Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-08-24

any longer,
We own the earth. we-the inter
ests, Trusts, Jonnles, Rockies, Pier
points, Hills, Andies--a bunch Of us.
Never mind how we got It, It's ours
now and we are going to keep it, If
We can.
The people are after II, are they?
Well, the people cant have 1t II We
can help IT,
We have hung on pretty well 80 far,
have we not? And We have done 1t
by the very consent and good will Of
the people.
It's because we have fooled the peo-
pie of course, We have fooled the
people into going to war for Us and
fighting for Us and shooting each
other down for Us and dying for Us.
That was easy.
For, you see, we own the press. We
have to own that 80 We can tell the
people what we want them to do. And
they do it.
Oh, the dear people! How dear they
are Although We get them very
cheap.
All right, then. To hold the earth
the mines, the mills, the factories, the
means of life, the necessities, luxuries
and comforts of life, We must have
the legislatures, the governors, con-
gress, the president, courts mayors,
city councils-in short, We must have
the government in Our own hands.
And that Is easy. The dear people
vote so nicely for our candidates. Just
hear them shout and holler for Our
officials.
or course, once in a while they get
restless and tired We skin them
pretty deep and they rebel now and
then.
But We fix that all right.
For some time, We had only one big
party. / worked fine until We got
too heavy on the backs Of the slaves
both black and white.
Then We added another party, and
so far It has worked like a charm.
When We have a republican party
in the harness We skin the workers
just as before. When they get weary
We take Our press and holler against
the republican party and blame that
party for hard times and bad cond-
tlons. Then We take the same press
and begin to boost the other party We
tell the fool wage slaves that the dem
ocrat party Is the real hing. We boast
of Jefferson and Jackson and Bryan,
and get the workers all excited about
the democrat party Then we put up
fine fellows for president and COVER
nor and the dear people vote for them.
And we keep on skinning and skin
ming until the slaves won't stand 1t
any longer
Then we change over to the repub-
lican party We talk 1t up. We boost
It as the party Of prosperity, the party
of Lincoln, Mckinley and Roosevelt,
the party Of the full dinner pail, the
party Of protective tariff-that pro-
tects Us, Of course, What else is the
tariff for?
And the slaves bite again. They vote
for our republican candidates and
they think they will get prosperity,
But We go right ahead and skin
them just as before.
We have kept this up for many,
many years. The trick has worked
fine.
But now the horrid socialists are in
the field. They tell the workers Of
Our game and show them how We own
both the republican and democratic
parties The workers are beginning
to give signs Of suspicion.
But We got another card to play.
We are not through yet We can fool
the people another stunt all right,
SO now we are fixing up third
party We had the democrats and the
republicans make an awful fuss at
their convention. Then We scOlded
them in Our press just as if We had
been serious. That makes n fine prep
aration for Our new party.
We better call that the Progressive |
Party" That sounds good, and the
dear people won't catch on for some
time.
We are using Our press to boost the
Teddy Progressive ME party Teddy |
is Our man. He is the best stool pig
con We ever had He stands without
being tied
And We slam the high cost of liy-
ing. 1t sounds good
Now watch the fool voters flock to
Teddy He is the kingpin in Our big
wagon.
How We will skin the slaves after
they have voted for our candidates.