Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-30
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
THE G. o. P.

T HE Republican elephant is being
badly battered Even his tough
II old seasoned hide is beginning
to show signs of wear and tear. 1t
looks as if the stars in their courses
were fighting against the G. o. r. All
the things that Republicans would not
for worlds have had happen under
Republican administration have nap
pened, All the contingencies declared
to be impossible under Republican
auspices have become actuaities! Ihe
Republican party finds itself in the po-
sition of the miserable sinner of the
prayer book, who, presumably with the
best intentions, has done those things
that he ought not to have done and
has left undone those things that he
ought to have done. and concludes there
is no health in him.
OF course we do not believe that the
stars in their courses are really
fighting against the Republican party.
The stars in their courses or out OF
them never fight against anybody. We
do not even believe that the G. Q. +.
is hoodooed, but we do believe that,
to come to a much palmer and more
easily understood metaphor, it is mere
ly reaping what it sowed, and not even
Republicans specially favored of
heaven cen though they be--accerd-
ing to a prevalent superstition among
them-may gather grapes of thorns or
figs of thistles.
The Republican party has defied the
economic forces, and the economic
forces have resented the defiance and
asserted themselves. The Rpublican
party has denied the law of action and
reaction, and that law will put it out
of commission. The Republican party
has sworn by the form of prosperity,
and ignored obvious ways and means
of procuring the substance of it. The
Republican party, by endeavoring to
increase the bank accounts of one
group of citizens at the expense of the
rest, has itself become bankrupt of the
esteem of the discerning. Nemesis is
on the trail of the G.. o. p. The Repub-
lean spokesman asserts the financial,
rock-ribbed financial security of the
land, and a havoc dealing panic mocks
his words. Perhaps enemies of Presi-
dent Roosevelt were instrumental in
starting the panic but ere long it was
almost uncomfortable, and if this had
not still been the strongest country
financially on earth-for the money has
not been taken out of the country, al
though it is in comparatively few
pockets--confusion would have become
;orb
seen what the French eXpressively call
a 1ebacle. The excitement caused first
by the panic and then by the some
what sensational recovery from it has
hardly been outlived ere We are sub
jected nationally to new shocks, new
eXcitements. Now it is a bread riot in
Cincinnati, again a demonstration in
Chicago which resulted in reducing the
chief of police to such a condition of
abject poltroonery that in his own
home he killed an inoffensive Jewish
lad. And now comes trouble in New
York. Ten thousand unemployed men
and women assemble to discuss their
wrongs and grievances, or in palmer
English, their hunger and the causes
of it. The police clash with them, and
a foolish fellow, who probably would
not have been admitted to the United
States at all but for the governmental
awe of the steamship trust and Nor
gan's Atlantic ocean operations, filings
a bomb, slays and is slain, Is the
mass meeting of the hungry ten thou
sand, with its tragic sequel, the climax?
Is this the end? VIII popular excite
men and indignation over the fact that
thar here was an open display of law
lessness and lawless force as well as
of law protected force, settle the diff
hcuties that led to the mass meeting
of the unemployed? Lawlessness is
serious business, as anyone who has
bean starved or even pinched will tell
YOU. il cannot be tolerated in the
United States.