Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-11-15


Mr.. Hearst, proprietor of three Of the
greatest daily newspapers published in
the nation, when locality be taken into
consideration, and aggregating million
and quarter circulation, with his char
acteristic vigor and utter refusal to &C.
cept political defeat as an evil omen, but
rather as an incentive to greater work in
the future, makes the following points
in his various publications three days
after the results Of the elections were
known. Mr.. Hearst said:
Ordinarily crushing defeat in
election leaves the beaten
party dispirited and demoralized. If it
RECEIVERS at all, it needs time to pull
itself together and find some Joy in liv-
ing. But the democratic party todayis
elastic and confident. 1t knows
that although defeated, it constitutes
of the nation. It knows that
it was not beaten by republicans, but by
democrats who opposed it on temporary
issues that have already passed away
democrats who have no intention Of re-
permanently outside its fold.
cit believes that if another election
were to be held tomorrow with thesB
issues eliminated the demo.
cratic ticket would win. And it is pre-
pared to 90 ahead on rational lines toa
of victories in the future.
1.-THE democratic party will remain
the party Of the people. Freed from q
confusing struggle over the totally irrele1
want issues Of the standard Of value, it|
will take up position corresponding TO-
that Of the liberal parties Of Europe ~
The advocate of progressive reforms.
Those sacadesa uhe ~ worth having
will come back. Those who were never
democrats at all, but merely wore the
livery of democracy to serve Mammon,
will stay in the republican party, where
they belong.
"There will be nothing in the attitude
Of the New Democracy that will give
any man Of brains and honesty chance
TO say that its triumph would mean q
business upheaval. When it advocates
= graduated income tax, for instance,
the recipients of overgrown incomes may
but they cannot deny that
such taxes are common fiscal expedients
in the conservative states Of Europe.
"When it demands that we dig and
fortify the Nicaragua Canal its oppo.
nents will be estopped from alarmists
criticism by the recollection that sixteen
years ago a republican administration
concluded q treaty with Nicaragua pro.
viding for that very thing.
"When it calls for the election Of 6ena.
tors by the people the most timid white
rabbit of business cannot sec the specter
Of anarchy and riot. The democratic
party will demand "the destruction Of
criminal trusts and NO protection for
oppressive trusts''-there Is nothing in.
cendiary in that, for the trusts are the
anarchists and revolutionists Of the age,
needless Of the rights Of property, bust.
ness and life.
1.-THE New Democracy will work for
the public ownership Of public fran.
chises. This will include postal tele.
graph. The reform could have more far.
reaching effects, but it would be hard to
excite panic over the matter when it
was remembered that postal telegraphs
were an institution prevailing through.
out the entire civilized world, the United
States being the only conspicuous ex'
ception.
Government railroads will be part
of the democratic policy. That 10 q
thing that goes to the very base of the
economic life Of the nation. 1t cuts
at the root Of trust privileges. 1t means
equality Of opportunity for producers
and dealers of every sort. II means 9
check to the concentration Of wealth In
the hands Of the few.
"In the best sense it IL revolutionary
and yet it is not thing that could bt
made to excite . single qualm Of appre'
hension in the business mind. Ger
many is hardly the type OF a populis'
country, but the German government
own their own railroads. Russia is no
the prey Of demagosues, but the princi
pal railroads Of Russia are imperia
prope ty and the greatest Of them car
ries laborer twenty miles for a cent
The British colonists In Australia ant
South Africa own and operate their owl
railroads, and nobody thinks Of turning
them over to corporate control.