Show NATIONAL We are about to talk national politics independent political action to the people of The present and recent administrations have been a good deal of a They promised much for the and performed much for the Now they say that they propose to do as an eastern exchange would it not strange after the rulers of the United States had given millions of acres in land grants to railroads to pay dividends on watered have since been charging the people all that the traffic will After they had disposed of our forests to lumbermen for a protected these lumbermen from Canadian competition with a high tariff and thus encouraged them to manufacture or to destroy most of timber in the exposing consumers to high prices and the valley to devastating After they had permitted one railroad combination to corner all the anthracite coal in our territory another to monopolize the bituminous deposits are After they had sacrificed many lives and hundreds of millions of dollars to add distant islands to our giving them an excuse to boast of world-power and for the creation of a great After they had recklessly disposed of the public lands that are not swamp or forcing thousands of Americans to emigrate annually to After they had increased governmental expenditures to the point of profligacy to hide their unwillingness to reduce After they had authorized the monopolization of high-grade iron-ore deposits by legalizing the merger of the Steel Trust and the Tennessee Iron and Coal Company After they had ignored the precedents of a hundred years in the government of Alaska and the the theory of popular sovereignty being there After they had involved government and business in such ways as to enable demagogues and stock-jobbers to paralyze both almost at will It should be found that the same people or their political heirs were really giving a fair imitation of reform by preaching We are to have new we are to reclaim our we are to irrigate our we are to improve our we are to safeguard our mines and our water-power for Conservation is but conservation is a The political forces which now hope to save the little that privilege and plutocracy have left to the people offer no redress for past wrongs and no promise that the new riches to be created by taxation shall not fall into the same hands that skinned the country of its natural wealth in the first We commend the above from an independent paper to the consideration of the people of this Those who attempt to say that things have been done by the forces that have controlled the American government for fifty years must now answer this indictment of The government of America has not been can politicians do not enact what their platforms have promised over and over Democratic politicians readily fall in with the powers of privilege and plutocracy whenever there is a share oi the plunder in sight whether that plunder be tariff railway coal and oil public the the public water the or even the paltry public What is needed is independent thinking on the part of the The people should now be able to perceive That the protective tariff is a cover for monopoly and extortion That monopoly in any form is the robbery of the people and the despoiling of the That the destruction of the forests and the of coal and water rights are only the exploitation of the present but they signify the poverty of our children's This paper opposes the called protective a vast navy and and high taxes under any sort of Are not the people of the same We believe in the Panama canal we believe in the agricultural department and the work it is we endorse the postal savings the rural delivery the pure food and hope for the parcels We favor the conservation of the national forests and coal de- of water power and irrigation We favor the reformation of our systems of taxation state and- |