Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

49, eShiSllty
What would lie say to the swarm of
trusts today, whose individual and
combined influence, whose paid or ter
rorized servants in or out of office,
constitute the governing power in the
national administration?
If Jackson was needed in his day,
how much more is he needed now,
with the fearlessness that made him
do his duty as he saw it!
Needless to say, the Democratic party
of the United States, which includes
able and successful men in all lines of
effort, has never put itself in position
of hostility to any legitimately acquired
wealth.
Today, as in Jackson's day, the Dem
ocratic party is a party open to all
American citizens obedient to the laws
and faithful to the constitution, no
matter how poor or no matter how rich
they be.
No Democrat need be reminded that
the ability of those men who possess
honestly acquired riches is essential to
the nations welfare.
Those who attack indiscriminately or
jealousy the rights of the prosperous
manufacturer, merchant, inventor
banker or other legitimately successful
men are not Democrats. They are as
blind and stupid in their way us those
Of another class who cry down and at
tack the rights of the union man who
works with his hands.
The Democratic party, more willingly
than any other, recognizes that the men
who develop the resources of the cOun-
try, the men who create the wealth, the
men who through executive, organizing
and constructive ability provide oppor-
tunity for effort, employ labor, distrib
ute wages and confer benefits upon the
whole community, are those entitled to
large reward, since those who direct
great and legitimate business under
of the nation,
The promoters Of extortionate and
speculative trusts do not develop the
resources of the country, but hinder
and restrict development. They do not
create wealth, but appropriate the
wealth which others have created.
They check prosperity by concentrating
wealth In the hands of the few out of
the savings Of the many. They limit
production, they limit opportunity. they
limit the employment of labor and re-
duce the laborer's wage, while they in
crease the cost of living. They confer
no benefits on the community. The
wealth they possess is stolen money,
and the laws of the country should
hold them as public criminals.
Managers of get rich quick trusts,
managers of fraudulent trusts-that
great tribe Of public robbers-arc not
confounded in any Democrats mind
with the honest men whose superior
ability, industry, patience or intellect
have brought them legitimate wealth.
The growth and prosperity Of the
United States have merely begun. The
nation needs the ablest minds, capable
Of wide planning and accomplishment.
These will continue to be valued and
encouraged by all good citizens. Ev
cry Democrat will agree that the labor
er is worthy of his hire. whether he
work for day wages or for great
wealth, SO long us lie works honestly
and legitimately.
The Democratic party is the party
Of all honest working Americans. 1t Is,
the party that will promote the wei
fare of all those contented to live with
In the laws.
The Democratic party is the party of
prosperity-the prosperity of the many,
not of the law defying few.
The coming battle of the Democracy
against special privilege is already
clearly outlined in the minds of intel
ligent voters. This nation was estab-
lished for the benefit Of all, for the pur-
pose of giving equal legal rights to ALL
The coming fight Of the Democracy is
to preserve the essential character of
our American system, and is to be
against the criminal element which
seeks to change the nations character.
1t is the duty of the Democratic par
ty to release the country from the grip
of extortionate trusts, which, like the
coal trust and the beef trust, control
the necessaries Of life, increasing the
cost Of living and destroying the pur.
chasing power Of money earned.
1t is the duty Of the Democratic par
ty to eliminate, the opportunities of
speculative trusts, like the steel trust
and the shipyard trust, that deceive the
public and take the peoples savings in
exchange for worthless watered stocks.
1t is the duty of the Democratic
party to prevent the recurrence of the
present national situation, in which we
see the wages Of tens Of thousands of
workers in one single trust reduced in
order to swell the profits of manipula-
tors and stock jobbers.
1t is the duty of the Democratic
party to ally itself with the legitimate
business interests of the country, and
with their aid to overthrow the Repub-
lican party, which has sold itself to
the y riminal trusts.
None will welcome Democratic sue
cess more gladly than the legitimate
business man, who finds it more and
more difficult to exist under the throt-
thing influence of the trusts and their
growing control of legislation, money
and opportunity.
To the commercial traveller. the bust
ness man. the mechanic whose wages
are cut, the local banker in constant
danger, to every family that has had
its living expenses increased or its saw
ings absorbed by the criminal trusts,
would recommend n study of the char
acter of Andrew Jackson and his polit-