Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-02
WASHINGTON news What THE MATTER
times APPEAR OUT OF joint, so
TO SPEAK,
A peSSimiStiC Glance Over the COun.
try That Is Not Encouraging to Our
System of Self Government. A
Nation of Reckless Law Makers
and Law Breakers.

The American people do not, just
now, make an altogether encourag-
ing showing. We're one inclined to
be pessimistic he would find whole
array of things which he would like
to have changed. A great host of
men are clamoring for a policy of
peace toward all the world. They
will tell you how much a battleship
costs. how much is required to train
and equipt single regiment of men,
and the foolishness and wickedness of
this when we are at peace with all
the world. Then they will protest that
it is not so much the money lost
which they deplore, as the warike
spirit which the building of ships and
training of men to arms engenders
And they talk this way, while the
struggle of the nations to get the best
of other nations and for the strong
to prey upon the weak goes on.
Again more than half the time of
congress is exhausted in following one
investigation of supposed crime after
another, when it seems to an outsid-
er as though some sharp and incisive
laws would cover the cases of graft,
or supposed graft, which the courts
eide in brief time
Again, since gold became the only
money in the country, and a compara-
lively few men have obtained the con-
troll of the bulk of it, those few have
so organized that the business of the
country is under their dictation, and
the millions are working for them.
Some people submit cheerfully to
the pOmp and majesty of kings" Our
free" people submit just as meekly to
the big dealers in the game and con-
tinue this year after year, and do
not seem to comprehend that on this
chess-board, they continue to. be
pawns to be moved here and there
and worsted at last.
We have a great party in this coun-
try which for half century has op
posed every proposed measure to re.
store to the seas an American mer-
chant marine. and in all that time
have never proposed a plan which
gives the slightest promise of succeed
ing. So while it is the study of every
other country to retain at home it's
gold, for ten years past this party
has seen this country ship abroad
$25O,O00,0OO per annum, for foreign
ship owners, in order to pay the
! freights and fares of Americans.
Again, we read in the exact figures
OF statisticians that the United States,
with half it's resources still lying dor
mant, possesses more wealth than
any other country which the sun
shines on; still if little emergency
arises which makes it necessary for
the government to have a little more
revenue than the natural revenues
supply, the only method which the
government seems able to adopt to
obtain the money is to sell interest
bearing bonds, for the people to pay
interest upon, and which interest
doubles the principal every twenty
five years.
Again, nearly every state has pass
ed prohibition laws, which do not pro-
hibit, but which help thousands of the
people to become experts as liars,
sneaks and hypocrites.
Again, one state after another is
bringing to bear the utmost penalties
of the laws to prohibit horse-racing,
and forget, apparently, that since be-
fore the Greeks had their chariot
races in front of Troy the horse-tam-
ers have ruled this world.
Again, as a result of the present in
sane rage for gold, and the rage of
the shodily rich for display, the di-
vorce courts of the land are worked
over hours; homes are all tangled
out of tune, and multitudes of chill
dren are growing up not only with
out discipline or affection, but with
minds perverted from the cradle, and
in the churches men and women seem
like the sun in the autumn, to be
wandering farther and farther away
from the divinity which is their cen
tral sun; farther and farther away
out into the abyss where all is dark
ness and cold.-Goodwin's Weekly,
Salt Lake.
MUST HAVE PREMIT