The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-24
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IN its platforms has denounced monopo-
lies. trusts, rich corporations. and the
like, and bid strongly for the vote Of the
workingman. Yet during the time that
the Democrats were in power not one
effective law was put upon the statute
books to carry out the threats they made.
We came in, bent on doing what in US
lay to tighten to some extent the burden
Of injustice, to make conditions little
fairer, a little more equal. The inherit
ance tax, the corporation tax, the fran
chise tax, are one and all our handi-
work. They represent the first great at
tempt that has been made in New York
state to meet the new conditions caused
by the upgrowing of great corporations
the exploitation of municipal franchises
In each instance and especially in pass
ing the franchise tax, we had to face the
opposition Of the great and wealthy cor
poratiOns. disregarded their opposition,
because we thought them wrong, just as
fearlessly as we would have championed
them If we had thought them right.
1--WE abolished the contract labor sys-
TEN; we established the inspection Of fac
tories and the bureau of labor statistics;
the eightlhour law; the law providing for
the abolition of sweat-shops-in short,
every labor measure has been initiated
and put through by US. The board of
mediation and arbitration has for the
first time become a live factor in the
settlement Of labor troubles; sweat-shops
are controlled; the eight-hour law IS en-
forced. In our state convicts do not Gem
pete with free labor, and the bureau Of
labor statistics and the factory inspectors
department work practically hand-in-
hand with the foremost representatives
Of the wage workers, to do all that can
be done in the interests Of labor. What
is true of New York is true Of the rest
Of the country, and what is true Of labor
legislation and of the control OF corpora
lions will be true Of trusts We seek to
ameliorate and curb abuses and not to
destroy what may be useful. Our oppon-
ents take refuge in destruction only and
not a few Of the laws they propose
against trusts, if pat on the statute
books, would destroy the right of labor
unions to exist, or Of small tradesmen
or farmers to band together. We shall do
all in our power to destroy anything
that upholds monopoly; that arhfcially
lowers wages, or artIhcially increases
prices, or puts ct in the hands of one
man, or one set Of men, to become abso-
lutte in any branch of business.
"Our opponents throughout the nation,
- g., ,,,,.tf,,,1s, I,ora In Ohio rrOnOSe as
a method Of attacking trusts to NEEDLE
with the tariff, which would mean eco
nomic disaster to the masses, and to de-
base the coinage, which, in addition to 1
even more frightful economic disaster,
would mean national dishonor. When they
come to the second plank in their plat
form, the question of expansion, they adj
vocate the dishonor Of the American
arms and the trailing of the American
flag in the dust. They place themselves
outside the rank of proper party oppon-
ents and make themselves merely the
enemies Of the nation as a whole, as al
ready by their action on the currency
they have shown themselves TO be the
enemies of honesty within the nation.
The other day Ohio sent to New York
a prophet Of Mr.. Bryan's new disDensa-
ton in the shape of ex-Congressman
Lentz who divided his time between fer
vent hopes for the success 'of Aguinaldo,
and, therefore for the ruin of the Amer
lean army in the Philippines, and the
5}rmly expressed conviction that the man
tie Of Washington and of Lincoln had
fallen upon the shoulders Of Ex-Governor
W. No
sation begins with a queer catalogue of
saints, when they canonize Aguinaldo as
hero and Altgeld as a sage. The COM
nination is entirely appropriate. Those
who would encourage anarchy at home
must naturally strike hands with the enc
my Of our country abroad. The friend of
the bomb-thrower and his apoogists are
doing that is fit and meet when they
strike hands across the seas with those
who are lighting our soldiers in foreign
lands. fundamentally the causes which
they champion are the same. The step
encouraging The assassination of the
guardians of the law at home, to the aid
ing and abettiug of the shooting down of
our soldiers abroad is but n short one;
and il matters little whether the en-
announcement be given by the exercise
of the parloning power. by raving
speeches upon the platform, or by the
circulation of silly documents composed
ny men 100 feeble to accomplish the mis-
chief they design
Make no mistake, In the Philippines
we are at cnyn war with an enemy who
mus, DE put down Ii is absolutely i'm
possible to save our honor except through
victory. and II Is equally impossible to