Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-10

TO recognize their Just Obligations, the mis-
management of certain railroads, the dis
elimination in shipping rates which have
been made public and the existence of
monopolies which are being prosecuted
have raised the people to a constituencies
that Is to bring about a change in the
political control and secure a democratic
majority in the next House of Representa-
tives. This may be true. but II SO, then
political revulsions have no logical basis
and no reasonable predicate. and the Amerf-
can people will not be governed In their
political action by the common sense that
has heretofore controlled them.
Hopes for Quickened Conscience.
l sincerely hope 1t is true that the public
conscience has been quickened and that
great care Is to be taken in scrutinizing the
work of public and private servants of the
many and in taking away the power OF
unjust combinations. whether political or
business, but why this should return dem
ocratic majority to the House of Represen-
tatives is beyond me. Under the republican
government the country has been able to
enjoy q prosperity unexampled In the his
tory Of the world. Wages were never
steadier or higher Profits of legiti
mate business were never better or more
uniform. We are at peace with the world
and our national prestige was never more
useful in securing peace among the nations
Why. then. should the republican party be
deposed and the organized incapacity of the
democratic party be substituted?
In what way are the republican party and
Mr. Roosevelt or the republican members
of Congress responsible for the abuses of
trust which have been shown in corporate
management? In what way can the dis
ordinations by railway companies against
independent shippers and in favor Of large
trust combinations be traced to them? The
truth Is that in the enormous production of
wealth, in the heretofore unheard OF pros
perity, 1t was inevitable that abuses should
creep in and that in the absence OF pub
nf api0vfpR irraSDOn-
sib1e power should yield to the tempta-
lions of cupidity and ignore the sacred
character Of the trust relation. But there
has been house-cieaning and the republic
can party has exerted every effort to de-
stroy any further opportunity for such
abuses and to prevent any recurrence Of
them.
Some Republican History Recorded.
No party in the whole history Of the
country has ever taken more decided steps
to restrain the abuses OF irresponsible cor
porate wealth and power than has the re-
publican party, both Ia the executive and
in the legislative branches of the gov
eminent during the last eight years. No
party has ever shown greater independence
of corporate control and corporate influence
than the republican majority In the House
and Senate and the executive at the last
session. And now, while this work is on,
while the administration Is straining every
nerve to secure compliance with the laws
on the statute books, to regulate inter-
state commerce and suppress monopolies
and unlawful restraints upon Interstate
trade. 1t is prophesied that the champion
of this reform. the man who. not by words
but by deeds, as President OF the United
States. has shown his adherence to the
principles of equal protection of the laws
to all and his courage in resisting all
claims of special immunity, whether for or
ganfzed labor or organized capital, is to be
rebnked and thwarted in his high purposes
by the return to Congress- of q ma iorifv Of