Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-03

excessive and enable powerful combinations
to extort unjust and oppressive tribute from
the people can not be controverted. the
tariff Is undoubtedly too high upon such
articles as enables the manufacturer to sell
his products abroad cheaper than at home.
Steel rails are a conspicuous example In
this respect. 1t is admitted that they are
being made for SIS ton. A few years ago
they were freely sold in this country at
SIT a ton They are now selling at the mills
here for home consumption at w ton,
and for the foreign market at from $lS to
So a ton. This unjust discrimination
against our people is made possible only Dy
a tariff that on this article Is entirely TOO
high.
The average selling price of hundred
articles, taken principally from the iron
and steel list, is found to be about ~ per
cent higher in this country than abroad.
Relief from these conditions will only come
through the success of the Democratic
party, which stands for wise, conserVa-
tive and gradual change in the tariff laws,
which will eaualize the burdens of taxa
ton and make honest competition possible
But in making such changes Its purpose
will be to legislate with due regard for
the labor and capital involved In industrial
enterprises
Trusts.
1t is estimated that there are in the Unit
ed States between two and three hundred
| combinations of capital and corporate In
| terests, known as trusts, which have grown
up in the last few years under republican
| rule. Some of them are so conducted as to
| be pernicious and harmful to the general
interest With the power they are able
to exert, they can lessen competition. con-
troll prices and regulate to their own advan-
tage the law of supply and demand. 1ndi-
vidual effort is helpless against such strong
rivals, and the natural right of all persons
to barter and trade Is unnaturaAy restrict
ed. The effort of these trusts is to control
or monopoliZe, and these mOnOpOlieS, when
unrestrained, seem to produce conditions
which bring about strikes and disorders,
and disturb the business affairs of the coun-
try
Local Self-Government.
Local self-government, that came to us
not as the gift of the national government,
! but as the legitimate outcome of the re-
serve powers of the states and OF the peo-
| pie is the very cornerstone of our political
structure, and the best assurance of liberty
regulated by law. 1t can only be main
tanned by strict observance of the limita-
lions of the federal Constitution. The DEM
| ocratic party has always resisted, and will
continue to resist, the encroachment by Its
enemies upon the fundamental right of the
people of the several states. All power
comes from the people. and should be sur
| rendered only in the interests of the peo-
pie, and whenever this power is used for
selfish interests it Is not only abuse, but
usurpation.
Arbitration.
The declaration in the st. Louis platform
ir favor of arbitration is one that appeals
to my sense of fairness. Nations and
states have employed to advantage this
method of settling disputed questions, states
have invoked it's aid with good results,
and individuals frequently have resort to
IL in adjusting questions of difference. The
Hague tribunal, representing the sentiment
OF Cancellation, is the highest practical ex-
preston of intelligent thought on this sub
ject The principles of arbitration are the
same whether governing in the great court
Of nations or applied in the affairs
of Industrial life. Its permanent es-
Establishment as a part of the industrial
system of the country, upon basis of mu-
tual consent of all parties to controversy,
would insure more friendly relations be-
tween employer and employed, for the in
terest of tie workingman and the employer
is identical. 1t affords safe and equitable
method of determining differences that may
arise. and has been called "a reasonable
and natural mode of settling such disputes.
The spirit of arbitration is kindred to the
love of law and order. 1t is the arbiter Of
peace instead OF war, and makes for hap
p:ness instead of sorrow.
Race Issue.
All lovers of their country must depre-
cate the rehabilitation by the republican
party of a disappearing race issue, at a
time when every effort should be made to
promote rather than retard the progress
which was being made In the states where
slavery had existed. toward kindlier rela-
lions between the two races. The revival
of this issue. with all its attendant evils.
must of necessity retard the development
of the southern states, whose people are
struggling manfully with conditions left
by the war, and seriously interferes with
the Industrial progress OF both races.
Fraud in the Public Service.
Population and fraud in the public serv-
ice under the present administration, es-
pecially in the Post Office and land de-
partments. reached such proportions that
knowledge Of the evils practiced became
public property. Prosecutions naturally
followed, but a thorough and impartial in
vestigation by Congress, proposed and
urged by the democratic minority, was re-
fused by the republicans at the mandate 1t
Is believed, of the administration Con-
gress adjourned earlier than at any long
session for many years for the purpose, it
is believed, of preventing further agtta-
ton of the question and in an effort to
curtail expenses.
Civil Service.
Offices are created and filed in PURSUE
ance of law to carry on the government.
and not to further party ambitions and
| the selfish purpose of any citizen. Many
of the hundred thousand federal office
holders, servants Of all the people, while
under salary. are now vigorously, some
covertly and some openly. working and
contributing in the present campaign to
secure the success of the republican
| party, in defiant violation Of the civil
| service laws, rules and regulations Sew
| eral members of the cabinet and other Of
| flcials of the government, forsaking their
| duties and the departments at Washing
| ton, are spending their time in making
| speeches and using all the influence and
| power of their official positions to- elect
| their chief.
Judge Parker.
| The late democratic convention, and its
! candidate for President, have given sig
| nal exhibition of a mutual respect and
confidence almost unprecedented in our
political history, and our party has re-
ceived new inspiration and hope in It's
| appeal to the people, who always appreci-
| ate and admire courage, character and
| discretion in their leaders Our candi-
| date has these qualities and can be de-
| pended upon at all times to observe that
| self-control in speech and action which
| Is so necessary to safe reasoning and
| sound Judgment.
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