The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-13
.HOCH AT OTTAWA
Governor Warns Republicans to
Beware of Socialism.
Says It VIII Come Unless COrpO-
rations Are Regulated.
AT MERCY OF TRUSTS.
'sInfamOus Outrages' Have Been
COnsummated by Railroads.
Over 500 Franklin County Re-
publicans at Banquet.

Ottawa, kan, Dec. 13.-Governor E.
W. Hoch, who was the principal speak
er at the big Franklin county RepuOiI-
can BANQUET held at Ottawa last night,
declared in the course of his speech that
unless the problems of the big corpora
tiOns are solved speedily, that socialism
viii result. Governor Hoch expressed
himself as confident however, that the
problems would be solved.
About 800 plates were laid for the
banquet, and many more who desired
to attend were unable to get places at
the tables. The town was full of
Franklin county Republicans all day.
At business meeting, W. F. Nierdstedt
Of LeLoup was elected president of the
club; A. ". Cornelius of Lane. vice
president and G. F. strauchen of Otta-
wa, secretary.
Fred Baldwin of Pomona, acted as
POSTMASTER in the evening and the
speeches were made in the following
order; The Politician and the Citi-
zen, A W. Cornelius of Lane; "The
Republican Party Senator Getty of
/ Joseph Lyon of Williamsburg; "Our
Party" Governor Hoch; Franklin
/ county, DR.. w. F. Niendstedt, LeLoup;
! What's Left" A. D. Lewis of Ottawa.
I NAOfCAllOI EIOCA SdlQ IN DaTL-
/ 1t is safe to say that two great pro-
/ blens will project themselves into the
/ public arena as promontories project
/ themselves into the sea; an insuIar
policy and an industrial policy. With
out seeking 1t, without desiring it.
/ without expecting it, we have suddenly
! become world power. It brings US
/ duties we did not seek and cannot
| shirk. What our permanent island pol
t icy shall or should be I do not know
1 ana cannot ONLY f4ef71a rorn-
/ tend fully to know and unreservedly to
say. Time and Providence must blaze
the way. But if we courageously and
/ conscientiously meet present ob1iga-
/ the duties of the future win be made
/ plain to Us and in this faith we must
go forward giving to the island waits
/ committed to our care all the blessings
| winch leg1timately follow the flag.
Looming into vast proportions is the
| industrial problem. Within the last
/ haH century our population has qua
! drupled. The Industrial system has
/ changed from a private to a corporate
| one. Fifty years ago nearly all the in
1 duStr1eS OF the country were conducted
1 by private individuals with local capital.
The shoes were made by the local shoe
Makers the hats by the local hatters
the vehicles by the local mechanics: the
clothing by the local seamstresses. In
short, nearly everything that was used
by the people was made by local labor
! VIII lOLd4 capital. BIIE times have
changed. Now all these articles of
daily use are manufactured in great
| Industrial centerS by great corporafions
THESE aggregations Of capital and COM
binations Of talent are necessary to our
new and modern civilizations We could
not If we would, and we would not if
/ we could, go back to the old order of
I things But along with these vast
changes in Industrial methods have
come great abuses. All human exDeri-
{ 6npR that fI1lo
must be curbed by law for the public
good. Given free rein the many have
always been and always win be the prey
OF the few. How to restrain the selfish :
ness which naturally characterizes
these great corporations in the interest
of the people without jeopardizfn5 the
good and beneficent law of connection
essential to all human progress and
without paralyzing individual talent is
the great problem which confronts US
Railroad Outrages-
Take the great railroad corporations
for instance. They have brought us
great blessings; they have made travel
! luxury; they have made remote COM
munlties nelghbols; they have made oul
hlgh class civilization possible But
| the cupidity of some Of the managers
has concocted and consummated some
: infamous outrages upon private individ-
J uals ana upon whole communities. They
| have given secret rebates to many men
:
others; they have ruined towns ano
cities with their determinations they
{ have perpetrated those outrages unit
patience upon the part of a free and in
dependent people ceased to be a virtue
and an unwise clamor for government
owne Aship has been made immensely
) popular.
] My fellow Republicans, yes. my fel-
. low citizens of all parties, for McKiniey
was right when he said in large sense
We have more in concord than in con.
= fiict.' These wrongs must be righteC
= and these Outrages must be made i'm.
D possible. And not because he favors it
I but because he favors that which il
right, this government by some effectiv,
e method Of governmental control mus
[ put its iron hand upon those corpora,
tions as Theodore Roosevelt suggest
and compel them to give every man anC
every community a square deal. Th
trouble is that while the industria
= world has made vast strides in the las
, half century, government is substantial
ly where Il was in its relation to com
nerce fifty years ago. Governmen
{ ditions fof the protection of the people
y Fifty years ago no one would have ser
= iously thought of government regula tio1
I of passenger traffic on the old fashionel
= stage coach or Of interference with tn
= freight rates of the old time caravan
: But the people then were not at tn
mercy of these means of transportation
;, as they now are at the mercy of tn
Z common carriers of today. Or take 70
: another illustration the great Standar
q Oil company which, by methods abso