Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-10-08
WORST THE WORLD
HAS WITNESSED
40 Il Cane urssr tas High -ro,ss
tive Tariff and Republican Con
troll in Every Branch IF
the Federal Govern
mcnt.

In public address Mr. shaw. re
Gently Secretary Of the Treasury IN
der Mr. Roosevelt. said "lThe strin
gency Of 1907 is generally conceded te
have been the everest the world has
ever Witnessed
How conseling II is TO read in the
republican platform this glowing sen
tence "A Republican tariff has al
ways been followed by business pros
perity"
Mt Aldrich. in his speech on the
Aldrich Currency bill in the Senate Of
the United States only last winter
said:
"Mr President. the financial crisis
from which the country has just
emerged. which eliminated in a serious
panic in October. was the most acute
and destructive in it's immediate con
sequences of any that has occurred in
the history of the country. Nothing
but the heroic measures taken by the
Representatives of the great business
and financial institutions of the coun
try acting in cooperation with the
Secretary OF the Treasury. prevented
a total collapse OF private credit and
a disastrous destruction of all values
The country was saved by the mar
rowcst possible margin from an over
wheImng catastrophe, whose blight
ing effect would have been felt In
every house hold"
On February II. 1908, Mr.. Shaw in
a speech he made in Michigan, said:
"Over 100000 freight cars are stand
ing on the tracks, 10000 locomotives
white loaded and out OF commission
one-fourth of the population OF several
large cities idle. and for the first time
under Republican administration
free soup houses in every industrial
center; the price of farm produce nat
urally and materially deprecated
furnish an object lesson which ought
to produce a measure of sobermind
edness OH the part of the American
people"
From the public press is taken the
following news item coming from
Pittsburg. Pa, Feb 8. 1908:
"The cry of the unemployed daily
grows more distressed in Pittsburg
There are $4,000 men idle. and the
spectre of the dreaded soup houses
again makes its appearance The first
soup house will be opened by the Sal
walton Army Monday morning. and
unless there is a radical and prompt
change for the better, more places oil
this kind will be in demand before
many days have elapsed The situa
ton is not really alarming, but it *
bad enough Soup houses have been
the dread of the business men and
civic leaders. and every effort has been
made TO avoid them"
Here is the following news item
from Chicago, dated Feb. II, 1908:
Chicago. Feb IL, 1908 Never in
the history Of the Chicago Relief and
Aid Society has there been such a
demand for assistance as at the pres
ent time. is the claim OF Superinten
dent Kingsly. who is in charge of the
distribution OF funds by the business
{ mems relief committee. which has just
raised between s25.000 and $4,000 for
needy families Never in the history
of the society have we had so mary
appeals based entirely on the lack Of
employment"
Not long ago Mr. Dalzell. who write:
the tariff tax. recently as dictated by
the men who put up the money to pay
the expenses of republican campaigns
told us:
1--WE do not read our tariff lessons
out OF books. We read them by tn,
blazing light OF open furance doors
amid the noise OF industrial activitie:
and in the sweat OF our brows that We
coin into wealth. and God help tn,
man or party that would put out thes,
fires. still the music OF that noise ant
send the workmen home to a foodles
and hungry household.
ut was under republican rule tina
this music was stilled that the fire.
were put out and that soup houses
had to provide for the foodless an,
hungry"
No longer can any Republican eve
fool the people by claiming that q
republican tariff has always been fol
lowed by business prosperity"
The time has come-the hour ha
struck-for change Thousands o
Republicans take their positions an,
will vote for BRYAN in November.