The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-06-26

every doorpost and smearing eacn
crossroad between, Tariff reform.
The robber barons putting up the
money and bossing the job! Wny'
that were just like currency reform,
with old he-goat, nigh finance AID
rich, papa-in-law Rockefeller BEHIND
him, experimenting both the Senate
and the House! Where, OH where are
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves!
Where are Satan and his Christian
Endeavor Society: Falstaff and MS
Woman's Christian Temperance IN
ion; Friar Tuck and his SUNDAY
school class; Robin Hood and his Dill
of rights; in short, where are COUSIN
Serene Payne and his Ways ana
Means Committee and Uncle Joe
Cannon and his Rules Committee
As we'll set Richard III to draft new
Decalogue or Munchausen to 1ndlte
an apostrophe to truth, as expect
these to amend the Dingley schedules.
Neither shall we have any more
government by Injunction, the TART
judicial opinions to the contrary not
withstanding. Our infant industries
at length rich and prosperous, most
of them, having attained their allott-
ed three-score-and-ten no longer need
protection; but they dearly love the
American Iaboring man, and just as
the tariff shall be revised purely in
his interest, that is to insure him
steady work and high wages'-wh1ch
on the faith-cure principle, though
the empty pail stare him and his
starving children in the face, he is
bound to know is only a Pigment OF his
fancy-shall the rules OF court pro-
cedure be revised to conform to the
demand Of the Democrats II years old
now, so that no matter what he says
or does he shall never again go to
Jail. Think of the debt the working
man owes not to Mr.. Bryan, who be-
gan it and has fought for it straight
since 1896, but to Mr.. Roosevelt, who
took the word out of Mr.. Bryan's
mouth and has brought the Republic
can party to a deathbed repentance.
All hail the dignity of labor! ..
The rich shall be made richer still
for the business OF the country must
not be ,disturbed-prosperity is the
keynote of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and a mess of pottage-the old flag
and an appropriation-but the poor
man shall share the riches of the rich
man-for, is it not written in the Book
of Morgan that the Steel Trust is the
hope of man, and has not Rockefeller
himself proclaimed that he is but an
accountant for his countrymen, lying
awake and walking the floor and cut
ting coupons whilst they sleep? Is
not Carnegie a good Republican? Is
not Hartman good Republican.
Who made the Steel Trust, the To-
bacco Trust, the Whisky. Trust, the
Sugar Trust, the Standard Oil Trust
the founda tion-stenes of American
liberty and prosperity-except the
Republican party-Aldrich leading
the Senate, Cannon leading the House,
the people compelled to pay for the
dance, millions to the rich, only toll
and taxes to all others.
We have an impression that the
argument will be found somewhat
threadbare Hearing it for the thou
sandth time, the workingman will
think at least two or three times be-
fore he answers-will think of his
40 years in the wilderness with the
wild beasts of Plutoeracy-tempted
of the devil and high tariff and high
finance-the angels of Democracy,
alone to offer him words of cheer,
which too often he most mistakenly re
jected-and, thinking on these things, he
will say to Mr. Taft's general man
ager and advance agent when he
comes around telling him of all the
Republican party has done and is go
ing to do for him: mir. Hitchcock
let me recall you passage of Scrip
ture out of the Gospel according to
St. Luke and then, turning to the
Fifteenth Chapter of that Apostle, he
will read as follows:
2 5. And the devil, taking
Him up into an high noun
tain, shew'd Him all the king
dOms of the world in a mo-
ment of time.
!. 6. And the devil said unto
Him, All this power will I
give Thee, and the glory of
them.
Z. If Thou therefore, wilt
worship me all shall be thine.
s. And Jesus answered
and said unto him, Get thee
behind Me, Satan.
so I say unto you, Mr.. Hitchcock
thus will the American working
man conclude-"because you have
fooled me these many moons, and l
now know not only that you can do
nothing you say you will do, but you
don't even mean to do it. The Re-
publican party can fool me no long
err, Mr.. Hitchcock. | shall vote for
Bryan" IS.
We mourn for Taft. He is too good
man to be sacrificed in the shambles
of spoils by spoilsmen. Alone upon
his character his service and his mer-
it, he might have claimed the first
place in the nations gift and had his
claim allowed; as heir at law, never;
as the beneficiary of machine meth
DDS, never.
Theodore Roosevelt is a popular
man. Eeven the Democrats love him
for his good intentions and for the
enemies he has made They will fol-
low him into his retirement with affec-
tionate salutations and deep respect.
They will not accept designated sue
cessor and the dynastic principle at
his hands.
The Republicans go to their doom
The blood Of the victims of the Big
Stick and the Steam-Roller sticks in
their Threats as they cheer; their
cheering has the deathrattle. Grand
old Republican party! 1t was boss
in its day. But it's living sins have
founded it out; the ghosts of half-for-
gotten sins come back to haunt it.
Majestic fabric of departed glory!
even as the turgid Burrows and the
frigid Lodge reviewed it's history; its
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