The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-10

ter he ever wrote, Judge Jonn II. na-
gan. that able and faithful old demo
crat of Texas, said: The party in
power no longer respects the consti-
tuition. and ii regards the government
as a machine to enable those who
control it to make money. The idea
that the object of the government Mt is
TO protect society and all it's members
in the free enjoyment of political and
religious liberty and to give all an
equal chance in life's great race seems
to me to have become almost lost and
class interests and monopoly substi-
tuted for right, justice and law"
Mr.. Chairman, these messages that
bring to you and to this convention
were uttered when the republican par
~ was in power and when the country
was enjoying material prosperity
In that same letter Judge Raglan said:
The present apparent prosperity, like
the song of the siren, is, fear, lulling
the people to sleep on a political vol
cano, which, unless policies should
change, may burst upon us sooner
than would seem possible" How
true were his words The panic that
came upon us in 1907. with its with
ering, blighting touch, was the child
Of republican policies. The depositor
was denied his own money at the
bank-the farmer could not obtain
money with which to move his crop.
The full dinner pail became empty
and soup houses sprang up in all of
sif Of hn
army of the unemployed was never
so great and the number of mercan-
tile failures was unparalleled in the
history of the country-and these are
the fruits of the republican party To
day 100000 of American people are
looking anXiously TO the future. They
see their industries passing into the
hands of gigantic com binations of cap
ital. They see the managers of these
corrupt combinations absolutely DOM
mating the government. They see the
financial institutions of the country
controlled by a few men, called money
kings. who can produce panic in
twenty-four hours-they see that the
republican party no longer respects
the aspirations and the rights of the
masses; and they have seen the tariff
tax become a burden grievous to be
borne. The whole country sees now
the terrible condition that confronts
the American people. But the demo-
cratic party called attention to these
evils long be fore the handwriting ap-
peared in the midst of the riotous Bel
shazzar's feast of our trust prosper
ity. The deadly enemies of constitu-
tional government are gnawing at the
vitals of the republic. Employing the
phraseology of Edwin Markham, let
me say:
And SO l fear my country, not the
hand
That shall hurl night and whirlwind
on the land;
fear not Titan traitors who shall
rise
To stride like broke shadows on our
skies;
These we can face in open fight, with
With reddening rampant and the
sworded hand
I fear the vermin that shall under
Senate and citadel and school and
shrine
The Worm Of Greed. the fatted Worm
of Ease,
And all the crawling progeny of
The vermin that shall honeycomb the
towers
And walls of state in unsuspectine
hours
This poem was inspired by republi-
can conditions as thew exist today
Under the reign of the republican
party, the mighty rich and politically
powerful mock the courts. defy the
statutes and escape just burdens OF
| this great government, while the plain
people must obey the law and for each
violation suffer its pains and penal
ties. This favoritism shown trust
kings by the republican party reminds
me of the following lines from an En-
glish bard:
The law imprisons man or woman
Who steals a goose from off the com
| mon,
But lets the greater culprit loose
Who steals the common from the
goose"
The republicans have met in nation
al convention and they have rewritten
their oft-printed promises to the peo
pie, but the country no longer takes
republican promises seriously and, in
the light of the past. what are their
promises worth? Promises prior &c
| the election?
Bees on flowers alighting cease their
hum,
And republicans in office soon grow
dumb.
Again they have promised to revise
| the tariff. | desire to read Just here
a short editorial from the pen oil
Henry Watterson, Kentucky's brilliant
editor. He says. in the Louisville
| Courier-Journal that His Satanic
Majesty sitting to consider improve
ments in the Sabbath school system
Friar Tuck preparing a Temperance
| lecture, Robin Hood framing a bill Of
rights, King Richard the Third draft
! ing improvements for the decalogue
Nero writing verses upon the JOYS Of
! the sim Dla life of animals 6ecIo;r,ipc