Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-10
HONEST MEN TO the FRONT.

FOr the nrSC tlmo In the history OF Iue
couDtry a President of the United States
has openly proclaimed himself the
friend of thieves end the enemy of
honest mon.
That, and that alone, is the issue pre-
cipitated by the executive order of Fri
day removing Clifford Pinchot from Office.
SPY your conduct" says Mr.. Taft in
effect, "you have destroyed your useful
ness as a helpful subordinate of those
who hold the republican party as the
government and are bound to protect
those who, by their corrupt organization
and campaign contributions, have
brought tho republican party to power
and are relied on to maintain 1t in
power" In other words, the public
lands and franchises belong to the
saints, and We are the saints.
Many republican presidents have by
indirection through the protective policy
robbery under the forms of law; Nj.
Taft becomes the first to depart from
the process If licensed robbery, and to
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-iutentioned
man need not denied, nuch less
doubted. The world is full { men
who can SEQ 40 wrong where their own
interest is at stake; who blind to
right when their passions are awakened:
who will do for party what they would
refuse to God. The candidate of straw
upon 4 platform of imposture, indicted
to office, sees his house of cards about to
tumble On him and his cabinet, because
of the act o 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,
il they di Il not know before, that the
'Iecapitation of CLAW was meant to kill
a dangerous with ess, but, in the de-
capitstlon of Clifford Pinchot, and his
associates, Price aud Shaw, the admins
tration has committed harikari upon
itself. Henceforth the ground about the
White House an around the Throne of
the Ca Of the Congress will be shown
with dragons teeth.
And, from now onward, let there be
no politics in th country except the
rescue o the government from organic
ed pilage, whic not content with rails
ing up favored Aasses 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 tide settlers and honest but
poor mon.
We read of the days of Robert Wal
pole with mute amazement. We stand
aghast before rapacity of Henry
Fox. 1t seems uncomfortable that there
could have been a governments of Rotten
Boroughs exchanging titles and estates
for votes. Yet the system in England in
the eighteenth century was infantile 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 Wal.
pole, and his body of m~ercenaries, was
child's play by comparison with the
scheme of spoliation ,contrived by Can.
non, Aldrich e. Company, of which the
President O the United States now
makes himself the legal advocate, the
hacker an defender. Nothing ever
witnessed in the world before compares
with it in immensely and audacity.
Poor old, | gnified, fat-witted James
Buchanan, whr standing by the ex.
tremists democracy, let the country
drift into war, seems the only parallel tc
the good-natured iudifferentialist now
occnpyin < the chief magistracy, who
thinks with a smile to slick over the
treason, stratagems and spoils in which
a thi%ck-skulled, thoroughly machine.
made administration is engulfing the
country.
There are enough upright men yet in
congress to forbid. The Presidents
pull in the lower house will not be al.
lowed to pack a committee of subservi.
ent, stand-pat republicans and r~ascally
democrats, prearranged and prejudged
to whitewash the guilty and convict the
innocent. Even Aldrich may find
Jordan a hard road to travel IN the
senate. W. shall have an Investigation
that will investigate. He who dallies
becomes a bastard; he that doubts is
sure to be damned. The black flag
raised by the President floats at the
masthead of the administration; let the
Stars an Stripes float at the masthead
OF Congress! "No quarter" be the