The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
OLD ORDER IS GOING
To Be CHANGED
Partnership Between "Big Business"
and Government, With Big 5usi-
ness Doing the Governing, Is vi
eTouo and Must Be Destroyed.
Everything That Stands Between
the People and Their Government
Must BE Swept Away.
BY w. G. EGGLEsToN.

Yes, we have a republican form
OF government - FORM" mind you
but not substance. And if the roof Of
your house was made of poultry wire
you would have the form" of a roof
over you; but what good would it be
when it rains, or when the snow
comes, or when the thermometer goes
up to 1856 in summer sun? Would you
be proud of that form" of roof?
Call the advocates of the initiative
and referendum radicals" if you
please; and condemn the initiative
and referendum with the words fad"
and ism if you choose. That won't
matter, for the old order of political
things is going to be changed, and is
being changed. The radicals advo-
vate restoration of the peoples gov
ernment to the people. We have the
form" of representative government;
the radicals intend to have the sub
stance Of representative government.
Who object to that? The men who
are satisfied with the form without
the substance because it is profitable
to them; and it is profitable because
by controlling government they have
forced it into partnership with them
and they get the profits of the
partnership. That leaves the people
outside without voice in the govern
ment.
The partnership between Big Busi-
ness and government, with Big Busi
ness doing the governing, is vicious;
therefore it must be destroyed. How?
By breaking up the partnership and
making the government represent the
people. The people must not only be
brought into the game, but they must
be the whole game; they must be the
government. To Go that we must
sweep something away, and make a
clean sweep. What?
Everything and anything that
stands between the people and their
government. We must square the
facts in our political life with the
pretty theory we have been looking
at and calling Representative govern
ment." We must have the kind Of
we have been thinking
we had. We have been living in a
political FOOLS paradise, thinking we
had something we didn't have. No
one but a fool really wants to live in
a FOOLS paradise.
"Radicalism"? Yes, radicaI-ism, if
you choose; the name doesn't mat
ter. Calling a fruit cake a skunk |
won't make it smell bad. What il |
the initiative and referendum is rad |
ical; will that hurt? The people are !
radical because they want TO go to /
the root of political evils, dig them
up and set rid Of them The people /
want to get rid of political evils be-
cause the people are progressive, and /
want to be rid of everything that
stands in the path of progress.
The very men Who complain Of rad /
ical-ism tell us that what we need is
They want one kind |
Of ism but don't want another
kind. They want the kind that pays |
them a profit out of their control of
government. Go look at the water
roaring over the rocks in a river
What makes the trouble? The water,
following its natural course to the
sea? The radical" water. trying to
30 on and on, or the standpat, conser-
vative rocks, standing in the way OF
And when we want to
make the stream navi gable, do we
blow UP the water or tile rocks? Do
we dam the water or damn the rocks?
The American people are not going
% destroy their country, they are not
going TO destroy their government.
The man who puts new foundation
inder his house because the old