The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-04-22
franklin Pierce On Keeping Still"

letter from Franklin Pierce New York to Henry w44
of the Louisville Courier Journal:
have read with interest your talk before the National Po
M a Washington So sturdy fighter you are will s,reI t
I nkindv difference of opinion as to the true nol 2 H.
aac party. You say Keep still and profit nv the
takesn say go the Republican party he-bent on the %
ION Of protective tariffs Imperialism ship subsidies xtravaqan
een and costly navy corruption all other abuses which
& have imposing upon this American people The Demo
cratic party has been keeping still altogether long Free
m not exist without and the Democratic party ought
= he party agitation The alleged and sane party na
hgs to Republican party, and there will finally bring IN
When leaders OF the Democratic party quiet notwithstanding
hundreds taribred monopoies selling their products to the
American for twice the price which they would exact if
M tariff removed when these special interests hearth
the poor charging them extra for etortng from so TO
95 Der for every thread of clothing which they wear than
M natural price robbing day and night wear in and wear
oft b enhanced prices for all the of life and we Dem
as sit around smiling serenely summer morningswen
such condition of affairs this exists say away away with YOU
s You recreant your recant to the
memory the Democratic leaders of the past the very
heavens their voices condemn you.
Slavery the of the South before the war but orr
modern maeasn tariff made monopoles and the of cor
m special laying much heavier burdens upon your people
than did slavery those days and Southern have bowed
vo heads this and be returning your doctrines
that society for the benefit of the few instead of many that
the millions may be esaved increase the riches thousand
planters and manufacturers God you and bring you back
true Democratic principles send you Republican party
where you belong if you do not reform.
Again you that if the scheme cause breach between
President Taft and Roosevelt head Democrats may
get power Is this the cry of weakness? We get
power of breach between advesaries Why get
mgness do the right thing the whole body the people?
great admiration for ePesden Roosevelt have spent
little time examining his usurpaons of power but Theodore
Roosevelt his worst the superior OF President Taft No pres
country has started in the very beginning of his term
by making such hiang exhibit of himself has President
Taft The progressive element his party ought desert him.
that they will desert him. Government with President
Taft be something OF joke He be bent upon
having good the peoples expense He hardly
any public question: altogether good with the
elements of this country please the vgant and patriotic
citizen His attitude on the tariff and his attack upon the progressive
hundreds of thousands of dollars of the peoples money his easy
neglect of public duties his goodnaured lack of Indignation at
wrong these all mark him good fellow but not faithful
and great President.
The hope of the Democratic party getting back the first
principles OF justice and government throwing aside the Superficial
who have been directing councils resolving
the of burdened goods and to those
who bearing the terrible burdens of eavagant national
If the Democratic party twenty years had cleared
decks and fought valany for democratic principles instead OF
talking about keeping still and pro6tng by the enemies mistakes
sought not only to please the people by oneyed and dem
agog but had actually created and camponed real reforms
affecting all the peoples welfare would not be signing Tor power
today of power because it unworthy OF power is Out
power because lacks leaders who believe the people and who
believe justice toward all the people 1t out OF power because
hundreds of its leaders actually league with the tarlade
trusts and voting the Republican ticket treeourts OF the time
and are real Republicans and ought to be in the Republican parry
and stay there These leaders have simply betrayed the people ana
among them United States Senators from the South VINO
nave been steadily taking of your large land owners ana
rer instead of taking of the great body OF your poor o
P Our mlonares expanding hundreds OF millions OF doas
yearly for charities all kinds Democrats advocate uSc
winch will make charity almost unnecessary Let us urge the people
hight for little things when those little things involve principe
liberty and justice foefathes fought seven years wal
rom Lexington Yorktown for relief from taxation not oh
part as buenome congress just imposed upon ninety millions
OF consumers
In Short my dear Mr. Watterson let us believe IN Dely anu
ce and in their final triumph and hate from our boots up
SION and grid ourselves fight for the old democratic IDEAS
ana then there will be of keeping still and Fronting by INC
enemies mistakes"
he Citizens circulation booming never before ana ue
more interest being taken propaganda work we ackno
edge the receipt of fen dollars from F G. Burroughs of Caldwell
m list of twenty whom the paper to De Sent lo |
sn Mr. Burroughs also sends in five dollars contribute "