The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-01-15

voted exclusively to the interests of the
farmer. 1t is a technical journal of the
land and the home in the New West. With the
politicians and politics it has little to do save that
it DESIRES above all things to the greatest
good to the greatest number of those hard-Work
ing toil-worn men and women who make up the
vast and noble army of it's supporters
This is word uttered today because new
era is dawning upon this country of ours. In the
state of Washington new primary law is to be
tested for the first time at general election. I'm
der the operations of this law it is assumed that
the voice of the people will take on its old time
imperial kingship, and shall rehabilitate itself in
the garments of it's supreme and dnquestionable
right.
Within the past few years have had called
to our attention danger, which, at one time,
threatened to overwhelm the economic efforts or
our people, and to set at naught the inalienable
right which under system of government was
supposed to guarantee to every man the free and
unfetered enjoyment of the products OF his hands.
These mighty aggregations of capital, whose COT
fers swollen with the accumulated wealth
of the country, were rapidly sapplng away the
foundation of our institutions and making of no
avail the competitive efforts of our young
people. The effect of this economic sys-
tem if it had been allowed to continue, would
have been to undermine the very life OF our ma
ton; to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer
And the time would have come, most assuredly,
when we should have had aristocracy founded
upon wealth and peasantry, cringing faWnng
and hugging the knees of benefactors from whose
gracious hands they may have received a permit
to labor
Our president, Theodore Roosevelt, in an effort
of inspired frenzy, set the wheels of justice in
motion, sought these wherever he found
them and brought them to book and punished
them To use his phrase, "Successful dishOn
esty" was branded so firmly and definitely that
all men might see and know and learn to despSe
it,
1 have caused to be printed this page in this
issue of The Ranch jingle by wellknown mi
nor poet and l feel that well within
rights if take few moments and few lines
from the consideration of technical questions to
consider what shall do to forward the efforts
of this champion of the people, to make certain
that his labor shall not be set at naught.
feel that every who reads these lines
should give consideration to what he will do for
whom he will vote and his utmost and best
endeavor to seek from among the men of his &C
quaintance and knowledge those who will most
assuredly administer the trust of the people and
return to a full account of his stewardship
we'll attended to and SO thoroughly cared for
that may his hands clean.
This is political screed; do not want to
discuss parties and politics.
But do desire to think and asSuredly must
have some discussion as to how we will continue
the good work of Furnishing this successful dis
honesty" SO that the people, the vast mass of our
citizens, shall come into their own again.
In the coming elections insist upon the nomina
tons of the best
Vote for the best men.
Get your neighbOrs to vote for the best men;
and yourself-you must take to heart the admOni
tion of the Book of Books and "stand up and be
counted"