Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-03
A STORM BREWING

United States Senator ]. p. Dolliver,
a Republican from Iowa, warned his
associates in a speech delivered by him
Thursday on the Hepburn rate regu-
lation bill that "a storm is brewing"
in this country. 1.-THE time is approach
ing" he said, "when the citizens of
the United States are going to make
an inquiry into the right by which
some men in a few years make hum
dreds of millions of dollars, rendering
them capable of even overshadowing
the national government"
In order to make this prediction
wholly party matter the senator en-
phatically stated that he was neither
Socialistic nor Democratic in his ideas
or tendencies.
But the Democrats have been maxi
ing this sort of prophecy for good
many years now. They hoped for its
realization long before Rockefeller be-
came the richest man in the world;
long before Pierpont Morgan. Ryan,
Belmont and the group of insurance
magnates seized the money of this
country and converted it to their own
selfish purposes. But a majority of
the people wouldn't listen to it. They
just shut their eyes and went on vot-
ing trust agents into office; went right
on applauding the appointment of
railroad lawyers to the federal bench
and railroad henchmen to state posi-
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hands of the trusts and the great COM
bines of wealth, imagining that they
We're voting for the old flag and the
party of Lincoln and Grant. AS a
matter of fact, if Lincoln and Grant
were alive today they would not be
able to recognize in the machine-built,
trust-serving, corporation-loving Re-
publican party the slightest shredded
remnant of the organization they up
held, which today is only kept alive
by unhallowed appeals to the memory
Of their noble deeds.
Senator Dolliver was talking to his
own party associates when he warned
them of the coming storm. 1t has been
brewing for a long time, gathering up
and power in the west-a
storm that should begin in California
and sweep everything before it, even
up to Maine, and 'from the northern
lakes to the sunlit waters of the
southern sea-"
The Iowa senator is right. The peo-
pie do want to know by what right, |
by what power, by what authority the
vast wealth of this beautiful and pros |
porous country is pouring into the
Golfers of a select score of men "who |
toll not, neither do they spin" men
who have cornered the necessities of
life and are trading upon the very
hearts and bodies of the people.
And the citizens of this country are
not going to ask the Republican party |
to make that inquiry either, knowing |
full we'll that the policies and acts of
the machine leadership-have fostered |
and encouraged and built up these
vast fortunes into a condition which |
they now protect under the guise of
'vested rights" which appear to the
people to be "vested wrongs" Might |
as well trust wolf to inquire into the
OF a stray sheep or a lost
lamb. 1t isn't written that way i'll
the books of the future.
Senator Dolliver, coming out of the !
west, coming from a state that contains
no large cities, but only farmers and |
small merchants and everyday work.
ingmen, has heard the first mutterings
Of the storm. It's thunderings and its
Iightnings are being heard and seen
in Iowa-where Republicanism has
been installed and entrenched for half |
a century-and from Iowa Senator Dol
liver, like another Paul Revere, has
carried the news to Washington.
These be stirring times, indeed, ana
before another year the people will
have awakened to q realization of the
fact that the government is theirs and
that it should be conducted by and for
them. Watch that storm and its re-
suits.