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THE GOLT) HTLL NEWS
SV ITR D A Y , NOVEMBEK 2. 1912
BANKRUPT STOCK SA L E
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Genuine T. G Mandt Wagons, Guaranteed Exclusive Use of Oak and Hickory in Construction of Gears
2 3 - 4 X 8 1-2 Gear, 2 in. Tire - $73
3 X 9 Gear, 2 in. T i r e ..............
80
3 1 -4 X 1 0 Gear, 2 in. Tire - - - - 87
3 1-2 X 11 Gear, 2 in. T ir e ------ 92
10 FootBed$26. 10 1-2 Foot Bed 27
Henery &. Freeport. Vehicles at 20 to 25 per cent Reductions
B. G. LANE,
T r u ste e
Gold Hill, Ore.
It is no, to be inferred from this principle that vast,
highly organized and efficient business concerns—when
THE DEPTH AND BREADTH | tliev arise in the natural course of industrial evolution—
By BEN H. LA M P M A N ____________
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be broken up into warring fractions. On the eon-
OF WILSON’S DEMOCRACY | are’to
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n-ary, the true inference is that such concerns should be S------
treated as if they were in practical effect public in stitu -;
The lords of the Last Decision, gathered from forge and
tions.
When Governor Wilson said nt Carnegie Hall, Newnort,
soil,
.
,
Tliev should be reorganized on such a basis that their Held counsel
eeentlv, “ I don’t want to lie the ruler of the people; I
each with the other to choose them a beast
rant to be the spokesman of the people, the great au< directors and managers can find increased profit and per­
of toil;
enee cheered, and then cheered and cheered again. 1 he sonal promotion only in improving the services they ren­ A beast to carry the burden, a beast to yield to the rein,
oeaker had intended to sav more. But there was no need. der to the public.
Sure hoofed in the mountain passes, swift on the level
Gov. Wilson iias steadily maintained that where prices
I,, stopped short. He had uttered the most intimate word
plain;
.
,
. ,
,
cease to be r. gulat.d by competition they should be limit­ Thewed
,f that democratic faith that binds him to the electorate.
for the heavy harness, patient and quick and
ed by law; that where business risks have been eliminated
strong,
In Wilson the democracy of Thomas Jefferson revives dividends should be cut to the current cost of working
md breathes again. Wilson is thorough. He goes to the capital, and that when a corporation ceases to be competi­ Wise to the trails beforehand, knowing the right and
w ro n g ;'
•not of the matter. He refuses to believe that sonic men tive it must cease to be private, for the only kind of mono­
Fearless
of flying paper, dauntless of wolves by night,
,re born saddled and bridled, and others booted and poly that is tolerable in a free country is a public mono­
W ith never a picket needed to hold till the morning light.
¡purred.
poly.
And they spoke to the traders gathered, using of w-ords
Democratic government, according to \ \ ilson, is not an
This is the logic of W ilson’s democracy. It is also the
the least,
•leetive despotism, tempered by a time-limit. It is the | prevalent purpose of the American people.
“ Friends, if you care to dicker, produce us such a beast.
•rganized energy ami intelligence of the whole people. It
In carrying this purpose into effect Wilson will act, not
Iocs not abide'in eapitols; it pervades society, like the as the master of the people, but as their lucid and indis-
Then the corral resounded with bellow and grunt and roar.
lerve-svstem of tin* human body. I lie democracy ot \\ ll- Huadable spokesman.
And the bulk of the jungle monster surged quaking
,on would make every schoolhouse a centre ot govern-(
through the door;
mental power.
