Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
Control of Trusts the Keynote
Of Temporary Chair
mans Address
REPUBLICANS AND PROSPERITY
Points With Pride to the Record Of the
Party and Contrasts It With the
lnaction Of the Democratic Party
When It Was in Power-Is standpat
on the Tariff Question.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 1.-The address Of
Hon. Fl. M. Towner of Corning as
temporary chairman of the conventions,
was, in part, as follows:
II desire to congratulate the repub-
licans OF Iowa, in this most prosper
Gus year Of this most marvelously
prosperous era, that we see in this
swelling flood of prosperity the con-
summate triumph and vindication of
republican principles and policies. We
live under a republican administra-
ton, with a republican president, a re-
publican house, and a republican sem
ate-in a republican nation from ocean
to ocean, and republican state from
river to river-with republican na-
democratic state conventions indorse
the administrations, and republican
state sentiment so strong that not
single county of the ninety mine can
be longer classed as democratic.
"These two words Republican and
prosperity seem formed for union.
They are the harmonious complement
one of the other, so that with the sue
cess of one comes the triumph of the
other and with the failure of either
the downfall and disaster OF the 9TH
er. Happy the nation that can har-
ness such steeds to its car of progress!
1t is like the yoking of Phoebus and
Aurora to the chariot of the sun. Hap
py the party whose very name is syn
onomous with JOY"
Trust Control First.
The speaker elaborated the theme Of
prosperity and then took up the ques-
ton of control of trusts, saying.
'The president in his message to
congress last December put first in
Importance the question of government
control of the great corporations doing
an interstate business. For many years
this has been a most important and
difficult question, not onis in this,
country, but in others. In Europe to-
day every nation is struggling with the
same problem, and their inclination
toward absorption and government
ownership is a confession Of their in-
ability to solve 1t. In America the
strong concensus of opinion has been
and is, that government ownership is
not only impracticable, but means the
entire subversion of our form of gov
ernment. Years ago the Granger
movement was instituted, resulting in
establishing the absolute right Of the
state to control it's local institutions,
but demonstrating as well, that for all
those great corporations doing an inter-
state business, action by the national
government was necessary. In response
to this the original interstate traffic
act and the Sherman act were passed.
Later, the Elldns law and the rate bill
passed by the last congress has been
placed upon the statute books.
"All those laws are republican laws
framed by republicans, passed by 70.
publicans, and are enforced by repubu.
cans.
During these formative years great
causes defining the powers Of the gov
ernment and the rights Of the cor
porations and, especially drawing the
lines of demarkation between federal
and state jurisdiction have been tried
and determined. Now, under these re-
publican laws, and under the direction
scores of prosecutions are being insti-
tuted and tried, resulting almost In
variab1y in victories for the govern
ment. Hardly day passes but some
new trust is dissolved, or some illegal
com bination fined and its officers sent
to prison.
The additional powers given by the
new laws will greatly strengthen the
IL. A.
work is not over; 1t Is but begun. The
president in his Fourth Of July speech
said:
"This year in congress our chief
task has been to carry the govern-
ment forward along the course which
I think it must follow consistently for
a number of years to come"
But while the task is not yet accom-
plished, it is fair to claim that the
era Of trust abuses is rapidly drawing
to a close in the United states.
80 much for republican accomplish
ment. Now, what OF the democratic &
record? Not single contribution,
either in securing these laws or in
prosecution hereunder. has come from
a democrat thru all these years. The
democrats profess oppogition to the
trusts, declaim against them, resolve
against them. but do absolutely moth
ing During Cleveland's admfnfstra-
ton, when they had absolute power,
not law was passed nor prosecu-
tion begun against a single trust. MI.
Bryan has for years Illuminated against
the trust His fond admirers are soon
to receive him at great anti-truSt
demonstration, as the foremost ana
most trusted leader of an aggressive
opposition to all trusts and monop-
olies.' But Mr.. Bryan has never dons
an act to assist the prosecution OF a.
single case. He is a lawyer, but he
has never drawn an indictment, nor
furnished a syllable Of testimony, nee
assisted with advice the prosecution 9