The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-15

cent. and that by the time the age Of 20
wa, was re reached .in the presumption should be
the age being treated as an evidential fact
in each case. This order was made In the
performance of duty imposed upon the
president by an act Of congress, which re-
quires the executive to make regulations
to govern the subordinates Of the pension
office In determining who are entitled to
pensions; President Cleveland had already
exercised this power by a regulation which
declared that Is should be set as the age
at which total disability should be con-
clusively presumed. Similarly President
half disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed. The regulation now in question,
in the exercise of the same power, supple
mentsd these regnlatiens made under
"lf our opponents come into power they
can revoke this order and announce that
they will treat the veterans of 62 to 70 as
presumably in full bodily vigor and not en-
tatively state that they intend to do this
If so, we accept the issue: If not, then we
have the right to ask why they raise an
issue which. when raised, they do not ven
ture to meet"
Z Criticisms of the administrations set
Element Of the coal strike and the suit
against the Northern Securities company
are cited, and the president says:
such mutually destructive criticisms
furnish an adequate measure Of the chance
for coherent action or constructive legisla-
err"
Democratic Policies.
OF the policies for which the democratic
party processes to stand the president says:
$50 much for what our opponents openly
or covertly advance in the way Of an at
tack tao! on the acts OF the administration.
which they profess to stand we are met
with the difficulty always arising when
statements of policy are so made that they
ho sr,<- Tod To-
some Of the vital questions that have con-
fronted the American people in the last
decaoe our opponents take the position
that sen NEE is the best possible
their lukewarm attitude Of partial ac-
quieScence In what others have accom-
plished entities them to be made the GUS
todians of the financial honor and COM
mercial interests which they have but re-
Gently sought to ruin"
He reviews the history Of the republican
party's efforts to establish stable national
currency and says:
Until our opponents as party explicit
ly adopt the views which We hold and upon
which we have acted and are acting, In the
way to keep the question from becoming
unsettled is to keep the republican party
in power"
He points to the record Of the admins
tration in its dealings with both capital
and labor, and carefully outlines each step
that has been taken for the enforcement
OF the antitrust laws and explains the
books in sa9% to the he Claim
that the common law, as developed, aft
fords a complete legal remedy against mo-
nopolies,' and Of this he says:
United States. Its rules can be enforced
only by the state courts and officers. No
federal court or officer could take any
fact. coupled with the inability of the states
to control trusts and monopolies, which
led to the passage of the federal statutes
known as the Sherman antitrust act and
the interstate commerce act; and it is only
through the exercise of the powers con-
ferred by these acts. and by the statutes
Of the last congress supplementing them,
jurisdiction over the subject. TO say that
action against trusts and monopoies
should be limited to the application of
common. law is equivalent to saying that
the national government should take no
action whatever to regulate them"
The Tariff Issues.
He charges the democrats with insin-
certify and evasiveness in their statements
Undoubtedly it would be possible at the
present time to prevent any, Of the trusts
expedient Of making such a sweeping
change in the tariff as to paralyze the in
dustries of the country. The trusts would
20 BE- he
workers would starve. while it would not
pay the farmer to haul his produce to mar
Continuing on the subject of the tariff, he
From time to time schedules must un-
doubted.y be rearranged and readjusted
to meet the shifting needs of the country;
those who are committed to the cause Of
the protective system. To uproot and de-
stroy that system would be to insure the
tories, the impoverishment Of the farmer
the ruin of the capitalist, and the starva-
ton IN. Of the wage worker.
II Is a matter of regret that the pro-
tecttve tariff policy, which, during the
last 10 odd years, has become part Of the
very fiber of this country, is not now &C.
copied as definitely established. Surely
beyond the. domain Of theory, and right
to expect that not only its original advo-
Gates, but those who at one time distrus,ed
it on theoretic grounds, should now &C.
over and over again by actual experience.
These 40 odd years have been the most
prosperous years this nation has ever
other nation has ever seen. Beyond ques-
ton this prosperity could not have come
Il the American people had not possessed
ana
sources to account. But It is no less true
that it is our economic policy as regards
the. taFlu ana nnance which has enabled
US as nation to make such good use of
the tndtviduaI capacities Of our citizens,
and the natural resources Of our country.
Every class Of our people is benefited by
the protective tariff. During the last few
trade Of this country grow faster than ever
In our previous history. The manufacturer
could not keep his factory running II It
were not for the protective tariff The
Wage-wCrker would do well to remember
that II protection is robbery and is to he
punished accordingly he will be the first
to pay the penalty; for either he will be
turned adrift entirely or his wages will be
cut down to the starvation point. AS con-
clus1vely shown by the bulletins of the
bureau of labor, the purchasing power of
the average wage received by the wage
worker has grown faster than the cost Of
living, and this in spite Of the continual
shortening Of working hours. Tie accum-
country. as shown by the deposits in the
savings banks, have increased by leaps and
bounds. At no time in the history Of this
or any other country has there been an era
SO productive Of material benefit alike to
workingman and employer as during the
seven years that have just passed
'The farmer has beJ Gifted quite as much
as the. manufacturer. the merchant and
the wage worker. The most we come and
impressive fact established by the last CEN
sus is the wide and even distribution Of
wealth among all classes Of our country
men. The chief agencies in producing this
the development Of manufactures. and the