Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27

hope. and have reason to believe, that
favorable action will be taken upon the
bill limiting the number of hours of en-
ployment of railway employees.
These and one or two other measures,
the enactment of which have reason to
hope for, are important. But far more
important are the measures which have
actually been passed, and as to these
measures | wish to reiterate that they
are not important in a merely partisan
sense, but are important because they
subserve the welfare of our people as
whole, of our nation as an entirety. They
are important because those who enacted
them into law thereby showed themselves
to be fit representatives of all good
Americans.
'The tremendous social and industrial
changes in our nation have rendered evil
dent the need of a larger exercise by the
national government of it's power TO deal
with the business use of wealth, and es-
pecially of corporate wealth, in inter-
state business.
ut is not too much to say that the
course of congress within the last few
years. and the hearty agreement between
the executive and legislative departments
of the nation in taking the needed action
each within Its own sphere, have resulted
in the nation for the first time definitely
entering upon the career of proper per-
formance of duty in these matters.
mo congress has ever more clearly
shown its practical appreciation of the
fact that the welfare of the wage work
ers and the welfare of the tillers OF the
soil make the real basis of the welfare or
the nation as a whole. We will do every
thing that can be done to further the
interests of the farmer and the wage
worker; and this declaration is subject
only to one reservation-which Is, that
for no man. and no body of men. VIII
We do anything that Is wrong. Our con-
slant aim is to do justice to every man,
and to treat each man as by his own
actions he shows that he deserves to be
treated.
''The enactment into law of the bill re-
moving the tax on alcohol used in the
arts will ultimately be of marked benefit
to us in more ways than one. 1t shows
likewise the entire willingness or those
responsible for the handling of the pres
ent congress to alter our revenue system,
whether derived by taxation on imports
or internal taxation, whenever 1t is
necessary so to do.
1--WE stand unequivocally for protec-
tive tariff, and we feel that the phe-
nomenaI industrial prosperity which we
are now enjoying is not lightly to be
jeopardized, for ii would be to the last
degree to secure here and there small
benefit at the cost of general business
depression. But whenever given rate
or schedule becomes evidently dlsadVan-
tageous to the nation, because of the
changes which go on from year to year
in our conditions, and where 1t is feasible
to change this rate or schedule without
too much dislocating of the system, IL
will be done; while general revision OF
the rates and schedules will be under
taken whenever it shall appear to the
sober business sense of our people that
on the whole the benefits to be derived
from making such changes Will outweigh
the disadvantages; that is, when the re-
vision will do more good than harm.
81 shall not attempt to enumerate all
the good measures of less importance
which the present congress has enacted
into law, although some of these meas
ures, as, for instance. the consular bill
and the naturalization bill, are of wide
reaching effect. l have said enough to
show why, in my judgment, you and your
colleagues are entitled to the good wishes
of all those American citizens who believe
that there are real evils in our industrial
and economic system, and that these
evils can be effectively grappled with, not
by loose defamation, but by resolute and
intelligent legislation and executive ac-
ton"