Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-27
TODAY,S MEETING.


city today must suggest to some of
them at least the inquiry Of why they
are here.
The answer that this is the opening !
of the Republican campaign for the
State of Ohio, is, of itself, insufficient.
In mercantile business an opening
presupposes goods to be on exhibition
for sale, to be examined and II salts
factory accepted, but il not, then re-
jected. Very few of the thousands
who have come to Akron on this occa-
sion will think of the matter in this
light, and vet 1t is, or ought to be,
the real object and purpose Of the
gathering.
The speakers of the day will, how
ever, purport to discuss the issues be-
fore the people in this canvass.
OF these Mr.. Secretary Root will
represent the National administration.
As such representative he will stand
for a President who seems to have
great deal to say lately about the
evils Of the trusts, and whose only
suggested remedy for the mischiefs
which he deplores is publicity. He
recommended the same thing IN his
last annual message to Congress. Sen
ator Dubois at once introduced bill
to make the recommendation effec-
tual. When brought to vote in the
Senate the message did not receive a
single Republican vote. The Presi-
dent now proposes to reach the same
end by a constitutional amendment
to carry which will require not only
the vote of every Republican in Con
gress but 80 other votes, to say nothing
of three-fourths of the States,--a
proposition so plainly chimerical that
the New York Sun, the thick-and-thir
defender of the trusts, laughs it tc
scorn.
Mr.. President,--having gotten to In
diana, then announces that the tariff
which Is the safe shelter of thos'
trusts which by means of it have bull
up such monopolies that they are sell
ing goods to foreigners in many in
stances at from so to 100 per cent les
than the same goods can be bought a
home,--that this mother and nurse
of the trusts is by no means to b,
touched or changed. For which opin
ion that practical blow at the trusts
must not be struck, while the peopl
are being deluded with the hope o
an impossible remedy, the same SUI
applauds the man who advances II
That's the position Of Mr.. Roots su
perior officer upon the national issu
now uppermost In the minds of th
American people.
But we suppose that Mr.. Root vii
today follow out the plan of hi
Peoria speech and confine his remark
to an encomium on the American arm
and praise Of war in general, an
especially the one we have been wal
Ing in the Philippines.
Be he never so eloquent, Mr.. Ro,
cannot provoke any lasting intere'
upon this subject. The war Itself we
not very creditable TO any of the pa
ticipators In it,-neither in Its ince
tion nor In it's prosecution. And
1t were otherwise, II is over and Il
American thought and conscien'
hate, ana would be glad to forget
They believe with DR.. franklin th
there never was n good war or
bad peace" much less the one
which Mr.. Root Is singing the praise
and, so believing, ail the beating
tom-toms which today will hear, ca
not muster any recruits In Ohio.
Mr.. Hanna Will probably say the
are no trusts, and later on, with h
usual self-denying propensity, w
deny that he said so.
Passing from this subject, II
4 Cleveland Senator will, no doubt.
81 his custom is, dllatc upon his frlen
"a, ship for the laboring- man, and Il
md fact that he is prominent factor
yle what Is called the "Civlc Federation
Lest he may have forgotten 1t, Y
10 venture to repeat what Mr. Ham
u said on this subject on August OF
4 last: "The Civic Federation is tryll
to establish a condition Of absolu
confidence between employer and el
ploye. That end is to be accomplish
by arbitration"
When this was said, the Senator w
talking about the great anthracl
roal strike In Pennsylvania, which h
Brought almost unexampled distre
upon large classes OF people. So I
~ Is known. Mr.. Hanna and his ClN