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deceive ourselves by any device or in
yention to repeal the
LAW OF COMPETITION. "a.

deceive ourselves by any device or in
yention to repeal the
LAW OF COMPETITION.
TRUSTS, monopolies. pools, perpetual
and exclusive franchises have been
granted in the past and will be asked
for in the future. Governmental func
lions have been granted and bestowed
upon common carriers for public pur-
poses, and we behold these favored
creatures, holding the truneheon of
power prostituting their powers and
franchises to private gains and extor-
lions. Our duty to the whole people of
our respective States as to special
privileges in cities, counties, and States
is the burning question of the hour.
Take up the white mans burden in
Michigan and Ohio and New York as
well as in Luzon. Not only take up
the burden of the corporations that are
legally operated and maintained, but
have abused their privileges and fran
chises. The boys we sent across the
seas to the Philippines have done and
are doing their work periodically and
WELL But let not the roar OF our can
mons at Caloocan or the thunder of our
navy at Manila drown the cries for
help of the small manufacturer, of the
struggling young business man, or the
laborer who is willing to become a
capitalist and an employer but finds
himself crushed by the projectile
hurled from an illegal monopoly in our
very midst
European monarchy belching forth
dynamite projectiles is not as danger
Gus as American democracy, corrupted,
greedy for spoils,
LOBBY-RIDDEN,
Indifferent to the cry and oppression
of the producer, the toiler in the for
est, the laborer upon the farm, and in
different to the inhabitants OF our in
land villages and towns.
Imperialism and imperial splendor
on the smoking ruins of MORO Cas-
tie is inspiring, is glorious, but there
is also an Imperialism vested in the
State that it can exercise over the arti-
fetal creatures as we'll as the natural
citizen, and that must be exercised
with firm hand in the very near flu
ture.
1T needs no more national platforms
or national campaigns against trusts,
pools or monopolies; it does not re-
eminate from political headquarters
telling what the party will do; it is
no longer necessary to say, BE it re-
solved but, let it BE enacted Arti-
sans, laborers, mine owners, farmers
and small merchants are growing I'M
patient, yea, almost sick at heart in
reading State and national platforms
and seeing industrial commissions APP
to1 n
into the evils existing in the econom-
ical world
'The State has all the powers that
it has not granted to the Union. 1t is
sovereign in the legislative halls, i'm
perial in the Executive and omnipotent
in the judicial to protect the common
man in the general welfare of the peo-
pie, and to
RIGHT THESE EVILS
and to protect all from oppression or
against discrimination. The weakness
of our government has been that we
have not asserted these powers when
oppression became manifest. The State
officials as representatives of the peo-
pie have allowed their powers to re-
main dormant until the rumblings Of
the masses and the red flames of an
archy have almost threatened our de-
struction in times of financial distress.
Victor Hugo says: You can do every
thing with bayonet except sit upon
it,
eff others of our fellow citizens have
endured sun and rain and dessiminat-
ing fevers and enervating malaries,
have suffered wounds and death under
tropical sun for love of country, for
down-trodden and a foreign people,
is it asking too much of State officials
to stand firm, remain sacred to their
trust, lift up the ensign of true de-
mocracy, in order to establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote the
general welfare and secure the bless
ings Of liberty to ourselves and to our
posterity.'