The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-31
EX-G0V. GARY|N
DID NOT SPEAK
Committee in Charge Of the Bryan Reception at New Haven
Decides That tho Address Prepared by ths Former Was
Too Political In Its Tenor To Fit An Occasion Of That
KID Abstract Of the Speech as Prepared byOr GarvIn
for the News Democrat

Friends OF Gov. Garvin in Rhode Island
will read with surprise that he was not
permitted TO deliver the speech he had
prepared for the Bryan reception at New
Haven this afternoon.
The committee I'm charge of that func-
tion TO which the address was submitted
I'm manuscript decided that IL was
too political in character for such
gathering, In order to giee Rhode ISL
anders an opportunity TO Judge for them
selves as 10 the wisdom of the commit
tees decision, the News Democrat prints
the following abstract furnished by ex-
Gov. Garvin to a representative Of this
newspaper:
SPEECH THAT WASN'T DBLIVERTED
THE Republican leaders are trying to
make the countrys prosperity the para
mount political issue. But issues are born,
not made to order. AS a matter of fact,
the masses OF the people do not feel
themselves TO be really prosperous. on
the contrary. they are painfully aware
that the trusts and kindred monopolies,
which are wildly prosperous, have become
so by the exploitation Of the common peo-
pie. The monster corporations which have
monopolized oil, meat, coal, railroads, In
surance, ice. which have attained their
great wealth through bosses and corrupt
legislation-these are the things now fixing
public attention and constituting the alb
sorbing political issue.
How 10 put stop to private monop-
oily with it's power and privilege and 70
substitute therefor a lust distribution OF
the enormous wealth annually produced
I'm the United States-ths Is the question
TO which the minds OF the voters are
directed.
The people have studied with horror
the exposures OF venal legislators and cor
rupting corporations and they have
watched with care the course OF congress
In It's attempt TO deal with few OF the
worst monopolies.
I'm the coming fall campaign, the votes
for congressman will show whether the
country Is satisfied with the result OF
the well-meant efforts of President Roose-
welt TO curb the trusts. What the ver-
dict will be remains TO be seen, but what
| IL ought TO be and what IL must be In
| the end. is not in the slightest degree
doubtful.
From the nature OF the case the re-
mctantly passed railroad rate bill and the
pure food law will not halt for a single
day the march Of the trusts over the
bodies and souls Of the American peo-
pie. Chronic diseases cannot be cured by
treating symptoms only. The removal OF
the cause Is the first and essential step.
Moreover, II is not enough. In the Ian
guage OF President Roosevelt, 10 curb the
trusts hut as Mr.. Bryan has recently
said. they must be destroyed. A private
monopoly is indefensible and intolerable.
ION this occasion / am going deeper
than 10 deal with the immediate causes
of monopolistic combina tions and the evils
which attend upon them. Undoubtedly,
the customs tariff is the mother OF the
trust, but whence sprang DOtn the nnolntI
and father OF these marauding giants?
Il am concerned to-day with the head
waters OF the stream which is flooding
us with bosses. lobbyists. weak and venal
Legislators, and mighty monopolists with
their unearned wealth. The underlying
cause of the unjust laws upon which the
whole fabric of private monopoly rests
can be found I'm the absence OF popular
sovereignty due solely to the imperfec-
tion OF the new machinery through which
the people express their will.
I.f .NFa4fV VlF1ntn
places the sovereignty, the source of all
laws, I'm a majority OF the legal voters. A
government by the people means that the
will of the major part of those VINO visit
the polls shall prevail.
"As a matter OF fact-and this is moth
ing ncw-a majority, either I'm state 3r
nation, is wholly unable TO have It's way.
The national constitution IL utterly be-
yond the reach of a public demand. Even
the state constitutions, which change
from time to time. are in the opinion Of
majority who live under them. hodge
podge OF good and evil. They can only
be altered at all by the consent of the
state legislature and that consent Is
withheld at the bidding of a few.
Legally, sovereignty. in nearly every
state, IS vested i'm the Legislature. To
far greater extent than the majority ~
voters the state legislatures possess the
ability 10 frame and change the laws un-
der which all must live. True. they are
limited verbally by written constitution,
but they habitually find ways to avoid
the spirit and often the letter, of the
organic law. Moreover. by proposing
complex amendments in which are hidden
most dangerous provisions. they have
been enabled 10 Increase their own pow
ers at the cost OF popular sovereignty.
But in reality sovereignty is now
welded by those powers not elected,
which direct the action Of the Legislature.
The boss and the lobbyist, who are the
tools Of those seeking and possessing Ie-
gal privileges. fashion all important leg
islation In the final analysis, therefore,
sovereignty rests with the few men who
control and profit by private monopol!es.
"A law, therefore, 'curbing the trusts.
can only be enacted with the consent of
the trust magnates. Needless to say that
every such law however seemingly
stringent. will prove ineffective The re-
cent congre ssional legislation with penal
ties limited TO fines and It's enforcement
only after protracted litigation in the
courts cannot he expected to call a halt
20 private monopoly.
THE prospect in New England for
reform victory this autumn is brighter
than at any time since 1892. In some re-
spects the outlook is far more hopeful
than then. The Republican party has
claimed the credit of a prosperity for
which they are no more responsible than
the Democratic party was for the bus-
ness depression OF the second Cleveland
administration But the people are hold
ing the dominant party responsible for
the growth of monopolies during the past
70 years. for which. indeed. IT is directly.
almost wholly. 90 blame.
"Thc victory at the polls in New Eng
land. even II u prove greater than now
expected. will he AZ best partial and tenn
poraiy Democratic legislatures, senator's.
congressman and governors may be
chosen. but. II that be all. the pendulum
will swing back I'm a year or two and
money Will again be supreme An occa-
sional Democrat or reformer In office only
calls "A brief halt 20 the triumphal ad-
vance ~ special privilege
'The only chance FOR permanent relief
from a government by monopoly lies In
the establishment OF popular sovereignty.