Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-06-24
Cause and Effect.

The New York World recent
commented upon the statement {
President Taft to the effect that 81
cialism is the great problem whic
confrOnts the American people; tina
the Socialist vote in thirteen years {
of uninterrupted Republican admin
istration, increased sixteen hundre
per cent. 1t then propounds tn
question. what will be the result G
another thirteen years of Republican
administration, and at once answers
that nobody will be able to tel, 70
there will not be any. The Orcgo
ntan rejoins. by saying editorially
there will not be any such period O
Democratic administration; that tn
American public distrusts the Demo
cratic party almost as much as i
does the Socialist, and then goes OF
to predict the Socialists will NEE
the same fate as the PrOhibitionists
1t claims the anti-saloon league ha.
stolen the thunder of the latter party
and concludes with the following re
markable language:
"The Nation distrusts utterly the So
| cialists as party, but it adopts some Of
its measures, always under another
name. 1t will have none of the hideOus
doctrines of Socialism but when they
are sugar-coated and adopted by some
other party, they, or some of them, be.
come entirely acceptable. We are ia no
danger from Socialism so long as it is
called Socialism"
If it is true, the Nation utterly
distrusts the Socialists as party,
how can it admire its parent the
Republican party, and it's policies
while it has been in power. That
party stands for the trusts and their
methods, without which Socialism
would not be possible. These great
combinations of wealth and mischief,
teach the workingmen the necessity
OF meeting organization with organi-
cation. The slogan of Gaylord Will
shire. prominent Socialist author,
is: LET the Nation own the
trusts" If there were no trusts,
there would be none to own.
The Oregonion endorses, and has
in the past endorsed. the policies of
the g. o. p., and therefore sanctions
the causes which give Socialism its
prestige and potency, aid is now SO
unkind as to belittle and discredit
its own offspring. Still the great
daily asserts. if the "hideous doc
trines of Socialism, or some of them
are sugar-coated. they may become
entirely acceptable" Certainly, if
the g. o. p. can perpetuate itself a
little while longer by misleading the
people. which seems highly improb-
able, Notwithstanding the great ado
made over the mighty hunter and his
advocacy of the tory policies OF the
English plutocracy and her nobility.
This individual landed in New York,
on the 18th inst, the anniversary of
the battle of Waterloo. Then fol.
lowed heavy rains and severe wind
storm, and the very heavens seemed
angry. What does all this portend ?
Time can only tell. If the past is to
serve as guide for deciphering the
future, such meteoric exhibitions and
grandstand plays are doomed to
vanish into their native nothingness.
They cannot for long distract the at
tehtion of the people from the wrongs
that have been caused by acts of the
party in power, for "Ye shall know
them by their fruits"
In conclusion, the STANDARD sub
mits it will be easier to sugar. coat
the teachings of the Socialist propa-
ganda. than to obliterate the shady
transactions of the g. o. p. from the
memories of the people. 1t is true
Socialism is strong in some European
countries. wherein the Republican
party is not in power, still plutoc-
racy is there in the saddle. which
stands for greed and fraud, and
signifies the same methods for the
exploitations of the people as the pol
icies OF the trusts in our own domains.
The blighting menace of plutocracy
is worldwide. and if ours is the most
progressive nation on earth, the
change will be wrought here but not
through the &. o. p.