Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-31
MAss-MEETING ABANDONED BY
PROMINENT REPUBLICAN LEADERS
MAYOR LOW, oDELL. AND ROOT.
Latter. Ineeniou. Defense of Trusts
Consumer is Getting Sugar and
OIL for Less Than They Cost Be-
fore Sugar Trust and standard
Oil Company Were Formed,


NEW YORK. October 3o.-Cooper Union
was filled tonight with people who had
come to attend a Republican meeting,
the principal speakers being Mayor Low.
Governor Odell, and Secretary of War
Root Mr.. Low eulogized Governor Odell
and his administration Of State affairs.
Governor Odell followed in an address In
which he cast aside as Absurd the predic-
ton that his mo iority vould be as small
as some had prophesfed.
Secretary of War Root spoke after the
Governor bad finished. He defended Gov
ernor Odell and then entered upon a dis
cusslon of the trusts and the tariff de-
clarinS that there was no reason for a
change in the national administration
on account of a desire for the curb.ng OF
trusts. for an effective treatment of la
Dor troubles, or for a revision of the tar
if. He said:.
NO NEW THING.
Our Democratic friends talk as if Some
! capitalists securing undue prifts. and
some tariff provisions becoming outgrown
with changing conditions, and some stub
born contests between employees who
wish to pay less. and wage earners who
wish to pay more for labor. were new and
strange phenomena, threatening our So
cial and political system: and calling for
desperate and revolutionary remedies.
IlSS d. -ISW, VI SlIduSS, liz cav
ening. They are but Temperatures. in
slightly varied forms, of some of the diff
culties which have always accompanied
material prosperity since the beginning
of successful enterprise.
The evils complained Of are an out
growth of the process of industrial de-
vslorments of the age. Their regulation
is also a necessary part of that progress
Our industrial history shows that the
L L.,
been and is now towards better and not
towards worse conditions; that the diff
fusion of wealth is outstripping it's con-
centration; that the great body of the
people of the United States are climbing
up above the hard conditions of poverty.
which have been the rule in the world g
life, into general comfort and independ-
ence to degree never before known;
that our prosperity is sound and whole
some: and that courage and hope are JUS
titled rather than despondencv.
FORM CONTENDING INTEREST.
THE industrial history of the last half
century is history. first. of the steady
increase Of productive power. and second
only to that of the continual struggle be-
tween these four interests-the brain, the
,apital. the laborer. and the consumer, to
secure what each considers to be fair
share of the benefits of the increased
wealth. Capital and brains always get
he advantage at first. The fruits Of
ach new increase of productive power,
rhnther through invention or through or
;anization come to them. But our indus
rial history shows that the labOrer and
he consumer slowly but surely wrest
!loir share of the advantage from capital
nd secure it for themselves. The or
anizers of the great sugar trust made a
rreat deal OF money for themselves. But
re are getting sugar now f. less than It
0st 10 make it before the sugar trust was
1rmed. The organizers OF the Standard
ii Company have made great deal of
ioney but the poor American farmer is
fghting his little house tonight at a
fling cost, more brilliantly than pal
..es were lighted centuries ago, and
ere are the consumers shares Of the
cath created by the brains and capital
the sugar company and the Standard
Il Company.
COST OF LIVING DECREASED.
Not Only have the wages Of labor in
aseG, but the cost of food and cloth
g has decrea sed," said Mr.. Root. fol-
owing at considerable length with sua-
tistics in support of his statement and
summing up his review by sav'ng that
every dollar of the wage-e s pay
would in 1902 but more beef ur and
coffee and sugar and molasses ii butter
and cheese and milk and eggs and cloth
ing than 1t would thirty years before.
THE result Of this process said the
Secretary of War, lis diffusion Of wealth
among the people, the contemplate of
which makes the compare lively few
large fortunes seem of trifing Importance.
THE BAD DTRUSTS.
1.-THE Republican party proposes to veg
ulate and curb and suppress the bad
trusts rather than to destroy the good
and bad together, and, with them, the
prosperity which brings such beneflcent
results to ell our country. The Only Fed
cral law to accomplish this resillt-the
Sherman act-was passed by a Republi-
car Congress against Democratic oppose
ion. If you will read the speech made
this month by Acknowledgement 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 opln-
ion 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
opposed to the effort of the Federal Gov
eminent to regulate and curb the EVIL
of trusts The Democratic candidate tor
Governor in our own State has formally
put himself on record in violent oppos!-
ton to what ne calls the astonishing CEN
Trailing policy of the Republican party.
OlIIT WITH EVEN H0N0RS