Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-17
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HAS CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE

HAS CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPAl
Senator M. N. johnson has conf
dence in the government, the peopl
and the republican party. In the is
sue of the Petersburg Record of las
week he contrasts the pessimistic al
titude of some of the democratic an,
near democratic press with the hope
full prospects of the whole country
The editorial from the Searchligh
which calls for Mr.. Johnson's OK
preston is as follows:
Irrespective of the opinion of
our own M. N. Johnson, and
others, that promised great pros
perity, for many years to come,
is not in sight,. . Besides this,
so many Of the courts have rob-
bed the people of their rights.
This court business is one of the
most important matters before
the people, as they, the courts
as whole while they should be
a haven of safety for the people
and a safe depository for their
rights, are, as matter of fact,
the hidden rocks in the channel
of public navigation, and are
daily scuttling the ships of equal
rights and general prosperity.
80. AS the Search-Light has fire.
quently noted before, the worst
enemy the people have are
number of the courts. They
have suffered more from these
than from all other causes COM
bined.. Another matter that
will have tendency to call a
halt on prosperity, is the fact
that up to the present time every
act Of President Taft has been
Of such a character as to indi-
cate that he is inclined to be with
the special interests, and not so
careful of the interests of the
general public. This causes the
people themselves to halt and be
somewhat conservative. They
are not going to launch out very
extensively into business under
an administration that has given
no evidence of being particularly
interested in their welfare.
The everlasting tariff, and the
late revision Of it, will not make
for prosperity. The result Of the
last revision is to lay additional
burdens on the masses, and as a
necessary result give additional
advantages to the classes. This
does not argue for great prosper
ity, and everything considered, it
does not look as though M. N.
Johnson's great wave of prosper
ity will arrive.
In opposition to the pessimisti
views contained in this editorial ar
ticle, Senator Johnson has the fol
lowing comments:
If democrats like the editor of tn
Search-Light, Mr.. Boise, and nea
like the associate editor
Mr.. Cole, can convince the people
LIST, that PROSPERITY is adversit,
and I'd, that the president of tn
United States, the courts of justic
and majority of the members O
the House and Senate are dishones
and unpatriotic, they may carry tn
next election provided we have a f
nancial panic, a scourge of yello,
fever and visitation of Asiati
cholera. A panic alone will not d
1t, any more than it did last year
Neither will a panic plus fever alone
or cholera alone. A combination @
the three is rather a remote contin
gency, - ~:->
/ remember very we'll when goo
and great men like Greeley, Beeche
and Carl Shurz led the revolt of 1877
against the republican party. Tn
rurnnpo a ca3nst ubfch tha,, rro+es+o -
were real; and yet the party Of Lii
coin and Grant went marching on /
the main faithfully and eflcientl
safeguarding the welfare, honor an
prosperity Of this nation, while mos
OF the leaders of the Instruction pei
ished miserabIy In the company 9
their deluded followers In the polit
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