“
Lords,”
said the cunning trainer—smelling strongly of
Wilson insists that this campaign is a life-and-deatli
By
Heck
County Campaign Cinders
■ iniggle for real democracy—that we stand at the parting
“ Here is a proven servant, here is your beast of toil.’ , „
i.i the wav». H<- insists that Taft and Roosevelt both draW|
But from the throng assembled rose up a storm of "No s ,
„.ward an undemocratic kind of government—a govern-,
LIM B ER LIM ER IC K S
FA B LE G F TH E PA TR IO TS Never a wight among them but felt its tread on his toes,
i, , n, that assumes to take care of the people. He insists
(A fte r G eorge A de— C onsiderably! Never a w isht among them but knew that it balked at
►h it that kind of government has always— w ith th e best
I
O nce Upon a T im e, in th e F a r
the rein
intentions in the w orld-enslaved and impoverished the
I W est, th e re was a P ro sp ero u s C oun­ And trampled the choicest pasture and peeved like a child
It Is said to be said ,o be so.
ty th a t raised A lfalfa, Big A pples,
in pain;
T hough why It sh o u ld be 1 dunno, and P rise B abies, in a d d itio n
to
Wilson unde,-stands that this age is different from the
T h a t h an d so m e Ju d g e K elley
H eark en in g to th e R avings of T w o I 1 Stubborn, not to be broken, given to running amuck.
rge ot .Jefferson—that the supreme question now is the
C am paigns w ith T ou V elle—
F actio n s th a t B oth w anted to Save They feared for their playing children, they feared for
,¡uestion of economic liberty, in face of the tariff and the As rh y m in g t h a t ’s p laying It low. the C o u n try by E le c tin g th e ir Selec­
their garden truck.
tion fo r C ounty Ju d g e. O ne F actio n “ Lead on,” they whooped to the keeper, “ Lead on, for we
trust».
nad P icked a fo rm e r In c u m b e n t of
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know of old
Mr Taft and Mr. Roosevelt seem to live under the
B ut sp eak in g of Colonel T ou Velle, th e O ffice, w ho h ad sp e n t Most of How in the self-same dicker the people themselves were
illusion that tariff privileges and trust monopolies can be H e's c e rta in to ru n very w elle;
i h is T im e in keeping C ounty W a r­
made inoeuous by being kept under the eye ot wise and
ra n ts a t P a r and lug g in g ab o u t an
sold.”
F o r th e boys all ag ree
U
nblem
ished
R
ecord.
O
u
tsid
e
of
T h a t none b e tte r th a n iie
good rulers at Washington.
th ese E m in e n t Q u alificatio n s he w as
Wilson insists that privileges should be utterly abolish- E v er p estered a ro u n d for a speilc. a Good S o rt, and th e In h a b ita n ts ol Bawling, there burst from the stables a moose of the great
th e H om e H ive clu n g to him in a
ed and that private monopolies an- absolutely untold able.
North wood,
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S w arm . He w as H andicapped by an
Wilson says lie is not striving “ for free trade or any­ T h ere Is n ev er a w rong d o er hones E d ito r w ho could G rind o u t H o, Shaking his tired trainers and pawing dust where he stood;
Raging at gnats and gad-flies, snorting the foam of wrath,
thing that remotelv resembles free trade, because
F o r a closer acq u a in ta n c e w ith Jo n es S tu ff by th e C asing, w h eth er
it
You m ay s h y .a t th e T a riff,
caused L ib erty to B andage h e r S tern The crowd surged back before him and gave the creature
impossible to do away with imposts so long as the expenses
path.
B
ut
vote
fo
r
th
e
S
h
e
riff—
Eyes o r N o,. T his Took well w ith
of the federal government must be raised by indirect taxa­
Som
e
P
eople,
u
n
til
th
e
O
pposition
T
h
en
h
e
ark
to
th
e
m
isc
re
a
n
t’s
m
oans.
Wild
as
the wood that bore him. brooking no other will,
tion. He does not object to the protection that makes lit*
su g g ested a B rief Recess. A t th is Plunging hither and thither, restless and never still,
. asier in America, but only to the tarift .privileges that
P eriod th e P encil P u sh e r rapped out
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Veering to charge at shadows, wheeling to race the plain,
make life harder. He would clean the tariff schedules of
the S. O. S. Signal an d th rew on the
Reckless
of hoof and antler—here was no beast to train.
all the lobby larcenies and the subsidies of cunning and F o lk s up on th e Old A pplegate
R everse Lever.
