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'AUGUST 27, 1909
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The Commoner.
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Uke it and they are wondering what
they are going to do about it.
Shafroth is one of Colorado's big
men. His whole name is John
Franklin Shafroth and he is from
Missouri. He was born at Fayette,
Mo., June 9, 1854. He graduated
from the University of Michigan in
1875 and in June of this year his
alma mater made him a doctor of
laws.
He went back to get his degree
and while he was gone the state
auditor dopked him for t.me lost
while not working as governor.
Shafroth smiled when he came back
and found he was out some salary.
"Well 1 was on private business and
the auditor is right. I did not earn
the salary."
In August, 1876, he was admitted
to the Missouri bar- and practiced
there until October, 1879, when he
came to Denver, three years too late
to be a' pioneer, for pioneers came
to Colorado in 1876 when the terri
tory became a state. . As a lawyer
Shafroth prospered and from 1887 to
1891 he was city attorney of Den
ver.. Then he practiced law some
more and in 1895 went to congress.
He stayed there until February 15,
1904.
The corrupt politicians who elect
ed their candidates by various meth
ods were flourishing in Denver. Rob
ert W'. Bonynge, republican candi
date for Shafroth's job in congress,
produced evidence at the congres
sional hearing that there had been
gross frauds perpetrated at the elec
tion wherein Shafroth was elected.
That was enough .for ShQfrothi As
soon as he' learned that fraud had
placed him in congress he arose in
his seat and said, fiI resign' and
went back to his people. For rf few
years he was quiet poljticaljy. But
November, 1908, found him the can
didate for governor on the demo
cratic' 'ticket, thd 'choice. of all, fac
tions. , He, wag '"honest and he would
w.ork for the best of the party. '
Shafroth Is governor and he
adopts the doctrine of the 'square
deal. That is why he had enacted
into iaw tlie proposition whereby
the state pays the expenses of the
campaign. It is bad for the machine
men, who have held Colorado in the
hollow of their hands for years.
His measure was one of those re
forms that slip in almost unseen and
are really important. If the gover
nor's theory works out there is an
end of parties in Colorado owned by
the corporations.
Less enthusiastic people than the
governor believe this is too much to
hope, but they do think that the
measure will help. In the meantime
there is the first campaign coming
on which the new idea will be tried.
Politicians over the country await
the outcome with interest. Indian
apolis (Ind.) Star.
the matter with the people? Or
does the World-Herald, after its
years cf campaigning, ask itself the
same query? Isn't it time that the
"big stick" which you have so long
wielded over the unscrupulous and
vote-grafters, was turned upon the
populace that Ignores the efforts in
its behalf? Isn't it time that "what's
the matter with the people" was
made a campaign cry across the
land? No power but the popular
vote can ever check dishonesty in
the public service.
That man should barter public
trust for private gain is iat least un
derstandable, but what about an en
lightened nation with deinocratlc In
stitutions submitting to betrayal in
platforms, robbery at the hands of and let him in.'
WORDS OP GRATITUDE
Charles P. Taft at a recent ban
quet told a story on his big brother,
Bill. "One day a woman came to
Bill's office," said Brother Charles,
"to ask help In the case of her boy.
Ho had been examined for West
Point and passed handsomely, but
ho was a quarter of an inch' under
the required height. His mothor
wanted the requirements waived.
"She pleaded with Bill with tears
in .her eyes, and ho was immovable.
Then she told hira about Johnny;
what a good boy he was and how he
loved to fight and ought to make a
good soldier. Bill perked up. 'Wo
need moro of that sort of boys,' ho
said. 'All right, I'll walvo the rulo
"THE MATTER WITH THE
PEOPLE"
To- the Editor of 'the World
Herald: The World-Herald, In com
pany with other honest columns, is
"cussing" Aldrlch,p Payne and other
tariff extremists; . denouncing dis
honesty in platforms and politicians;
upholding the hands of The Com
moner, and hammering away- for
progressive reform all along the line.
We grant- that the hammering is
necessary and that the World-Herald
has accepted a splendid opportunity
for a long fight in its course of re
form. There's something the matter
wealth, misrepresentation by elected
"representatives and then continu
ing In office the very party and per
sons who instigate the treachery?
