The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-26
The Extended Ear.

Louisville Courier Journal: Every abuse stigma
TIED by Theodore Roosevelt is of republican orgina
ton Accepting him as true prophet, how shall
honest and thoughtful accept the organization
made at Chicago and processing to be his devotee?
The familiar picture of the extended of and
the hidden halter perfectly reproduced by the ample
figure and genial presence of Taft in the foreground
leaning lovingly on the Roosevelt arm, with Sherman
the incarnation of all that is sinister in high IL
nance and dscreditable in party Notwithstanding
lust behind them, ready to spring backmail and to
scatter promises in exchange for money in amount
sufficient to buy the voters and corrupt the election
The process has grown so familiar that it no longer
excites either horror or terror.
TO fry the fat out of the manufacturers who are
not content with the robbing privileges they get
through the tariff and who dare to hold back the
tribute they for their protection; privately to
guarantee the corporations immunity against further
no1estation whilst publicly excaimng against them;
bartering friendly legislation and franchise rights tor
Doodle funds selling embassies abroad and rich
places at home-too often to yielding nobod1eS-tor
the price of state here and congressional district
there constitute but few OF the features OF their
perfectly organized scheme to syndicate the govern
ment and establish at Washington dynasty as per-
sonal and exclusive and unrepubican as If it
ruled by right divine and were born to the purple.
The congress has ceased to be a deliberate body.
The senate is run by steering committee dominated
by A1drch the mouthpiece of the lawless rich whom
Roosevelt has Stigmatized, but not endorsed he
house. under stand-pat speaker is the servant OF
rules committee dominated by Dalzcll, the mouth
piece of the predatory trusts exposed by Roosevelt
but retaining all their power for evil The white
house itself has been converted into the palace OF
sovereign, girt about with all the regal usage OF the
courts of Europe, and mnister1ng to the pomp OF
wealth and power, and to the vanity of the newly
great the noble simplicity of republican ideals gone,
yet the grandiose dignity of established order not
yet arrived the president himself aristocrat born
and ingram, another Rienz preaching democracy
he neither practices, nor believes.
A thousand millions of annual expenditure no
longer startles anybody Republican newspapers
and orators talk of millions as if money grew
bushes; as it does to many of them Fifty years
ago we were nicknamed nation of shopkeepers.
We have become a nation of spendthrfts. Yet half
of what forced to pay subsidy, through the
impostons of the tariff and in graft through the
corruptions of the lobby would amply support the
government, economically administered
There is not the smallest promise of amendment
On the contrary with shameless efrontery, refusing
pass publicity act of congress, or even to put
publicity plank in their platform, yet in these defaults
seeking to bambooze the people by irresponsible
observations of integrity and far intention, the re-
publican campaign managers Sunny Jim Sherman,
the Mark Hanna of the time at their head, say to
the masses of those who hew the wood and draw
the water and pay the taxes: "What are you going
to do about it p
"Weve got the pull and we've got the votes and
we've cote the money, too
This is the situation which the plain people of the
United States have to meet upon the threshold OF
another presidential election.