A re ch o rtlin g . "G ee. a in 't It g re a t.
T he O th er P a trio ts w ere O ut fo r a “ What though we hitch the creature, who will train us to
H enry M iller Is slated
sloth.
Man w ith a P le a s a n t Sm ile and a
use
To be elevated
Wilson is no enemy of big business—the kind th a ,
W arm H an d sh ak e. Many; of th e M is­ The moods and spleens of wildness? Back to the woods
To
office
a
s
c
e
rta
in
as
F
a
te
!
"
grows big because big men are behind it. lie abhors the
guided th o u g h t a t th e B eginning of
with .your Moose!”
Kind of business that is flatulent and dropsical with fraud­
th e C am paign th a t th is w as h is e n ­
tire Stock In T rad e, b u t he C ircu­
ulent finance. He thinks—and thinks rightly—that then-
are many businesses in this country that are big because You probably know hint as "M ose." la te d aro u n d am ong th e N atives and Then they called for the donkey with clamor loud and long.
P ay ers and told them J u s t W hat And the patient donkey answered, lifting his cheerful
the men behind them are little—and have not scrupled T h a t's his h an d le w h erev er he goes; ‘ Tax
ae In ten d ed to do if E lected .
At
H e’ll glide past the wicket
song:
first th e People Shied aro u n d and
to do pusillanimous things.
T h e head of th e tic k e t—
Forth
from the stalls he ambled, steady and strong and
Mr. Wilson said in Pittsburg, that some of these small On th is you m ay w ag er y o u r clothes. w o u ld n 't be F lirte d w ith , b u t a fte r
sure,
' Awhile a Few stopped to L isten and
men should be forcibly secluded, so that they may have
D iscovered th a t He had B rains, Bred for the purpose of burden, willing to toil and endure
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leisure and quiet to think larger thoughts. This, too, was
j They saw th a t he knew W h at he w as Sage with a touch of shrewdness, quick with his heels or
B u t, still I a in ’t
re — th e se h ere T alk in g A bout an d
't su re-
they
Flocked
a true word of the spokesman.
head,
d ream s
'a ro u n d him . W hen th e F atal F ifth
The regulation of competition, for which Mr. Wilson H ave been d is re g a rd fu l of R eam es. rolled up they all R atified his Re­ Certain footed and fearless on paths that the cautious
contends, means that a sharp distinction should be made
W hose g o at, I am told ,
dread.
qu est, and he A dm inistered the
Is still safe in th e fold,
between two very different kinds ot competition. It is
I C ounty's A ffairs In a B usiness-like Swift on flu* level going, sure-hoofed on the mountain trail,
all right that private persons should compete with cadi And h e ’ll win a w alk, so it seem s. M anner, and E verybody w as S a tis­ A beast to carry the burden where others only tail.
fied. T he O th e r F ellow s
th o u g h t
other for power to serve the public; it is all wrong that
So they made choice of the donkey, blessing the ha] py day.
they had a Cinch, and Stood aro u n d
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they should compete with each other for power to tax the
,-i > i e while no m t mc< k ' 1 hi*
| on O ne F oot u n til th e R e tu rn s w ere And he lifted bi ■ soug
So fa r ns th is c o u n ty 's concerned
bra
•
A nnounced In a L oud Voice, at which
public.
W e feel th e S tan d P a tte rs has
they fe lt A bout as B lue as th e F o u r And the bawl of the moose died woodward and the jtirgle
Governor Wilson is speaking a language familiar to learn ed
Ball in a G am e of S cratch Pool.
'T is n ’t luck to fool
the American people when he reminds us tha, the Uncut
bellow waned.
MORAL: T he N iftiest Bovs in
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s
t
S
o
u
th
of
a
M
ule—
and on-going life of democracy depends upon the ceaseless
While
old J. P. and Johnny D. alone were pc >ved uid
th e G am e Sm ile w hen they D eliver
f,
competition of all individuals to excel in the service ot the | W hich ■« ’ Is T som ething they m ight have *bf.
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