What's the matter with the people?
Perhaps the brazen actions of the
so-called "betrayers" are more ad1
mirable than the passive acceptance
by the people.
A congressman may aid vested in
terests to the sorrow of the people
yet his constituency fails to rebuke
him. The people may "demand"
bank guarantee, popular election of
senators and income tax or a low
ered tariff, fail to get the reform j
and take vengeance upon no one.
Nebraskans have, temporarily at
least, lost both the bank guaranty
and non-partisan judiciary laws. Are
they rising to rebuke the loss?
What's the matter with Nebraska?
Are' her people ignorant? Are they
slavish? Certainly not! Then what
is the matter with Nebraska's peo
ple? That no person or party can re
pudiate with "safely any principle
sunnorted previous to election is a
reflection upon the American votei'.;
unai any piatiorm p.iucuu utuiu me
American people should contain
"catch phrasqs," dquble meanings or
subterfufges should, utterly discredit
the party that wrote It. But yrill
the voters resent the all-satisfying
tariff plank of' the republican party?
There are republicans in congress
voting for liigher tariffs, lower tariffs
and unchanged tariffs, all true to
that all-sufficient tariff plank brought
ftvr fhn Hmhpr hv rhp. Chinairo con
vention. No wonder that "Vic,"
though he was present at the patch
ing, failed to recognize the plank
when it afterward met him. Are
the people resenting the pawning of
frauds for votes? What's the matter
with the people'?
The laborer will strike, starve and
fight over a wage difference of a few
cents, yet allows Aldrlch tariffs and
indirect taxes to reduce the buying
power of his wage fully one-third.
The farmer will hold a crop for the
last quarter cent and then because
of these same injustices, buy one-
half as much machinery, clothing,
etc., with his money as he might
otherwise do.
We boast a manhood suffrage as
evidence of popular government, yet
how many voters know, when they
vote for a man, whether or not his
actions will fully accord with their
wishes if he is elected? Such a con
dition seems insufferable, yet pre
vails everywhere. Are' the people
content to have their will but a lot
tery dependent upon the manner of
representative (hey may draw. '
How contrary to democratic prin
ciples that the course of .a man after
election should ne positively Known
"The woman had about given up
In despair and was qulto takon off
her feet at his sudden surrender. She
jumped up and started effusively to
thank him, but she couldn't think of
anything good onough to say.
" 'Mr. Secretary,' she finally got
out, 'you are jULt too good for any
thing. I I I why, Mr. Secretary,
do you know you aren't just as fat
as folks say you aro.' " Cleveland
Leader.
direct taxes to a realization of tho
fact that postal savings banks, old
ago pensions and a thousand other
similar fancies would havo to be paid
for directly out of tho taxpayers'
pockets and into tho tnxgatherer'n
hands, with real money, what a scat
toration thero would bo of the pater
nalistic, socialistic, sociological, bio
logical, bughousing, centralizing and
federalizing electorate. Journal of
Agriculture.
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with 'some senators all right. With before. How can a representative
some state officials, with political
practices and platform cupidities.
But sometimes when long continued
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TAX AND EXPENSES
Senator Borah of Idaho made a
plea for an Income tax. Ho advo
cated an income tax as a means not
only of wiping out tho treasury de
ficit, but also as a means of awaken
ing public interest in national ex
penditures. Here Senator Borah touched upon
a serious defect of tho recent fiscal
experience of the American people.
This nation's government has been
operated so long on Indirect taxes
that about seven Americans out of
ton do not clearly realize that it is
their )noney tha congress is spend
t .Of course, we all know theoreti
cally, and because we read it in the
newspapers or in books, that there
are customs duties and Internal rev
enue taxes. But the burden of these
taxes docs not come homo to the
average Americans.
In fact, the average American is
hard to interest in national extrava
gance, because ho is more or less
under the delusion that it Is not his
money but some other fellow's, far
away, that they aro disbursing down
In Washington.
Indirect taxation was defined by
the French statesman who first ap
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of getting the most feathers off the
goose with the least squawking."
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and the more judiciously they are
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pay in the use made of their money.
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$2,000 or $3,000 or $4,000 a year,
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