The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-10-16


Gooding as early as expected.
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
(Goodwin's Weekly.)
The trend of the present politica
campaign is altogether vicious. The
effort seems on every hand to estab'
lish that it is a crime to be rich. The
truth is that the proportion of bad
men who are rich is not any greater
than the proportion of poor men who
are bad, and many poor man berates
the rich for doing precisely what he
would do il he had the money. 1t
does not matter much to the rich /;
they can get along without help; but
the struggle ought to be not to so
inflame the people over a falsehood
as to take away from those who are
wage earners the privilege to earn
their bread. Many rich man in
the last two years has said: Very
well, / was doing the best could; /
was giving just as many men employ
ment as possibly could; | was
struggling to do my duty in this
world as best could with the means
which the good God has given me;
but it does not seem to suit. / will
gather my treasures together; | will
invest them somewhere--if not in
this country, in some other-~and live
on the proceeds until my own coun-
trymen become sane once more and
look at things from a right point of
view"
In this business the President of
the United States has been great
factor; SO has great proportion of
the press of the east; so has many a
demagogue who has spoken to the
public. It's all easy enough to say
that the trust must be smashed, but
when the expense of smashing a trust
is to smash the prospects Of a thou
sand or ten thousand employees, then
some care should be used, because
when the poor are without work there
Is trouble. The only consistent ones
In the whole bunch are Mr.. Debs and
his party He says frankly that the
gathered wealth of the world was
gathered by labor; hence laborers
should have it now. The only trou-
Die is, he includes among those to
whom the division should be made
Ill that smutty crowd who, neither
n this nor any other age, would earn
l living at all if they could wrest it
rom someone who had earned it.
When the laws are executed there
S no occasion for any noise; the
courts move silently. When wrong
S committed and is presented to them
hey take hold of it and handle it,
here is no occasion for any outriders
,r 6utcriers; there is no occasion to
announce in advance what is going |
O be done; and, above all. it is as
as it is unjust. When |
men bring an accusation against COM
lined capital, care should be used
est the innocent be assailed as well
s the guilty. Men are mutually
upon each other. If
mans labor is worth $4,000 a
ear and another's mans labor is
yorth the same, and he has in addi-
ion $4,000 in money, why, his pow
r is double over the former man.
hat is an inviolable law and cannot
e changed either by statute or by
There was no occasion for the panic
asst fall; it was shame to bring 1t
N, and If those who did it did not
now what their work was leading
0, it does not make them b.ameless;
nd it is bad time now for them
D come out and Grip that their mo-
ives were good. The whole tenden-
y of the times is to make the poor
nd the dependent forget that lesson
'hich was taught In the long ago,
hat by the sweat of their faces they
lust earn their bread, and to be-
eve there is some shorter, nearer
nd gentler way to live than to earn
living.
NEWSPAPER AT DOWNEY.