Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-07
HAMILTON SCORES
The REPUBLICANS
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Graft in hinn Places.

Graft in High Places.
I'VE are at this time confronted with
| Il condition of affairs unparalleled III
| the history of our nation, and when we
| consider what has taken place In TINS
country in the last ten years, graft
fraud, bribery and corruption of every
sort the forming OF great combina-
tons into greater and unparalleled
brazenry and boldness upon the part oil
the blood suckers of our national
| wealth and prosperity, where they mac
! hitherto shown some secrecy and tenn
| Gritty, when we realize the magnitude
of these things. 1T becomes important for
us to inquire what has produced these
conditions and why all this graft, cor
ruption and favoritlsm, and what Is
the remedy. The people at this time
have a great work before them, ana
| one that calls for true American pa
| triotism as we'll as for deiberation and
| a determination to be just. Conditions
that prevail in great municipalities
state and national government
demand drastic measures, only
| limited by a desire to be absolutely
just and any measure to accomplish
these ends cannot be called radical
until 1t has placed the reins OF the
J government in the hands of the people
and released them from the influences
| of corporate greed and selfish inter-
| ests The control of the affairs of gov
! eminent has gotten away from the peo-
! Pile and 1t Is necessary for them to
| come forward to its rescue.
The Tariff.
THE republican party may succeed
/ In convincing some people that when
| they have a good crop as the result OF
| fair weather and industry upon their
| part that is due to the Dingley bill or
some other republican measure, but
| they cannot convince all the people
that they are not largely to blame for
| the conditions that exist regarding
matters relating to discrimination,
trusts, usurpations and the graft and
fraud that is now existing in official
positions which have grown up and
| nourished under republican rule and
are the legitimate outgrowth of the
conditions made possible by their own
| conduct.
"As help in the publication OF our
national congress the democratic party
now and for years has, favored the
election of United States senators by
a direct vote of the people, as being
one of the ways to more nearly secure
| that much desired end of government
for the people and by the people. No
! good reason can be given why United
States senator should not he held to a
strict accounting of his constituents.
AS it now is, we have many men In the
/ United States senate who are an OBJ
struction to legislation needed by our
country, and who, If they were COM
PEELED to seek their election at the
hands of the people, could not be elect
ed, but who by machine politics, and
sometimes by methods Of questionable
character, secured the position that
should be filled only by men who have
no other interest to represent except
| that OF the people. Was this so, the
law attorneys for great corporations
| and combinations would be compelled
to earn their fees in the courts instead
of in the senate chamber. Men of ex-
| treme wealth with personal interests,
which might be effected by legislation,
would have to guard their interests
otherwise than by their own vote in
| the senate. / believe under the system
OF direct vote that we would have
statesmen in the senate with convic-
tons not coming from the criminal
courts, but with inspirations received
to maintain a republican form Of gov
eminent we must keep as near to the
people as possible.
The democratic party stands for an
income tax, believing that the burdens
of the government should be borne by
| those who are best able to contribute.
and who get the most protection under
it's laws. A man with an income over
a certain amount has more property to
protect and should bear the greater
burden. There has been something said
recently about limiting the fortunes OF
the individual, placing peg at cer-
tain point and say so far and no furth-
er. This idea has probably arisen from
the danger of centralized wealth Gauss
ed by the immense fortunes accumu-
lated by such men as Rockefeller Car
negie, Morgan and many others, who
have accumulated great wealth by hav-
| ing enjoyed the fruits of high pro-
tective tariff and been able to manipu-
late prices, form combinations and
plumber the rights of honest toll All
that the people of this country want
and all they should claim, is the re-
moval of those things that have and
now exist which have enabled these
men to thus manipulate the affairs of
this country, by which they have been
able to receive more than a fair profit
for their investment. The democratic
doctrine is to give to every individual
the fruits of his own labor, compelling
him to bear his just proportion of the
| burdens Of the government without adj
vantage over his neighbor, and when
this is done the wealth Of the country
will flow in it's legitimate channels,
without any law placing barrier in
the way Of legitimate enterprise.
when we look over this country and
examine as to where we find over
whelming fortunes, they can be traced
to the privileges conferred by an I'M
necessarily high tariff, or it's kindred
companion, privileges extended to rail-
road corporations and combinations
indirectly, if not directly, the legti-
mate production of our present system
of protection and subsidy, and this too
in the face of old threadbare argu-
ments that the tariff is only for the
purpose of meeting the difference in
| the cost Of products in this and foreign
countries. 1t must occur to the mind
Of thinking people if this has been and
is the only reason for maintaining