The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
FIREWORKS
 TOUCHED OFF Johnson Begins Ohio Cam
 aEh ATTACKS as .NATOR HANNA Review eleveland's Fight for My sipal Ownership. Says the Attorney General of Ohio Is Tool in the Hands of , Hanna and His

Friends. Nr Akron, O., Sept. s.-The Democratic
 meeting in Akron. Addresses were deltv- cred by Hon. Tom L. ohnson, candidate for Governor of Ohio, John H. Clarke, candidate for United States Senator. and Henry George, IT,. of New York. Mir. Johnson's tent held 5000 persons. Judge c. R. Grant of Akron. presided. MT. ohnson said:
 we have in this campaign three great questions to present to the people of Ohio. These are the questions of home rule, equitable taxation and the destroy ing of the unholy, If not corrupt, alliance between certain managers of the Repub- lican party and the owners of valuable special privileges. No one denies that every locality should have the right to control its own local affairs. The justice of local self-government is universally conceded. This is also true of equitable | taxation. And no one claims that we have either local self-government or a | system of just taxation.
 "The city of Cleveland furnishes an ex- cellent illustration of the issues of the Democratic party in this campaign. Cleveland has become known as the com pletely enjoined city in Ohio. Since I | have been Mayor fifteen injunctions have been issued against the city in the in- | terest of owners of valuable special privi- leges. like the street railroads and the gas and electric light companies. And | after each injunction, the Democratic pluralities have been larger than be- fore.
 Senator Hanna. who is financially in- terested in some of these public service corporations, with the aid of Attorney General Sheets. has been able to prevent | the city from compelling the public ser
 vice corporations to pay their just share
 of the taxes and has so far blocked the | establishment of three-cent fare street
 railroad to compete with his five cent
 fare monoply.
 The Last Injunction.
 .srhe last injunction against csevelsnA strikes at the very liberties of the peo- pie. Senator Hanna. through this at torney general. secured an injunction from the Supreme Court restraining the people of Cleveland from expressing their opinion as to whether they would oper-
 ate their own electric light plant or al-
 low 1t to be operated for private profit. The injunction prevented the election. "The municipal code foisted on all the municipalities of the State by Boss Cox's board plan of government, by some slip, had left in it provision allowing cities | to have their own electric light plant if | they desired it. It was certainly an over | sight. If the men who made the code
 had only thought of it they would have
 left us in the same position as We are | in respect to street railroads. The State | laws are such now that it is impossible to build a municipal light plant if you
 are skillful enough to dodge the injunc- tion.
 Senator Hanna is standing for vindi- cation. He stands for vindication on that
 variety of municipal ownership which through the ship subsidy proposes to pay into the pockets of MT. Hanna's friends from $10,O0OOOO to $15, 100000 annually in
 ship subsidies. He stands as opposed to
 allowing the people of Cleveland to ex- press their will as to whether they desire
 an electric light plant. It will be satis- fled with the verdict of the voters" MT. Clark in the course of his speech. | said:
 "'IIet well enough alone Stand pat Continue to stand pat Hands off,' For
 Gods sake keep letting we'll enough
 alone This in his own language is the sum of the political wisdom and states
 manship in which Senator Hanna has giv
 en counsel to the people of this State and l nation for several years as if forsooth.
 he thought the national life of this great people and the business of 1t would stand still, not move, at his command. 'The business of the country has re- fused to stand still at MT Hanna's com
 mand. but, on the eonEary has run riot in speculation, such as was never seen
 before; and capital and labor halt in daily expectations of a panic-a fear in which the President and Secretary of the Treas ury, by their public speeches show that they distinctly share. This condition has been largely brought about by the dis turbance of business caused by the high | tariff rates through which millions of dollars have been unnecessarily taken from the people and the channels of bus mess and locked up in the United States
 treasury or loaned out by 1t to favored | banks.
 While Senator Hanna has thus been
 urging this do-nothing policy there has
 been worked out unrestrained in our
 country the greatest industrial revolution
 of modern times, which has placed every
 branch of business and manufacture in
 the control of form of monopoly. which all the world except MT. Hanna agrees
 to call trust.
 To Control the Trusts.
 "As to remedies in the way of controll- ing trusts, the first is the taking of the
 tariff from all articles. the manufacture
 or sale of which Is controlled by mo-
 nopoIy. and the second. the limiting of the
 ca apitalization of all corporations engaged
 tn interstate commerce. strictly to the
 value of the property invested. The last | think is a most sweeping remedy be- cause I am satisfied that the schemes of | oppression are always worked out through
 fictitious stocks; that 1t Is to pay divi- l dends on such stock that monopoly prices are always exacted and that If such could
 be prevented, or if the capital could be | limited so that the profits would show
 when monopoly prices are being charged.
 the people could be depended upon to ap- ply the remedy"
 Referring to the Philippine policy of the
 Republicans. which he denounced, MT.
 Clark said he was in favor of granting
 the Filipinos immediate independence. re-
 serving coaling statoins. which they have
 always been ready to grant to the United
 States and of saying to all the rest of the
 world: Hands off. This is an attempt
 to form government of the free" New Instructions to Leishman.