Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-23

the tariff shall not be touched, In or
der that the trusts shall continus
to prosper and reap their enormous
profits.
American historians since the civil
war have agreed that when President
Lincoln was assassinated, the south
lost it's best friend. That the policies
and views he entertained ut the close
of the war, II carried out, would have
pacified that people, and saved 1t and
the country the hideous reign Of
bloodshed and carpetbagism, of bond.
ed cities and bankrupt states, that
President Lincoln would hove been
potential enough, with the influences
of his high Office, to compel the poll.
ticians in his party to have gone With
him in establishing the pacific policies
he meditated in reconstruction.
So, too, had President Mckinley
lived, standing as he did the expo.
nent of the protective tariff system
yet realizing that the results of the
present tariffs, however beneficial te
the few trusts, were hostile to the in.
terests of the people, he would haw
compelled and enforced legislation
upon the lines of reciprocity which
means fair trade, 80 that by the crd
OF his term of Office, the welfare OF
the people would have been conserved
without the invasion of any proper
or lawful right of any business inter
est in America.
Strangely enough, upon SeptembeR
End, Vice President Roosevelt, not
charged with executive duties in the
administration of the government, de.
hvered an address, at Minneapolis in
which he used this laguage:
mo hard and fast rule can be laid
down as to where our legislation shall
stop in interfering between man and
man, between interest and interests.
All that can be said is that it is high
ly undesirable, on the one hand, that
in a constantly increasing number Of
cases we shall find 1t necessary in the
future to shackle cunning as in the
past we have shackled force"
And again he said:
"Yet more and more It Is evident
that the state, and if necessary, the
nation, has got to possess the right
of supervision and control as regards
the great corporations, which are it's
creatures, particularly as regards the
great business combinations which de-
rive a portion of their Importance
from the existence OF some monopol-
istic tendency"
Thaca fhn al 70 ~ Drags-
dent Mckinley entering upon his second
and last term, and of Vice President
Roosevelt expressing his opinions just
prior to time when the hand of
death called him to assume the re-
sponsibilities of chief executive.
Who for moment believes that
the republican party in the next con-
gress will enact legislation carrying
out these views? Everybody knows it
will never subscribe to the principles
thus expressed, and will never permit
legislation that will work their ac-
complishment. .g..
These sentiments that have quot
ed, are the principles for which de-
mocracy has been coptending, and Is
coptending now, that are fundament-
al II our republic is to he based upon
the hope of equality, Of equal right
and equal opportunity and for ex-
pressing them in not nearly 80 strong
terms, democratic statesmen have
been denounced and abused as dis
turbers and worse from every stump
and in all the partisan press.
And I put the question now to the
two senator's from Ohio, to answer to
the people of Ohio in plain, unequiv-
ocal terms, do you approve the prin-
ciples enunciated In these speeches
delivered September End and Septem-
her 5th by President Mckinley and
President Roosevelt, and will you aid
to enact legislation in the next con-
gress of the United States to carry
them out and to put them in force?
Let us have an answer, yes or no.
The trust and the strike fairly re-
present the natural results of re-
publican policies. When few men
begin to ms%e enormous fortunes
by having laws made for their own
private advantage, then the trust and
the strike, follow and go hand in
hand.
First, n republican congress enacts
a prohibitory tariff law, that puts all
of the people not in that particular
business entirely in the hands, so far
as prices are concerned, of those who
are. Then the combination of these
few into the trust follows quickly
and naturally. Then up 20 the prices,
not of labor, but of the articles pro-
tected by tariff schedules. and the
people are helpless and can do moth
ing but foot the bills.
The steel trust capitalized at bill
lion and half of dollars, and declar-
ing dividends upon this enormous
capitalization. is selling its steel pro-
ducts in Europe at $40 ton less than
1t Is selling them to the people of tho
United States. This is true of every
trust article manufactured. Every
working man who Is either a produ-
GER of professional man or mer-
chant, that the prices Of trust COM
modities have doubled and trebled.
: There has been no such correspond
ing advantage to the wages of labor
and the profits of the ordinary busi-
ness and professional man.
1t is not surprising that we read of
trust magnates returning from Euro.
pean vacations, engaging upon ship.
hoard in pnmas Of pnkAr Mt which fab-