Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14


ton, wheat, corn. etc. which enabled
these United States to draw more than
their pro rata share of the worlds
stock of money metals. thereby in.
creasing their own stock of gold by
The republican platform declares
that the republican platform was re
sponsible for the relief of Cuba and
the war with Spain. 1t was not the
miserieS of Cuba but public demand.
that led the republican party to fall
in line. Democrats voted for the
war measure as enthusiastically as
republicans, Not the republican
party. but the people of America,
fought the Quick, victorious war with
Spain.
What have the republicans to say
for themselves in connection with the
great trust question: This is the
language of the platform:
I Laws enacted by the republican
/ party and which the democratic party
had failed to enforce have
been fearessly enforced
llSlS are tnIee statements. nGSt
that the republicans, instead of both
parties. enacted the laws. which is
not true: secondly, that the democrat.
ic party had done nothing. which IS
also not TRUE, and, third. that the re.
publican party has enforced the law.
which is only partially true
Fight on the Trusts.
Attorney General Harmon, under
Cleveand's administration, found the
suit Of the governments against the
Trans. Missouri Freight association
lost, revived it and won it. He then
instituted suit against the Joint Traf.
fiC association and also against the
Addystone Pipe company. The prln,
Ctple established in the case of the
government against the Trans Mis-
souri, Freight association-the primer
pie there contended for by Cleveland's
attorney generals the principle
which gave life to the proceedings in
the Northern Securities case, and
which led Governor Van SAINT. and
not the republican party. as has been
falsely pretended, to inaugrTatc that
case. One of the chairmcn of the
republican convention says it has
"enjoined the beef trust" The in.
junction does not seem to have had
any practical effect upon the beef
trust or upon the price of beefsteak.
The boast that the administration
has executed the antitrust laws is
ridiculous. The attorney general. i'm
response to resolution of my own,
frankly confessed that nothing had
been done, and left the inference that
criminal prosecution of the men found
guilty by the supreme court in the
Northern Securities case of having
violated the law and incurred its pen
allies
Ship Subsidy Plank.
There is cunningly concealed in
the republican platform the hydra
head of yet worse form of special
legislation, namely, special legislation
by direct subsidy. taking money out
of the treasury and handing it over
bodily to a special class-in this case
the class of shipbTilders and ship
owners Things have almost reached
the old decadent days of the Roman
republic when government consisted
chiefly in distributing bread and Civ
ing circuses. The worst of all this
iS thut c no ha ingtiRAI
Will Name Safe Man.
The democracy will nominate for
president man who will not usTrp
legislative or judicial functions who
will not recklessly violate information
al usages who will not keep people
guessing about what he is going to do
or say next.
1T will nominate him upon plat
form ignoring dead issues and dealing
with every present live issue in tones
certain and unmstakable favoring
economy Of administration. enforce
ment Of honesty in the public ser.
vice wise and business-like revision
and reduction of the tariff by the
friends OF the masses and of the com.
mon veal and not by tariff benefciar-
les and their representatives alone. a
reduction which shall aim at equality
of burdens and equality of opportun-
tiles and whose ultimate object shall
be to raise a revenue by taxation to
support the government in virility but
in simplicity.
Will Batter Tariff Wall.
1T will not falter when it comes to
declaring for a reduction of tariff
taxation on trust-produced articles TO
the point whore foreign competition
may enter the American market,
whenever combines, seeking monon-
oily raise their prices to the American
consumer to the point of extortion,
nor will ii falter in declaring for re-
duction whore American concerns ha-
bitually charge American consumers