Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-07-29 | Page 4 | Hobgoblins of the Reactionaries

HOBGOBLINS OP THE REACTIONARIES The Standpal press is beginning to work the bugaboo scare that if Wilson or Roosevelt is elected, bankers and manufacturers will frighten and bring on duR times. When a farmer "has a horse- that shies at an" automobile or a train, or any other progressiva thing, he drives the animal up to tho object of its flight, until tho senseless alarm of the brute is overcome. Why should not the people drivclhe money lenders aud the beneficiaries of government favors up lo the object of their alarm and force Uicm to see the error of trying to balk at even.' advancement advance-ment demanded for the common good? This balking of the monpj sharks must be cured, if not today, then tomorrow, because this country cannot go forward if it is to ba held back by the perversity of a few men. Roosevelt has bqpn President of the United States. He was President during the period of greatest prosperity this country has known. To say that to elect him again Avonld endanger the business of the country, is to attempt to frighten the voters of the country in much the same way that children are frightened by stories of hobgoblins