Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-22


of the Republican Congress been act
ing since it met in December? Fas it
served the people or those who exploit
the people? Has it sought to advance
the welfare of the business man who
stands on his own feet outside of a
trust? Has it sought to help the man
at the plow. the man at the bench, the
salaried nan at the desk, the man at
the shovel-the plain people?
Everybody knows that it has not.
This Republican Congress has served
the protected interests" the trusts,
the predatory wealth of the country.
Cuba and the national honor have been
sacrificed to the sugar beet and the
sugar trust.
The food trust, emptying the dinner
pail Of meat and taxing exorbitantIy
for private profit the American table,
has had Congress for an assisting part
neP. Though the price of meats has
SCARED, the bills to subject the food
trust to competition by removing the
duties on foreign meats have been
smothered in committee Every bill in
PRODUCED for the purpose of interfering
in the slightest degree with the privi-
lege Of the trusts te tax the public has
beca resolutely sidetracked
The Republican party as it now ex-
lists is under the absolute control and
direction of the organized wealth of the
Union-the kind of wealth that is
founded on monopoly and makes large
campaign contributions in return for
special privileges. Congress has legis-
lated for the Captains Of Industry"
who, through the Republican party,
govern the United States for their own
benefit Whatever the trusts have
asked for from this Congress the trusts
have got
Against the party whose true spirit
this trust-serving Congress represents
the Democracy appeals to the people
And this truth is to be kept in mind
by every man who is opposed to the
kind of government the Republican
party is giving government by the
trusts, for the trusts. IL the people
won't help themselves, no one can help
the people. The people are being ex-
plotted. VIII the people stand by the
party which stands by the exploiters?
The Democratic minority II Gsngress
has made a record on whicl the party
can go to the country with pride and
clear conscience. That record consti-
tutes a sound Democratic platform.
The Democratic minority in this Re
publican and trust-serving Congress
has stood for: First. justice to Cuba;
second, removal of the tariff duties
which foster and protect monopolists
who sell their products abroad cheaper
than they do at home; third, for expaTs-
sion as against imperialism-for home
rule as against despotism in the Philip
pines. The American believes that our
sovereignty must be maintained in
those islands, but it also believes that
the people of the Philippines should be
given voice in their government and
not surrendered as prey to the exploit
\ ers who have mortgage on the Re
II publican party; fourth. for the honor
of the American army. To denounce
acts of cruelty, to insist upon observ-
aDce of the rules of civilized warfare,
is to uphold the honor Of the army. not
to assail it. There Is nothing sacred
about the army. Any man in II who
behaves like a savage disgraces it and
should be held responsible for his
crimes. The Republican conception of
the army's honor-that 1t is unpatriotic
to criticisr anything any member of
it may dis the same as that which
gave to France the Dreyfus horror;
ifth. FOR such amendment of the navi-
CATION laws as would take our mer-
chant marine out OF the grip of bounty
begging monOpolists; sixth. for control
Of the trusts by the government
What do the American people want
Nernment by themselves or govern
nent by the business interests"
which are without public spirit and
bink only of their own pockets? This
Congress has served these interests ex-
luSively, regardless of national honor
Il md the peoples welfare 1t is the kind
If government we must have from the
n Republican party. Nothing else can
h ne expected from It. VIII the people
20 TO the polls and indorse a party
which on system ignores the interests
Il the peOple?-Chicago American.