The San Francisco call., 1904-10-11
FAIRBANKS IN OMAHA
Urges usf7reatme1zffor
Cubz1u/ ana Labor.

OMAHA, Oct. 1o-In a speech here
tonight Senator Fairbanks discussed
the trust question. In part he spoke
as follows:
Trusts may be strong. but the Government
Is stronger There is no combination whlcn
is not amenable to the public law. The de-
Velopnent of our industries and the expan-
ol W capItal necessary. 1t would be Impossible
10 transact the present business of the coun-
u Try Wlth0ut the use Of larger capital IN
Manufacture and transportation than was
necessary few years ago The evolution in
our business affairs has been rapid and radi-
cal and il has been attended with some abuses
law.
The Republican party has sought in a wise
ana euectINe way to restrain the abuses which
have grown out OF the development. 1t has
not made war upon enterprises engaged in
whoIeaome Industry commerce. 1t has not
peen provoked to strike out against good and
bad alike. but has sought TO ascertain the
eNhs existing ana that are liable to arise and
TO enact laws to cure or prevent them. 1t has
done practically all that has been accom-
pllshed under national authority. in way
not only TO restrain or 10 prevent abuses of
corporate power, but it has effectively en-
forced the laws which were enacted by it,
Iearlessly and without partiality Whenever
lie interest, the Republican party has put
them upon the statute books and it has eX-
ecuted them as they were intended and as the
public interest required.
1t has not sought does 1t seek to inter-
tere with capital which tends to promote
wholesome Industry or commerce. for II real
ICES that to impose any unjust limitation
upon capital employed in proper productive
enterprise or in TRANSPORTATION would be to
restrict the field OF labor and capital and
check development We seek to deal with
abuses and wrongs, and not with capital
which is engaged in promoting wholesome en-
terprises. The unwritten law of supply and
demand has the sanction Of antiquity. 1t lies
commercial growth, and it should be arrested
in its operation only when the public welfare
requires.
We should be as earnest in the protection
OF the capital employed in the proper promo
tion of industry and commerce as we should
be in guarding against its use for improper
purposes. We must always realize that labor
and capital are the two great instruments In
Industrial and national development and that
we should be obseryant of their rights. We
should not be moved to pursue an unjust Or
hostile course toward either Each should be
Ser geo st III pr1nolng IN Is
We are but inspired with a sense of justice
and turn Deaf ear to mere passion and
solving the great problems which await us.
The meeting at which Senator Fair
banks spoke was held in the new Audi
torium. In addition to the discussion
of the trusts he touched upon the tariff
question and discussed other issues. He
said the Dingley law had had the effect
of opening many factories and of
spreading prosperity from one end of
the country to the other. he outlined
the policy of the Republican party with
reference to the Panama canal. claim
ing for that party all the credit for
what had been done in the interest of
that enterprise.
LEXINGTON, Neb.. Oct. 10-LeXing-
ton greeted Senator Fairbanks with a
large crowd and he spoke for about
ten minutes He contrasted the rec
ords of the two parties on economic
questions to the advantage of the Re-
publicans and urged the popular sup
port Of the ticket headed by Theodore
Roosevelt.
CENTRAL CITY, Neb., Oct. 10.-At
this place Senator Fairbanks discussed
the currency question, referring TO the
contest of 1896 over the gold standard
and complimenting Edward Rosewater,
proprietor of the Omaha Bee. for his
stanch advocacy Of sound money. Fair
banks contended that the victory Of
the gold standard and of the Repub-
lican party had had a generally bene-
fetal effect.
up went the price of cattle" he
said, up went the price of wheat, of
hogs, of everything, and up went also
some Democratic statesmen"