The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-10-10

down the supports-and still have con
fidence, and have your neighbors hav,
confidence, and have your neighbors
neighbors have confdence,N that the
roof will still stand sound and steady
over your head and theirs.
These things are so plain that
though often withheld from the wise
it seems as if they must be revealed
to babies. These things are so plain
that it seems almost wasteful tC
mention them. But they-even they
are not all. To them must be added
the countless examples and instances
that have come day by day, month by
month, with ever increasing force and
number, to drive home the lessons
Just look back few weeks or months
and consider!
A senator of the United States as
sociates himself with other senators to
bring about recall of the supreme
court judges when, on the law and evil
dence, they render decision which
displeases the people, who have read
neither the law nor the evidence.
A senator of the United States as
sociates with himself other senators
of the United States to debar, legally
debar, the courts from pronouncing
any act of congress unconstitutional
th rot iC RI o11nW tn ahO1ich
any or all of the constitution, to vote
away by bare majority the constitu-
ticnal safeguards against cruel and
unusual punishments, against the con-
fiscation of private property, against
special class legislation exempting
some and disabling others, and so on
Rights, the Great Charter and every
measure of what has been considered
right, justice, equity protection and
safeguard for the citizen, his life and
his property since there has been an
English language.
And is this razing of the founda-
lions of the only shelter that we have
from government murder, rapine and
robbery-consider these words, they
are measured carefully-a mere idle
dream, a Jewelers. chimera, a social
lists trance? No. indeed. The prac-
tical first step to this almost unthink-
able goal was attempted in a territory
that was about to become a sovereign
state, was approved, Endorsed and fur
thered by majority of the house of
and the senate of the
United States, and was halted only BY
the last-ditch interference Of the Pres
ident with his veto.
To shout "demagogues," Jewellers"
revolutionists" at tie men who speak
these things and do these things set
ties no issues, alters no conditions.
Hard names, true names, do not change
a record or rewrite single page of
what is now history. Whatever they
are, whatever they were, the ma
ority of the men whom the people |
pick and send to Washington to make
avs for the protection of the life and |
property of us all, did and spoke
Ind voted to bring about. the condi-
ions which we have outlined-the con-
litions under which within twenty
ears a Reign of Terror, a Twentieth
century Reign of Terror, would sweep
his nation into a vortex of woe such
s the modern world has never seen.
Nor is that ALTAR from it! While
hese things were doing and saying in
he supreme law-making body of the
and, the administrative part Of the
government was neither silent nor
lie.
The Acknowledgement of the Uni
ed States, chief law officers of the
alton, head of the United States De-
artment of Justice-of justice, mind
member of the Presidents
abinet, came to the middle west and,
/ public address, proposed that the
overnment be intrusted with the pow
r to fix the prices at which the prin-
pal articles that the people make,
ny, sell, eat and wear, shall be trans
,rred and acquired throughout this
nited States.
The government to take possession
the industry of nation of 100000
10! The government to wipe out
e livelihood right in what one makes
his occupation and to leave him only
e duty of providing the cost! The
,vernment of the United States to
ldertake what even medieval tyrants
rank from after trial! The govern
ent Of the United States to accept
arl Marx as it's prophet, Karl Marks
'apital" as it's constitution, Karl
arx's socialism as it's policy, and
arl Marks confiscation as it's manual
procedure!
And this proposition from the head
the department of justice of the