Courier Democrat., 1904-11-10

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gar for their money to debauch the
ballot box.
And Cortelyou got it and is getting
Il, and that shows how we'll pleased
the trusts were with him as govern
ment detective sworn to run them to
cover. The scandal Of this alone should
damn Roosevelt's administration.
It has been apparently forgotten that
any party that is slave to the trusts
is an enemy to labor, organized or un-
organized, and yet the issue has not
been pressed home to the laboring
man.
And who is the laboring man? The
man making a salary, whether dollar
a day or a hundred dollars day. That
man is a laborer who has worked to
build up a business and has pressed
that business along honest and legttt-
mate lines to success-competing fair
" and meeting competition bravely.
These people will decide this elec-
ton. They cannot be bought, though
they may be occasionally sold out.
They may be fooled. but, as Lincoln
put it, not all the time.
The Democratic platform at st. LOU
is made a square out declaration
against illegal trusts. 1t charged the
Republican party with fostering trusts.
It charged that in this favor to trusts
the Republican party was foe to free
labor.
It charged that in its favor to trusts
the Republican party was in favor Of
cutting the throat Of competition, en-
couraging monopoly and thereby re-
ducing labor and all those not in trusts
to a condition Of peonage.
And the Democratic platform offered
remedy in that it demanded an en-
forcement Of the law against trusts
and the dealing out of justice equally
to all men.
Democracy stands for equality under
the law, for opportunity and for per-
sonal freedom.
It is for liberty of thought, for the
equal standing Of the greasy handed
workingman, the clerk and the man of
wealth before the courts, and it de-
mands that the back door routes of the
privileged classes to these same courts
be closed.
It should be driven into the hearts
Of the American voters that Democ-
racy is against Republicanism today
because Republicanism is now party
Of favoritism and classes, just as it
was when Jefferson demanded the
rule and equality Of all people as
against Hamilton, patron saint Of Re-
publicans, who advocated limited suf-
frage and the administration Of the
government by centralized force
made up Of the privileged classes.
There is more in Democracy that
lives and that Democrats believe in
than is set down in SO many words in
the st. Louis platform. 1t has COM
mon law that it gets from Jefferson,
who believed in equality, and from
Jackson, who when a selfish power
sought to make the government part
Of its money making machine broke II
down and went before the people on
the question and won.
The radicalism Of the Democracy to
day is that It demands the same rule
Of law for the rich and poor, for the
great man and the little man.
The criminal trust is against the law
10 against the liberty Of commerce
against the freedom of competition and
seeks to make slave of every man or
it's payroll and serf Of every mar
selling It raw material or buying itf
finished product.
The trust has Axed the age limit
when it's workers must be set adrif1
to starve or beg. It has reduced sal
aries and reduced men. It has in
creased the cost Of living to a poin,
never before reached even when foot
and clothing weIe sold in the depreci
ated money ofWar times.
This u the great Democratic issue.
1oA0s anA 1oa1psoe3ty.
We get the innpEesa1olt that Senator
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