The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-18

because the theory cannot be sustain
ed in any other way and the theory, as
our Republican friends tell us, is our
fixed national policy" heuce to doubt
it would be disloyalty.
Argument of Fcatherless Bipcd.
A wise man entertains d sovereign
contempt for a great MANY sorts or err
rors, but the soverelgnist of all
should be visited on the designing
idiot, who saws that the price of labor
depends upon the amount of work 70
be done in a country. and the number
of men capable and DESTROYS of doing
it; in a word. on demand for and sup
DIV Of labor. That particular sort of
peculiarly inspired idiot attempts to
explain that the high wages which
were paid in California and all the
new States for those employed on
farm, in store mine or forest, in COM
parison with the wages paid In older
States which were without free lands
and with comparative abundance OF
laborers, as to be accounted Tor by the
comparative scarcity OF working men
and the comparative abundance OF new
work in the new States. The same
featherlesS biped, we cannot De 100 Sc
we're on him, sir, carries his eXplana-
periOritv of our wage rate In colonial
times and always since then, over Jnat
existing IN Great Britain and on the
Continent was due to this same fact,
viz paucity of working men ana
abundance of work How lacking IN
subtlety of intellect! Instead of seek
ting in remote metaphysical places rea-
sons satisfactory to curious mind, ne
contents himself, like Il brother to the
oOtrude themselves right in front of
his nose. These be, sir, mere dema-
sogic appeals to "the basest set in the
land-the farmers" as our fellow cltl-
zen in the White House is said TO nave
called them. What is the brother TO
the OK" fit for anyhow, save to be taxed
tor the creation of naturally unprort-
able industries? 1t is plain, sir TO me
and you and other strenuosities, that
an Industry created by taxation and
maintained by legislation, must neces-
sarily be more profitable to the tax
payer and to the consumer and, there
fore, TO the comm Onwealth, than an
industry which does not require any
legislation to make it profitable in the
first 1nStance, nor any taxation OF
consumers to keep it on it's feet after
1t has been created" by the base
agencies of soil. climate natural apti-
The Great Combines.
That reminds me of another blum
DER or our ancestors both under the
common law in Great Britain and in
the United States. They seem to have
entertained notion that combinations
In restraint of trade, seeking monopoly
and throttling competition, are in some
way adverse TO the development of in
dividuality. and somehow poison the
life of trade. They went so far as to
contend that the highest object of
mans existence is not to be well man
aged even at a living money profit TO
himself, but that it is to learn to man
age himself we'll We know now that
combinations of corporations seeking
with the power of monopoly the re-
sultant power of robbing consumers
by raising prices to an eXtOrtionate
figure, under the shelter of tariff laws,
shutting out foreign competitors; and
seeking the future resultant power to
bear down the price to be paid to the
farmer raising the raw material and
seeking the yet further resultant pow
er to regulate wages, by reason OF the
fact that the working man has no
where else to go to get work except
20 the concerns in the combination
are on the whole, beneficial inStitu-
lions in a free Republic of self-govern-
ing men. They may appear to be
doing some harm, may appear at first
blush indeed to be blocking that
broad opportunity for individual eff
fort which you enjoyed, sir when you
advanced in a life time from the posi-
ton of brakeman on a train to that
of a leader of men as a railroad and
industrial captain, and which many
country merchant, become now mer-
chant prince, also once enjoyed. Those
are only phenomenal, hOWeVer-mere
outward SeemingS. Great combina-
tons of industrial corporations seek
ing mOnoDolitic control. we now know
to be industrial evolutions." "necessa-
ry to modern development" aud it is
blasphemy against Almighty God him
self to contend against this, his law of
evolution. There are those who urge
that Federal statutes need not aid in
the evolution" but they are plainly
mistaken because it being once grant
ed that it is Gods law, as all things,
evolutionary must be granted to be,
then the conclusion seems clear that it
would be both Sacriligious and irrelig-
ious not 70 aid by legislation the evo-
lutionary process so wisely and so re-
Gently discovered.
An Evolutionary Mule Race.
Sir. there is hope for the Republic
as long as it continues to move FOR
ward in the tried ways of the Old
World, divorcing itself from outgrown
American landmarks. That we are
moving and divorcing there is TO
doubt. Standing now in the dawn Of
the twentieth century, having forbid
den the reading of the Declaration OF
Independence in a part of the cOun-
try's domain: with courts ready TO de-
eide that the Constitution is not
written letter to be read and obeyed.
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