The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1913-07-18
Need of a Greater
Democracy

The Need of a Greater Dem ooraoy
The Boise Capital News has the
following to say anent the disclosures
made before the congressional com
mlttee which is probing into the lob
byist question:
The people are just nov beginning
to get some information a. to who
has governed this country FOR the last
ten or fifteen years. They have long
known that the men they have elect
ed TO run the government have not
done so aud they have known that
back Of this outward visible govern
meut there was an invisible govern
ment. What that invisible govern
ment was they could not more than
conjecture
The veil of political secrecy is
now being torn asunder, however,
and things are being disclosed that
make the people understand why men
holding to certain views and attach
Ing themselves to certain commercial
elements have be 80 frantically or
posed to any efforts to induce the
people to 90 too deep into govern.
mental affairs.
'We must preserve the oonstitu
tional guarantees, " they have cried,
meaning nothing more than that
ave must prevent the people know
ing how they are governed. "
The fact that the present tariff re
adjustment Ia being fought almost
solely about wool and sugar, has ten
ded to open the eyes Of the people TO
the fact that It has not been the de-
velopment of new factories providing
employment for American laboring
men that the tariff has maintained
at all, for a large proportion of the
wool aud the sugar are produced by
means of foreign labor-the cheapest
that can be employed-and even the
most casual reader of the newspapers
Will know that the question of pro
lection TO the real manufacturing in
DUST les of the country Is scarcely
considered at all It shows that
even the great protective principle
pas been used merely az a shield he
Aipd v hioh have hidden the men of
thd Invisible government.
Mulhall has torn the mask from
another aud heretofore little suspect
ed branch of the Invisible govern.
ment. The investigation which was
at first sooffed at by the agents and
representatives Of the men behind the
invisible government, has grown from
the jooular efforts begun In the sen
ate TO q serious matter occupy ing th'
greatest Energies and ohiefest inter
ests of both senate aud house. Be
fore the work is through. even
through large part of It must neces-
sarily be done o. men wha have
themselves felt the beokoning hand
of invisible government, 1t Is likely
the people will be given pretty fair
knowledge of where government has
really rested In this country.
But even then there will be those
who sanctimoniously protest against
the changes necessary to give the peo-
pie power over their own agents
elected as representatives of the peo-
pie bat serving as representatives Of
the invisible government instead.
There will still be those who will op-
pose the recall being placed 10 the
hands of the people so they may have
at least equal power with the agents
of the Invisible government to reach
their elected representatives., and
there will still be those who will de-
clare that a greater democracy of
government will meat greater
tyranny In government.
II It be tyranny to wrest its UNJUST
power from the invisible government.
then let Us have more tyranny, and II
democracy will bring about such
tyranny, then let us strive for a
Qreatar democrarv