Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-08-16

OAlLf CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM,
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face by honest endeavor, I am now,
and will be at all times. opposed to
this legislation which he demands.
For thirty years l have represent
ed a district where nearly all the
constituency have lived, and are liv-
ing, by their labor. They and those
like unto them stand for law and
order, for protection of property, and
the inalienable rights of every citi-
zen. Those who labor have trod,
and are treading, no path that have
not trod and that my descendants
will not tread. The organized labor
that Mr.. Gompers claims to represent
is composed of people who have the
right to organize. They are of all
churches and of no church; they are
skilled and unskilled; they belong
to all the different parties; they are
as intelligent and as patriotic as any
other equal number of citizens of
the Republic. In the transaction of
the business of their organization l
have no doubt but they will cooper
ate with those who from time to
time they place in authority, but in
their party Affiliations, in choosing
the policies of the Republic, l am
ready to take my chances with them,
and this, too, without regard to the
demands of Mr.. Gompers when he
seeks to control their action at the
ballotbox.
The President and Congress-.
| In the executive department of the
government the record of the party
has been brilliant, courageous, and
honest, and the name of Roosevelt"
has become a synonym for all those
qualities throughout the realms of
civilization. He has been the presi-
dent of all the people. and he has
been tireless in his efforts to serve
the people by wise, just, and fearless
administration of the law. He has
been particularly jealous in admin
istering the law against the trusts
and combinations of capital which
have ignored the old adage of live
and let live. The beef trust. the
paper trust, the tobacco trust, the
drug trust, the coal combination,
and various combinations of rail-
roads and shippers have felt the
heavy hand of the law and learned
that 1t is strong enough to compel
them to give all a square deal. The
record of trust prosecutions and in
vestigations into their practices is
too long to here recite, but it is ac-
knowledged to be most creditable
even by our political opponents.
The congress has worked in har-
mony with the, president and en-
bodied into law more of his recon-
mendations than has fallen to the lot
of most chief executives. l believe
the record of the fifty-ninth congress
made in its first session will go into
history as one of the best records of
| legislation for the benefit of all the
people that has ever been made.
The railroad rate law, the pure food
law, the meat inspection amendment
to the agricultural appropriation
act, the free alcohol law, the con-
sular reform legislation, the employ
ers' liability law, all enacted at one
session Of congress, make a record
of legislation which has not been
paralleled in many years. E.
The amendment to the Interstate
commerce law known as the Elkins
law of 1902 and the rate legislation
just enacted coupled. with many de-
cisions by the supreme court of the
United States, render it reasonably
certain that practices which had
grown up by large shippers of COM
modities demanding and receiving
from common carriers exceptional |
rates for transportation not enjoyed
by others is prohibited by law and |
penalized both as to the railway or !,
other common carrier and the ship
per; so that it is safe to say that
each citizen In the United States
will be treated the same as every
other citizen. With equal privileges /
to all. there is no reason to doubt
that by enterprise, industry, and
under equal conditions
is decreasing and will final
ly cease and square deal afforded
to every competing citizen.
We are willing to stand by the
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