Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-07-25
OUR WASHINGTON LITTER.
BY q. H. Tayener, Special Cor.


understand that continuation of
ther surrender of the Government to.
the trust plunderbund, the G. O. P,
orators and newspapers are trying
to raise the spectre of hard times,
and to make it appear that business
will falter in the event of Demo-
cratic success.
Such imbecilities never weary the
Republican mind. Without regard to
the truth, and unimpressd by evidence
to the contrary. these men go on
shouting the same old heresies. The
hard times heresy is a twin broth
er to the long exploded doctrine that
a high protective tariff protects Amer
lean workingmen, when every school
boy in the land knows that it does no
such thing.
A brief review of recent American
business depression provides a full
and sufficient answer to these foolish
arguments. The last panic in this
country occurred less than five years
ago, when all the machinery of gov
ernment was in full control of the
Republicans, and when Theodore
Roosevelt who has a cure for all
known political evils, was in the
White House This panic was the
least excusable the nation ever en-
dured.
The Republican party was in full
control of the government when the
panic of 1883 came about. Likewise,
this party was in power when there
came panic in the early part of 1884.
and the country recovered from that
panic during the campaign that re-
suited in the election of MIR. Cleve-
land The Republican party was in
full control of the government for
the four years previous to the panic
of 1898, which was a currency panic
clearly due to the passage by the Re-
publicans, OF the Silver Purchase act
of 1890 This law so depleted the
gold reserve in the national treas
ury that few millions in gold were
borrowed by the government in New
York, in order to keep the treasury
reserve up to $100,000000 until the
Harrison administration could get out
of office, and thus make it appear that
the panic was due to the incoming
Democratic administration.
The silver panic of 1893, which was
entirely due to the Republican legis-
lation, is the only one for more than
half a century that did not occur while
the Republicans were in full possess
sion of the government. Yet Repub
.lican orators and newspapers, true
to their habit of hiding the facts and
raising false issues, go right ahead
trying to make it appear that the
Democratic party is the party of hard
times.
This is the heresy of the pronounc-
ed kind, and it is safe to assume that
the country will appraise it at its
true worth The time is past when the
voters can be fooled. They are de-
manding the truth, and what is more
important, they are showing the
ability to separate the truth from the
false.
THE BIG ISSUE.
United States Senator LaFollette, in
the closing chapter of his autobio-
graphy, which has been running in
the American magazine and which
soon is to be published in book form,
gives what he considers to be the one
big issue now confronting the Amer
ican people. He says:
'In twenty-five years of political
struggle | have found one great is
sue overshadowing all others-the en-
croachment of the powerful few on
the rights of the many. All the is
sues of today are phases of this one
great question. How shall the indi-
vidual, the farmer, the worker, and
all those who pay tribute, be set free
from the unjust exactions OF the tar
iff, the railroads, and other forms of
oppression by special interests.
when Roosevelt became president
the total stock and bond issue of the
trusts was S., ,7S4, 100000 When he
turned the country over to Taft this
total had grawn to $31 1,672,000,00
seventy per cent of which is water
THE people of this country are
paying dividends on all this watered
stock, in the form of unnecessarily
high prices for the things they eat,
use and wear
HOW "DISSOLUTION" HELPS.
The Standard Oil company's profit
figures for the six months since Jan
uary first-the first six months OF OPP
Grafton under the terms of the Su-
preme Courts dissolution decree
show that the trust has piled up pro-
fits of $46,611, ,628 Last year, the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
the corporation which distributed
dividends for the t,paid out profits
of $39,335,3 800.
Thus it is apparent that "disso-
tuition" suits are highly beneficial to
such law defying monopolies as the
Standard Oil Company.
WILSON'S BROAD APPEAL
The practical wisdom of Governor
Wilson's nomination is asserting it
self more every day. Of all the men
that were available for the Democrat
ic nomination, none was so well for
tilted as the New Jersey governor to
meet the requiremnts of the country
and the marty