| Show AS TO BOSSES The New ew York Sun discussing politics s in the east asks Or does Connecticut have ha the isolated and melancholy distinction of being the one state stale where the order of the bosses is obeyed meekly and independent inde p pendent voting is unknown 7 We hasten to assure the Sun that its anxiety is unnecessary p. p Further that in ill the most practiced states s of the cast east the kind of bossism indulged in is is' but hut an amateur afa affair at best There the bosses themselves arc not sure that their brother bosses will stick to agreements and arc afraid that the tho people may rebel We have no troubles of that kind here hare Our boss merely outlines what he ho wants and if any one dare dure to mildly protest he instantly draws from his pistol pocket a long distance wireless from the infinite and thunders into the tIle cowering car ear of the protestant Thus TIms saith the Lord and that closes the business The fhe rule is absolute and is accompanied by no doubts doubts- no apprehension on no fears that it will not not be fulfilled to the letter How petty and small and contemptible are arc all eastern bosses to our supreme one Manipulations are arc not necessary ar l. l Compromises with other bo bosses ses are not necessary there arc are no contracts involving involving in in- rewards to the faithful there is no t tickle me and aud I will tickle you pon to the business it is obedience obe obe- clience only that is required and for him who dares to disobey or seriously question the wisdom of the policy as outlined there is no place except outer darkness for such an one This all is very solemn and yet it has its comical sides SileS For instance Senator Smoot bullied the immigration immigration im im- im migration agents at Boston to the queens queen's taste two weeks ago But when the senator comes here and approaches the oracle the hinges of his knees grow crooked even as when a a. second mate approaches the captain But when hen he gets his commands and emerges from the inner sanctuary then ho seizes his belaying pin and woe to any of the crew that questions his author anther ity And it would paralyze the Sun to see how he is isobe obe obeyed ed Men Ien born of free American mothers mothers moth moth- ers who told their sons that whatever of wounds or losses they might suffer in the battle of life to bring back their self respect or not come it would astonish the Sun to see how these men for a i mess ess of pottage yes Jes for the mere promise of a a. mess of pottage pottage pot pot- tage these men will forget even their own mothers and the self respecting homes in which they were ere reared and obe obey this second mate without question Bossism in the east involves a fight and the survival survival sur stir vival of the fittest fighters Bossism in Utah disintegrates disintegrates the American birthright of a man and leaves him nothing on which he can ean frame an excuse for being alive in a land that is supposed to be free Boss Tweed was as a good deal of a boss but he heas was as generous and broke fair with his slaves and outside outside out out- side his rascally political moves moyes his path was lined with rare charities Our bosses here the big one and the lesser ones who carry out the orders of the big bigone bigone bigone one are arc troubled by no generosity no consideration for others they do not treat them as well as does a aman aman aman man his gasoline engine In that case the owner supplies supplies sup sup- plies the gasoline but in this Utah case the machines are obliged to supply their own gasoline |
