The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-12

answer has been made to the indict-
ment against the high tariff, and yet
here, too, the burden Of the tariff
system is concealed by the method in
not be made the sole issue in a cam
paign.
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
government. Today we are collecting
practically all of our federal revenue
from taxes upon consumption. and
these bear heaviest upon the poor and
light upon the rich.
Bmetallism an Issue.
''The party must maintain it's po-
sition in favor of bimetalism. 1t can
not surrender it's demand for the use
of gold and silver as the standard
money of the country, but the question
must remain in allegiance until condi-
tions so change as to bring the public
again face to fact with falling prices
and rising dollar. This therefore,
cannot be made the controlling issue
of the contest upon which we are en-
tering.
The trust question presents the
most acute phase of the contest be-
tween democracy and plutocray, 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
republican campaign fund during the
campaigns of 1895, 1900 and 1904, and
no one can answer the logic of Judge
Parker's arraignment of trust contri-
buttons.
1.-THE trusts are run ON business
principle. They do not subscribe mil
lions of dollars to a campaign un-
less they are paying for favors already
granted or purchasing favors for flu
ture delivery. The weakness of Judge
Parker's position was that it was made
at the close of the campaign. when it
was neutralized by a counter charge.
The trusts cannot be fought success
fully by any party that depends upon
trust funds to win the election.
1.-The democratic party must make it's
attacks upon the trusts so vehement
that no one will suspect it of secret aia
from them. 1t will be to the advantage
of the party if it will begin the next
| campaign with an announcement that
no trust contributions will be accepted,
and then prove it's sincerity by giving
the public access to it's subscription
list. In public enterprises the names
of contributors are generally made
puUliC III OIUcI 10 uellOte tne character
and purpose of the work.
Must Make Good.
Roosevelt has four years in which
to make good his declaration that no
obligations were incurred by the &C
ceptance of trust funds He will dis
appoint either the contributors or the
voters. If he disappoints the contrib
utors, the trust question may be put
in the process of settlement If he dis
appoints 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
old party in this question; any other
position is a surrender. The platform
of 1900 and that of 1904 declare that a
private monopoly is indefensibe and
intolerable, and this declaration pre-
sents the issue upon the trust ques-
ton
THE party must continue it's defense
OF the interests of the wage earners;
it must protect them from the en-
croachments of the capitalists. The
fact that laboring men have not always
shown their appreciation of the par
tvs position, ought not to deter the
party from doing it's duty in regard to
them The labor question is not one