The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-11
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THE DEN1soN Review
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EDITORIAL COLUMN
The Better Plan.
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church on Monday evening, and which
was published in Tuesday g issue.
While Supt, Failor doubtless did not
intend it so, there is q strong political
lesson to be learned from his lecture.
Our free silver friends represent the
typical radical. They see In the dim
vista of the future utopian state
which would doubtless be desirable.
To reach this they wish to brush aside
all present conditions, to overleap all
that is with Titan stride, to undo all
that has been done, and with one move
to change all conditions of property
and individual rights.
We will admit that the republican
party more nearly resembles the type
Of the conservative. Nevertheless, q
party that wiped slavery from Ameri-
can soil, that has built up both our
manufacturing and agricultural indus
tries, that has strengthened our credit
and our commercial and our political
standing throughout the world, cannot
be said to smack entirely of conserva-
tism.
We believe that the republican party
more nearly represents that ideal of
progress without revolution; that steady
growth toward better things; that con-
slant searching after that which is
good, than does any other party in the
United States.
ODD IN in fN0
Christian religion that when the son of
God came to this earth he was fully
aware of all evil then existing and all
evil yet to come, and that with one
word, one gesture, one thought, he
could have wiped it all away. That all
the suffering of humanity, not only in
this world, but In the future, could
have been avoided; that all the murders
and crimes and sicknesses and troubles
and poverty could have been averted
had he but said the word. These state
ments are beyond denial. The God
man certainly knew all these things.
He certainly had the power to abolish
all evil. And yet, seeing these things
with the eye of absolute wisdom, he
Ipreferred to let humanity work out its
Town salvation. He knew what struggles
the world was to 90 through, what CEN
turtles Of hardships and privations must
be endured to arrive at state which
he could have imposed on the universe
within second of time.
The republican party is fully cogni-
zant of existent evils. 1t might apply
correctives, revolutionary in their
nature. sudden and harsh in their eff
feet. The Republican party is con.
stantly striving to better the condition
of the people as whole. But it does
not believe that these conditions can
| be wholly changed except as the grad
ual growth of public opinion warrants
them.
We have witnessed in our own state
the failure of radical legislature where
the sentiment of the people
did not uphold it. Tue republic
can party therefore has learned that it
is better to pass restrictive laws capable
of enforcement, rather than radical
Legislation. which will prove entirely
intellectual. We believe that this
thought was dominant when the repub-
lican plank on trusts and combinations
was introduced in the recent state con-
vention. A law abolishing all great
organizations of capital-a law forbid
ding cooperation in manufactures of
any particular line of goods of business
men engaged in like pursuits. would. in
our opinion, be absolutely ineffective.
The republican party demands that
wherever any combination of capital
abuses its power and becomes oppres-
sive to the people that such adequate
legislature shall be adopted as will cure
this evil. It demands that should no
other way be possible to correct the
evils imposed by an oppressive trust,
that the trust should be abolished.
We believe that this plank fully meets
the conditions as presented to our PEG.
pie. We believe that combinations of
capital, whether under the name,of
trusts or monopolies or cooperative
societies, will not only continue to ex-
list, but will grow in their extent. 1t
remains for the government not to in
terfere with this natural, economic de-
velopment, but to guide it into safe and
proper channels.
In several counties of this state, the
farmers have cooperative associations.
These associations have their own mer-
camille establishments, have their own
ware houses, they have their own COM
mission merchants, and by acting to-
gether advancing money here and there
where necessary. and by selling goods
at but slight advance above wholesale
cost, they enable the farmer to hold his
grain until the price warrants it's sale.
and they place their farming communi-
ties in the most favorable circumstances
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