The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-03-26

ton except in relation to the tariff
be considered. We would aek what
was there in the message that was
amusing or could be construed az
fanciful by the agents of the Steel
trust, Standard Oil and the Wall
street interests in the United States
senate whose chief duties are to
block all legislation intended to af-
ford relief to the farmer, the work
ers and the common folk. y y
State by state the people have
asserted their right to be heard
their right the be represented; they
have gone to the limit OF endurance,
plutocracy is losing its cunning by
having overloaded the people, and
the plutocrat has been consigned to
political ohscurity and very remote
distinction; he has been banished
from popular politics and his ma
chine has been Invested of the cor
rupt equipments which have adj
vanced his political fortunes and
led him to political electrocution.
President TAFT, the very persona
fcation of quiet dignity, the servant
of a mighty people, conscientiously
discharging mandates of mighty
party submits to other servants Of
the same people message directing
that the will of the people as ex-
pressed in his election be done, he
ls laughed at, sneered at, by set
Of political traitors who play into
the hands Of the enemy of the great
common people and have the pow
er of which they are conscious to
block all legislation that would re-
duce the income of the monopolist
and increase the earning power of
the workers dollar.
They laughed at the presidents
message, which was but the echo Of
the popular vote in November, they
laughed at the helpless common
folk, they laughed at the sewing
woman who pays tribute to the
thread trust, they laughed at the
house wife who pays tribute to
Standard Oil, and the sugar trust,
and the starch trust and the tin
trust, and even the wool growers of
Idaho have been twitted with their
incredulity and innocence, for while
the buying trust have robbed them
on one hand the rebate clause of
the Dingley bill robbed them on the
other, while maintaining duty of
10 to Il cents per pound on wool,
it permitted under the rebate clause
the importation in 1907 of 212, 000,-
600 pounds of wool free of duty, for
like the rebate on tin for the benefit
of the Standard Oil company the
wooden trust buys wool in the cheap
est market of the world, imports it
in competition with domestic wool
for manufacturing purposes, and
when its product in manufactured
material is exported the duty, paid |
by the importer is rebated, during
the while the American wool grow
er wears the hoodwink prepared for
him by the sneering senators who
would laugh at the message of the
president. Do you wonder there is
a violent revulsion imminent?
Roosevelt tore the mask from these
political monstrosities. They feared
him. They knew of his rugged
courage, his heroic determination,
his fearlessness. They trembled
lest he search them and find skeIe-
ton keys and burglars tools with
which to enter the treasure house
Of the people. They sneer at Taft's
quiet dignity, and honesty of pur-
pose. His gloved hand is but a
challenge to the obsequeous slaves
to organize greed. They are bond
servants of the trusts; they are the