The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
ROBBERY IN THE NAME OF THE
 LAW

merely stating truth that will not be disputed by any one who is at all familiar with the history of | that party. It is the doctrine of protection by and through tariff that differentiates it from the Dem ocratic party and it is upon the | soundness of the principle of this kind of protection that it gives that it can claim a right to be continued in power. We have shown
 under this head in the three pre- ceding issues that our tariff for pro- lection is criminal discrimination against the poor and in favor of the
 rich, and that the only reason
 why the poor submit to such a
 shameful and outrageous discrimin-
 ation is because the scheme is per | petual and carried out in such a
 cunning, deceitful and obscure man.
 her that the people do not know
 that they are being robbed under
 the guise of law. The Republican
 party, through protective tariff, has brought about in this Land
 of the Free and Home of the Brave"
 sue. condition of abject poverty
 that it is almost inconceivable. That the condition of the poor of this
 land Is so awful that it amounts to industrial slavery will not be denied
 by any one who has given the sub | ject the slightest consideration, and
 the Republican party is entirely and
 wholly responsible for this cond- tion for it is brought about entirely through the natural operation of the protective tariff which takes away from the poor and gives to the
 rich without any thing whatsoever being given in return. If the indus trial classes would only stop and consider who the Republican party
 is they would see through the scheme at once. All of the trusts, every OAiN III NilAo CiIlll letHu DtIOIlS tO
 the Republican party, and their
 money pays the bills of Republican
 campaigns, and they name the men for office from the highest to the lowest executive, legislative and l judicial. They make the laws and they have them interpreted. A poor man ought to see that his in terests do not lie with the criminal trusts that are enslavng him. The poor men ought to see and realize
 that the trusts through a tariff sys- tenn that compels them to give up
 not less than twenty-five per cent of their gross earnings for which
 they get nothing in return, have got them reduced to such a condi- tion of dependence that they are
 nothing short of slaves.
 The great Republican party had
 it's birth on account of chattel slavery. It was the party that cham
 pioned the principles of human lib-
 erty, but it has degenerated from
 that exalted position to position far worse than that occupied by the
 pro-slavery parties before and dur
 ing the civil war, for the reason that the slave-owners of those days
 could make the argument that they had paid for their slaves and were feeding and clothing them. But the
 slave drivers of today cannot even say that they have paid for their
 slave. And the Republican party
 is today the champion of the condi
 tion that makes absolute industrial
 slaves of fifty per cent. of our peo-
 twenty-five per cent of the earnings
 of forty per cent. more. The trusts
 and the others who have gotten
 control of the capital and wealth of
 the country, absolutely fix the condi-
 tion of life of all voters. It has
 been proven time and again that
 the condition of the poor in all con gested centers in this country, is much worse than was that of the
 black slave before the war, for the
 black got food, clothing and
 medical attention sufficient to keep him healthy. But alas, our present
 poor The thousands upon thous- ands of dwarfed children, cold and
 hungry in this land of the free" leads us almost to the conclusion
 that they would be better off as chattel slaves under a law that
 would compel their owners to feed and clothe them, and furnish medi
 cal attention when they are sick. This condition of abject poverty on such an appalling scale in this coun- try that produces so abundantly is such an apparent paradox that it is amazing that it is so much over looked and especially by those who suffer All of the class of the phe- nomenally rich are in the Republican party, control that party, and in fact they are that party and by systematic hocus-pocus pull the wool over the eyes of their vi tins and actually make them believe that they are sharing with them the protection that is given by the pres