Show THE WHEREFORE Our Republican and our Mormon morning morn-ing contemporaries are again chafing their shoulders under the same collar This time the bond of alliance is the defunct I de-funct railway pass system The fact of the system being dead makes no difference differ-ence to our contemporaries Indeed they rather like it The subject I is easier handled and can not kick back Our contemporaries are dealing very promptly and sternly with this lost dead issue they have discovered The corpse is being bruised with indiscriminate indis-criminate and vigorous blows Under the treatment decomposition will be hastened and the familiar inspiration of corruption corrup-tion will assist the task of our contemporaries contem-poraries Why did not our contemporaries contem-poraries attack this pass evil two years ago when TUB DEMOCRAT did The question answers itself It was not the accepted time for our contemporaries to get in their work The pass evil was was then strong and vigorous It was a lusty representative of the spoils system and our contemporaries suffered from a blurred vision Now however the dog is dead He can no longer fetch and carry and we will skin him and get what we can for the hide 1 Two years ago when the pass system was in the zenith of its evil power TilE DEMOCRAT as the exponent of Democratic principles and the defender of the interests of the people attacked this public enemy But it fought the battle alone The Republican and the Mormon organ held aloof As the respective representatives of National and Territorial plunder they were not in that kind of a ring And so the organ of the Democracy and the people was left to struggle alone with the power of corporation cor-poration boodle It did not shrink from the contest as its files will show It denounced de-nounced a system by which I officials were bribed legislators corrupted cor-rupted and the press suborned sub-orned But the bribed officials the corrupted legislators andthe suborned I press were too powerful Though gallant the fight was desperate and the organ of the people was forced to retire before the combined boodle array and await the better day whose dawn was even then breaking It had placed itself on record and demonstrated the policy it has since faithfully carried out of assailing corruption corrup-tion individual or centralized wherever I it showed its foul aspect It is the same old fight It is the warfare of the mauy against the Cewthe people against public plunder Both our Republican and our Mormon contemporary are true f F to policy and tradition Our Republican i contemporary strikes for the centralized I National corruption which maintained the Republican party in powerfor twentyfour years that centralized corruption which impelled the machinery of popular government gov-ernment to personal ends which substi tutedprivate aggrandizement for public legislation leg-islation which created a hereditary class of f officeholders which blotted out political politi-cal morality which gave to the country along a-long series of Presidents whose Administrations Adminis-trations were clogged with peculation and made the President of the United a henchman of corporations The morning morn-ing Church organ draws its inspiration inspira-tion from kindred sources It too is a representation of a corrupt centralization It is the mouthpiece of Church and State that union cemented by plunder wrung from the people The traditional policy of both our contemporaries is the same and that policy has root in the public pocket What then can be expected of our contemporaries in this pass business Their joint attack on a dead evil is fitting fit-ting and natural Together they have squeezed an orange plucked from the public by extortion and together they fling aside the empty hull And now what is so worthy of condemnation condemna-tion as this orange whose juicy spoil they have just shared This condemnation con-demnation is natural also There are other oranges to be sucked and the public must not be warned But the glory of Israel is on the wane Our contemporaries are right in watching the corners for each other The market is at a low ebb Our contemporaries con-temporaries will suck very few oranges henceforth either National or Mormon They should allow no opportunity to escape them Industry in their peculiar line of business is imperatively demanded de-manded |