Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-10-17
Senator McCumber Delivers One of the
Best Republican Orations Ever
Heard in This City.
SENATOR HANsBROUGH ON DEMOCRACY
The Senior Senator Shows Up the Opposi=
tion in Scatfing Terms.

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ject Senator McC Cumber had chosen for
his eloquent and forcible address, he
said:
The Republican party recognizes in
its platform the propriety and neces-
sity of honorable cooperation of capi
tai, for great combinations to carry
on great industrial enterprises.
The party condemns combinations
organized to control prices or the
output Of the necessaries of life, or
the creation of monopolies. It recog-
nizes the fact that the very founda-
tion of civilization and human pro-
gress is the cooperation of energies
and capital of thousands of individual
combinations.
Combinations and civilization, as
shown by the worlds history, have
ever gone hand in hand and kept
exact pace People did not have
luxuriant homes nor good clothing
and wearing apparel when it required
one man all day to hammer out one
hundred nailss aud every piece Of tim
ber was hewn with rugged axe,
when every thread was spun by hand
on small wheel, and every yard OF
cloth was woven on hand loom.
Now, it reaired millions and mil
lions of capital, and the energy Of
thousands of people combined to erect
the machinery alone. whose great
strength will seize carload of great
logs and without a single stop in their
forward course, convert them into
finished lumber, while you are count
ing seconds. 1t required the cooper
alton and the capital and energy of
thousands Of persons to erect and
operate the great looms, whose magic
and untiring fingers produces the most
gorgeous and beautiful fabrics in such
immense quantities and at such re-
duced prices, that every lady in the
land can dress as we'll as a queen of
ancient years.
If the man, with given amount
of capital, makes two blades of grass
grow where one grew before, is a
benefactor, the one who makes thous-
ands Of blades grow with the same
amount of capital and labor, where
only one grew before, is so much a
greater benefactor.
The necessity and demands for more
comforts and more luxury for given
amount Of money, necessitate greater
energy and greater combinations. So
far, in the history of the world, these
combinations have proved such a
grand blessing to all the people, in
reducing the prices of all commodities
and comforts of life, that the right
to combine honestly, has become
recognized legal right, which right
no state can deny to it's people. But
while this right is unassailable, the
abuse of the privileges or the power
arising therefrom, is proper subject
to be dealt with by law.
Now, the differences between the
doctrines of the Republican and the
Democratic parties are that the form
er directs it's energies against the
abuse or any evils arising from it,
while the latter could destroy the in
sdustry itself. The Republican party
is the only party that has put into
operation an effective law, which has
been able to curb and control these
enormously great monopolies. But
the power Of congress, by reason Of
our constitution, is limited to mono
poles which effect inter state COM
merce.
Oussmust remember and understand
the dnal character Of state and nation,
IN order to fully comprehend the
limited power Of congress over the
trusts. They must remember that
when the original thirteen colonies
a general government, they
izithlalt 9roh fa& 26shBEn 5g|
Of the sovereign power, which had be-
fore been exercised by these colonies,
to the government of the
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