The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-31
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affecting the lives of millions of
struggling families should be openly
jockeyed and jobbed and trafficked
in as gamblers shuttle the cards for
a Jackpot? Is it right that ecOno-
mic conditions should be perpetuated
AMI fostered that automatically en-
rich the idler and impoverish the
worker? Is it right that the mer-
chant, the banker, the farmer and the
day laborer should be taxed to ena-
BILE a small group of shoddy aristo-
Gratis to give monkey dinners at New
port at hundred thousand dollars
dinner? Is it right that women and
children should be compelled to fret
their hearts out in sweatshOps in or
to keep themselves alive? Is it right
that child labor should be permitted
to become an institution in this land
of boundless resources? And is it
right that these great resources
should be transferred in fee simple
to privileged interests without ade
quate compensation to the people?
The standpatter claims that it is
right; the progressive republican,
with hot indignation, denies it.
Each voter in Chelann county will
have to answer these questions for
himself "One by one we must all
pass on" from partisan bigotry to
sense of enlightened civic RESPONSE
bility. And unless l misjudge the
voters of Chelan county, I cannot be-
lieve there is a real Simon pure"
standpatter within its confines They
have been misled by the insane ap-
peal to party regularity" but they
have already discovered that the APP
peal was hollow, insincere and hypo-
critical Therefore. they will answer
all the questions, 1 have prOpounded
with a mighty mo, 1T is NOT
RIGHT! And they will vote for
POindexter to a man. We have big
fight on our hands. Special privilege
dies hard, and when we kill it in one
guise it assumes another. Under the
Cannon guise men chosen by the peo-
pie could not safeguard the rights of
the people because the Cannon rules
disfranchised them. We must smash
these rules; we must have majority
of insurgents in both houses of con-
gress so that Cannonism may be de-
stroyed in all it's ramifications. This
is a momentous issue. It transcends
the political fortunes of any man or
any party. And it is up to the voters
of Chelan county. The young student
| of American history reading the
thrilling chapters in the story of lib
erty that give him a picture of the
stirring times before and during the
revolution and the Civil war is some
times likely to think that in COMPARE
son this is tame and prOsaic gener-
alton; but the men of those earlier
days, even while in the very midst
&C the movements of which they were
part, did not fully realize the great
/ Importance of the history they were
making. So also the people of today
are not yet fully awake to the pro-
foundly momentous significance of
the struggle which is now going on to
decide whether this country shall be
a democratic republic, with equal OPP
portunity for all, or a monarchial re-
public, based on special privileges for
few. One reason for this is that so
many people depend for information
bearing upon economic questions
upon cheap and paltry partisan poll
ticians, or on an equally vicious par
tisan press. But the partisan press is
losing its influence and the paltry
politician who puts party expediency