The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
OPENING or OHIO CAMPAIGN.
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encourage anarchy at home most natur-
any, strike hands with the enemies of our
country abroad. The friend Of the bomb
thro~eF and ms apologists are doing what
Is nj ana mete when they strike hanjs
across the seas with those who are fight
ing our soldiers in foreign lands. Funda-
mentally the causes which they champion
are the same. The step encouraging the
ASSASSINATION OF the guardians Of the law
at nome, to the aiding and abetting OF the
shooting down of our soldiers abroad, is
DuI snort one; and il matters little
whether the announcement be given by
the exercise Of the pardoning power, by
raVing speeches upon the platform, or by
the circulation of silly documents com
posed ny men too feeble to accomplish the
mischief they design"
His Conclusion.
Gov. Roosevelt summed up as follows:
our opponents seek 10 make their points
oy deuouncing trusts and expansion. In
po'h cases they occupy a purely destruc-
i've ATTITUDE. They advocate nothing con-
structve. The Democratic party with
mat fatal facility il has shown foe many
Years IN appearing at every recurring pres
idehtiai e-ection as the enemy of The bus
mess man, and above all. of the working
man, now once more comes to the front
as the champion of the forces that tell for
economic destruction. They denounce the
trusts, but the measures they propose
against them are purely political, are not
economic, not remedial. They strive TO
win by lnaamng ignorant passion and
trust that the passion thus infamed wiz
overcome sound judgment. They propose
either no remedy, or else they propose
remedies so absurd and so vicious that
they would ten-fold aggravate an existing
evils. Mr.. Bryan has developed a vision
airy scheme of national supervision. a
scheme of extreme Capitalization which
would be unavoidable at present, and
which might cause great havoc to indus
try. if so much as the attempt was made
to put it into effect. We propose to meet
the problem In the only way in which it
can be met, by cool and careful study by
finding out what the facts are, and then
by exhausting every legitimate power, leg
islative administrator and judicial
regulate the Industrial movement and to
cut out all abuses. Corporations (for what
we commonly call trusts are genereraly
merely big corporauons) render great
services, and are indispensable instruments
of industry in our modern life; but their
growth has. been accompanied by the
growth of evils which we can but remedy
by common sense and common honesty
not demaSogic cutlery Our opponents say
we have no plan. We have; and the plan
is, as a first step, to try the effect of
publicity, and then to supplement public
ity by taxation. and then by licensing or
whatever measure experience shows to be
effective Before hitting we must know
exactly what we are hitting at, and wheth-
er the blow will hurt more than 1t helps.
The first thing to do Is to provide for full
Investigation of and exhaustive report on
all these corpora tons, especially all the
corpora tons which have grown to be of
such portentious dimensions as to control
any considerable portion of a given trade,
whether industry or produce"