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Show AN INSOLENT "STATESMAN." Commend us to your progressive reformer re-former -whon" it comes to delivering a direct and positive insult, to "the eo. pie." whom such reformers so eagerly appeal to in support of their fads and nostrums. A man who makes a loud oiitcrv upon his friendship for the people, peo-ple, his championship of their cause, and his devotion to their service, seems to think that this gives him a right to insult them and to arrogate to himself a special license of railing and abuse whenever the fit strikes him. This tendency of fake statesmen and reformers is well illustrated in the case of the fake statcsnuiu, Senator Jonathan Jona-than Boumo of Oregon, lie has issued an address to the people of Oregon, which is printed in the ollieial State election pamphlet. In this the following follow-ing insolence appears: You are now on trial, not I. Mv method of making; no campaign for ro-electlon to the United Stales Senate Is entirely new In the popular government movement. It Is up to you to demonstrate whether you have the Intelligence to recognize and appreciate good public service bv retain ing pinmc Hcrvums wno innicc goou or whether you prefer to return to the old campaign systom use of money, character char-acter assassination, personal coptracls, sophistry, misleading .statements and aklllful straddling of leading questions. And that is printed in Bourne's bo-half, bo-half, at the cost of the people of Oregon! Ore-gon! He assumes therein that, he has made good as a public servant, aud that if the people of Oregou have sense enough to know wherein their best interests in-terests lie, they will return him to the Senate. As the Oregouian says in commenting com-menting on the above iusolcncc; "according "ac-cording to Senator Bourne, if the peo pie re-elect him lo the United States Senate, they are fit to rule, but they are not fit to rule if they do not re turn him to the United Slates Senate.!' Surely this is a narrow alternative that Senator Bourne preseuts to the people of Oregon. Their fitness to rule is to be determined, in Senator Bourne's opiuion,'by their support or their lack of support of him. He is the man who has made good in the public service, and if the people have not souse enough to kuow that and to appreciate his efforts, then they have not sense enough to rule themselves, and both the people and Scuator Bourne will go down into a disgraced oblivion. This sort of insolent truculencc could not possibly come from a statesman of the old school. It is left for th0 humbug, hum-bug, insolent pretenders, the faddists of the present day, to take that high and mighty lone with the people, and to warn them that thev themselves are on trial, and that, if they do not support sup-port a given faddist, theu their unfitness unfit-ness to rule themselves is made clear. If the people of Oregon return Bourne to the Senate, uuder those conditions, they will show that they are not only unlit to rule, but that they have accepted ac-cepted Bourne as their ruler and master, mas-ter, and aTc content to remain in the condition of abject subservience to him in which his obstreperous insolence places them. |