Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

of opinion in our own ranks. Ihelr
fears are groundless. Sincere and tenn
perate discussion of varying views
should be neither avoided nor discour-
aged. The members of the republican
party are as courageous as they are
intelligent and they can and will hold
conferences among themselves with
out giving either aid or comfort to the
common enemy.
The Nub of 1t.
read again from the platform.
I'VE assert the sovereignty of the
people over all corporations and ag-
gregations of capital, and the right of
the people to enforce such regula-
tins, restrictions or prohibitions upon
corporate management as will protect
individuals and society from the abuse
of the powers which great combina--
ton of capital WELD. We cordially
endorse the position of President
Roosevelt in appealing to the courts to
secure regulations that will control
great combinations of capital which
prevent competition and control the
industries of the people without legal
sanction or public approval. We favor
such amendments to the interstate
commerce act as will more fully carry
out it's prohibition of discrimination in
rate making, and any modification of
the tariff schedules that may be re-
| quired to prevent their affording shell
ter to MONOPOLY
! 1t is the last phrase which, as l
understand it, has excited comment
through the length and breadth of the
country. This phrase seems to me,
| not only so plain and clear that it is
incapable of being misunderstood, but
also the statement of a self-eyident
truth in governmental policy. 1t has
| been accepted in some quarters as an
assertion by the republicans of Iowa
that they favored the removal of tariff
duties from all articles manufactured
and sold by the so-called trusts. 1t
requires a combination of gross ignor.
ance and intense prejudice to give il
such construction. The republicans OF
| Iowa understand the difference be-
tween the products of combinations OF
trusts, and the products in which there
have been established monopolies, and
their declaration is that tariff duties
shall not be used to shelter monop-.
oily.
Where MIR. Cummins Stands.
4 | have heard it said that in this re-
spect our platform occupies democrat
ic ground. If this were so, and it is
righteous ground, l would not there
/ fore abandon it, The republican party
was not born, and has not lived, tC
merely oppose the policy of any man
or any party. 1t selects it's position
with higher motives and for soundel
reasons. 1t adopts it's platforms with
absolute indifference for the declara-
tfons of any other organization OF
earth, careful only to announce true
Y principles and watchful only for the
interest of all the people. From the
bottom of my heart L wish that the two
parties did occupy common territory
upon this great field, for the problems
that are to be solved should not bt
vexed with partisan dispute. Unfor.
tunately, however it is not true thai
we have met upon friendly ground
The democratic party, with the fata
facility for error which has character
Sized it's whole career. declares for free
trade in the trust made goods just as
: it declares for free trade in all othe
things.
Brilliant Play of Words.
! It's proposal makes no discrimination
J between the wheat and the tares