Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-16


5rllIIil III \ /, jn,ata
be-, but who 10 g. thering the fruits OF
prosperity? Production may be phe-
nomenal, but who IL obtaining the bene-
fit thereof !? Wealth may be accumulat-
Ing, but II is In the hands of the manips
ulators and not the masses The prob
lem, my friends. is not one Of produce
ton but of distribution. The question Is
not can the people produce?" but scan
the people get share of what they pros
duce?' The farmer COWS and reaps, the
mechanic toils and strives, mighty la
Dor With her hundred hands transforms
increasingly the rough rocks of earth,
the tangled tribute of the soil, into
things of use and ornaments; but the
gain of all this sowing and toiling, beat
ling and weaving finds its way into the
purses of those who toll not, neither do
they spin
Fos!efed BY Protection.
The term projection. is concise
statement for legal exemption from
Icompetition. "A protective tariff is de-
signed primarily to prevent foreign
lcompetition. Exempt from foreign COM
petition by tariff law, a combination
Iof all competing domestic concerns in a
given line Of cuisines produces a mo-
inopoly in fact. Instead Of numerous
Icompeting concerns In given Industry,
There is but one conceten Numerous
sets of officers give way to one sat.
Many statesmen give way to a few In
stead of number Of houses buying ia "
material in competition there is now but
one buyer, and instead OF a number of
housss offering to sell 10 consumers
there is now but one seller. Instead of
a number of employers competing for
laborers in certain line there isY but a
single demand do not need to tell you
the result. The market Of labor is abb
solutely controlled in spite Of the la
borer; the demand for raw materials is
absolutely limited In spite of the pro-
duceri and the price Of the finished
product is fixed absolutely III spite of
the consumer. If the laborer complains
| he is unemployeu; If the producer grum-
Ibles his product .is unpurchased; il the
consumer objects he is left united. And
this modern colossus in the Industrial
world, this Moloch of monopoly, s the
legitimate offspring Of the policy of
privilege as expounded by modern re-
publicanisln
The democratic party proposes to deal
with this question of industrial combi-
nation in ways vigorous, and sensible 1T
has no fanatical quarrel With wealth.
but it does believe that wealth is de-
signed to the use ofathe people and not
to rule them. 1t believes that men are
of more Importance than dollars, and
that all the elements of civilization are
subordinate to manhood. 1t proposes,
first. the enforcement Of every Law On
the statute books. state and national.
fer the regulation of trusts; it proposes
secondly. to invoke the power of the
courts, against all combinations in re-
straint of trades: 1t proposes, thirdly, to
place every article produced; sold or
controlled by a trust upon the free list.
ii proposes, fourthly, absolute publicity
in all the acts of corporations; 1t pro-
poses, filthy. to strengthen the hands
lof the Interstate commerce. commission
to the9end that discrimination in freight
rates, may be prevented; and finally, it
proposes to make the sherman ants
trust law strong up to the constitutions
al limit.
Red Hot Against imperialism.
The policy Of peace has been honored.
time cut of mind by the American peo-
pie. Peace, friendship and honest
commerce With all nations, e,1tangling
alliances with none,. has been our rule
OF national conduct declared by rulers
and approved by people, In 1Sgs we laid
aside, temporarily, with the approval of
al the people, this, policy of a century,
listened toa tale of wrong from a help
less people in a tyrant grasp and uf-l
d+rtook a war that the bounds OF con-
stitntional liberty might be Mitisneg, and
a new nation born underline blessing Of
God into the sisterhood of the world
republics. We fought or the weak in
their fight for freedom. We did not stop
to a SIX, Are these people Caucasian or
E Malay? Are they eluca ted Are
they stable TeutDna or violent Latins ~
We only knaN thatthey We're men who.
owed liberty ard Who would fight and
die for it. We fought for a people With
out an organized government without
"a capital. without a congress- a cabinet,
"a cons titution. a seaport or a navy. And
we fought that the tuhan people might
have these things that pertain to ma
tlonaiity, that upon cuban soil Cuban
4goyernment#of cuban Representatives.
might be erected and maintained by
virtue of the s#if sovereignty of the
Cuban people.
Sop to Boer sympathizers.
1t remained for lepubliucan admin
istration 10 reverse this proud and hon
sorable policy OF more than q hundred
Years; it remained for this party To defy
public opinion, to divorce government
from the sovereign people, TO turn its
back upon brave men struggling fer in
dependence and leild its moral, II not its
sphysical aid. 10 he monarchy Of Vic
storia while@it crushed the Beers shame
to the party that froths of "lieutraiityi
while republics are destroyed. Shame to
the party that embraces the policy Of
decrepit Spain to prevent the birth of
a new republic, Shame. | say, To the
party that once claimed a Lincoln and
IA Seward, sumner and a rhase. 10.
desert the children of liberty and take
up the policy OF an Alphonso and a
Chamberlain,
But the oppres sion of Spain was not.
confined 10 the western world. II her
younger days When her statesmen Mere
preaching the doctrine of world power,
world dominion. eli duty to Ch.istiani2e