The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-09-16


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ana thet within NE last fsw days the VISIT
81 an Amefican squadron. to Smyrna We.
OF their just rights to those Americans con-
DO. they object to the trade treaty. with
lean people In tho future? DO they object.
to the fact that the ships carrying the
national flag now have higher standard
seamanship, AZ Individual units and AZ
component parts OF sQuadrons and feetS7
y II they object to any or All OF these things.
we Join issue with them. m ,'s' VIZ
Executive EncroAchments." IN
When our opponents speak Of en- en-
authority Of congress or the judiciary. ap-
parently the act they ordinarily have IN
view is Pension Order No. Is. issued under
sa any
civil war who had reached the age Of 80
should be presumptively entitled to the
Of dollars
whose capacity to earn their livelihood BY
manual labor has been decreased so per
cent. and that BY the time the age Of 20
that the ply sieal disability wa. complete;
the age being treated as an evidential fact
in each case. This order was made in the
presaent an on act Of pssu
quires the executive to make regulations
to govern the subordinates Of the pension
pensions. President Cleveland had already
declared that Is should be Set as the age
at which total disability should be con.
oil SiVyo1x I1or 11y
Mckinley established IS as the age at which
half disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed. The regulation now In question:
mented these regulations made under
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley. y.
i"If our opponents come into power they
they viii treat the veterans, Of g. to 7oSas
presumably In full bodily vigor and not en-
titled to pensions. Will they now anthori.
ftatively state that they. intend to do this?
II so, we accept the issue. If not, then we
have the right to ask why they raise an
t ture to meet meet "AeA Aa'ee0' 10y - ~
Criticisms Of the administrations set
Element 81 the coal strike and the suit
against the Northern Securities company
are cited, and the president says: .a$a.
"Such mutually destructive criticisms
fot coherent action or constructive legisla-
ton if our opponents should be given pow
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= OF the policies for which the democratic
party processes to stand the president says:
or covertly advance in the way Of an a.
tack on the acts Of the administration.
When we come to consider the policies for
Wits the dcaty always 10 ar isl are when s
statements Of policy are 50 made that they
can be interpreted in different ways. On
some Of the vital questions that have con.
decade. our opponents take the position
that silence is the best possible way. to
convey their views; They contend that
quiescence In what Others have accom-
plished entities them to be made the GUS
todians Of the financial honor and COM
merGial interests which they have but re-
He reviews the history Of the republican
party's efforts to establish stable national
currency, and says:
ly adopt the views which we hold and upon
which we have acted and are acting, In the
matter Of sound S currency: the only real
unsettled is to keep the republican party
in power" .. r.
He points to the record Of the admins
and s cutnes
that has been taken for the enforcement
Of the antitrust laws, and explains the
need Of such laws on the national statute tie
''that the common law; as developed, at
fords a complete legal remedy against mo
nopolies," and Of this he says: .?
United States. It's rules can be enforced
only by the state. courts and officers. No
federal court or ohlcer could take any
fact, coupled with the inability Of the states
to control trusts and monopolies. which
led to the passage of the federal statutes
40 int a q I'M a r. a mr. q
through the exercise Of the powers con-
ferred by these acts, and by the statutes
of the last congress supplementing them,
jurisdiction over the subject. To say that
action against trusts and monopolies
should be limited to the application of
the national government should take no
action whatever to regulate them"
The Tariff Issues. IT,
He charges the democrats with insin-
i certify and evaslyeness In their statements
SYSTEMATICALLY it would be BEL possible at the
from remaining prosperous by " the he simple simple
change in the tarin as to paralyze the in,
sasees Of a s .sr
petitors would be ruined. and the wage
workers. would starve, while it would not
pay the farmer to haul his produce to mar
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Continuing on the subject Of the tariff, he
says: "'5:%t: s'ea s+s3t2 &Sts+t#JEl
:'From-time to time schedules must un-
to meet the shifting needs OF the country;
but this can with safety be done only by
those who are:committed to the cause OF
the protective system. To uproot and de-
stroy that system would be to insure the
prostration Of business, the closing Of fac
tories. the impoverishment Of the farmer,
the ruin Of the capitalist, and the starva-
ton of the wage-Worker $st #$ygEflf3b#
; ut is q matter Of regret that the pro-
tective tariff policy, which,, during the
last 40 odd years, has become part Of the
very fiber Of this country, is not now ac-
copied as definitely established. Surely
we have q right to- say that It has passed
beyond the domain Of theory. and q right
to expect that not only its original advo-
Gates, but those who at one time distrusted
it on theoretic grounds should now ac-.
quiesce In the results that have been proved
over and over again by actual experience.
These 40 odd years have been the most.
seen; more prosperous years than any