The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-05-21

efts.
'He assured me that he is in favor OF
reducing customs duties wherever they
shelter the trusts and wherever they
enable lawless capital to wiring eNtor
tionate prices from the consumer.
Judge Parker told me that he regarded
that feature OF our tariff system as lit
tie less than criminal.
"Nor would he stop there. He in
sists that wherever American manulac-
turers are, by means OF a monopolistic
tariff, enabled to sell their articles
abroad more cheaply than at home, or
rather, are permitted to charge at
home prices higher than those accept
ed abroad then the duties on all such
articles should be reduced so as to cor
rect that injustice to the American con-
sumer.
"With the system OF wholesale sub
sidy that is the keystone OF the Repub-
lcan arch Judge Parker has no SYM
pathy. Persons who have talked to
him on that subject understand that he
would smtc the subsidy monster wher-
ever it might lift its head.
Like many other Democrats, Judge
Parker believes that the solution OF the
trust problem would be facilitated by Il
wise revision OF the tariff.
"As Democrat OF the old school,
Judge Parker does not believe that the
Federal Government should be depend
ed upon to cure all the ills the body
polite is heir to. He believes that to
the states are guaranteed specific priv
ileges, rights, and powers, and ii elect
cd President, he would insist that all
these rights OF the states that are guar
antecd by the Constitution be jealousy
safeguarded.
AS long as 4 trust operated cNclu-
siyely within the state he would have
that state regulate and control the
trust. Ii the trust was engaged III
inter state commerce he would insist
that each state exercise its legitimate
authority, and that the efforts OF the
states at regulation be supplemented
vigilantly and vigorously by tho FEEDER
al Government.
"Whenever the Interstate law or the
antitrust law was violated, Judge Par
ker would stretch out the strong arm OF
Federal authority and, by applying
promptly that authority to the cNlgcn-
cies in the case, would right any wrong
that could not be rightcd by the opera
ton OF state law, and he would right
the wrong in legal and proper man
rer without pandcring either to law
less capital or to lawless labor, and
with the one definite purpose oil admin
istering justice, maintaining order, and
enforcing law.
Judge Parker believes that the
Democratic party is not a rich man S
party, not a poor mans party, not a
middle mans party, and that the gov
eminent oil the United States is gov
ernmcnt Tor no one OF these in par
ticular. He believes that the Demo-
cratic party, like the American govern
ment, is a party OF all thesc-poor.
well-to-do, and rich-and that its duty
is to guarantee to every man his rights
of life, OF person, OF property, and OF
fair, industrial opportunity.
iii elected President he would adj
minister the law not in the interests OF
any lawless element, whether it be
capital or labor, but in the interests
only OF the law-abiding American pco-
pie. In doing SO he would reverse a
precedent recently established in the
White House, and restore once more
the ideals OF safe and sound republi-
can government and republican insti-
tutions, as was intended by the men
who founded the nation, and whose
precepts and examples have made and
kept it great.
Judge Parker is physically an al
most ideal specimen of American man
hood. I suppose in any company he
would be abundantly able to take care
of himself. He doesn't talk fight
much, but l think he is always ready
for it; and the law that has ruled his
life in this respect as an individual
would rule the life OF this nation if he
was its chief magistrate. He recog-
nizes the wisdom OF Washington's
warning in time of peace prepare for
war; but he recognizes also that our
safety as a nation rests, in the last
analysis, not in armies or in navics, but
in the supremacy OF the moral lawn
the STILL small voice, as James Russell
Lowell says, which appealing to the
conscience and the heart, lifts us to
wider and wiser humanity
I'll elected President, Judge Parker
would have the courage and the capa-
city to see every international stua-
ton that might arise steadily, and see
it whole and deal with it temporarily
and firmly. He would not be COIL
slant menace to the industrial pros
perity of the country, but he would be,
like Senaca's pilot, ready at all hazards
to keep his rudder true.
II am on my way South for little
rest. I shall be for few weeks among