Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-16

il would take the great American peo
ple into its confidence, hear her pleas,
and do them the even-handed justice of
chancellor: that it would set right
all wrong and never wrong any right.
And why should such hope not have
been entertained, when the country had
observed the great preparation that
was made for it. when the so-called
best minds of America was confer
ring day after day. when the glowing
newspaper accounts of the meetings of
the "best minds" made the tremendous
undertakings ahead of the new admin
istration look small, insignificant, and
inconsequental in comparison with the
superb craftsmanship and intellectual
power that was about to seize upon
them? Indeed. there was hope. and
there was faith. and there was charity
In the hearts of the world for it; but
hope soon fled, and faith soon failed,
and charity fingered along on n false
diet until after November 4, 1924 The
overwhelming majority of the Ameri-
can people are hopeful, faithful, and
thoroughly democratic in their Gus
toms: not only that but they are at
to the faith that is i'm them: and | ap-
prehend that the time is not remote
when they will awaken and again as
sert their right to freedom from d
class-Owned and wealth maintained gov
ernment of autOcratic power that
knows not how to resist the avarice of
greed nor the lust of blood sucking
privilege and monopoly; nor punish the
felons that prey upon the Government.
But what happened? With. the adj
vent of the Harding-C Coolidge admins.
tratiOn the IlamiltOnian theories of
government were brought into full force
and effect wealth and class and the
politically potent ruled with a high
hand; taxes were shifted accordingly:
plunderers and their representatives
came and virtually constructed of their
own hands n defense of their own
against any and all foreign commercial
competition, and which secured them
in their power to continually pick the
pockets of the American people Of bill
lions of dollars annually not only this,
but its accomplishment virtually de-
stroyed foreign market for the sur
plus products of our agricultural in
terests, and in truth and i'm fact the
American farmer should be thankful
today that he is in no worse condition
than he Is. The mystery is that he
has survived at all. oil meu. potent
with the administration. got theirs
the sugar men got theirs and are still
getting il; and SO with the steel pe0-
pie and the textile people, and numer
Gus other highly organized and pOliti-
cally powerful industries, and all at
the expense of the great body of our
citizenship; boards and commissions
created and established for the pro
lection of the interests Of all the people
were crippled and rendered impOtent
for the functions for which they were
intended and which they had been per
forming Many things were done In
high h-han1ed manner. Whatsoever else
The IIardmg-C Coolidge administrations
have been. not in the least have they
been typical Of The sort of government
for which jefferson Jackson, Lincoln,
! Cleveland, and Wilson gave the best
| that was in them
Democracy'4 defeat at the polls IN
general election may or may not be
serious. That depends largely upon
upon what follows within the ranks Of
democracy itself aud upon the degree
Of severity with which antidemocratic
Ipolicies are applied by the yictors. They
may be Of direct application or they
may be Of Indirect application. and
when the direct application is unjudici-
ous and dangerous the Indirect are the
more likely to be invoked. and especial
! ly SO when virtually the same end can
be accomplished; and ! am clearly Of
I the opinion that this is precisely what
is taking place today i'm relation 70
some of ihe boards and commissions
which are established in the interest
of all our people under the late Demo
cratic administration. While the Hard
! mg-Coolidge administrations have not
ilead 10 repeal or seriously modify
|tba Important and prp siyp gHn.
uaIa of Che Wilson uiniatufIon
a HaF condemned EIeiau r tn
tH# #HFa raHl inc Hfair
a. unworthy process ud.H-
l..prglse OF administrative power and