Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-08-20

tOu hOb h5S1HO ohaS
would insure "full dinner pail"
to all who desire to work? was not
this assurance renewed when your
several bodies endorsed Roosevelt
anu Fairbanks? Then what has
emptied the dinner pail Of millions
Of men who are willing to work?
What greater reliance can be placed
on this assurance than on the
other? If you were false prophets
before, how do you know you will
not be again?
WHY ARE THEY CLOSED?
But why the closed; why the
idle mills; why the unusual freight
cars? Why the maintenance of
high prices in the face of falling
demand? Where is the Astounding"
"marvelous," "wonderful," I'M
paralleled' prosperity? Haven't
we got republican administration.
Haven't we got republican
senate and house of representa-
tives? Haven't we had them I'M
interruptedly for twelve years?
Haven't the republicans made the
laws. state as we'll as national,
and haven't they been charged
with their enforcement? Then
what is the matter? II the laws
are defective why haven't they
been altered? If defective now,
were they not equally defective
eight and four years ago, when
you assured us, "all is well, /"
and "leave well enough alone?"
Why the depression, we ask?
Haven't we had seven years OF
Roosevelt, who, according to
republican orators, and assistant
republicans, as we'll as republican
newspapers, is the greatest,
wisest and best president the
country ever had? Haven't we
had twelve years of ''standpatism'
with Hanna, Aldrich and Cannon,
sitting on the brakes to prevent
the enactment Of legislation not
desired by the gentlemen who are
so CONSPICUOUS in their support OF
Taft and Sherman, Morgan
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hartman
Schiff? Do these men make {
, mistake when they select candi
dates? Which is most likely tt
be misled, these men who say tina
Taft is all right, that he is con
sentative, or the western farmer
, who is told that Taft is a radical
Where is the "abOunding'
prosperity? Wealth has certainly
, INCREASED enormously, or, at least
prices have been boosted to {
point that ought to have satisfied
the most avaricious. The fortune
, of the few have become gigantic
bounded out of sight, Morgan W
are told, has three hundred or 8
millions; Carnegie as much; Will
Rockefeller is credited with bill
lion; a few thousands others hav
ing from one to hundred million
each. These seem to have ha
their GULL TIME and KEE
;, GOING cards in operation, Will
:, they are generally credited wit
having in October November lal
. gathered in nearly everything in
= large way in the shape of bank
trust companies, industrial an
railroad combinations, which ha
SO far escaped them. In fact tn
. bulk of the people have been set
= lively pace to pay the increasin
t. prices for the necessaries of Il
he these and few others control.
HERE'S THE REAL RUB
But what has happened to tt
he masses, whom you and otht
p boosters of Mckinley and Roos
welt assured were to share in Il
prosperity? With a total es
o. mated wealth of some one hundre
and ten billions, the per CAPT
he tables work out all right, the
te should be enough to 60 aroun
for that's equal to about $40
per family. But who has il? II,
no many of the millions of toile
have a tenth of that sum clear al
D, free? How comes it that the bu
of the people are shy their propo
tion of this enormous wealt
Have they been lazy, thriftless,
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