The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-01
ROOT JUMPS INTO THE PIGHTT0
HELP NEW YORK REPUBLICANS
Have Patience, Well Curb Trusts, Fix up the
Tariff and straighten out Labor Troubles,
is His Cry.
By the Associated Press.)


New York, Oct. 3O.-Cooper Union
was filled tonight with people who had
come to attend a Republican mass
meeting, the principal speaker being
Mayor Low, Governor Odell, and Secre-
tary of War Root. Mr.. Low eulogized
Governor Odell and his administration
of State affairs. Governor Odell follow
ed in an address in which he cast aside
as absurd the prediction that his ma
iority would be as small as some had
prophesicd. Secretary of War Root spoke
after the Governor had finished. He de-
Tended Governor Oden and then entered
upon a discussion of the trusts and the
tariff, declaring that there was no rea-
son for a change in the National admin
istration on account of desire for the
curbing OF trusts, for an effective treat
ment of labor troubles, or for a revision
of the tariff. He said:
"Our Democratic friends talk as if
some capitalists securing undue profits,
and some tariff provisions becoming out
grown with changing conditions, and
some stubborn contests between en-
ployers who wish to pay less and wake
earners who wish to be paid more for
la Dor, were new and strange phenomena,
threatening our social and political sys-
tenn and calling for desperate and revo-
lutionary remedies. They are not new or
strange or threatening. They are but
Temperatures, in slightly varied forms,
of some of the difficulties which have
always accompanied material prosperity
since the beginning of successful enter
prise.
( THE industrial history Of the last half
century is a history, first, of the steady
increase of productive power, and,
second only to that, of the continual
struggle between these four interests
! the brains, the capital, the laborer, and
the consumer, to secure what each con-
siders to be a fair share of the benefits
of the increased wealth Capital and
brains always get the advantage at
! first
1.-The Republican party proposes to
regulate and curb and suppress the bad
trusts rather than TO destroy the Sood
and bad together. The only Federal law
to accomplish this result-the Sherman
| Act-was passed by a Republican Con-
| gress against Democratic opposition. If
| you will read the speech made this
month by Attorney General Knox, at
| Pittsburg, you will see how actively and
] with what successful results he. is en-
gagged in the enforcement of that law.
| The President has suggested an extern
! sion Of the law. The Attorney General
after careful study, has given his opinion
/ that it can be extended and made more
/ far-reaching and effective. So far as it
| is possible to ascertain the attitude OF
the Democratic policy, that party is OPP
posed to the effort OF the Federal gov
eminent to regulate and curb the evil OF
the trusts The Democratic candidate
for Governor in our own State has form
| ally put himself on record in violent
! opposition to what he calls the astonish-
| ing centralizing policy of the Republi-
/ can party"
Mr.. Root proceeded to consider two
| Democratic proposals to deal with in
dustrial evils, tariff revision and the coal
plank in the New York platform. Mr..
| Root discussed the tariff question along
the usual lines. On the coal plank, he
said
at is a serious thing that great party
should put such a declaration in its
platform. The least of the offenses in
volved in the declaration is that it is
unconstitutional.
| IF the principle embodied in this
| proposition" said the speaker, was
adopted the American system OF local
self-government would be at an end and
i the States would become but countries
| and geographical divisions OF a great
| centralized power. Every requirement
of human life becomes a public use OF
the United States and in the presence
of that all-pervading and direct relation
the distribution of powers between ma
tional and State governments and the
sovereign States themselves would dis
appear"