Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-01-24
Entered at the Postofiice al Staunton, Va,
as second class mail matter.
Friday, January "a. 1903.
THE WISE MONOPOIIST.

THE WISE M0k0P0LlST.
There are many gentlemen WIG
either directly or Indirectly aided all
they could in placing the present ruler
and we use that word advisedly, IL
the White House. Circumstances
which any person of ordinary common
sense might have fOreseen have taker
place, and they are just the clrcum
stances which were the natural con
sequences of their folly, they failed tt
elect a monopoIist. The Republican
party endorsed policies which were oil
ought to have been distasteful, If not
really abhorent, to good citizens. Ii
was and is party of the rich against
the poor. 1t had made laws which had
fostered monopolles until they had be
come the owners of the country and
the oppressors of the people. This had
been pointed out time and time again.
No nation it had been long demonstrat
ed that protected one set of people but
must necessarily Cypress another. No
nation which does not give all of its
citizens an equal chance, bat sooner or
later must come to grief. This was
known to the Republican party, it
was especially known to their new
allies, the "Safe and Sane" But as
they draw their wealth from these
very conditl OILS, they would not es
peuse the side of wisdom, and favor a
proper administration of affairs. The
people had decided to break up the
monarchy which had SO long existed,
and dethrOne the royal family
which lived eff the hard earnings of
the poor. They had stood conditions
about as long as they could, SO in 1896
a storm swept the country, storm
carrying with it the destruction of
those laws which permitted one man
in few short years by controlling
some necessary Of life to heap up unto
himself such wealth, as few years
before was denied the Hottest monarch
of the world. The people saw thai
without government aid this could moi
be accomplished, and they saw also
that profits came from them, that II
was their money which was being
taken and was handed over to thu
protected monoplist. What was thu
result. Monopoly saw its doom unless
it could avert it. 1t boldly seized the
weapon upon which monopoly relies
1.-The pen is mightier than the sword,
says the old proverb." But this is no
an axiom of monopoly. Money i
mightier than either, they have add
ed, and they poured out their illgottel
gains, and under the leadership of tina
Great Captain of Monopoly, the lat
Marcus Aurelius Hanna, they swep
away the legions of the people ant
again entrenched themselves In tn
fortress of Protection. Since thel
these same have chosen those Wit
should further captain, govern ant
protect them IN their well namet
stronghold. 1t so happens just nov
that their chosen leader has become
unwilling to stand for all their eyi
their actions and has sickened at thu
sight, indeed he has called some of thu
worst to account and he has exposed
to the sovereign people their cupidity
and wickedntss. OF course a great
cry has gone up. The leader is being
discIedited and denounced. His poll
cies are damned throughout the pro-
lection camp, by every head Of a de
psrtm eht, by every bent ticiaTY and
poss IDLY by every monopoly underling
even to the veriest sculliOn. They
call him wild, crazy, radical. Danger
Gus, fanatical, indeed the vocabulary
con tains no void of &pprobrium that
has not been connected with his name,
many of which are unprintable. They
sho uld not rage, what they should do
would be TO hang their heads in
shame, they themselves did what they
now denOunce, they brought about
the very conditions they SO copiously
damn. Will they be believed next
time, or is their advice better now
than before since they are again press
ing their leaders to the front? There
is soon to be an opportunity to change
conditions, to elect new man and
try a new party. What will these sane
monopollsts do? They will hunt for
some person of the kind they used to
have, some tool of their choosing and
they will pour out their money to elect
him. They will call him conservative,
which means "he is our man." We
will see whether the people can be led
again by the nose"