The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-01
OLD ORDER CHANGETH
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE MAKES AN APOLOGY FOR
MISDEEDS OF MARK HANNA

title of The Old Order Changeth' William Allen
the alliance between politicians and the money and thus
CLOSES the of Mark Hanna the deliberate dbauch
were cities and clean states
the whole there clean federal government and certainly
sporadic local and not of first Importance Then Hanna
politics of the nation He organized the public service business
ne country and the public service politics OF the country brought
ment of the United States But for the strength of Mckinley
Hanna would politics
business than Mckinley stronger
Hanna and if Mckinley had lived he would have
the pretender and would have driven them from the White
House. at least Stevenson of the good child as far he
aoe TOT putting upon business osls,
brings the ras makes the impurities plain aids diagnosis
Those were the good old times of business cheer in the reign
of Hanna The nighthood Of commercial license in flower
then Hanna gathered tribute from certain business
the various state central Committees Of his nar and fbv IN
city committees of his party Incidentally the local committees
be fair prey But local ees and were insignificant
The fountain of all public corruption from above The
ona committees of both great parties organized the sale of
merca ndugences into ne art One as bad the other
that the Republicans offered much the better market
80 certain trustees used the money OF their trusts Tor
personal g certain railroad officials shared in the profits of ia
e stocks and bonds Of railroads and other nnbc service
corporations increased egmatey and the people
taxed to pay interest on fictitious capaation corporations
formed under the protection of the state and the sole bust
of these corporations tribute from the people who
protected them morals in high finance became archaic in certain
business became its moral and its legal Justification
Business Be 0ver-emphasized.
should not be necessary yet only just to that the
Of dishonesty IN business and even in politics was not wide
conducted and majority politics
proah And those who did for the most part did
b did b U his amn @ M bV his nence @ bx his non of View
With him in all sincerity and all candor business the most
important consideration and prosperity for the nation the
the campaign Of 1896 by the free silver He fought that
with entire proprey he fought for business stability with
the sincerity with all good will he that fight and
the most natural thing in the world that he should consider
He was our most picturesque national leader IN those days
Mckinley dramatzed the hero of the play He
honest certainly but the hero of the times Hanna
the in the public He was the man who bade men
and the ruler Of the superficial Hanna guarded
preserved the traditional constitution.
And United States Senators for the most part truced
Hanna United States Senator'S had the choice
federal officials especially of federal judges and officers of the
the United States Senate became the of the ira
ona constitutional government but OF the real government
And maha prosecutors ard clerks of the courts
of the law consciousy took the color of
anna cast of thought and allegiance to the court of Hanna
prosperity rather than to Mckinley and the constitution
of justice judges nstrucng grand uries probe
crooked railroad management United States mashas
For do these things would prosperity And pros
1ery the god of the superficial government Busnse
lbove the unwritten law of prosperity.
Was No Worse Than We, the People
hey got exactly the kind of they desired The
eby Of constitution admirably presented
the world Public sentiment governed and the great mass of
American people upheld the of Hanna honestly
without questioning its divine right to administer the affairs of
his country For Il the Democrats mad won IN l9Oo they would
expected follow Hannas footsteps to maintain
aoneyad nation And when stocks and regulations began to
brink in 1903 when great began to 9er and their
mseraby sad that should all not have suffered with those
lerey eptomized success They
lode superior virtue afterhougha result
emptatons They suffered; we jeered and God judged
3 o Wag II ow f are ga the me m be bd Tepe
the Spanish The spirit Of sacrifice the spirit