The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31

leG1ttmately reduced the cost OF prouuc-
ton. not to take America out Of the race
Of competition for the markets OF the
world. not to close the mills and mines,
not to throw millions of workmen out Of
employment and dsprice the farmer of
his market for the raw material OF manu-
facture.
s"The evils complslned Of are an out
growth Of the process of industrial de-
velopment OF the age. Their regulation
is also necessary part of that process.
World Growing Better.
= "our Industrial history shows that the
steady course Of the process has always
been and IL now towards better and not
towards worse conditions. that the difus-
ion of wealth IL outstripping it's concen-
tration; that the great body of the people
IN the United States are climbing up
above the hard conditions Of poverty
which have been the rule in the worlds
life into general comfort and Independence
to a degree never before known; that our
prosperity 10 sound and wholesome: and
the courage and hope are Justified rather
than dependency. The creation Of wealth
has proceeded at rate beyond all prece-
dent In human history. It is plain that
In the distribution Of this newly acquired
wealth the brains that invest and
organize and should have their share;
that capital that constructs and main
tains should be rewarded for It's risks and
enterprise; the laborer should have
larger gains because his labor Is produc-
Ing more and the consumer should have
lower prices because the product which
he purchases 10 produced with greater
ease ana at less cost. The industrial his
tory OF the last half century lie a history,
first, Of the steady increase of productive
power, and second, only to that OF the
continual struggle between these four In
terests the brains, the capital. the labor
and the consumer, to secure what each
sondirs to be q fair share of the Dement'S
of the increased wealth. That struggle
win continue a. long as the increase OF
productive power and the added incre-
nents OF wealth that come from that in
crease continue.
Sugar for the People.
"The organizers Of the great sugar trust
made a great deal of money for them
selves. but we are getting sugar now Tor
less than II cost to make II before the
sugar trust was formed. The organizers
of the standard OIL Company have made
q great deal Of money. but the poorest
American farmer 10 lighting his little
house tonight at trifiing cost more bril-
liantly than palaces were lighted Gen.
fury ago. rft
"Hot only have the wages Of labor in
creased. but the cost of food ana cloth
ing has decreased" said Mr.. Root, 1oi-
lowing at considerable length with statis-
ties In support Of his statement ana sum-
ming up his review by saying that Every
dollar Of the wage earners pay would
In isoc buy more beef and -four ana col
fee ana sugar and molasses and butter
and chees and milk and egges and ciotnt
ing than II would thirty years before.
"I Ell US not in fixing our gaze upon
sraall evils forget the greater good. Tne
Automobiles are Of little account. VINO
owns the farm wagon7 10 the important
question. Let US keep our faith IN Amer
lean institutions and deal with the evils
that are before US now and are TO come
hereafter. along the lines OF the same
benencent system which mas dsan SUE
csasfuiiy with every phase OF the great
struxxle for the Distribution of wealth IN
Republican Proposition.
.tThe Republican Party proposed 10
follow this course, to regulate and to
curb and suppress the bad trusts rather
than TO destroy ths good and bad to-
rether and with them the prosperity
which brings such beneficent results TO
all our people. The only Federal law to
accomplish this result, the Sherman act
was passed by q Republican Congress
against Democratic opposition. II you
Will read the speech made this month
by Attorney General Knox at Pittsourg
YOU will see how actively and with what
successful results he is engaged in the
enforcement of that law. The President
has suggested an extension of that law.
The Attorney General after careful study
has given his opinion that it can be
extended and made more far-reaching
and effective. 30 far as 1t is possible to
ascertain the attitude of the Democratic
Party. that party IL again opposed to
the EFFORT on the part of the Federal Gov
errment to regulate ana curb the evils
OF trusts. The Democratic candidate for
q overnor in our own State has formally
put himself on record in violent oppo
sition to what he calls the astonishing
centralising policy OF the Republican
Party"
Addressing himself to the continually re-
curing contests between capital an! III
Dor, Mr.. Root spoke of the continual
APPROACH towards good understanding
of the terms and relations which are dc
tated by recognition or nutHAI ana ie-
ciprocal interests. .'If,'' said the speaker,
'you will look back at the condition OF
the railroad business at the times OF
the pcbs riots. then consider the rela-
lions since established between the rail-
read owners and the associated employees
YOU will see q striking illustration Of the
progress to which ! refer.
Just to illustrate.
Another Illustration Is the agreement
between employers and employees for the
annual readjustment of wages through
out the greater part of the bituminous
coal field. The more intelligent the par
ties are, the more readily such relations
are reached.
when our President. in his brave and
direct way, acting out of his deep feel
Ing for the needs of mis- people under
took to get coal for them against the
coming winter by urging the submission
Of peace for war in the anthracite re-
zion, Mr. Hill in New York, and Mr.. Oh
have an idea that the people of the coun-
try do not agree with them.
What does the Democratic Party pro-
pose to do If the people Of the United
states put the power into their hands,
10 remedy these industrial evils and an
1oyances which have come along with
our great prosperity? They have made
wo proposals. The first is to revise the
ariff. 1t Is easy to say that the tariff
needs revising. In the nature of things
line must call for changes in every tar
n law, because it lie a fixed statute APP
sled from day to day to constantly
changing conditions.
This specific ground upon which the
Party now says that 1t should
,e permitted to revise the tarlff is that
he tariff protects the trusts. Observe