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Show uu COL. HENRY WATTERSON. What is ono to think when he sees a Democratic administration at Washington Wash-ington asserting federal ownership and foreign consorehlp; the politicians politic-ians of his party reduced to a pulp by an able, self-willed President oporat Ing partly on their cupidity and partly on their cowardice? May Democrats learn nothing from Republican misrule mis-rule or arc they to turn Republicans. Hitherto It hnfl required only a revolution revo-lution to effect a change of parties In the governmenL If the people, blindly blind-ly paying the fabulous sums demanded, demand-ed, put these giant powers In the hands of any group of public men, It will require an earthquake And these things aro to bo slicked over with a bit of goose-greaso called the new freedom and done in the namo of progress. prog-ress. Progress, forsooth; after the telegraphs and telephones, why not the rallwnys, after the railways, why not all the public utilities? And then, as far as our old-fashioned Jefferson-Inn Jefferson-Inn Democracy goes, why not the deluge? nn |