The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10

tis and by our indirect system of taxa tion. While the party must maintain its position on this subject it cannot present this as the only issue.
 The party must also maintain Its position on the tariff question: No an- swer has been made to the indictment against the high tariff. and yet here, too. the burden of the tariR system is Concealed by the method in which the taxes are collected. It cannot be made the sole issue in g campaign.
 The party must renew it's demand for an income tax, to be secured through a constitutional amendment, in order that wealth may be made to pay its share of the expense of the govern ment. To-day we are collecting prae- tically all of our federal revenue from taxes upon consumption, and these bear heaviest upon the poor and light upon the rich.
 The party must maintain its posi- ton in favor of bimetaIlism. It cannot surrender its demand for the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, but the question must remain in abeyance until condi- tions so change as to bring the public again face to face with falling prices and a rising dollar. This, therefore, cannot be made the controlling issue E of the contest upon which we are en- tering.
 'The trust question presents the most acute phase of the contest between democracy and plutoeracy. so far as economic issues are concerned. The president virtually admits that the trusts contributed to his campaign fund but he denies that they received any promises of aid or immunity. No well informed person doubts that the large corporations have furnished the repub- lican campaign fund during the cam paign of 1896 and 1900 and 1905, and no one can answer the logic of Judge Park er's arraignment of the trusts contri- button. The trusts are run on a busi- ness principle. They do not subscribe millions of dollars to a campaign un- less they are paying for fayors already granted .ar purchasing favors for future delivery The weakness of Judge Park CTS position was that the charge vas made at the close of the campaign when 1t was neutralized by counter charge. The trusts cannot be fought successfully by any party that depends upon trust funds to win the election. The democratic party must make its attack upon the trusts so vehement that no one will suspect it of secret aid from them. It will be to its advantage if it will begin the next campaign with
 s4,.,,es l<v.f buttons will be accepted and then prove it's sincerity by giving the public ac- cess to its contribution list. In public enterprises the names of contributors are generally made public in order to denote the character and purpose of the work.
 President Roosevelt has four years in which to make good his declaration that no obligations were incurred by the acceptance of trust funds. He will disappoint either the contributors or the voters. If he disappoints the con tributors, the trust question may be put in the process of settlement. If he disappoints the people, they will have a chance to settle with his party four years hence. Death to every private monopoly must be the slogan of the party in this question; any other post tion is a surrender. The platform of 1900 and 1904 declare that private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable and this declaration presents the issue upon the trust question.
 The party must continue it's defense of the interests of the wage earners; 1t must protect them from the encroach- ments of capital The fact that the la boring men have not always shown their appreciation of the party's posi- tion ought not to deter the party from doing it's duty in regard to them. The labor question is not one that concerns employers and employees alone; 1t CO.,. cerns the entire community and the people at large have. an interest in the just settlement of labor controversies; for that reason they must insist upon remedial legislation in regard to hours and arbitration; and they must so limit the authority of the courts in contempt cases as to overthrow what is known as government by injunction.
 The party must continue it opposi- ton to national banks of issue and must insist upon divorcing the treas ury department firm Wall street.
 The party must continue it's fight for the popular election of senators and for district legislation wherever the principle can be applied. It must mot only maintain its position on old issues, but 1t must advance to the con- sideration of new questions as they arise.
 It takes time to direct attention to an evil and still more time to consoli- date sentiment in favor of a remedy, and Mir Bryan is not sanguine enough to belive that all the reforms that he favors will be at once endorsed by any party platform, but he will proceed to point out the reform which he believes to be needed. Among those may be mentioned the postal telegraph system, state ownership of railways, the elec- ton of federal judges for fixed terms, and the election of postmasters by the people for their respective communi- ! ties. Instead of having the govern nent controlled by corporations through officers chosen by the corporations, we must have a government of the people, by the people and for the people, a goy- ernment administered according to the Jeffersonian maxim of Equal rights to all and special privileges to none. : Hope and duty point the way. To doubt l n ~ ! j H. II IL. ..