The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-04-09
AMERICAN CRAFTSMANSHIP.


The cynic of the Philistine now and
then has a sermon which is full of
good sense In the current number the
Phillstine talks of the war which the
government is making on corporations.
1t declares the belief that Europe is
conducting a publicity bureau In Amer
lea: that II is operated for the purpose
of creating sentiment against our great
corporations and adds Germany is
seeking to increase her manufacturing
efficiency by building up big business
If she can build up big business at home
and tear down big business here. she
can drive America out of the export
field Just our merchant marine has
been banished from the seas" and con-
tinuing says "Germany's motto is,
Unite and conquer Our motto is Dis
solve and Restrict'r And again: What
Americans should sell is not raw mater
ial-we should sell our genius. tai
ent our skill. our efficiency, our or
ganized ability and further:
Instead of being the most prosperous
people in the world, we should be,
we are on the verge of panic, with two
million men idle.
doubt, distrust. fear, uncertainty
hesitation, possess us.
Creeping paralysis has us i'm a dead
ly grip.
land all Europe chuckles in glee.
"Our government processes great
solicitude for the poor--such poor as can
vote.
"How ii is serving them can be cas-
| lily seen. In the east it's great desire
| seems to be to cripple the rich men who
give the poor work and wages, in the
west to fence off and take to itself
everything that heretofore has given
the poor man of the west a chance to
go out grasp and make productive. The
result. east and west, is to decrease the
chances of poor men who want work,
to Goose the opportunities to work, and
| further to break the courage and individ-
ual self-reliance that has in three score
years wrought out the transformation
of the republic from poverty and a half
wilderness to the foremost place among
nations. And still the record of states
manship in our country up to date for
stated as follows:
Cd Making greenbacks that cost IS
cents on the dollar payable face value
in specie.
co After the war calling in green
so fast as to PROSTATE the country by
a panic.
go When the country owed in
terest bearing debt of 81. 2OO, 900, OO6 the
destroying of silver as money thus
doubling the purchasing power of gold
to those who collected the interest. an6
reducing the property of the men who
paid the taxes so per cent in value.
ca BY the same act killing eN-
port trade with half the world, and en-
abling the hordes of the Orient to un-
load their products on us at discount
of go percent.
90 Permitting the interest gatherer'
IN 1898 to overwhelm the country under
an all embracing panic to enable thei
agent to call an extraordinary session
If congress and to bulldose through
congress a measure to take the las
protection from the taxpayers.
CO. Permitting in 1907 the gold com
zine in New York City to spring a ma
tion-wid panic, that it might bankrup
a rival and secure control of long
coveted great property.
90 Sending one Clifford Pinchot ives
with authority to confiscate propert,
and paralyze the enterprise of the peo.
pie.
| koD i'olIiS HOtDiuS " ou
ocean commerce.
90 Building $500, 000, 900 canal t,
accommodate Great Britain and Ger
many.
U0) Turning the whole machinery o.
the courts to the prosecution of the mel
who heretofore have given work to the
wage earners
G1) Electing to power a party thai
for seventy years has fought every
proposition from which the poor obtair
heir bread, and which, whenever in
fun power has never required more tina
four years to impoverish the nation
(12) And still we criticise the states
manship and observation-disclosures of poo
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