The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-31
SECRETARY ROOT.
THE Cabinet Member Participates In
W. York Republican Rally.


THE Cabinet Member participates IN
Nar York Republican Rally.
,,ov York. Oct. 30.-Cooper Union
s aTed tonight with people who
ID come to attend Republican meet
10 the principal speakers being May
Low. Gov. Odeii and Secretary OF
Tror Root. Mr.. Low eulogized Gov
IN and his administration OF affairs.
-, OdeIl followed in an address, in
hitch he cast aside as absurd the pre-
,,,+ion that his majority would be as
email as some had prophesied. secre-
+arv Root spoke after the Governor
nod finished. He defended Gov. Odell
ND then entered upon a discussion of
.ne trusts and tariff. declaring that
hare was no reason for change in
4bs national administration on account
~ a desire for the curbing of trusts.
For an effective treatment Of labor
.roubles. or for revision of the tariff.
He said:
"Our Democratic friends talk as if
same CAPITALISTS securing undue profits,
md some tariff provisions becoming
outgrown with changing conditions,
srd some stubborn contests between
smnloyers who wish to pay less and
wage-earners who wish to be paid
more for labor, were new and strange
nhenornena, threatening our social and
POLITICAL system and calling for des-
perate and revolutionary remedies.
They are not new or strange or threat
ening. They are but Temperatures,
IN slightly varied forms, of some of
The difflculties which have always ac-
companied material prosperity since
the beginning of successful enterprises.
"The evils complained of are an out
growth of the process of Industrial de-
velopment of the age. Their regulation
is also a necessary part of that process.
our industrial history shows that the
steady course of the process has al
WAYS been and is now towards better
and not towards worse conditions; that
the diffusion of wealth is
outstripping it's concentration; 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 degree never before known; that
our prosperity is sound and wholesome,
and that courage and hope are justified
rather than dependency.
The industrial history of the last
half century is a history, first, of the
steady increase of productive power.
and, second, only to that of the con-
tinual struggle between these four in
irresistible brains, ~ capital, the
laborer, and the consumer, to
secure what each considers to be
fair share of the benefits of the in
creased wealth. Capital and brains al
ways get the advantage at first. The
fruits of each new increase of produce
tive power, whether through invention
or through organization, come to them,
but out of Industrial history shows
that the laborer and the consumer
slowly but surely wrest their share Of
the advantage from capital and secure
1t for themselves. The organizers of
the great sugar trust made a great deal
of money for themselves, but we are
getting sugar now for less than 1t cost
to make it before the sugar trust was
formed. The organizers of the Stand
ard Oil Company have made a great
deal of money, but the poorest Ameri-
can farmer is lighting his little house
tonight at trifling cost, more brilliant
ly than palaces were lighted q century
ago, and these are the consumers
shares of the wealth created by the
brains and capital of the sugar COM
pany and the Standard Oil Company.
Not only have the wages of labor
increased, but the cost of food and
clothing has decreased said Mr.. Root,
following at considerable length with
statistics, and summing up his review
by saying that every dollar of the
wage earner's pay would, in 1902, buy
more beef and -four and coffee and
sugar and molasses and butter and
rnppSo mill NJ nInfhfnr ~
would thirty years before.
The result of this process" said he,
lis diffusion of wealth among the
people, the contemplation of which
makes the comparativ ely few large for
tunes seem of thfiing Importance.
The Republican party proposes to
regulate and curb and suppress the bad
trusts rather than to destroy the good
and bad together, and, with them, the
prosperity which brings such benef1cent
results to all our country The only
federal law to accomplish this result
the Sherman act-was passed by a Re-
publican Congress against Democratic
opposition.
IF you will read the speech made this
month by Attorney General Knox at
Pittsburg. you will see how actively
and with what successful results he is
engaged in the enforcement of that
law me PRESIDENT mas suggested an
extension of the law. The Attorney
General, after careful study, has given
his opinion 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 government to regulate and
curb the evil of trusts. The Demo-
cratic candidates for Governor in our
state has formally put himself on rec
ord in violent opposition to what he