The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-08


Cannon the present Insurgent move
ment might never have attained its
present..proportisn. Rep. Norris led the
attack. He found support outside the
Hous= in Dolliver, and Cummins of
Iowa, LaFollette of Wis.,, Gore of
Oklahoma. Beveridge of Ind. Bristow of
Kansas and others. Cannon fought to
the last ditch but was overthrown.
HIS defeat was the handwriting on the
wall. Thus did the House purge itself
and could then fittingly seek to reform
the methods of eiecting senators. Again
was Democracy Victor. Again did
the New Nationalism rise to prominent
notice.
In June 1910 there came before the
Senate bill relating to the Choctaw
and Chicasaw Indian lands in Okla
homa and Indian Territoy. The bill
provided in part that all contracts with
these Indians need only be approved by
the Pres. and Sec. of Interior. This is
wonderfully valuable containing vast
deposits of aspaltum, coal and oil Sen.
Gore of Oklahoma offered an amene.
ment providing that Congress as a
whole pass on these contracts. The
attention of the country was aroused.
Dabate became heated. The subject
was thoroughly investigated and dis
cussed. The bill failed to pass and an
other victory was won by the lnsur-
gents.
This insurgency movement is a move
ment of the people. Party lines are
breaking, new party may result.
From the stronghold of Republicanism
in New England, from the central States
and even from far off Cal. and Ore.
came reports of Governors, Senators
and Representatives elected because of
Insurgent sympathies. Roosevelt is
the greatest Insurgent. Woodrow
Wilson and Hoke Smith are the most
prominent Democrat representatives.
This avalanche of public sentiment
is moving, it is gaining momentum.
May its latest energies soon become an
irresistible force sweeping down the
barrier of Partyism, political parties,
sweeping clear the poll teal mountain
side for new growth. Our free in
stitutions are threatened by two foss
plutocracy and mabocracy lawless
wealth and lawless mobs. These two
agents destroyed Greece 'snl Rouss>-
Shall we allow them to destroy us?
Jamns Bryce writes of the U. S. govt
this: 1.-THE elective Offices are so num-
erous that ordinary citizens cannot
watch them and cease to care who
gets them. The conventions come SO
often that busy men cannot serve in
them. The minor Offices are so unat-
tractive that able men do not stand for
them. The mass of voters are ignorant,
knowing nothing of the personal merits
of their candidates they are ready to
follow thier leaders like sheep. Even
the better class are swayed by the in
vetrate habit of party loyalty and pre-
fer bad candidate of their own party
to better man of another party. It
is less trouble to put up with trickery
and jobbing in politics than to sacrifice
ones own interests.
At present our hope is with the
Progressives. Honest men can be
trusted in any Office. 'Let every
American whether democrat or repub-
lican forget party interests and party
loyalty and work only for the people
and the upbuilding of this great nation.
Let our ideals of political right and
wrong be high for as the majority of
the individual ideals, such is the ma
tions ideal.
Let US remember that
The world advances and in time
outgrows
The laws that in our fathers days
were best;
And doubtless after US some purer
theme will be worked out
By wiser men than we, made wiser
by the steady growth of truth.
We cannot bring Utopia by force.
But better almost, best work in sin
Than in brute inaction, browse and
sleep.
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