The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-18
POLITICAL SYMPTOMS.


Mr.. Clifford Pinchot said recently:
81 believe a new school of politics
is coming in the United States. This
new school will decide whether the
country shall be governed by money
for profit or by men for human well
fare This statement expresses
succintly a deep and widespread
idea which is taking hold of the
minds of men in ever increasing
numbers. The acceptance of this
idea does not mean necessarily that
new political parties must be organ
lied to make it effective. 1t means
rather that the members of existing
parties shall insist on the nomina-
ton and election of men who stand
for the principle of equality of OPP
portunity rather than for the pro-
lection of trusts IN their rapacious
greed for the fruits of human labor.
Recent primary elections in west
ern Pennsylvania furnish concrete
Illustration of this principle. In the
two districts in western Pennsylvania
two men were nominated in holly
contested elections. In the north
western part of the state, Congress
man Sibley, who represents the
standard oil interests, won the NOM
ination after an admitted expendi-
ture of over $4,000, and Dalzell,
who represents the steel interests,
won the nomination by a narrow
margin after the expenditure of
thousands of dollars furnished by
big corporations. In the case of Sib-
ley the use of money was so motor
ious that a district Judge has auth
orized an investigation TO inquire
whether this expenditure was legiti-
mate or not. It is charged that the
admitted expenditure of $4,000 does
not nearly include the amount used
in the contest.
In view of such disclosures as
these the intelligent voter under
stands that there is a vital issue at
stake which has resulted in faction
al divisions in both the republican
and the democratic parties. The
clamor for regularity won't down as
long as men who earn their bread by
the sweat of their brows understand
that there is one group OF men who
represent big monied interests and
another group of men who are
working insistently for the protec-
ton of the peoples rights. The un-
holy alliance of money and politics
must be broken up just as the un-
holy alliance between the old time
slave oligarchy and politics was
broken up if the Declaration of In
dependence is to mean anything 9TH
er than an empty sentiment.
There is tremendous meaning
to this distinction which has been
drawn between regular and insurg-
ent, and it is not confined to the
republican party, either. II the
democratic party were IN power the
same distinction would be made be-
cause the wing of the party headed
by Bryan is not in harmony with
that wing of the party which is in
trenched in the eastern states. This
disturbing element which finds
aodgement in both the old parties is
but a symptom of the political I'M
rest which has taken hold Of the |
rank and file of the old time organ
lzations. Some men would have US
believe that it is disappearing. 1t
is not only not disappearing but 1t
will continue to grow until the con-
gressional majorlties represent the
hopes and aspirations of the average
man rather than the few captains of
finance who have grown wealthy
beyond all reason through the oper-
alton of unjust laws.