Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-12-31
Friday. Dec. 81. 1909.
HOW HAPPY WE SHOULD BE.

Tomorrow is the beginning OF the
New Year. OF course Prosperity is in
full and complete charge. To listen to
the songs now sung, there never Will
be such times as we are going to have.
The s'interests," the systems" the
organizations, indeed everything
with a business ring, we mean the
sweet tones emanating from the pure
metal of protection, will go joyously
along without let or hindrance. In
four years or less we will have one
strong concentrated government. NOT
a government like Germany was be-
fore the Unifcation, made up of indie
pendent heterogeneous states, but one
all powerful and mighty, rockribbed,
Gibralter, impregnable from every
side, afraid of nobody, ready to fight
the world if opportunity presents,
ready, willing and laundering after the
performance of the duties of wet nurse
to all South American Republics;
spanking this one, making that one
hush up, cutting a hunk from one,
forming a new state out OF another,
shaking our fist in Europe's face, tell
ing Mexico ''if you dare" scratching
gravel with both feet and struttlng
around Japan like dung hill rooster;
kicking the door open in China, dig
ging a big ditch to connect two oceans,
boring twelve and thirteen inch holes
in huge iron saw logs and pointing
them, loaded to the muzzle with ex-
ploslves, into the faces of everybody,
strutting, cussing, Tuning and spit
ting tobacco juice over everything in
sight.
All this goes on, and much more.
Our money piles in the treasury, our
taxes become more burdensome each
year. Our living comes higher, our
monopolies grow stronger, our protect
ed pets more numerous, our favored
classes richer, our poorer classes poor
er; all evidences of prosperity. Thus
we begin the new year.
How happy we shonld be. The
Steel trust is happy, the Coal Oil
trust is happy, the Sugar trust having
corrected few insignificant errors in
weight is happy, the Railroads are hap
by, the National Banks are happy, the
Protected interests are all happy. All
nature inside and outside the White
House is smiling; then why may we
not all smile, why not give one huge
guffaw such as will perchance burst
our sides and shake the continent
We, along with the rest of the world
recently grasped the hand of the grand
est faker of ancient or modern times
who came and set before us the North
pole. Why may we not grasp the
hand of our dear old, and familiar, anc
tried friend, Prosperity, who has beer
with us for nearly so years, save upon
two insignificant periods when one
Grover Cleveland lured him away fol
few brief years? Let US be just, lei
us welcome the many blessings the
Grand Old Party has in store for US
as well as those already bestowed. lei
us admit that the more the trusts TAXI
out of our daily earnings the stronge
and wiser we become, let US admit tina
we have discovered, or had discovered
for us, that process by which we car
eat our pie and have it at the same
time. Let us admit that taxes are
blessing, not in disguise, but so appar
ent that all can see it, that when w
turn our money over to others the.
handle it so benevolently that thel
give back to US far more than the.
took away, that but for them we woulC
be asking aims. Happy, happy PEG
pie. We have grown away from tn
things of our ancestors. Wiser thar
they tell us now to tangle ourselves VI
with foreign nations, increase taxes
do everything we were told by Wash
ington, and Jefferson and the wise mel
of their day not to do, and we shall
be happy,