The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-21

full time aud keep going plan not
now III operation? Why has there
been any shutting down by you
and the other members of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacture
ers, the American Hardware Man
utacturers' Association, and the
numerous other similar associations
to which you say you belong? Did
you not assure us that Mckinley
would insure a full dinner pail to
all who desire to work, Was not
this assurance renewed when your
several bodies Endorsed Roosevelt
and Fairbanks Then what has
emptied the dinner pals of millions
of men who are willing to work?
What greater reliance can be placed
on this assurance than on the
otherso fyou were false prophets
| before, how do we know you will
not be againo But why the closed:
why the idle mills; why the I'M
used freight cars9 Why the main
tenance of high prices in the face
of falling demand? Where is the
abounding, marvellous, Won
derful, unparalleled prospective
Haven we got a republican adj
ministrationo Haven't we got a
republican senate and house of
representatives. Haven't we had
them uninterruptedly for II years.
Haven the republicans made the
laws, state as we'll as national, and
haven't they been charged with
their enforcement? Then what is
the matter? If the laws are defec-
tive, why haven't they been alter
ed? If defective now, were they
not equally defective eight and
four years ago, when you assured
us, all is we'll, and leave well
enough alone?
Why the depression, we ask
Haven't we had seven years OF
Roosevelt who, according to repub-
lican orators and assistant republi-
cans, as we'll as republican news
papers, is the greatest, wisest and
hest president the country ever
had? Haven't we had IL years OF
standpatism, with Hanna, AID
rich and Cannon sitting on the
brakes to prevent an enactment OF
legislation not desired by the gen
tlemen who are SO conspicuous in
their support of Taft and Sherman,
Morgan Rockefeller, Carnegie,
Hartman and Shift DO these
men ever make a mistake when
they select candidates. Which IS
the most likely to be misled, these
men who say Taft is all right, that
he is a conservative, or the western
farmer who is told that Taft is a
radical'
"Where is the Astounding pros
perityo Wealth has certainly in
creased enormously or, at least,
prices have been boosted to a point
that ought to have satisfied the most
avaricious. The fortunes OF the
few have become gigantic--bounded
out of sight. Morgan, we are told
has three hundred or so millions.
Carnegie as much; while Rocketel-
Ter is credited with a billion; a few
thousand others have from one to a
hundred million each. These seem
to have had their full time ana
keep going cards in operation,
while they are generally credited
with having in October November
last gathered in nearly everything
in a large way in the shape OF
banks, trust companies, industrial
and railroad combinations, which
had so far escaped them. In TACT
the bulk of the people have been
! set lively pace to pay the increas-
ing prices for the necessarles OF
life these and a few others control.
But what has happened to the
masses, whom you and other boost
ers of Mckinley and Roosevelt as
sured were to share in the pros