Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — ANARCHY IN ’96, BUT PATRIOTISM IN 1908. [ARTICLE]

ANARCHY IN ’96, BUT PATRIOTISM IN 1908.

In the Democratic platform of 1896 was an anti-injunction plank. This was-inveighed against by every republican speaker and republican papers as the raiifcest kind of socialism. In 1908 we find President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Taft putting forth every effort to have such a plank inserted by the republican convention now In session in Chicago. Socialism in 1896 was no worse than it is in 1908. What a spectacle; the President of the United States trying to have a law passed protecting the lawless in their work of murder and arson. Every true American will vote to smash such an arrangement in November. —Lowell Tribune (Rep.)