The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-21

LII ASSOAot4OA SoOI1lttlUS the A6C-l
essary amendment. and that resolu-
ton passed a democratic house of rep
resentatives by than a two
thirds vote, and it passed the next
house of representatives. So strong
a hold did That dream take upon the
public that after eight years a repub-
lican house of representatives was
and now two-thirds of the states of
the union have endorsed the demo
cratic dream and two democratic ma
tional platforms have demanded its
realization.
The democratic party has been drea
ming of tariff reform for years and
has pointed out the injustice of the
high tariff schedules and the Unequal
ity which they have cause in the dis
tribution of the wealth created. This
dream is taking shape, and every year
finds more advocates of tariff reform.
A few years ago the republicans said
that the tariff must be maintained I'M
til the infant industries could be on
their feet, but the infants are not
only standing upon their feet, but
walk over everybody else's feet, so
that argument has disappeared. After
wards we were told that the tariff
must be maintained for the benefit of
adult Industries to enable them to pay
good wages but now we are exporting
some five hundred millions of manu-
featured goods a veal and competing
in foreign markets with no tariff to
protects us, and it can not be contend
ed that we must keep a fifty per cent
tariff in order to keep outsiders from
running our own factories out of the
country. The only argument now is
that the tariff barons must hang to-
gether or hang separately.
The democrats have been dream
ing upon the trust question and their
vision of an industrial system resting
upon competition and protecting each
individual in the enjoyment of his
rights and opportunities is about to
be realized. At first the republican
leaders denied that there were any
trusts. Then they insisted that there
were good trusts and bad trusts. Now
they admit that the trusts are bad
but they only promise to regulate and
control while the democrats insist on
the humiliation of the principle of pr
vate monopoly. Every day the alb
surdity of regulation as a remedy be
; comes more apparent, and it will not
> be long before the democratic vision
! will be the vision of the whole people
i The democratic party has had its
dreams on the labor question. Seeing
employees with the strike as the on
~ remedy of the workingman, it has
had a vision of arbitration when will
not only secure justice but establish
friendship between employer and en-
cation and a reproach to the party in
power that the laboring man must
- | - or1yo Ti. r-ifo on3 ohi1Jron hu a nrn
longed strike in order to secure an i'm
provement in wages or conditions OF
thing of the democratic dream and
settled one coal strike by arbitration
but his party has failed to adopt the
principle. Even the president has
not yet come up to the democratic Wis
ion on the subject of government by
injunction. He is still willing tina
the laboring man should be denied
: the right of trial by Jury-a right sc
, sacred that it can not be taken from
a convicted thief.
Tor more than a decade the demo
cratic party has had its dream of eff
j. ective rate legislation and this dream
has been written into three 1ationa
platforms. We are gratifed that We
were able to furnish declaration fol
the president when he found no re
publican platform which tool the PEG
niles side on this Question We ar.