The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-02-26


Of his birth we are led to
ask, after thoughtful consideration, who
will set us free?
The thoughtless reader will halt just
long enough to say, II am free man."
Yes, relatively.
Lincoln foresaw the great octopus
that binds men now to civil servitude
beside which slavery was genteel.
Areyou free to spend your money as
you willF After producing, are you
free to spend the earnings from the
products of your land as you will?
Are you represented in the senate of
the United States by men having the
interests of the great common people
at hearth Are you the source of all
political power, or are you merely a
foot-stool upon which the monopolistic
magnates Of the nation rest their weary
feet? Free indeed Let us see.
Would you seek the reasonable ma
tionsl legislation that would give YOU
relief against the oppression of mono
polyY You are met at the National cap
itol by very Gibraltar of political lob
bies, maintained in the interest Of or
ganized capital. Free Yes to go to
the capitol; thus far and no farther
shalt thou go.
Would you market your product?
You are free to take it to the nearest
shipping point, there again you meet
the monopolist. Your freedom to bar
ter has been taken away; the monster
with its poisoned tentacles is there; he
makes the price arbitrarily; you have
no opportunity to question whatever
rate lie quotes. He is master, you are
the cringing, crawling proletariat &C
his feet. You must deliver your pro-
ducts to the eastern markets, the trans
portation monopoly meets you again
and laughs at your helplessness. You
cannot question his tariff sheet.
You would buy an article for the
house you meet one of the great tenta-
Giles again covering the product You
would have with its poisonous fingers.
to touch which means death to you.
Free indeed Yes to die, but not free
to be buried in coffin made outside
the trust.
Who is going to be our lberatorP
The people, they are coming into
their heritage.
In Oregon the people had lain as
slabs in a corduroy road, over which
the machine had rolled until like a
worm the people rebelled. They pulled
the most corrupt and insidious senator
the state has ever known since the DAYS
of Mitchell from his high estate and
placed the choice of the people in his
stead.
Roosevelt has torn some of the plans
of the predtory rich into tatters. He
has set vested interests to thinking.
Don't assail us for seeing the political
moats in our party eyes. They are
there, you know they are there.
At sundry times aud in divers WAYS
Roosevelt trespassed on the preserves
of the senate and the house contrary to
the constitutional provisions ia such
case made and provided, and against
the peace and dignity-especially the
dignity-of congress.
And the people have supported the
president in his warfare against the sci.
fish senate. Selfish in that il has
served the interest against the masses
The Augean stables are being cleaned
out. Fulton of Oregon has gone. For.
aker and the odor of Standard Oil has
been retired. Long of Kansas. whose
whole constituency was the A. T. as
+. R. H. has been knocked into the dim
distance of tile past. Ankeney of Wash
ington has been laid on the shelf
Hopkins of Illinois in laundering in