The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-16
DISMISon-
Taft Criticised-A thoroughly Machnl,
Made Administration.

In a criticism of Taft and his admin
istration the Louisville Courier Journal
of recent date 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 pre-
cipitated by the executive order of Fri
day 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 pro-
tect those who, by their corrupt Organl-
cation and campaign contributions, have
brought the Republican party to power
and are relied on to maintain it in
power" L. other words, the puslic
lands and franchises belong to the
saints, and we are the saints.
Many Republican presidents have by
indirection through the protective pol
icy 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 peoples
domain. 1t is not worth while for any
body 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 lnten-
toned man need not be denied or
doubted. The world is full of men
who can see no wrong where their own
interest is at stake; who are blind to
right when their passions are awaken
ed; who will do.afor party what they
would refuse to God. The candidate
of straw upon platform of imposture,
indicted into office, sees his house of
cards about to tumble down on him
and his Cabinet, because of the act of
an upright but imprudent servant, and,
in a panic of anger and fear, thinks to
avert the threatened catastrophe by
driving the upright servant out.
1t will not suffice. All men now know,
if they did not know before, that the de-
capitation of CLAWS was meant to kill
a dangerous witness; but, in the de-
}capitation of Pinchot and his associates
Price and Shaw, the administration has
committed hari-kari upon itself. Hence
forth the ground about the White
House and around the Throne of the
Gar of the Congress will be sown with
dragons teeth. FsI
And, frem now onward, let there be
politics in this country except the res
cue of the government from organized
piilage, which, not content with raising
up favored classes and distributing
mammoth fortunes through the tariff
; reaches forth its corrupt and impiou'
hand to steal from the people the public
Hands and franchises that yet remain
open to-bona fde settlers and homes
but poor men.
We read of the days of Robert Wal
pole with mute arnazement. We stan'
aghast before the rapacity of Henri,
Fox. 1t seems inconceivable that Their
could have been a government of rot
ten boroughs exchanging titles and es
tates for 4otes. Yet the system in Eng
, land in the eighteenth century was in
) fantile by comparison with the SySter
in the United States during the latte
part of the nineteenth century and thu
much of the twentieth. The spoliatio
: of Walpole and his body mercenarle
! was childs play by comparison wit
. the scheme of spoliation contrived b
e Cannon, Aldrich & Co., of which tn
! President of the United States no1
, makes himself the legal advocate, til
i hacker and defender Nothing eve
| witnessed in the world before compare
= with it in immensely and audacity.
+ Poor old, dignifed, fat-witted JAIME
9 Buchanan, who, standing by the e.
e tremists of Democracy, let the countr
a drift into war, seems the only parall
v to the good-natured indiferentialist no
! occupying the chief magistracy WI
. thinks with a smile to slick over tt
. treason, stratagems and spoils in whie
o thick-sku1led, thoroughly machin
S made administration is engulfng Il
e country.
b IF SHF WERE A MAN?