The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-09-04

or q psT lease for iAidrieh. Cannon and
Company Bryan means If lclhing
else the new broom iha, sweepeth
clean, upon floors thai are admittedly
foul There must be an occasional
change OF parties II ~ aie 20 have ,
decent Administrations Onepaisy GOV.
ernmeut Is only a degree less obiec-
tionahio than the one-man pnwer
H.
II Is a peculiar misfortune and an |
augury OF evil that The people OF TIE !
East--notably the people Of New Y rli !
get their mental sustenance chiefly |
! through he organs Of ihe tch. In thei
/ bucolic days "befo' the wah" ths pc lple !
or the Gulf state5 were fed from the !
I same trough. Their newspapers sang |
only the virtues OF slavery None |
others were allowed tc exist In the
| fabulous wealth of the East piled up
! in a few handsome of II predatory
much Of Il sprung from class lcgisia-
| tion--all OF Il more or less ccrrupting
--it Is easy to detect q growing liNe-
ness TO the pa'riclanism cf the old
| South.
Already artificial conditions Of life
! prc1oninate. Young mcu are reared
to regard enthusiasm as cffeminate.
| Young women are almost as educated
in a. knowledge Of cvil as Young men.
Tho sex lhe becomes less and less
visible. Moral confusion makes polti
cal obi bluuity Caste distinctions press
upon the commonalty more and more,
and harder and harder. The foolish
poor either hate or emulate the fooiisE
rich Graft is everywhere Money
making seems TO have swahiped simple
patriotism and popular igcns The
newspapers arc so used 10 this that
they grow cal.Ous they take iheir
lcomplcNion from sOciciy. which Is we'll
pleased with itself and wants things
20 remsin-as they arc-a disaonaat
note denounced as tho ignorance ot au
outsider or the ontcropplng O' IN
archism. It WAS lust so in the Caro-
linas fifty years ago. lie who did Not
shout for slavery was an aboiiiOnist
The worst of IL is that the rich are
over-rcady to make common cauec
with the predatory rich They do net
discriminate Mr. Roosevelt has gone
much farther in socialistic cYtrcmism
than Mr.. Bryan ever went. Yet those
who abuse the president-dcnounc
Bryan as a sociaist--do not SO char
acterize Roosevelt: and they viii vote
for Taft because they think that
Teddy Bear stcwed safely away Ia the
wilds of Africa. Big Bill and Sunny
Jim. with Aldrich In the senate and
Cannon in the house. viii soon have
the elephant where they want him;
the truth being that for all the chatter
about trustism and rebates, a spec
tacular fine. which viii never Ge col
lected, remains the single trophy.
Two or three years ago the country
stood aghast before the exposures pre-
! cipitated by the insurance scandals,
and all Cd men were vcwing that
: ,hey would not stop until the Augean
stables should be cleaned l'he trac-
; tion scandals followed. not a method
has been uttered Not a culpriT is in
: Jail But the business of the country"
Z 4aquires that there shall be no further
asiiat.on and IN order 10 secure peace
and quiet we must elect TAFT who
swears by oseyelt and sherman,
) who swears by Roosevelt. eacA of them
, finding him "a good enough Morgan
Z till after the election Is this any
? thing other than perlidy ana dishonor,
! and II i, should succeed. Will not the
2 conditions 20 be ultimately ref rned
5 be SO grievous as 70 transcend the
, agencies Cf statesmen, and 10 become
{ tile sport and prey Of the mob Is not
7 for example the other end of protec-
, ti1nism anarchy? Once upon time
WE had a famous governor of Ken.
. trclly, old Charles Scott the Indian
1 tighter. who used 10 say that when
+ things grow bad they are hard "a
{ mend hut that when they gci damaed
e bad they iust CIT l,oso and mend
j themselves
|
lpraise as much as from ovcr-abusc
e Yet mover an a0Usive word that Is said
S q Mr. Bryan but was said OF Mr.. Jcf
= ferson One need only turn back "a
n tho Republican newspapers OF 1876 q
r learn what Il peril 20 patriotism and
y nrDpcrty Mr. Tildcn was. No honest
n,orcst las anymore 10 fear from the
i Democratic party today led by hr
s Bryan. than ii bad 20 fear whom The
party was led by Mr. Tillen and bA
MIR. Cleveland, each gf whom en-
couutorcd the same line of argulicaiiof
which is now used by Republicans e
!. defend tho accretionS Of nearly tiiA
g wears. expressed for thc most part ~
o offices ana ABUSES. The public sorvic'
T. As afflicted with bone fclon Shall th'
# finger be lanccd and cured on shall W'
T. ar0w ,he disease to continue hurrpN
t. below the surface until nothing WI
i saYc tho bniy polite bu, the ampula
?, tlm az The handR
Ii This is the probiem for The foi"H
to consider Forbidden 10y The orEani
/, of the rich making g mmon caNs'
e With the PREDATORY rich TO see tln
r.. truth and To consider thc actpalities o.
a The pollicai situation huddled too Of
S ten in camps 10y shori-sighted employ
j.. ers who tcll iaem their waecs depcn'
IS upon how they voic-tho outlook fo
sound opinions and just toncmslon
J. here in TIE East IS not encodraging
), Yet New York lives and thr'ves on IN
e West and South. whilst it is TO the IN
! terest OF all the pcop.e that the poll
+ t.ciars at ANashing,t shall not becomi
!, So entrenched In poweg-so hnmindfn
r ol their origin and obligations ma
ir nothing snort Of revolution VIII b'
: alis ~ renoye them. H. W.
IS Manhattan Club. August, 1905.
~ Don'i he afraid TO give chamber