The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-27

ent conditions. The Recorder receiy.
ed the list during the past week, I'm
the form OF letter, without sigma
ture. 1t Is generally contrary to our
rule TO pay any attention To a letter
which is unsigned, but we assume
that the writer OF the letter is seri
Gus In these questions, and wishes to
draw US out. The letter follows
Editor Idaho Recorder. II believe
you 10 be falr-minded man. Can
you, as democrat, answer the nues.
tion which was put TO Secretary OF
War Taft,
What Is man To do " hen out OF
work 10 a financial crisis and is
starving
what is your opinion OF President
lsoosevcIt's message to his majesty.
Manuel III, King OF PortugalY
what is your honest opinion OF
Roosevelt, anyway?
what Is a democrats answer TO the
question by the working man TO
II you viii condescend To answer
these questions may tie foolish
enough to ask other questions. /
pray you Will answer them through
the columns Of your paper.
(signedl a reader OF The Recorder.
We Will attempt TO answer these
questions In our weak way, as we see
they might besovlcd. The writer
OF the letter Is evidently "A socialist.
We use the term socialist In Its
broadcast sense, without intending 10
cast inyinious reflections upon the
writer OF the letter. 1t has been
demonstrated that child can ask
questions which 1t would have taken
Socretes 10 answer, A mature mind
can ask questions on governmental
problems which our greatest states.
men Will give esasive answers or else
bis theories may suit only himself.
II the editor of The Recorder Mas
seeking for an office at the hands OF
a party which was largely responsible
for the conditions under which we
live, we would have answered this
question In the same manner In which
Taft did, God Knows The
writer Of the above letter would un.
doubleday say be would put unenploy.
ed labor upon public works. His
ideas IN this respect would he all
right, but II 1t took congress ms long
to make this provision as 1t has 60
remedy our financial system. unem.
ployed labor would be dead and bur.
led before such work could be started. .
Most any man who has given this /
question any consideration, but q |.
politician, would suggest-tbat the
stable be locked before the horses had
been stolen. Under an equitable di.
vision Of labor and production there
,ould not be panic. II we had no
panics labor would DO employed. To
avoid panic IL will be necessary for
5he government to take the governing
out OF the hands OF the ma.
'ional bankers. The recent panic Is
/ disgrace To this enlightened coun-
Try. There was no necessity for
10. No time In the history OF the
country have we had such pheuom-
nal crops. We have a rotten inan.
;ial system, and the Aldrich bill,
which will no doubt pass congress, i
places the affairs OF the country more
absolutely In the hands OF the rogues
sho precipitated the recent panic
han ever. The working mans ques.
Ions can be answered only In one way;
Ind that Is TO say, destroy special
privileges, give the laborlng man m
'qual show with the rich man in the
yes of the law. The Sherman Anti
rust law has been construed so as ,
% be able to reach the laboring men
~ applying to the unions To three
lines the actual damage, but does
lot apply 10 tne Rockefeller's, the
dorgans, the iIarrlman's and other
giants. When labor asserts ,