The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-10-16
Children Go HUNGRY
FORTY YEARS OF LEGISLATION FOR SPECIAL IN
TERESTS PRESENTS Sad RESULTS
(The Denver News. J

year piping prosperity the Republican pIan 5000
Chicago children go hungry school, How hungry children
metropolis do school, but at home haunt
the Streets with heads empty of useful information their
bellies are empty decent food The know. But
should very much like to know what the Republican party gong
do about it?
For distinctly political problem Governments do not
wealth. but governments sometimes have deal to say about
distribution wealth And government for nearly forty years
this country has been Republican government 1t has been gov
by the party which has claimed the regency from the ha
Providence which has taken credit for the and the rainfall
the abundant yield of mines and hed
has been government by party which has coaked every exrava
ce defended every illogical scheme boered its vicious plan
Of taxation by pointing to the (party tul dinner Pa' anu crying
prosperity
party 5000 hungry school children IN city oca
the heart greatest foodproducng region OF the Word
What do you think of it, anyhow?
We repeat that this condition is essentially pohuca
There of food in this country We are exporting II IN
Hanoads daily There is lack of wealth IN this country w
time since passed England and are now the rceS
Die per capita the world There lack OF work tna ed W
ng deal in figures large as the number OF
hn in this one city there lack of the will to work NO @
netends that the parents of noticeable part OF these c
idle of their free will The trouble IS IN lne I i
wealth in the apportionment OF the rewards OF aDo @ nf
md for this faulty apporonment the Republican party must .P
he responsibility.
The Democratic theory is that that government Is pest "sl
governs least provided puts through Thoroughly Tue @ b
undertake On this theory there the smallest possible No m
lnalest possible governmental expenditure te S % ebcan
terence with the natural distribution OF wealth.,
heory-Nhich has been the dominating theory Tor 1ort
lust the opposite On this theory that government IS De
governs most which raises the largest possible SuS N - m
spends them on the most varied number OF oDect anu Le ma
Me greatest possible extent the natural laws OF @ @ a.
u distribution Of wealth For forty this theory mas ns
most untrannleled sway-and this is the result rlIo Ii
hungry school children the food metropolis ol u ole by
This is the fruit forty years OF government o. u Fl manu-
ind for the Interests This the fruit OF lo3 fv wears
acung mionaires by legal enactment the l - American
pf special governmental privilege the tfu o on the ee
labor by making labor the only important esses costing
list 1t the result the wholly logical result OF cong 7e Of the
$4,000 600 600 an;ece It is the natural and proper shame
theory that nations get rich by paying taxes anu % on,y
for those who handle the revenues even thlK q ette the
San Francisco fire every three years "o too1 child
business of the country and raise the number OF nuns fed
beyond even its present disgacefu total 5roer amount
administration in three years mas M he And now
Of capital than went up in smoke in that teau PIC a asks
the party responsible for this riotous M answer should
Chance to destroy some What do you ''''>
be? Il ooota is the
And perhaps worse than even the destua,o The fed
ea government spent $66ooooooo last y bv tariff taxation
course was red bv taxation and the bulk OF 4 s $40 into
But under te sacro sanct Dngey regime the + nuts in
the hands favored Interest o With very few excep
vaults of the government Remember that WIZ M and "intere
tons the benefcaries of present tari what the must
already overweahy and figure for you unprotected in
be on the worker and the man engage "