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

people. who for centuries have been with
out light and without hope in the world.
! in Cuba we established an independent
nation, in so far as their domestic af-
| fairs are concerned. We have put safe
guards about them and stand ready with
| our good offices TO do everything possible
| In promoting the stability and pcrna-
| nency OF their institutions.
Cuba As An Example.
Thine will show whether we were mis-
taken in that policy. Enough has already
! transpired to Indicate that we have over
estimated the ability. of the people Of
| Cuba to administer an orderly popular
| government. Today civil war is fragrant
| throughout the island and no man can
| predict how soon the property and peace
| OF the whole people may be left to the
| mercy of an irresponsible mob. Yet all
| ready We hear from the defeated leader
| of the democratic party of 1900 a repetition
| OF that counsel of folly which he then set
| before the American people as "A guide
| for their activities in relation to the
! Philippine Islands.
| I'VE hold that il Is more important to
| prepare these people for self government
| than ii is to give them an independence
which they will neither be able to under
] stand nor TO maintain. 1t is an interest
| ing light upon the Philippine problem to
| take a good look at the present course of
events n Cuba; nor can we help be-
| lieving that If Mr.. Bryan had known
what was going on i'm the Cuban republic
when he made his triumphal entry into
| New York he would have omitted from
| his remarks that grotesque statement
that the time had come for us to do for
| the Philippines what we had already done
| for the island that lies SO near our shores;
| for the American people are gradually
reaching the conclusion that If we made
any mistake in our administration of the
| trust imposed upon us by the fortunes of
| the Spanish war, II was not In maintain
| ing our sovereignty in the Philippine
| Islands, but in making even partial
surrender of 1t to the restless population
that is now plunging the Cuban republic
| into anarchy and ruin.
The Trusts.
Senator Doliver discussed at some
| length the trust question. Among other
things, he said
1.-THE only sense in which the protective
tariff system can be held responsible for
the organza ton of the trusts is the fact
that in the absence of money i'm circula-
| ton the trusts would not, in all proba-
bility have troubled u.s. The trust qles-
| tion is a problem of prosperity. and the
republican party has made steady pro-
gress towards It's solution. The statistics
of our industrial growth, including the
census of 1900 and the more recent cal
culatlons of that bureau indicate that
the independent investment of capital is
making continuous Roadway against those
great organizations which few years
ago threatened to overshadow the whole
| market place. The doom of the Ameri-
| can trust system in so far as it is built
upon a basis of greed and speculation Is
already written in the increasing compe-
tition of independent capital in all the
lines of production.
There are certain advantages in the
organization of business upon a great
scale which are legitimate. In the alb
sence of enormous capital little or no
progress could have been made by our
people in that world wide invasion OF
markets which gives such a startling sig
nificance to the annual report of exports
and our imports. This fact has long been
appreciated abroad and our own people
would do well to look carefully into 1T.
Mr.. Frank w. Bicknell, now editor of
the Mail and Times at Des Moines, and
formerly commissioned by the depart
ment of agriculture to study trade condi-
tions in South America and other coun-
tries, states that the chief anxiety OF
our foreign rivals in their effort to pre-
worlds business arises from the fact
that they find our people equipped with
| thoroughly modern weapons with which
| to meet the trade combinations of other
| countries. Hateful as the American bust
ness corporation is to many of our own
people it is still more unpopular in the
| business circles of Germany and Eng
land.
No Destruction. ..
"a campaign of destruction waged in
| discriminatory against our great corpora
| tons will not be countenanced by the
American people, That they must be
brought within the control of the law, not
| only in their organization but in the adj
ministration of their affairs, vii be con-
ceded by everybody; nor can it be dsput-
| ed that sound public policy requires the
government to strip them of every adj
| vantage which involves a violation of law
| and the rules of fair dealing among men.
| The republican party has not been I'M
| mindful of the rights of our market place
| in it's relation to the present organiza-
| ton of American business.
''Up to the present time the chief adj
vantage of the trusts over their less
fortunate brothers has been the system
of railway discrimination which had
| grown up in the United States. Originally
| II was the effort of one railway to get
| business away from another, which re-
| suited in rebates and secret practices of
| all kinds In these later years the abuse
| has arisen, in part at least, from the
| Identification in interest of railway owner
| ships with certain fields of industrial pro-
| duction. 1t was against these and kindred
| abuses that President Roosevelt has been
| at war since the beginning of his admin
| istration Mr. Bryan thinks that the
| president has kidnapped the democratic
| platforms, but the whole American peo-
| pie will bear witness that if President
| Rooseveit's policy of railway rate regu-
| lation ever appeared in any democratic
platform il was so thoroughly covered up
| that nobody ever saw 1t, and so feeble in
| its vitality that its voice was never heard
| amid the noises of paramount issues.
Government and Railways.
81 find the doctrine of strict govern
| ment control of railways stated in Cen
eral Grants messages to congress, and
| einphas sized more than once by Presi-
! dent Arthur during his brief administra-
| ton. But If any ineligible statement of
| what ought to have been done Is hidden
| I'm the literature of Mr. Bryan's candid
| acy, I have failed to find 1t among the
| dead or the wounded either of the first
| or of the second battle.
ut was republican committee of the
| senate which framed the interstate COM
| merce law of twenty years ago, and
| republican congress which has made ev-
| cry amendment to it, including those far
| reaching regulations for the safety and
| health of railway employees. While l
! cheerfully recognize the help which we
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