Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-01-24
A Sign Of the Times.


ccntiNr. he becomes about ;i> power
less Il factor in directing the details
al the public service a. WAS Samson
after he had become the victim of
that Dcliahan haircut. and it looks
very much now rs if the fate of the
destroyer of thu temple will yet he
his. and th, >iinil,. verified through
out Of the destruction Of enemies who
had assembled to pay tribute to Da-
gOn Al Gaza and typiticd in the wor-
ship OF Maumun at the COLISEUM. in
Chicago.
iS an Indication "f the drift of
popular sentiment. We have Il letter
before rs written 10y Geo. W. Cooke.
Republican Congressman at Large
from Colorado, to the President. the
Vice President. Speaker Cannon. all
the members OF Congress-, Justices
Of the Supreme Court, members of
the Cabinet, and.Washington newspa
per correspondents. ccnsuring pros
ecution of alleged infractions OF
the public land laws of that State.
The letter is dated the 18th instant.
and Congressman Cooke insists that
Il great injustice has been done to Il
number of Colorado's most honorable.
upright and lawabiding business men,
in that they have unnecessarily been
branded as criminals. through over
zealOusncss of the government in
ordering indictment without furnish
ing proper evidence. He recites the
recent decisions of Federal Judge
Robert f.. Lewis at Denver. in which
he quashed indictments against some
thirty citizens to show that govern
ment prosecutors were over-active in
their efforts to punish land frauds.
Again, under date of the 18th inst,
Lawrence Yates Sherman. a Republi-
can observation-disclosures of Illinois.
has not minced terms in criticism of
Theodore Roosevelt, all of whose
strenuous acts have hitherto been
tolerated or condoned. Mr.. Sherman
says that in reading the President S
message a couple of months ago. and
comparing it with the Omaha POpu-
list platform Of 1892, he could not
distinguish the slightest difference
between them; that the President S
policies are the doctrines of the So
cialists, and will if they prevail work
an economic revolution; that the
President has adopted the Internal
European, un-American idea" of put
ting tax upon ability and industry;
that the pursuance of the Presidents
theories will cause a split in the Re-
publican party that will put the adj
vOcate of the Democratic platform of
1896 in the White House; that the
Presidents theory for curbing swol-
len fortunes was cOnfiscatiOn and not
legislation, and finally, that every
thing the President proposes is I'M
constitutional and in violation of the
rights of the States.
1t will be observed that the lid to
free expression of opinion has been
removed by the final belief that Mr..
Roosevelt means what he says about
a third term as President. These
quotations are but samples of the
expressions found in the leading pa
pers from prominent Republicans,
members of hitherto happy family,
bound together with lips sealed by
that indissoluble tie of public plum
der, long as the chance remained that
Mr.. Roosevelt might retain his grasp
upon the string for a third-term nom-
ination. That hope having gone
glimmering," spirit of unrest pre-
walls, and out of the hearts fullness
the discOnsolate must talk.
May Nor PROHIBITION LEAD TO
SOME OTHER AS OBJECTIONABLE In
DULGENCE?-There is the reformer
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