Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-18
BEVERIDGE IN THE IOWA CAMPAIGN
SPEAKS FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY
EMIT INDIANA SENATOR o PENS FOR REPUBLICANS WI
FINE ADDRESS AT DIES MONIES.
PatyReasons Why Men Should
Tieke-An Outside View Of All
RepubI

cans MS year.
itself out, and 1t Is Theodore Roosevelt
| who Is its leader.
Clean Business Wanted.
| The balance sheet is the smallest item
OF our appeal. For the American people
are not content that their business should
| grow. They intend that their business
| snail be clean as well. They are not
| content that American civilization shall
be measured by dollars; they mean that
| 1t shall be measured by justice. They
are not content to let we'll enough alone5
| they mean to make well enough still
| better. There is no SUCH thing as well
| enough in the vocabulary of American
| ism. When we reach the stage where
well enough" describes our position our
decline will begin, because our progress
| will have ended.
There are perhaps twenty bills enacted
into law in the last Ave years upon any
one OF which any party in former times
could have successfully appealed for sup
port to the American people. Let US
take three or four of them as examples,
and first and greatest of all the law
which established the department OF COM
The passage Of that act marked the
coming of q new day in American indus
trial affairs; and all American trade and
commerce Is safer and sounder now be-
cause of the knowledge which that de-
partment gives the people of how that
business Is conducted. And its work Is
Railroad Regulation.
We passed the bill giving the govern
ment the right to regulate railway rates.
Theodore Roosevelt demanded the enact
| ment of that law. He demanded it be-
cause the American people demanded it
lie demanded it because 1t is right-be-
cause it applies the principle of control
| by the government of all the people of
that mighty transportation business which
AFFECTS all the people. do not say that
law Is perfect. 1t is but the beginning
OF great reform. In practical working
| it will fail here and there; but year by
| year 1t will be improved until finally from
| experience 1t will become as perfect as
| ance Is not in its immediate practical re-
| suits; it's importance Is In the principle
| which 1t recognizes.
The railroads are the most powerful
| force in the industrial development Of the
| republic. In a word. the railroads enter
| into the industrial. social, political and
| even the religious life of the American
people And that is why the people have
a right to a voice in their management,
| that is why the railroad business is not
| a private business. Railway freight and
passenger charges are directly tax upon
every human being in the land; and there
| fore these S0,0OO,O00 of human beings have
| a fundamental right to see that all are
| treated alike and that none are unjustly
| taxed.
Duty of the Nation.
But the people are powerleSs acting as
| individuals. The states are incompetent
70 act as the people, agents because the
| business OF no road in the country is con-
fined to the borders of any state, but
ramlted throughout the whole union. And
| SO 1t IS that the nation, as a nation, must
| take hand in the conduct of a transpor-
| tation which is the most vital part of the
| nations life and without which the nation
could not exist; so 1t is that the govern
ment of the nation is the only agent
through which the American people can
exercise that absolutely necessary func-
tion or supervising railway business. And
results. so profoundly important-it be-
| gins the practical application of the prin-
| clplS OF the control of the nations gov
| eminent over the nations railways.
| III this principle is developed we will
have no government ownership of rail-
| ways. The American people do not want
to own the railways. They want to own
| nothing which they do not have to own
In self defense l am against national
! ownership of railways. l am for govern
| ment control of railways.
| Government ownership Is urged only
because it will take the railways out Of
politics. But 1t is not necessary to change
! our whole American theory of industry
for the European theory of industry to
Keep the railroads out of politics.
Out With Corruption.
Send every corrupt and corruptng lob
| byist to jail; send every corrupt and COR
| to buy primaries, conventions or legisla-
| lures to jail; send every man who tries
! to corruptly influence the nomination and
election of any public officer to jail-thls
Is the way to keep the railway and every
other corrupting influence out of our pub
lie life.. Not government ownership but
the penitentiary Is the remedy for crimes
| against free institutions.
The principle of national control of
! railways can be and will be extended to
all nation wide business.
and control all business enterprises, great
and small, the people, by law, should see
that 1t Is conducted justly, and without
| fraud.
This Is the meaning of the department
Of commerce and labor law. This Is the
meaning of the railroad rate law. This
Is the philosophy behind the pure food
law.
lmpotent Democracy.
II the opposition had been In power
would a single one of these great statutes
have been enacted? Everybody knows
the opposition would have been so busy
quarreling with themselves that no prac-
teal legislation would have passed. Ev-
erybody knows that with Bryan or Hearst
as president and an opposition house
nothing but theories would be discussed
| and no practical laws enacted. But Theo-
dore Roosevelts administration will for
ever be known as the administration thai
gets things done.
And our work is not done. 1t never will
, be done as long as conditions demand
change. The work before us Is as i'm
portant as the work accomplished. There
has got to be an adequate child labor
| law in this country. We cannot permi
American citizenship to be debased b.
allowing any man to dwarf the body
brain and soul of American children.
Perfect the Tariff Law.
There has got to be some tariff changes
J too. We are protectionists. we republi
cans, and not we republicans alone, blu
practically the whole American people
Protection of American industry has be
i come an American principle. No fire.
, trader could destroy It IL he would. Gu
expenses are so immense that the reve
, nue. drawn from our tariff could not pos
, sibly be reduced without bankrupting tn
I treasury. And that tariff, absolutel
necessary to the working OF the govern
= ment, ought to be so adjusted as to pro
tect American labor and encourage Amer
\ lean industry.
No Sacred Schedules.
But no tariff schedule is immorta
! When conditions change the tariff sched
: ule that was adjusted to that conditio
4 | ought also to change. General revisio
n | Is foolish and impossible Even a ba
a | tariff when stable Is better than a ger
: | eral change; and our present tariff IS nc
n a bad tariff. 1t Is the best adjustmer
:, of tariff schedules ever. devised. BIZ