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Governor Johnson, tho bull moose candidate
for vice president, says that Mr. Roosevelt is
the "flaming arrow of God." A careful exami
nation of the prophets, both major and minor,
discloses no prediction that a flaming arrow will
bo sent at this time; but a careful reading of
the experiences of Elijah would indicate that
Governor Johnson is laboring under a delusion.
When Elijah stood upon the mount, he learned
that the Lord was not in the strong wind, nor
In tho earthquake, nor yet in the fire, but that
he was in the still small voice. Even Mr. Roose
velt's most devoted friend would not identify
him with a still small voice.
Faulkner, the veteran correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, suggests that you can not
always judge of the interest people are taking
in the campaign by the attendance at a big
meeting. He explains by saying that "Mr.
Bryan could pack a pest house in the midst of
an epidemic on fifteen minutes' notice."
Senator Poindexter accuses the democrats and
republicans of being in a combine against Roose
velt because both are willing to expose Mr.
'Roosevelt's connection with corporation contri
butions. Should the democrats try to shield Mr.
Roosevelt? Is he not fighting the democratic
party as bitterly as the republican party?
VOTE! VOTE!! VOTE!!! VOTE FOR
WILSON AND MARSHALL. Elect a democratic
legislature in every state in which A SENATOR
IS TO BE ELECTED. Vote for the. democratic
nominees FOR CONGRESS IN EVERY DIS
TRICT. Vote for the democratic state ticket
everywhere.
President Taft's distrust of the people is so
pronounced that he refuses to permit the
people's representatives in the house and senate
to reduce the tariff. He even puts the judgment
of a commission APPOINTED BY HIM above the
judgment of a congress olected by the people!
. Mr. Roosevelt's late arrival at Armageddon
makes him prize that Bible passage which says
that the last shall be first and that the first
shall be last.
Now that wo .have a law requiring newspapers
to tell their readers who own the papers it will
bo necessary for the big corporations to put the
poison label on the editorials of the papers
they-, own.
IMPORTANT TO NEBRASKANS
The initiative and referendum amendment to
tho stato constitution will be voted on in Ne
braska November 5th, Men who "scratch" their
tickets should see to it that a cross is placed
beside the "yes" in connection with tho initia
tive and referendum amendment. Don't over
look this duty.
An Appeal to the First Voter
(Every Commoner reader is asked to call tho
attention of at least ono "first voter" to
tho following article) :
Young man, great responsibility attaches to
your first vote. As you begin, so you are likely
to continue. The momentum that carries you
into a party at the beginning of your political
lite is apt to keep you in that party unless some
convulsion shakes you out of it. Start right,
and in order that you may start right, examine
the principles of the parties and the policies
which they advocate.
There are two great party organizations in
this country, one more than fifty years old, the
other more than a century old. The younger
party, called the republican party, has recently
split into two pieces one faction led by Mr.
Taft still holds to the name republican and the
faction led by Mr. Roosevelt claims the name
"progressive." But in "the words of the poet,
"You may break, you may shatter, the vase if
you will, but the scent of the roses will cling to
it still." Neither Mr. Taft who has held the
office of president the past four years nor Mr.
Roosevelt who held that office for seven years
and who gave Mr. Taft to the American people
can escape responsibility for the acts of com
mission and the acts of omission on the part of
the republican party. Whatever the present day
pretensions may be, Mr. Roosevelt as well as
Mr. Taft must answer for the sins of the party
whose policies both of these gentlemen faith
fully represented while in public office.
The republican party has been in power al
most uninterruptedly for more than half a cen
tury and under its reign abuses have grown up
which threaten the perpetuity of the govern
ment and endanger our civilization. So great
are these abuses that republican reformers are
now pointing out that something must be done
and what can be done? The first thing is to
undo the things that have been done, and the
party to undo these abuses is not the party
which has done them, nor a faction of that party,
but rather the work must be done by the party
which lias protested against these abuses and
pointed out the remedies.
The republican party has turned the taxing
power over to private individuals; it has allowed
monopolies to grow up and assume control of
the industries of the country by granting privi
leges by law and by giving immunity to the large
violators of the law; the republican party has
permitted the fortunes of the predatory rich
to become so large that government is corrupted,
politics debauched and business polluted.
The so-called progressive party does not offer
any relief so far as redeeming the taxing power
from private individuals. It confesses devotion
to the high protective tariff policy. It would
not destroy monopoly but it would recognize it
and would undertake to "regulate" it. It would
centralize "power" over the monopolies, remov
ing the control from the people and thus permit
monopolies to flourish.
