Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27

dividua interest In the successful man
agement OF particular roads, and yet gov
ernment supervision coTrects those rates
when they are unjust or oppressive. Gov
eminent ownership puts the making OF
rates In the hands of an enormous crowd
of government officials unfamiliar with
local aud general conditions and without
individual interest In the management OF
particular roads
Government supervision leaves the sys-
TEN OF individual management under
which the country has been developed,
hut requires that management 10 act as
a trustee for the people; government own
ership creates vast machine so COM
pllcated that It's workings would he cum
bersome, so great AZ TO be endangered by
It's own weight,
Government supervision means the IN
teligenoe and conscience OF the people
laying their restraining hands on the
wrongs Of railway management; governs
ment ownership means an American bu-
reaucracy as much greater than any
other bureaucracy on earth as tho AmeFl-
can railway system Is ms much greater
than any other railway system on earth.
Criminal Laws the Remedy.
Those who advocate government own
orship admit that private management ~
more efficient, admit that American rail-
way service Il the best railway service IN
the world. But they say that the RoN.
eminent ownership Is the only way OF
keeping the railways out OF politics, II
IL true that the railways NEEDLE too much
they meddle too much, and they NEEDLE
"A great deal Hut government ownership
Is not the way 10 stop them,
Criminal laws ~ the way 10 stop them
lists, prison bars for railway agents ~
primaries and conventions; prison bars
Tor railway representatives who try TO I'M
nuenco the nomination ana election OF
senator congressman, judge or any other
public ofnoor--that is the way 10 STOP
them,
senator Rcverldge carried his argu-
nlpnt on To the pure food ana meat IN
spectlon laws urging that ms government
regulation not government ownership "
desirable for the great factories and
packing plants, the same Is true TOR the
railways
Plea for Annexation.
Passing to Cuban AFFAIRS. after u tribute
10 tho Plat amendment, the speaker
made an eloquent plea for annexation
In closing he said;
sneak for myself alone; the admin
istration speaks for itself. But recall
, ,ah W W." c,ordian knot that none could
unite he drew his sword ana cut ~ anu
thousands OF years after the world Is
appIauding his exploit IN the enc,
whether il be decade or ave decades
~ q century. lubu must be American.
History shows that the aspiration OF the
American people, even while yet We We're
cgn"the coIonlsts petitioned the English
king 10 let them make CUBA Amerlcah
territory: and II was IN every PLATFORM
of every party until the clVll war us
tracted our attention from H.
To Producers and Patriots.
ask the American business man
whose markets must continually Increase,
tha farmer who seeks an outlet for his
nroducts. 4 ask all American producers
Ills question. is II best for you that
cuba continue the battle-ground OF fool,
ish factions, or that American law ana
order should regulate their INDUSTRY
AJAX every American lover Of liberty this
nueatIon. DO you feel that the cause OF
human freedom would best advance un-
der the Cuban Rag, or under tnat pannef
which wherever II has been lifted meant
practical progress and real freedom?t
Llberty-that IL the method OF human
progress. II is toward liberty that afa
which, under God, II leading the world
TO liberty Is this American republic, II
Is for the realization OF liberty and its
fruits that all our laws are. passed-for
the preservation and spread OF liberty
that all our wars are fought No Ameri-
can soldier ever died but gave his life for
liberty and civilization. II Is az the
agent and instrument Of the peoples
progressive liberty that the republican
party has written it's record OF useful
ness and gloryi and u Is ms the worker
for an ever purer, stronger liberty that
the republican party appeals to the
American peonle today And II II for
equal Justice, for the rightIng OF abuses.
for building up OF this civilization OF free
men, for. the ongoing Of righteousness in
this noblest OF nations that we ask you
20 select congressman and senators whose
duty II VIII be 10 rally as one man about
that personlcaton Of this new day that
has daWned for the republic. the presl-
dent OF the American Deople--of all the
American people--'Theodore Roosevelt