Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-04-27
UNPUBLISHED TRUSTS.
Executive Authority Fails to
Enforce the Law.
THE STATUTES OPENLY VIOLATED

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THE STATUTES OPENLY VIOLATED
Republican Method of Distinguish-
ing between Good and Bad Monop-
olies-Meddling In Foreign Affairs
Condemned by Judge Parke
Judge Alton B. Parker in his Jeffer-
son day speech in New York said in
part:
1--WE meet after a defeat which was
easy to foresee and predict. 1t was
preceded by division and faction in
ranks over a period Of eight years,
and they have done their worst. 1t
was emphasized by the use of govern
mental power for partisan purposes,
by the reckless and unprecedented ex-
penditure Of money and by demagogic
appeals to interests as wide apart as
the poles. We have left to us only the
smallest measure Of power in either
house OF congress, we have lost states
whose confidence we had long COM
manded, and the number Of governors
and state legislatures under our con-
troll is surprisingly SMALL"
MI. Parker then sketched the revival
of the party after other defeats, it's
strength when out of power, and re-
called the great men who had main
tanned it's principles. In spite Of all
its losses he said the Democracy had
been able from 1868 to 1885 to keep at
bay the enemies of good will. This
led the speaker to the question Of the
solid south, Of which he said:
Surprise is sometimes expressed
that the south has remained solid, and
yet no student, whatever his pref
udices, could overlook the fact that
in politics there is a n of graft
tude not for favors expected, but for
.unselhsh and commanding services to
humanity. Indeed, nothing in all the
recorded history of mankind has been
more pathetic, more heroic, more de-
serving of admiration and sympathy,
than the attitude Of the south since
1866.
GAS fate would have it, its defeat
in war was the smallest of its
woes, because it could neither threaten
nor bring dishonor. But the new on
test-with partisan rancor, with mill
tary power, with theft and robbery,
with poverty and the enforced domf-
nation Of a race lately in slavery
forced as it was without time for re-
covery, and that, too, in it's own homes,
required a courage little less than SUI
perhuman.
IF any man is so foolish as to ask
why the Democratic party has been
true to the south in it's time Of trial
and why this attachment has been re-
Quilted it must be because he knows lit
tie Of history and less Of human ma
ture."
The fashion nowadays, Mr.. Parker
said, was for new ways; the old were
not sufficiently striking, and so had
come the theory that the proper way
for a government to do things was by
interference and meddling. These
things the Democratic party resented,
he said, not because they were new,
but because they were old-as old as
tyranny itself. Mr.. Parker continued:
much is said about the peaceable
settlement Of differences; but, after all,
by keeping out Of q%uarrels we may be
able to avoid arbitration as well as
3 war. Perhaps the most encouraging
I visible sign in respect to this persistent
policy Of interference is that, in spite
of outward appearances, in spite OF
royal statues in the national capital, in
spite Of the turbulence manifested
from time to time in so many quarters
in spite of messengers bearing royal
congratulations from thrones, ours is
still a popular, not an imperial, system
Of society and government.
ut will not only be our duty to re
sist these strange tendencies, so clear
as to show the method that is in them
but we have more work to do, more
$ far reaching reforms to promote, more
moral issues to meet, than we can know
or realize until we begin to look the
situation fairly In the face.
"In spite of the hypocritfcal claims
t so freely INDUCED, the prostitution Of
Il our free civil service to a degree never
before known: the use Of money il
elections, whether presidential Of
: state; the belittling or the misuse OF
5 the judiciary. the interference with thu
" duties and powers Of the states, thu
appeal to the military spirit, the main
%tenance of a vicious and unfair taxing
system. the raising again of the race
e issue in it's worst form n from tht
basest of partisan m~otives-an these
must be understood, and when under
stood they must be met with hrmnes:
and perseverance until the abuse:
e which surround them find popular rec
ignition and then reformation"
On the question of corporations AM
: trusts Mr.. Parker said that his recen
= experience in politics did not incline
b him to favor overmuch the manage
ment of some of the great corpora
tions. The great majority of them, n
said, were, however. managed with al
much honesty as we were accustomed
h to see in mundane affairs. This LEI