The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1910-02-24
From The Far West.
Lamar, Colo, Feb. &c, 10

great republic spends days ian.
weeks and months debating o.
matters of no Importance.
would astonish the plain citizen o
this country if congress should sec
mt to discuss the liquor business
for several months and honestly
try to devise some plan lookins
towards national prohibition ans
other evils too numerous to men
ton. Sometimes it seems to thu
plain citizen who is honestly try
ing to make his living, as though
the representatives of the people
at Washington made it their bust
ness to pick out the least impor.
tant things in this republic to dis.
cuss and to prolong their opportu-
nifty to draw their salaries. We
live in a big republic with big
questions which call for answers.
"A good many years ago Jesus
Christ severely characterized the
Pharisees as belonging to a class
which paid great attention to the
minor details of the Jewish law
carefully weighing out the 1.-THE of
the little garden seeds, mint, anise
and cummin, which the law D, e.
scribed as part of the fruits Of the
ground. They were very partic-
ular about these almost worthless
trifles and paid no attention to
the great matterssiof righteous
ness, justice and kindness to the
poor. The tariff may be of some
Importance but in comparison with
other great national subjects it is
mint, anise and cummin by the
side of acres of wheat.
Our PresiG0. tructs Con-
gress to pass bill raising postage
rates fourfold on weekly publica-
tons like the VIDErTE on. the
ground that the present low rate
is a subsidy to the publishers.
This is lie. The low postage
rate means cheap papers. This
subsidy in reality is to the sub
scribers and anyone with more
whiskers than brains ought to
know better. Cheap newspapers
are the educators of tho people
and it is for this reason that Taft
proposes to exclude them by rails
ing the postage. He is trying 20
wreck the postal department in
order to give its business to the
express companies. When Thorn
as Jefferson was elected resident
and sent his first message to con
gress he recommended that all
postage on newspapers be remov-
ed. But he was overruled.
have become SO Disguised
with politics tina, haven't cast
single vote since left Mississippi
five years rgo. Everybody ought
TO read Judge Ben b. Lindsey S
letters in Everybody's Magazine.
As you read Lindsey So sstory you
will begin to see how capital ibuys
its way to profits, how it buys jul
ries, courts, newspapers, churches,
souls and bodies and wrecks them,
how it robs little ones of their
rights and degrades their bodies
and befouls their souls. He tells
his story simply witout malice for
the purpose of showing one just
how bad men can and do, buy
control of cities and states. Judge
Lin 'sey is founder aud also judge
of the children'S court at Denver,
Colo. He was born near Nash
Vile, Tenn. Is the son of Con-
federate officer that was under
Forrest. Judge Lindsey lays bare
the very rooticvil in our America
and tells how the few exploit the
many. Buying and selling human
being almost worse than slavery
days. He also tells of the Cripple
Greek strike and the case of that
great strike.
Jas } Hill, one of Taft's legal
advisers, and other smart men are
continually writing on the cost Of
living. Some say it is the over