The democratic party proposes to withdraw
the taxing power from private hands, to so legis
late as to make a private monopoly impossible,
and to enforce the law without discrimination..
It proposes to protect legitimate wealth and
punish those who attempt to plunder the public
for private gain. On which side do you stand,
young man? Are you with the masses In their
effort to restore the government to Its old foun
dation and make it a government of the people,
for the people and by the people, or are you
with the republican leaders in their effort to per
petuate the party in power by selling immunity
in return for campaign contributions?
There are always two parties in the country,
and one is necessarily nearer to the people than
the other. In this country the democratic party
is nearer to the people than the republican party
or its companion In responsibility so-called
progressive party. Democratic leaders have
more faith in the people and are more anxious
to keep the government under the control of
the people. Take the election of United States
senators by the people as a test. The democrats
want to give to tho vqters a chance to elect and
to control their representatives in the United
States senate. The democratic party in the
house of representatives passed tho first resolu
tion for tjio submission of the necqssary consti
tutional amendment. They did this eight years
before any republican congress did Jt, The
democratic party has four times demanded this
reform in its national- platform. The republican
party haa not done so. Why did democratic
leaders insist upon this reform and republican
leaders oppose it? There can be but one answer
the democratic party is nearer to the neonlft
than the republican party. Young man will
you stand with the people or against them'?
Tho answer to this question affects your
country. If you are with the people your in
fluence, be it great or small, will hasten their
victory. If you are against the people your in
fluence may retard that victory. But while In
the first instance it is your country that may
gain or lose by your action, you must remember
that in the long run your own position in poll
tics will depend upon your conduct. You can
not fool the people always. You may lead them
aBtray if you dare, but they will punish you
when they find you out. You may work for the
people without their recognizing it at first, but
you can trust them to discover tho character of
your work and to reward' you accordingly.
FROM WOODROW WILSON'S SPEECHES
The republican party doesn't propose to
change any of the essential conditions which
mark our present difficulties.
Mr. Roosevelt proposes in his platform not to
abolish monopoly, but .to take it under the
legal protection of the government and to regu
late it, to take the very men into partnership
who have been making it impossible to carry
out these great programs by which all of us wish
to help the people.
We don't want to disturb the industry of the
country, but to destroy the control over the in
dustry of other people which these men havo
established and which makes it impossible that
we should give ourselves a free field of service.
Tariff schedules have been made for the pur
pose of keeping as large a number as possible of
the rich and influential manufacturers of the
country In a good humor with the republican
party which desired their constant financial help.
The republican party has practically fostered
the trusts. The democratic party proposes to
prevent monopoly, and the third party proposes
to take monopoly into partnership 1th the gov
ernment by accepting it as an inevitable neces
sity and bringing it under the regulation of
law, making it a legalized institution.
JUDGE CHARLES C. GRANT
Judge Charles C. Grant of Akron, Ohio, and
editor of the Akron Times, has been nominated
lor circuit judge by the democrats. This dis
trict includes the city of Cleveland. Judge
Grant left the republican party in 1896 and
took his stand in that campaign by the side of
Mr. Bryan. He has been a faithful supporter
of democratic principles and 'every progressive
in that circuit should be glad of the opportunity
to vote for such a thorough going progressive
as Judge Grant.
HARRY H. COLLIER
Harry H. Collier, proprietor of the Tacoma
(Wash.) Progressive Democrat, is the democratic
nominee for lieutenant governor of Washington.
Mr. Collier has been a faithful champion of
democratic principles for many years, and ho
will render faithful service to the people of
Washington.
Why didn't Mr. Archbald do like Mr. Perkins,
1. e., support Mr. Roosevelt for his children 8
sake, and thus enter the patriot claBS? "Saint
George," as the harvester trust magnate appears
now, has Archbold beaten a mile when it comes
to getting in out of the rain.
ONE ON HILLES
The David City (Neb.) People's Banner says.
"The joke is on Secretary Hilles. He listed Cali
fornia and South Dakota in his long column 01
sure Taft States and thero arc no Taft electors
on the ballots."
Peter J. Hanley, a well known lawyer of
Washington, Iowa, has written an interesting
publication entitled, "Hanley'a Revised Pot,cKai
Primer." The price Js 25c per. copy or.$J,,n
per dozen. Democrats everywhere will be in
terested in it.
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