White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-29

ment are handmaidens and h a with
out the one the other will perish
il yet must remain obvious TO a dis
corning mind that the president has
failed to go to the cot of the evil.
He observes the tendency and tbs
effect rather than the cause. The
effect and tendency are the insur-
gency movement. The aus IS the
impotency and corruption OF party
management. Party members and
the people are patient and will stand
for a whole lot, but there are doings
in the political and governmental
world that become too raw.
AS a matter of general party pol
icy the rawest OF them has been and
still is the republican conception of
the relations of the government to
wealth and the opportunities 10 gain
1t. The laws of ffty-ive years have
been tuned to the encouragement of
capital as a soft and musical Phrase,
but actually on line of special priyi-
leges for the few as against the
rights OF the many. In no otter
lands have the opportunities been 50
great, yet in spite of all these won-
drous bounties, unearthed and dis
covered by the hand of labor, capital
has been voted the handicap end
awarded a percentage in life's game
of chance. The result of this policy
has been to erect the most monument
tai aggregations of wealth that the
human race ever witnessed aud en-
dured, and to build that greater hui
man problem of how to cope with
the output of a ruling party's folly
and preserve the even balance of
peace and goodwill among men and
Americans.
1t is against that condition that
party insurgency rebels. There are
other nominal, local and transitory
causes, but when you dig down to
fundamentals the real cause of in
surgency in American politics-znd
IL matters net which party may be
eonsidered-is that of the unequal
division both of opportunities and OF
wealth.
For more than a third of q century
discerning minds in the ruling party
acquieseed in that policy. 1t was
done with a string attached as 10
some, or with reservations, but new
ertheless it was done. Ii was done
with this reservation, that the hope
existed that the disparity would not
grow to the colossal breadth that il
did grow. and when at last ii wa
realized that the harm was done in
surgency came as a remedy from fur
Their harm rather than to hope to go
back and upset that which had be
come an accomplished fact. What
insurgency asks and has asked for
the fifteen years Of its life hrs not
been to wreck the fabric of party
folly by a reversal of policy and a
campaign and career of c~onfiscation,
but to modify the special privilege
program into Jefferson's patriotic and
pro-American slogan of equal rights
to all-special privileges TO none. Let
the harm that has crystallized Into
accomplished fact remain SO crystal
1ized, but remove the handicaps as
to the future, with a restoration of
opportunities.
And therein President Harding
misconeeives the American mind and
intent by not getting down to the
cause. He wishes to go back 10 that
conception of l%egislating TO give cap
ital a chance and a percentage the
best of 1t over the privileges and OPP
portunities of the masses. He wishes
TO rewrite that into the party's creed
and make il into enforceable party
law. He wishes TO discipline and
punish the ones who disagree with
that notion. and if need be to expel
from the organization those whose
votes are solicited every fourth year
to elect a man to the white house.
II II should so happen that control
of his party should be wrested from
the president mad his ~lieutenants,
giving it over to the insurgeat ele-
ment, the question is, would he still
advocate and plead for party author
ity to have sway? The situation
would be different. The president
then would be n of the insurgency
bunch-insurgents In behalf of spe-
cial privilege-and II human nature
In high places runs true to form ho
then would see the evils of party
discipline and authority.
To make a long story snort. the
way for Mr.. Harding's party 70 re-
store disciDlinp and authorifv io for
1t to return to the principles of Lin
coin and throw overheard this ln-
patriotic dogma of legislating for the
rich and letting the poor shift for
themselves. Do that and insurgency
will vanish for want of an excuse.
THE BOOSTER AND THE BUMPER