The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-23

to high tariffs, religious white washing
for tainted officials, and perpetual OPP
position to all laws restricting the labor
of children. Horace Greeley used to
say that no party should remain in
power more than ten years. An un-
disputed supremacy transforms the
republican into deep-dyed william and
a democrat into moss back Here we
have a handful of republicans, who
have no hope, even Il they were desir-
Gus, of doing anything in the state,
and so they wear themselves into a
frazZle scrambliing for federal patron
age. Their fights are for spoiIs Right
Or wrong does not enter their councils.
1t is hard to tell the winning card,
and how to snatch it. AS political
eonserYatOrs of a state, as reformers,
they count as ciphers, trailing along
after a decimal point.
AS to the party in power all that
is done is the fruit of its snoring
vigils. The squabble for Office may be
protracted and intense. 1t often is,
leaving the victor too exhausted for
further service. l have seen success
ful candidates that should have been
incarcerated in an insane asylum be-
fore, and a sanitariUm after. The
petty struggles and small rewards do
not, as rule, affect our best blood
In fact, it is not question of the
best, but OF the biggest, log roller
Now, If some splendid breeze could
sweep over this old gulf with the po-
tency and virility of the cid populist
movement. some whirlwind that would
endanger the supremacy of the party
IN power. what a god-send it would be-
From the pines to the palmettoes,
the very best would come to the front.
We would be talking reforms instead
OF rolling up brush-heaDs to defect
them. We would be putting not but
ting, our heads together for the good
OF our whole neople We would have
coed roads and good rad conventions.
We would have schools eight months
every year everywhere and compulsory
educatiCn TO I'LL them. We would be
putting into operation plans to pro-
mote our Agricultural interests and
bring tillers to the soil. We would be
forcing. by continual preyer, Uncle
Sam to helm drain cur millions of
acres of swami lands. There world
be no fcur-cent fare. no prohibitive
freight and express rates ard no tax
or license put upon erdeayor In
short. we would be marching along
rieht at the front of this great, grow
ing and wonderful civilization.
Kansas is to have a 100000 high
way. The agricultural department. has
its road experts On the GROUND to plan.
The famers will furnish the stone,
ccRvicts will do the work. anad town.
ships will build bridges and culverts.
Every state should put its unem-
ployed at work on public improve
ments, and the nation should be push
ing government roads in every state.
1t does not take an ounce of common
sense to know that when times are
dull, when industry is paralvzed and
people are out of work. public Inn
prcvements should be pushed to their
furthest limit
Besides, it is much cheaper to pay
Ia bcr than to paw a mans board in
the penitentiary and the cost of getting
him there. II Is much cheaper to pay
labor than to pay the price of free
soup and its harvest of encouraged
The greatest wrong that
can be done to man is to close the
door Of industry to him, and next to
this the greatest wrong is TO feed him.
The one frenzies him, the other en-
feebles him. Very few of the feederv