laws that President
Roosevelt has urged. There are six of these re-
form bills now before the house which the presi-
dent desires to see enacted land which he has rec
commended to congress. IN proof of the fact that
the republican members of congress and their fin
ancal masters have no intention of passing any re-
medal legislation, the democrats take this method
of exposing the actual conditions to the public
The houses of congress are before the public
gaze in a position most unenviable They are both
strongly republican, and have been for years. On
the eve of presidential and congressional cam
paign the people are watching the acts of their
representatives with desire to know whether they
are fit men to continue in office. National condi-
tions demand the enactment of number of laws
which shall repeal the special privilege which for
some time has been given to the corporations and
moneyed interest. The common people have come
to the conclusion that even they have some rights
which should be partially respected by their con-
gressional misrepresentation, and the spirit of
reform has so permeated the public thought that
even the republican party has felt compelled to
pay heed to its admonitions. President Roosevelt
is not candidate for denomination. His future
ances. In order to secure victory for his fat
friend next fall he is willing to take the position
of reform dictator, and through the prominence
given his official utterances lend the belief to the
people that the Taft branch of the republican par.
ty stands for reform. He recommends reform
laws to congress- and urges that body to take I'M
mediate action, knowing that it will not do so and
that delays will be made in all such legislation in
order to use the reform cry as an asset in the re-
republican campaign.
Be it said to Roosevelt's credit that he is
brainy man. He sees the danger which besets his
beloved party, and has taken the lead in an at
tempt to save it from general destruction at the
polls If the people can be made to believe that
the republican party has become regenerated, and
that corporation control of republican legislation
has ceased, that party could again go before the
people with hope of success.
But now another bomb has been thrown into
the republican mob of office seekers, and the de-
struction, from last reports is unprecedented.
The democratic members of congress have taken
the matter in hand, and are making every effort to
secure the passage of the reform measures recon-
mended by President Roosevelt, at the same time
giving national prominence to their attitude If
congress now refuses to pass the bills advocated
by the republican president the people will have
added proof that the presidents advertising hoax
was manufactured for the occasion.
Democrats in congress are undoubtedly taking
mean advantage of their trust-bound republican
colleagues by thus coming out openly in favor of
measures advocated by the president, but in po-
litcal warfare there is no quarter given in expos
ing fraud. Congress dare not pass the proposed
bills for it would mean the discontinuance of the
Wall street campaign fund this fall. Representa-
tives of financial interests holding seats in con-
gress must heed the instruction of their masters,
else their position is gone. Yet to disregard the
peoples wishes and the general demand for reform
is more dangerous to many, and between the gold
en- devil of finance and the deep sea of public
opinion, the republican congress sees visions of
further state of desuetude which will not be paid
for by the people.
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