Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1908 — NO PUBLICITY WANTED. [ARTICLE]

NO PUBLICITY WANTED.

The republican meeting at Chicago voted down a resolution to make public all contributions to the fund to carry on the national campaign by an overwhelming majority, and is it a wonder that it did? Of course this points as straight as the needle to the pole to the source |from which the republican party expects to get (,he sinews of war with which to defeat the plain people at the polls in November. The corporations expect to furnish them, and does anyone think that they will do this without they are certain the g. o. p. will give them another lease of “four years more” to loot and pillage the people as they have done for the last eleven? Its spellbinders may rave and tear their hair in denunciation of the robber corporations, but will that change their past records? Is there one that can be made to believe that a spellbinder with Standard Oil money in his pockets, not only as a retainer, but also to pay for special trains and all other luxuries, is going out of his way to help secure legislation that will in any way interfere with the beautiful monopoly that it enjoys in this land »f the free and home of the brave? Would he say anything that would in any way lead his hearers to believe that the Standard Oil was anything but the best behaved corporation on earth? Does anyone suppose that he would advocate breaking up this most criminal of all the brood of corporate thieves that now infest this land? On the other hand would it not be natural for him to plead for his clients, and to impart to his hearers that this corporation was one of the greatest benefactors this country had ever seen? And, by the way, haven’t you become familiar with that argument already? Haven’t you heard how this great philanthropic corporation has reduced the price of oil and kept it down in spite of these noseing, would-be competitors, to break into the market and boost the price? Now, honor bright, don’t you think it would be a good thing to post every contribution to the campaign fund in a conspicuous place so that we may know who is paying the bills when we hear these corporate thieves defended from the rostrum? Don’t you think that it would be a capital idea? This is the democratic position, i and it is the right position. . , - Rugs from 11.25 to |3O at Williams*.