Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-09-25
DEMAGoGUEs AND TRUSTS WIN

The folly and hypocrisy of Champ Clark La
Toilette and the other members of house and
senate who talked to glibly and foolishly of an
neXlng Canada and betrayng the farmers into the
hands OF the trusts are now their heads
Without doubt the false impression they
created by their demagogic outbreaks while the
reciprocity agreement being debated in con
gresS caused the defeat Of Sir Wilfred Laurier
and his liberal party. The success of the con
servatlves In the dominion is reactionary vic
tory 1t was achieved by the trusts and the
demagogues working together in some instances
by deliberate conspiracy and in Others by meth
DDS that ran parallel to the same end in that they
confused the popular mind.
The subsidized press of Canada and the spc
cial interests, ralying there after their humilia
tlon III the United States, took up the cheap
braVado OF Champ Clark and repubished the
vapid prediction he made on the floor Of the
house to the effect that one of these days. the
Canadian provinces would be brought willvnillv
into the union of states. They knew that his
statement had no substance, but they proclaimed
the fact that it had come from one Of the off
Gals highest III the service of the American peo-
pie and they had little difficulty in making
their readers and their hearers believe that il
represented the sentiment of the American PEG.
pie. Clark was not then speaker but a few
weeks later he had been elected to that GREAT
Office and the forecast was identified in Canada
with the position and its responsibilities
Annexation was the most feared DOGGY of the
campaign, but another factor that contributed Il
the defeat of the of reciprocity was the
the organized work OF the American trusts across
the line. In the United States Senator La Fol
lette fresh from battling i'll the interests of the
lumber and paper trusts while the tariff was I'M
der discussion, took his stand against President
Taft and charged that the proposed rccpror.
arrangement had been drafted for the profit of
the vast industrial monopolies He knew that
his argument was false, but persisted in it to
the last and even influenced some of the leading
progreSSlveS III congress to vote with him
what was the sequence in Canada? Why
LA Toilette and his followers had given the re-
dictionary conservative leaders and the financial
interests back to them another effective argu-
ment, and as result much was made of the
charge that the American trusts had plotted with
the American president For authority the con
seryative papers and speakers quoted La Toilette
The attitude of La Toilette says the Sacramento
Union, they contended ought to clinch the proof
but they refraned from showing that LA Fol
lette had fought the reciprocity bill because it's
schedules provided for removal Of the duties on
lumber and wood pulp cancellations would have
destroyed the lumber and paper monopolcs SO
well served by the Wisconsin senator when the
Payne Adrich law was before congress- They
pointed to Clark and La Toilette and swept the
dominion i'll a whirlwind campaign to which the
American trusts contributed fund estimated at
than half million dollars
sensible commercial understanding between
the two countries. and there is no denying that
reciprocity would have Immediately justified the
hopes of its proponents by distributing it's bene.
fits to all classes. However, the two peoples have
been denied it because the demagogues in III
United States played into the hands of the trusts
and the trusts used them to mislead the Canadian
decorate.
Demagogy is the most useful ally of the spc-
cial interests, for with its aid they can pursue
their vicious purposes with fair assurance of
making their pretenses successful 1t serves them
when their outlook is most omnous. This time
it has helped them to kill aSgreat popular reform
and so confuse the American political situation
that there is no telling what will happen
As far annexation is concerned we are of
the opinion that the Canadian people will soon
learn that they have been fooled.