The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-09-29
BEVERIDGE
SPEAKS ON
THE ISSUES
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coal combination. II there Is one ?
There is no tarlfr on anthracite coal
If trusts necessarily raise prices,
why has the price OF sugar steadily
fallen for more than so years; It Is said
there Is sugar trust. And why has
the price of beans gone up? There is
no bean trust, or the price OF wheat"
There is no wheat trust. So free trade
will not prevent trusts, and prices rise
and fall with and without trusts,
so far as legislation can remedy the
evils of trusts, republican legislation
the Sherman law. the rebate law, the
department of commerce and labor law
the only legislation ever enacted on
the subject-will do 1t II enforced,
And Roosevelt's election means enforce
ment OF those laws and all laws"
The Financial Problem.
Discussing at length the financial
question. Senator Beveridge said: ,Ax-
THE way to keep the gold standard
out of danger is to keep 1t in the hands
of those who put 1t out of danger,
Eighteen hundred and ninety-six was
no more a time for silence and hid
ing than 1861 was a time for cowardice
and evasion. II was not only po-
litical struggle. but on both sides II was
moral struggle. On both sides men
who had for years trimmed and COM
promised threw aside expediency and
spoke and acted on principles. Was
Grover Cleveland silent? Did he by
his vote condone what he declared with
his voice would be crime? Were
Senator Teller and the band OF life
long republicans who marched out OF
the St. Louis convention silent then?
Did they condone by their votes what
their tongues proclaimed would be a
crime? Were John NJ. Palmer and Cen
eral Buckner and the host OF gold DEM
ocrats silent then? Thousands OF life
long republicans left their party; tnou-
sands of lifelong democrats left their
party. Among S0.oOO,OO0 people there
was a new alignment, hundreds OF
thousands changing sides, and all be-
cause of a principle which they be-
Ilieved would determine the future of
the republic; yet at this hour, when
linen were destroying their political fu-
Iture for principles sake, when brother
turned against brother rather than for
sake convictions, and even families
were divided-at this supreme moral
hour in the history Of the American
people, equaled in its purity only oS
that other moral Awakening that rang
ed brother against Brother on battle
fields 40 years ago; in this hour, made
heroic by devotion to beliefs on both
sides, Alton B. Parker was silent-but
he voted for free silver. Is that the
kind of man in whom gold democrats
lean now find the leader Of cause? Is
that the kind of man in whom silver
democrats can now find the leader OF a
lcause?"
Our Philippine Policy.
On the Philippines, Senator Bever-
idge said:
THE opposition candidate admits
that we can not leave the Philippines
now even If 1t were desirable; admits
I that he can not leave them until they
are able to stand alone. Ex-Governor
Taft, republican, present Governor
Wright, democrat and every man who
has examined the situation on the
ground says that this will not be for
decades. Mr.. Parker admits that we
can not leave them now, but If we can
not leave them now why promise what
we will do after awhile? 1t Is as bad
for a nation to mortgage its future as