The record-union., 1894-08-03

cuuoont Oh puDlc poslLloH OF dS d cduui-
date for Office. He has been influential
in the councils of the parties to which he
has belonged, and has contributed to
shape their course and formulate their
professions of political faith.
Between the holding of the party con-
vention which nominated Mr.. Estee for
Governor and the delivery of his speech
events have occurred in this State calling
for the ex preston of opinion on the part
of the candidate for chief magistrate.
The declarations found in the opening
speech of the campaign by the Republi-
can candidate will meet the approval of
the Republican party of California and
of the people generally. Divested of
verbage. Mr.. Estee has declared:
Labor strikes are struggles for better condi-
ton.
Employers who are capitalists organize for
mutual protection; hence labor cannot be
blamed for counter organization.
Labor has the same right to organize as cap
ital.
Strikes should be prosecuted without vio-
Ience.
No man has right in the interest OF a strike
to destroy the life or property of anybody.
The law should prohibit monopolies, trusts
and combinations, because they do away
with competition.
Monopolies, trusts and combinations are
founded on a disregard for other peoples
rights.
han,
the rights of others, they cannot expect la
Dor to manifest respect for their rights.
One great financial combination controls all
the petroleum of the country; another con-
trolls all the sugar used by the American
people; and another all the sleepingcars in
the United States.
There are S5,ooo,o0o,o 900 invested in rail-
roads in the United States. and 20 per cent.
is owned by seven corporations.
These seven corporations are so combined as
to act together.
Interentially the monopolized condition OF
petroleum, sugar, sleeping-cars and rail-
roads justifes the hostility of labor.
There are 25S, 900 miles of telegraph in the
United States controlled by one corporation.
The telephones are owned by one corporation,
and every time you speak through them
you contribute an income to millions Of dol
lars of watered stock.
All electric lights of all cities are owned by
one corporation.
Protection does not promote the formation of
these corporations; nor does it protect
them.
The monopolized condition recited does not
justify violence.
Anarchy is barbarlsm; peace is civilization.
There will be no peace unless there is justice;
but strikers cannot go outside of the law for
remedy.
"No man, no set of men, can take the law in
his or their own hands and long survive"
There should be competition in railroad
rates.
When the people have furnished money to
build a railroad, the people ought to own
the road when built.
The Democratic Committee of the House of
Representatives has recommended the pas
sage of a bill extending the time for the pay
ment OF the Indebtedness of the Central and
Union Pacific Railroads.
This is Democratic measure.
The people and the Republicans of this State
are opposed to the railroad funding bill.
81 am opposed to it"
To extend the time of payment of debt to the
Government of the Central and Union Pa
cifc Railroads is a mortgage on the pro-
ductiVe industries of California for fifty
years.
The products of California will have to pay
that mortgage, both principal and interest.
The Nicaragua Canal should be completed at
once, to the end that competition in trans
portation be secured.
The waterways of California should be
opened and extended as acompetitive factor
in local railway rates.
Producers compete with each other; trans
porters do not compete.
There are two remedies Interoceanic canal
and competitive overland railways.
These statements will be satisfactory to
the Republican party and the people of
California. They represent in condensed
form the principles enunciated by the Re-
publican candidate and follow closely his
own verbal formulation. They constitute
a platform completely in consonance
with the prevailing thought of the time.
The Populists will not object to them.
and they anticipate by several weeks the
pr ofession of political faith to be put
forth by the state Democratic Conven
III.
tial agreement between the Republican
platform, the platform which Mr.. Estee
has erected for himself, the Populist plat
form, already before the public, and the
Dem ocratic platform soon to be promul-
gated.
If platforms are covenants between the
people who make them and the men who
seek Office. the only question left is as to
the reliability of the various candidates
for Governor. Which of them will. after
elected, forget, and which will be parties
observant to the professions they make :?
Twelve years ago he was candidate on
the Republican ticket. General George
Stoneman was the Democratic candidate.
standing on radical and extreme anti
railroad platform. General Stoneman
was elected. In the language of Mr..
Estee, 1.-THE Stoneman administration
and the Stoneman Legislature were for
the railroad and the monopolies all the
time; they were not for the people even
some of the time"
In every campaign the underlying
question is, What elements of national
life shall dominate the country? 1t is
parties, not men, who are candidates for
supremacy. In the current campaign
the nationalism. patriotism and con-
servatism for which the Republican party