The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-07-12
Entered At the postotiice at Oroville, wsshin
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THE SITUATION CLEARED.

At last the secret is out. Now We
know that all the fuss that has been
made about the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law was manufactured by the bosses
and the special interests that are OPP
posing r. R. for the despicable pur-
pose of Obscuring the real issues in
this campaign For the past three
years the iniquitOus cohorts OF the
privileged few have been struggling
to shove the tariff to the forefront of
political discussion just to fool us COM
mon people into believing that 1t is of
greater Importance than the vital
principles that the colonel intends to
advocate in his campaign for our re-
generation.
In our agitation over the tariff we
were in fair way to forget about the
decalOgue, the New Testament. soci-
ology and metaphysics. But now We
are saved from that awful calamity,
thanks to the great American patron
of Ananias. His clarion call settles
the dust of sham controversy, dis
perses the clouds that lowered over
the field of battle so that our clear
vision can now plainly discern the
true difficulties and the imminent
dangers before us.
Down from another Sinai comes this
new Moses, skaters the gilded calf of
downward revision that we have been
so cravenly idOliZing, and holds alOft
before our eager eyes the craven tab
lets blazing with the inspired COM
mandments, put not your trust in
those that steal, but to the steel trust
give your faith, hope and charity"
1t is, indeed, clarion call. 1t rings
out new deal with Perkins, McCOr-
mick, Munsey and those other pure
defenders of the peoples interests.
1t lifts terrible load of doubt off our
republican shoulders. We, who have
always been high protectionists, began
to distrust our cherished theory and
fear that possibly some of the crimes
of omission and commission charged
up to the Payne-Aldrich law were
something more than partisan preju-
dice. Now we know that the reviled
tariff law is not nOXiOus. If anything
it is innoxious. 1t has practically
nothing to do with the high cost of
living, as has been heretofore main
tanned. OF course President Taft told
us these things, but we thought he
was partial. Even Theodore failed to
entirely convince us when he said
that it was a better tariff law than its
two predecessors. because he was
helping a friend in politics then. Now
however, when he has no other in
terest at stake than our own and the
great principles that he adv coates. we
know that he speaks the untrammled
truth when he says that the tariff is
not the issue and that It is not even
responsible for the high cost of liv-
ing, or at least only in an Incidental
way. We know there is no other au-
thority. That is final I;esides Per-
kins and Munsey and Mccormick en-
tirely agree with him. and they are
also disinterested.
What relief to us republicans ii
is to get the tariff question out of the
way thus easily. We were tired OF
the bother about it, anyway, and it is
so annoying to know that you are
right and yet have a lot of stubborn
| democrats and insurgents bowling
about your wickedness. AS good re-
publicans we are almost forced to fol-
low Teddy into his new party just for
that. We might do it yet, If it were
not that all the expert Office seekers
in the state have gone in ahead of us
and we would have no chance to get
anywhere now.
There is one other big inducement
however. that draws us nightly. II
is this. The tariff has always been a
very troublesome policy and has
caused both of the old parties lots OF
grief. In fact, it is responsible for the
present disturbance in the republican
ranks, and might be properly termed
the parent of insurgency. Now that
Il. has taken over the insurgent party
and remOdled it, he repudiates it's par
ent and will not even permit Old Tar
III to be mentioned in the family. In
that way a most irksOme nuisance is
eliminated
Then there are the trusts and the
Sherman law, both of which are be-
coming wearisOme. The new party
| will get rid of the Sherman law by re-
pealing it, and ii will treat the trusts
accidentally and decently, disregard
ing the doctrine of reasonable and I'M
reasonable, and dividing them into
| good and bad according to their views
on sociology and kindred subjects,
which anybody knows is the only
proper classification.
or course there is the high cost of
living. That will be one of the prin-
cipal policies of the new party. In
fact, it can be definitely stated that
the new party will be unalterably OPP
posed to the high cost of living. 1t
knows the exact cause. which will be
eliminated, removed and completely
abolished by the fiat of the colonel.
Altogether it is a pleasing program,
and we rejoice again and again be-
cause the bosses and special interests
have been exposed in their nefarious
scheme to attract affection away from
the colonel by plotting to raise false
issue in the tariff. These buccaneers
of politics and business have been
frustrated in their vile design to de-
ceive us common people by the vigil
lence of our fearless guardian and his
faithful band of purists. Mr.. Perkins,
Mr. Mccormick, Mr.. Munsey and Mr..
Flynn, the noted Pennsylvania reform
er. ir.