Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14

R1OApI1S dI IAo port OIL Beirut when an
effort had been made to assassinate an
American official, and in the port Of Tan
ger when an American citizen had been
abducted? and that in each case the wrong
complained of was righted and expiated?
and that within the last few days the visit
OF an American squadron to Smyrna was
toli9wed by the long-delayed concession
OF their just rights to those Americans con-
Gerned IN educational work in Turkey?
20 they object to the trade treaty with
China, so full Of advantage for the Amer
to the fact that the ships carrying the
national flag now have a higher standard
IMAM ever before in craftsmanship and in
seamanship, as individual units and as
component parts of squadrons and fleets?
II they object to any or all of these things
we join issue with them.
Executive Encroachments.''
When our opponents speak of EN-
authority of congress or the judiciary, ap-
parently the act they ordinarily have in
view is Pension Order No. Is, issued under
IN dhe- authority of existing law. This order
civil war who had reached the age of g.
should be presumptively entitled to the
pension of six dollars month"; given I'M
der the dependent pension law to those
whose capacity to earn their livelihood by
manual labor has been decreased so per
cent, and that by the time the age of 70
Vas Vas t reached the presumption should be
the age being treated as evidental fact
in each case. This order was made in the
performance of duty imposed upon the
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-
eeiu usly presumed. Similarly President
half disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed. The regulation now in question,
In the exercise Of the same power. supple
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley.
IF our opponents come into power they
can revoke this order and announce that
presumably in full bodily vigor and not en-
titled to PENSIONS Will they now authori-
tatively state that they intend to do this?
If so, we accept the issue: If not then we
issue which, when raised, they do not ven
ture to meet
Criticisms of the administration 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
err"
Democratic Policies.
OF the policies for which the democratic
party processes to stand the president SAYS:
so much for what our opponents openly
tack on the acts of the administrator.
When we come to consider the policies for
which they, profess to stand we are met
with the difficulty always arising when
statements OF policy are so made that they
can be interpreted in different ways. On
some OF the vital questions that have con-
f dHnaSs the American people in the last
that silence is the best-possible way to
convey their views They contend that
their lukeWarm attitude of partial ac-
pushed entities them to be made the Gus
todians of the financial honor and com
merGial interests which they have but re-
Gently sought to RUM
He reviews the history of the republican
party's efforts to establish a 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
matter OF SOUND currency; the only real
way to keep the question from becoming
unsettled is to keep the republican party
in power
He points to the record of the admins
tratlon IN its, dealings with both capital
and labor and carefully outlines each step
of the thrust laws, and explains the
need of such laws on the national statute
t n2oks IN opposition to the democratic claim
fords complete legal remedy against mo-
nopolies," and of this he says:
But there is no common law of the
only by the state courts and officers. No
federal court or officer could take any
action Whatever under them. 1t was this
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
CT the last congress supplementing them,
mat the national government acquires any
jurisdiction tis1l over the subject; To say that
should be limited to the application Of
common law is equivalent to saving that
the. national government should take no
action Whatever to regulate them
The Tariff Issues.
He charges the democrats with insin-
certify and evasiyeness in their statements
Undoubtedly it would be possible at the
present time to prevent any Of the trusts
from remaining prosperous by the simple
change in the tariff as to paralyze the in.
dustries of the country. The trusts would
cease to prosper; but their smaller com
workers would starve,, while it would not
pay the farmer to haul his produce to mar
Continuing on the subject of the tariff. he
says: Az
From time to time schedules must un-
doubtedly be rearranged and readjusted
to t. meet &c: 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
ln;s OF business, the closing of fac
tories, the impoverishment of the farmer.
the ruin of the capitalist, and the starVa,
tlon OF the Wage-worker
IT is a matter. of regret that the pro-
+; oI
last 40 odd years, has become part Of the
very fiber of this country, is not now ac
copied as definitely established Surely
beyond the domain Of theory, and a right
to expect that not only it's original adyo.
Gates, put those who at one time distrusted
1uiesce in the results that have been proved
oyer 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
p the American people had not possessed
intelligence to turn their vast material re-
sources to account. But it is no less true
hat 1t IS our economic policy as regards
he tariff and finance which has enabled
US as nation to make such good use Of
he Individual capacities of our citizens,
and the natural resources Of our country.
Every class of our people is benefited by
years the merchant has seen the export
trade of this country grow faster than ever
in our previous history. The manufacturer
could not keep his factory running if it
were not for the protective tariff The
wage. worker would do well to remember
that if protection is robbery and is to be
punished, accordingly, he will be the first
to pay the penalty; for either he will be
turned adrift entirely, or his wages will be
clusively shown by the bulletins of the
bureau o OF labor, the purchasing power of
the average wage received by the wage
worker mas grown faster than the cost Of
SHORTENING of working hours. The accum-
ulated savings Of the workingmen Of the
country, as shown by the dennsits in tha