The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-30
Pubic Must Be Protected.

and without fraud saSi
Public Must Be Protected.
This: is the meaning Of the depart
ment Of commerce and labor law. This
is the meaning Of the railroad rate law.
This is the philosophy behind the pure
food law. The old idea was that my
fore had a right to adulterate food
and medicine and sell it to you IL
could induce you to buy it. But the
people must buy food; the people must
buy medicine. And the people are too
busy to find out whether medicine and
food is adulterated or not. And they
have no means of ascertainfng even if
they had the leisure. And yet it is in
tolerable that the health and lives of
the people should be impaired. And so
it becomes necessary for the people.
thru their statute books, to interfere
business ana 80 require eau shat that pri.
vate business shall not be conducted
exclusively with AN eye to the pro.
prietor = pocketbook, but; also with an
eye to the people g welfare. .
The Beef Trusts Mistake.
That is the great, living truth that
vitalizes that historic law which re-
quires the beef trust to sell the Amer
lean people none Sbnt healthy, meats. I
have no quarrel with the beef trust, as
such. The food necessities of the peo-
pie could not be supplied without: it.
But when its greed blinded it to the
welfare of the masses; when it forgot
that it was as much servant of the
people as the railways are servants of
Of the people and thought only that it
was a private concern; and when this
lust for profits, on the one hand, and
this theory that it's methods were no.
body's business but its own, caused it
to sell unwholesome meat and falsely
label cans Of hurtful compounds under
the name of food products to the con-
sumner who did not and could not know
7 of the peril he was purchasing-th
I did have a quarrel with the beef trust.
It became necessary for the people to
invoke the great principle of their in
! terest in the business, which so vitality
affected them, by having their govern
ment regulate and supervise the meat
industry and the People IS agents to in
spect all it's food products. %T..~. -.
All the people ask is that their health
shall not be endangered; and if the
people were SO poor spirited as to de-
mand less than that they would be un-
| worthy Of those free institutions which
permit them to protect themselves by
just such laws. With incomprehcnsible
folly the beef trust tried to kill that
/ bill; and when. it could not kill it it
tried to pull the teeth out of. it. It
would have succeeded but for one. man.
for the president Che bill, if it had
tooth in it's head. But we won the fight
and today the. American people have
the best meat inspection law Of any
nation in the world except in two par
ticulars. .- -. :.gx..ei-. 49,. -. :
And now that we have passed these
laws and others-the irrigation law, the
free denaturized alcohol, law, the en-
.ployees liability,law and dozen 9th
ers, swho shall execute them? Theodore
Roosevelt is executing thenl--win you
aid him ? f.. you do, you must give
him, a republican house t9 support him;
A demoecratie Gh9us V. oWepld be BOUND to
make his ladfpinris s failure ! "
fepunea Shk 70 mab be
is commissioned by the people to. stand
by the, administration ! and. does not
4 do it ought to: be dashed when The re-
# turns. from Washington with the PEG
pies wrath. Theodore Roosevelt is dig
gings the canal, too. ,. The dirt is act
{ ual1y flying in Panama. /, More 1egisla
q ton will be needed to, help him. Cal
> you trust that greatest work of the ages
to q democraticsa house which woulo
work for Roosevelt s failure9f Remem
Der, that when you vote for a congress
work on the canal; for or against The
:. efficient execution of the great laws
1--we have passed.; for or: against thu
administration Of the president. r
:. J. If the opposition. had, been in powe7
would a single one of these great stat
utes have been enacteds Everybody
knows they. would :, not. Everybody
knows that the opposition would hav'
4been so busy quarreling with themselve
that no practical legislation would hav.
) passed. Everybody knows that will
, Bryan. or Hearst! as president, and al
opposition house; nothing but !, Theories
laws enacted. ButETheodore Roosevelt !
: administration will forever be known a
!, the administration that gets thing
= done. * -. ( -, - -, 90 =
: And our work lis not done. It neve
: will be done as long as conditions de
I mand change: The work before u
: is as important as the work accom-
! Ep1ished. There has got to be an AIDE
! quate child labor law in this country
| we cannot permit american clClZensni
t to be debased by allowing any man t
dwarf the body, brain and soul o
| American children. >..s:.;;.. -. J,
: ,, Revision Should Be Made. ri
t There has got to be some tart
: changes, too. We are proteetionists, "
t republicans, and not we republican
il alone, but practically the whole Amer
!. lean people. Protection of America
7 industry has become an American prir
+ ciple. No. freetrader could destroy
Q If he would Our expenses are SO i'm
+ .mense that the revenue drawn from on
I tariff could mot. possibly be, reduce
t without bankrupting4 the treasury. An
!. that tariff, absolutely necessary to th
\, working of the government, ought to b
2 so adjusted, as to protect American l.
! Dor and encourage American industr.
| But no tariff schedule is i'm
I, mortal. When conditions change