The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-03
CAN THEY BE FOOLED AGAIN:

Is it possible to fool the people of
the United States all of the time?
A wise and patriotic statesman of
former times said that it was possible
to fool the people some of the time;
part of them all the time; but not
all of the people all of the time. 1t
now looks as though the all of the
time-all of the people-had arrived.
They will no longer be fooled by the
republican crowd who has success
fully them for so long.
The republican party is now hunt
ing for a new issue with which to fool
the people. Its best and most trusted
leaders have been at work for months
searching for an issue to detract the
attention of the people from the live
and pertinent issues of the day and
befog their minds and brains in order
that the party may again succeed at
the polls and win the next election.
They will do anything to bring about
SUCCESSFUL matter how they do it,
or what methods they used. They see
the handwriting on the wall-the
doom of their party and in despera-
ton they are ready to take hold of
any issue that even looks to them
promising. They see their own party
discredited and disgraced. They see
Taft in hard and fast alliance with
Aldrich, Cannon and 1.-THE System" at
making to force down the peoples
threats, already rasped and infiamed
by the Aldrich tariff, a central bank
and federal charter for trusts.
They see scandals of monumental
l.
of putridity, rising to damn the re-
publican party from east to west.
They see the sugar trust scandal.
They see the Ballinger scandal. They
see the tariff scandal.
They see, in the great state of New
York, legislative scandal of such
wide spread proportions that it
threatens to engulf the party, having
already caught in it's meshes repub
lican senators and representatives.
Republican state chairman and re-
publican bosses of the highest rank.
They see, in the presidents own
state of Ohio, state printing scandal
OF huge dimensions that has involved
secretary of their state committee.
The see, in Chicago, municipal
scandal 80 vast that it is already over
towers the historic Tweed scandal,
involving thefts, in the past three or
four years, according to the republic
can Inter Ocean, of S30,000,Gp0.
They have seen the coun y polled
by the Chicago Tribune, with the re-
suit that republican editors are
shown overwhelmingly opposed to
Taft himself, to his Taft-Aldr1ch
tariff, Cannon, and to Aldrich.
We summon attention to a Wash
ington dispatch to that great republi-
can newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.
That dispatch quotes an insurgent
leader in congress as saying:
Personally, / have given up all
hope of the people of the west win
ming freedom from their oppressors
through any act of the Taft admins
tration. l believe the worst is yet to
come.
The dispatch then continues:
This radical insurgent then went
on to say that he meant the worst was
yet to come only SO far as the repub-
lican party was concerned. He
thought the growing revolt, while it
might damage the party, would result
eventually in a political revolution,
that would bring vast benefits to the
people.
The situation in congress as a re-
suit of the whole row comes pretty
closes to being crisis. Disorganiza-
ton regns in both houses. Legisla-
ton is not moving and the presidents
program is stalled. Senators and
interest in the work of congress. The
of nv, ;c-I frif
tered away with consideration of
trivial bills to a great extent. Legisla-
tors do not attend the committee
meetings.
The insurgents, both in the senate
and house, not only are not placated,
but with the wide revolt in the west
spreading have become more be-
ligerent. They are making charges
that the presidents program is liber-
ally loaded with concessions to the
big corporations. They see the hand
of Aldrich in more than one of the
presidents measures. They freely
predict that because of the alliance
they say exists between Taft and AL
drich the whole Taft program is
liable to fail.
1t is terrible storm that is rag
ing ard any old port will serve.
There is no issue of it's own on
which the republican party dares go
before the people this fall and even
defend, much less propagate!
There is no part of it's record of
which it is not at once ashamed and
afraid!
The government of the United
States is being turned over bodily to
'The System" The property and in
dustrial and commercial liberty of
the people are being fed, by an in
sensate republican administration,
into the red and greedy nav of ''The
System" The people themselves see
it, recognize it is true, and are in
angry and open rebellion.
If the people are allowed to pass
on the momentous issue that con-
fronts them-the most momentous
since the war-they will, by snow
storm of ballots on election day, res
cue their government, assert their
liberties and trample under foot the
besotted, false and corrupt party that
is today selling them and their chill