Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
PARKER ON THE TRUSTS
ADDRESS AT CARNEGIE HALL
AFTER COOPER UNION TALK.
Reiterated Charges Against Cortelyou
Declared for One Official Term
for the Whole People.

Judge Parker was driven from Cooper
Union to Carnegie Hall, in New York, last
night, where he addressed a meeting
! under the auspices of the West Side Par
| ker Independent Club. He was most
| heartily received. The hall was filled,
| nearly one-third of the audience consist
| ing of women. and when the candidate
entered he was given demonstration.
| Amid a burst of patriotic music and the
waving Of banners and handkerchiefs
and shouts of his name, Judge Parker
bowed his Acknowledgements. He was
cheered for ten minutes, while he waited
to speak.
II am glad to be here" he said, and
appreciate your welcome more than does
the committee which is waiting to take
me elsewhere I will not detain you long"
He then proceeded with his address and
was frequently interrupted with applause.
He made only few attempts to empha-
size his remarks and none at oratorical
display. He concluded at 1915, and after
shaking hands with number Of those on
the platform left for the Democratic Club.
He spoke in part as follows:
In the hands of the independent voter
lies the balance of power, and 1t Is well
that this Is so. A country deprived of the
advantage of an Independent vote strong
election when issues are at stake has
sunk to a point where mere political adj
vantage and selfish greed alone are recog-
nfzed as swaying human action.
Il recognize on behalf of the democratic
party that the support in this campaign
of the Independent vote gives not alone
an assurance of victory, but an abiding
faith that that for which we are contend
ing is the right.
II recognize also the responsibility cast
| upon myself and the democratic party in
receiving the support OF the independ-
emit voters, and this responsibility I not
only feel, but have heretofore acknowl-
edged in public utterances.
His Intentions if Elected.
81 have said, and I say again. that If
be elected to the presidency of the United
States, if be called upon by your votes
to fill the Office of the chief executive of
this great country, I will be the Presi-
dent Of no party in contradistinction to
be the President of all the people. I have
said that, to guard myself against the in
sidious pressure of a personal ambition,
| Will seek no second election to that Of
flee. l have expressed plainly and sin
cere1y my intentions, should l be elected
to do that which in my honest judgment
shall rebound most gratefully to the
peace prosperity and security of our COM
mon country and of the inhabitants there
Of On no other terms am before you or
before the country, and by this am 1
willing to abide.
Now, what are the issues upon which
you are called to adjudge in this cam
paign? In very fact, they are both few
and simple We have grown tired of see
ing individuals made rich by legislation
and we fear the results which have arisen
and VIII arise from familiariZing our
citizens with the idea that wealth is tc
be acquired through governmental ia
voritism. The instant it is recognized as
accepted doctrine that the government of
the United States is dispenser of favors,
that instant 1T becomes / had almost
said, the duty" of every great combina-
ton Of capital to seek to control govern
ment. The seeds of the disease were i'm
planted among US by the undue expan-
sion of the idea of a. protective tariff.
The vicious circle-undue protection that
riches may be unfairly acquired, contri-
button of riches so acquired that undue
protection may be continued and extend
ed--become but too soon established.
People Are Tariff Taxed.
That great sums should be raised by
tariff taxation is necessary for their selfish
purposes. But great sums when acquired
by a government calls for great expendi-
lures, and reasons for the making of great
expenditures must in their turn be supplied
If the people are to be lured into acquiesc-
ence And so again in their turn great ex-
penditures call for the raising of still greater
revenues. and thus only can popular clamor
be sti1led and reasonable excuse afforded
those who find their profit in debauching
the people.
Moreover. In its train this great evil OF
has brought it's Latin sister domestic mo-
nopolies to feed upon the people.
1t seems as though every day a new mo-
nopoly was uncovered. I need not recite
to you the familiar names of the more
prominent of the trusts. I need not tell
you that properly administered the law is
sufficient to control them. But 1 may be
pardoned If ask you to contemplate for
a moment how they surround us in every
direction and how we come across their
unsupported existence at every turn.
1t was only in this just past month of Oc-
tober, to cite the last instance which has
come to my knowledge, that it was develop
ed before the interstates commerce commits
sion that the fruit growers Of some sec
tons OF the United States were bound hand
and foot by monopoy-were dependent
for their profits, dependent for the reward
OF their labor, dependent for their exist
ence. not on their efforts, not on the boun-
ty of nature. not on their prudence, their
care, or their foresight. but on the mercy
of the private lines"
Reiterates Cortelyou Accusation.
There is still uglier page to the general
story. An example is before US of how the
effort Of the people to free themselves from
a burden can be seized upon by the un-
scrupulous and itself made the agency
whereby the burden Is bound more firmly
upon their backs. The clamor of the peo-
pie against the trusts rose to the point
where recognition was necessary. A new
department of the government was created
the Department of Commerce. To that
department was intrusted inquisitorial pow
er over the great corporations. Its head,
the Secretary of Commerce. was made a
cabinet officer.
But, lest honest business interests should
suffer, lest INSCRIPTIONS competitors should
take unfair advantage, 1t was provided that
the results of the departments investiga-
tons into the affairs of any CORPORATION
should be confidential. They were and are
to be placed in the first instance at the dis
position of the President, and in his dis
erection only they to be made public and
become the common knowledge of the peo-
pie.
Extraordinary powers these, and marking
an extraordinary faith of people in its
elected chief executive. And how has this
administration responded to this trust? 1t
places at the head of this new department
as the first Secretary Of the Department of
Commerce of the United States. the private