The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-01-29
COL. HENRI WATTERSON
OF COUR|ER.J0URNAL
Calls on Honest Men to Come
to the Front to Rescue the
Government From Organ
lied Pillage and Save the
Public Lands Yet Remain
ing Open to Bona Eide
Settlers From Being Cob
bled Up by Corporations.

Under the caption of Honest Men
to the Front" Mr. Henri Watterson,
the veteran editor of the Louisville
Courier Journal, says: -
For the first time in the history Of
the country a President Of the United
States has openly proclaimed himself
the friend of thieves and the enemy of
honest men.
That, and that alone, is the issue
precipitated by the Executive order
removing Clifford Pinchot from Office.
"By your conduct" says Mr.. Taft
in effect "you have destroyed your
usefulness as a helpful subordinate of
those who hold the Republican party
as the Government and are bound to
protect those who, by their corrupt or
ganiaation; and campaign contribu
tions. have brought the Republican
party to power and are relied on to
maintain it 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 poll
cy proclaimed themselves the friends
Of robbery under the forms Of law;
Mr.. Taft becomes the first to depart
from the process of licensed robbery.
and to announce that the debts of his
party are in future to be paid out of
the people's&domain: It is not worth
while for anybody 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-intentioned man need not
full Of men who can see no wrong
where their own interest is at stake;
who are blind to right when their pas
sions are awakened; who will do for
party what they would refuse to God
The candidate of straw upon platform
of imposture, inducted to Office, sees
him and his Cabinet, because of the
act of an upright but imprudent SER
want, and, in a panic of anger and
fear, thinks to avert the threatened
catastrophe by driving the upright
servant out.
It will not suffice. All men now
know, if they did not know before,
that the decapitation of CLAWS was
meant to kill dangerous witness;
but, in the decapitation of Clifford
Pinchot, and his associates, Price and
Shaw, the Administration has COM
mitted harikari upon itself. Hence
forth the ground about the White
House and around the Throne Of the
Gear Of the Congress will bs sown
with dragons teeth.
And, from now onward, let there be
no politics in this country except the
rescue of the Government from organ
lied pillage, which, not content with
raising up favored classes and dis
tributing mammoth fortunes through
the Tariff, reaches forth it's corrupt
and impious hand to steal from the
people the public lands and franchises
that yet remain open to bona fde set
tiers and honest but poor men.
We read of the days Of Robert Wal
pole with mute amazement. We stand
aghast before the rapacity of Henry
Fox. 1t seems inconceivable that there
could have been a Government of Rot
ten Boroughs exchanging titles end es-
tates for votes. Yet the system in Eng
land in the Eighteenth Century was
infantile by comparison with the sys-
tenn in the United States during the
latter part Of the Nineteenth century
and thus much of the Twentieth. The
spoliation of Walpole, and his body OF
mercenaries, was child's play by com
contrived by Cannon, Aldrich & Com
pany, of which the President of the
United States now makes himself the
legal advocate, the hacker and de.
fender. Nothing ever witnessed In the
world before compares with It In i'm.
mensity and audacity.
Poor old, dignified, fat-witted Jane,
Buchanan, who, standing by the ex.
tremists of Democracy, let the country
drift into war, seems the only parable
to the good-natured indifferentialis