Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-29

vent and punish abuses. but it will not
hamstring the business of the country
to please Mr.. Bryan or anybody else.
While 1t remains in power IL will con-
tinue, on the contrary. to inaugurate
and uphold policies that will give en-
ployment to both labor and capital
alike, remembering that both must
flourish or neither can
The speaker continued: ..NIr. Bryan
is an unsafe and discredited adviser.
If he had been elected in 1896 and his
policies instead of William McKinley's
had been inaugurated. we would have
been today in the Free Silver class of
| nations with China and Mexico. strug-
CLING to hold our own markets. instead
of invading and capturing those of
other countries.
"All great evolutions and changes
are likely to work some injury as well
as good. So it is with the changes now
being wrought. Consolidation involves
more or less of Gispla acement and re-
arrangement. There must be more or
less change of occupation for those
who are employed, and more or less
of abandonment of what has been in
use because of the substitution of
something better; but this is only his
tory repeating itself. The cotton gin
the sewing machine, the typewriter
the use of steam and the electric cur
rent, all alike worked similar results
but who would retrace these steps Of
progress on that account?
"Our progress has not been without
some hardships, and there have been
some abuses, but it has not been the
policy of the Republican party to so
legislate, on account of them. as to
destroy these great properties and re-
tard the development of our great
country, but. instead, it has been our
policy to so legislate as to prevent and
remedy these evils. and at the same
time promote the general good
"The trusts are born of our condi-
tons Their managers are not GRIM
inals, as Mr.. Bryan says. but are gen.
orally our abIest and most enterpris-
ing business men. They have taken
the lead in the development of our re.
sources. And the same may be said
Of the stockholders, too.
"In the Kansas City platform the
Democrats told us how they would
deal with them. They mentioned two
remedies. and only two. One was
publicity. and the other was the free
list for trust-made articles. Mr.. Bryan
has since added the penitentiary.
These are fair examples of Democratic
craftsmanship. There is publicity now
and was before the Kansas City plat
form, under the law of almost every
state in the Union. as to organization,
as to stockholders. as to
capital subscribed and capital paid, as
to corporate purpose. as to corporate
officers. and as to every other cornor-
ate fact that concerns the public, and
a great many that do not
TO admit free of duty all products
and articles the like of which are manu-
factured or produced in this country
by trusts, is only another name for
''N' t''"'S' ~ Nouiu piobdbiN stOp
the trusts, but only because it would
at the same time stop everything else.
1t would be free trade in an aggra-
waited form. All our Industries would
he placed at the mercy of European
trusts, and disaster and ruin would
follow.
However, this does not mean that
we are opposed to any kind of change
at any time in tariff schedules and
rates. We believe In changes. as oc-
casion may require, bnt they must al
ways be made along the lines of pro-
lection.
"In 1907 we enacted the Dingley tar
iff, The rates then adopted had ref
erence to the conditions then existing.
The prosperity that ensued, and which
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