The Caucasian., 1910-01-13

brought the Republican party to power
and are relied on to maintain it in
power" In other words, the public
lands and franchisea belong to the
saints, and we are the saints.
Many Republican presidents have by
indirection through the protective pol
icy proclaimed themselves the friends
of robbery under the forms of law; Mr..
Taft becomes the first to depart from
the process of licensed robbery, and to
announce that the debts of his party are
in future to be paid out of the peoples
domain. 1t is not worth while for any
body to beat about the bush or to deal
in anything but plain English. The
truth will not down. That the President
is, personally, an honest, well inten-
toned man need not be denied or
doubted. The world is full of men
who can see no wrong where their own
interest is at stake; who are blind to
right when their passions are awaken
ed; who will do for party what they
would refuse to God. The candidate
of straw upon a platform of imposture,
inducted into office, sees his house of
cards about to tumble down on him
and his Cabinet, because of the act of
an upright but imprudent servant, and,
in a panic of anger and fear, thinks to
avert the threatened catastrophe by
driving the upright servant out.
1t will not suffice. All men now know,
if they did not know before, that the de-
capitation of CLAWS was meant to kill
dangerous witness; but, in the de-
capitation of Pinchot and his associates,
Price and Shaw, the administration has
committed hari-kari upon itself. Hence
forth the ground about the White
House and around the Throne of the
Gar of the Congress will be sown with
dragons teeth.
And, from now onward, let there be
politics in this country except the res
cue of the government from organized
pillage, which, not content with raising
up favored classes and distributing
mammoth fortunes through the tariff,
reaches forth its corrupt and impious
hand to steal from the people the public
lands and franchises that yet remain
open to bona fde settlers and honest
but poor men.
We read of the days of Robert Wal
pole with mute amazement. We stand
aghast before the rapacity of Henry
Fox. 1t seems iflconceivable that there
could have been government of rot
ten borouglas exchanging titles and es-
tates for votes. Yet the system in Eng
land In the eighteenth century was in
fantile by comparison with the system
in the United States during the latter
part of the nineteenth century and thus
much of the twentieth The spoliation
of Walpole and his body mercenaries
was child's play by comparison with
the scheme of spoliation contrived by
Cannon, Aldrich & CO., of which the
President of the United States now
makes himself the legal advocate, the
backer and defender. Nothing ever
witnessed in the world before compares
with it in immensity and audacity.
Poor old, dignifed, fat-witted James
Buchanan, who, standing by the ex-
tremists of Democracy, let the country
drift into war, seems the only parallel
to the good-natured indifferentialist now
occupying the chief magistracy who
thinks with smile to slick over the
treason, stratagems and spoils in which
thick-skulled, thoroughly machine
made administration is engulhng the
country.