The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-20
JUDGE PARKER RO0SE.
VEl7's TRUST RECORD
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America, whether millionaire or pau
per, to longer play the ostrich. Safety
does not consist in hiding ones head
i'm the sands OF either sentiment or
hope. 1t is foolish for the vastly rich
to keep on insisting that o and
moro shall he added to their riches
through a specious system of special
legislation ostensibly enacted to run
the government, in reality enacted to
loot the people.
ut is worse than ignorance for
them to smile at the large body of in
tclligent Americans who regard them
selves as fortunate if the debt and
credit accounts of life balance at the
end of the a and to assume that
the mighty many. who are becoming
convinced that that social system that
we call democracy is but a glittering
generality, will long endure the in
dus,rial slavery being produced.
"Whether boiling the ticket or not,
men everywhere looking upon the
awful injustice of This economic sys-
if not in conduct.
And shall any fair-minded man
say that If it rebounds to the intcr
csts of the people of this country that
n hundred mel shall control it's bust
ness to the good of everyone. that
there is anything fallacious in the
theory that government instead of
transferring business Ia n favored few,
for the benefit of all should itself dis
charge that business for the benefit of
all.
81 do not hesitate 10 say that if it
be impossible To rostor" this republic
To its ancient ideals. which / do not
believe. and I must make the ulti-
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of the few and the socialism of the
many, me and my house with
the %throhhing heart of humanity.
The discomfort in republican ranks
is democratic discomfort. How much
Of il has reached the point where
Wcaricd with the bad workings of IA
good system, it is willing to topple
that system over and try something
new. l cannot prophecy.
Three Grades of Citizens.
But am quite sure that whatev-
or badges men may wear in America
his year. whatever ballots they may
cat and whatever battle cries they
may utter. there are but three grades
of citizens.
The first grade is made up of the
favored few, their hangers-on and
their beneiiciaries. Who think the.
eagle is upon the dollar. not as an
emblem of liberty but as an emblem
of power and who lonk upon govern
ment as an annex to their business
affairs; these are they h in the past
years of republican lnisrule have
turned the temple of constitutional
freedom into a money-changers' mart
branches of the government obeisant
11cEcI'c of tho iioIr1jn~ cniraa
THE second grade consists of
those whose outlook upon life has
been enlarged by tn. civilization un-
der which we live, who have been
taught Ivy the school and the college,
by the press and the magazine, who
appreciate the good things of life.
whose horizon has J., en- enlarged and
whose capacity for joy and sorrow
has been increased.
Conditions have become unhear-
able to them. They have reached
the point where, in the struggle for
that which they believe to be right,
they are willing to destroy the ideals
of the republic . How many of these
there are. L do not know. but l do
know that special privilege in the re-
public is breeding Them day by day
like rabbit in Il warren.
lIt tiIIA SI1dS vi 1ItlLtHS II
pleases me to call old-fashioncd CON
st%itutinnal democrats. These are they
who believe that the equality of man.
kind does not consist in an equality
of brain and Drawn but in an equality
Whereby every man, native n for
.eiEn born, has an inalienable right
To exercise all of his ability in get
ting on in the world just so he re-
Allies that in getting on he owes it to
himself, to his family and to the re-
public to see to it that he gets on
honestly, and that he does not pre-
vent any other man from obtaining
the reward of his honesty and enter
prise.
These old-fashioned democrats
believe in making money, but they
believe every dollar made should he
so clean that an infant may cut its
teeth upon it. And they hold that it
is no part of government to boost
n mar and root another"