The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-21

the count fixed the cost of living. It may be said that this is mere acci dent of politics, a single illustration, and that it will not occur again. But it is no accident. It Is only one of the many illustrations. It simply dis closes the utter folly of man remain ing a member of party when the party policy ceases to voice his inner spirit The Republican party does not ,recede now from its protective theory. Its return to power will mean again the rule of minority and the theo- ,retical idea of Democracy will continue to be the practical aristocracy of spe- cial privilege in this country.
 Choice for the Voter.
 The voter who cannot satisfy him. self this year is indeed censorious. Eliminating the verbiage of platforms, taking their substance and viewing the candidates placed on them, the voter who believes that the cost of produc- tion at home and abroad should be capitalized to the manufacturer of this country and who wants an oligarchy to rule, may vote the straight Republic an ticket; the voter who believes in similar protective theory but who pre- fers to an oligarchy that the president shall be the state, may vote the Pro- gressive ticket; the voter who believes this government should be turned into socialism, may vote the Socialistic ticket; the voter who thinks that church and state are not separate in America and that the people have a right to settle religious questions and to determine by ballot what is good and what Is bad, may vote the Prohibi- tion ticket; and all those who insist that it Is not the business of the gov ernment to eQualize the cost of pro duction at home and abroad to the manufacturer until it equalizes the diff ference in the purchase price to the consumer at home and abroad, who believes that the only equalization jus tifable in our government is the equalization of opportunity, who thinks that public office is a public trust who does not believe that disgruntled and defeated politicians are genuine re- formers, and who think that reforms are not born with sore toes. may vote the Democratic ticket.
 l respectfully urge all those who are opposed to special privilege to ally themselves this year with the historic Democracy, the cornerstone of whose editice is the Declaration of Inde- pendence and the keystone of which is the Golden Rule. At Baltimore, it proved its right to be because there it arose and by it's proposed policy met the needs and wants of people.
 Results of Economic Injustice.
 It is idle for thoughtful man in America, whether millionaire or pau per, to longer play the ostrich Safe ty does not consist in hiding ones head in the sands of either sentiment or hope It is foolish for the vastly rich to keep on insisting that more and more shall be added to their riches through spacious system of special legislation ostensibly enacted to run the government, in reality enacted to loot the people. It is worse than ig- norance for them to smile at the large body of intelligent Americans who re. gard themselves fortunate if the debit and credit accounts of life balance at the end of each year; and to assume that the mighty many, who are becom- Ing convinced that that social system which We call Democracy is but a gilt tering generality, will long endure the industrial slavery being produced. The hour has come when patriotism must consist in something more than eulogies upon the flag.
 Whether voting the ticket or not, men everywhere looking upon the aw- ful injustice of this economic system are becoming socialistic in theory if not in conduct, And shall any fair minded man say that if it rebounds to the interests of the people of this country that a hundred men should control It's business to the good of ev- eryone, that there is anything fallaci- ous in the theory that government in. stead of transferring business to q favored few for the benefit of all should Itself discharge that business for the benefit of all? I have never been able to convince myself that either system would not cast a pail over human action and dull the mo tives which have heretofore moved mankind to the very loftiest endeavor and produced what conceive to be the most perfect system of government ever devised by the brain of man since