The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-11-24

mighty shift this from the ideals that
lie at the base of our republican insti-
tuition of private property. A mighty
strain upon the patience and the pa
triotism that must be looked TO to
support that institution. So that
when you ask me where Mr.. Hearst
got his following, | answer, he found
the most of it ready n de for him, in
the consciousness Ga The people of
New York, that the property of the
country, in corporate form, is no
longer the peoples property-he
found the most of it in this mighty
shift from the ideals, that at the be-
ginning of our republican institutions,
lay at the basis of the institution of
private property. ~
But how, you ask me, shall this con-
dition of things be met? is not Mr..
Roosevelt meeting it in his policy of
holding the corporations, by lawsuits
all over the country, to a strict ac-
cOuntability to law? Does not Mr..
Bryan meet il in his announced policy
to dig up the trusts, root and branch?
Does not Mr.. Hearst meet it in his
promise to rescue government from
the control OF the corporations? I'm
questiOnably the corporations, big and
little, far and near, must be made to
obey the law Probably there are
corporations that ought to be dug up,
root and branch. Without question
on the part of anyone. the govern
ment and the corporations ought to
be kept separate and apart; so that
in the condition of things as they exist
there are points where each Of these
policies ought cOurageOusly to be APP
piled.
Their Plans All Inadequate.
But none Of them go to the seat Of
the disease. None Of them will ever
hold out to the individual American
an opportunity to share as more than
wage Garner, IN our great Ameri-
can prosperity. None of them will
ever held out to the individual Amerl-
can, not connected with the favored
classes, a practical opportunity to
satisfy that property instinct that is
part of his American individual in
dependencies. None of them will
ever result in putting the wealth of
the common people of the country
wealth so abundant that without its
use, the great corporations would not
be afiOat tOnight-tO the uses OF COM
petition: for as affairs now run, the
wealth of the people deposited in the
financial institutions is available
chiefly to those who are interested,
not in raising up competition. but in
suppressing it. The conditions to be
adequately met, must De met by rem
edies that go deeper than these poll
cies-remedies that go to the root OF
the disease: that remove the causes
out of which existing conditions have
emerged.
No one not purposely closing his
ewes. is blind to what the chief cause
of all this is. That cause is not in
the mere fact that the great new in
! dustrial life of the country in an in
corporated life; the new Industrial
life could have become incorporated
rs fully as it is Incorporated. without
producing these results. The cause
il in the fact. that throughout the
years the great new life was becOm-
inq Incorporated. through corporations
created by the now FIVE and forty
| -+ates no pains were taken BY the
statos that gave berth to make these
cornoratious media through which tie
PEOPLE at large rignt transmute -neir
individual savings into permanent
property interests: no pains were
.atan to furnish the worker with a
medium through which he might with
reasonable safety, transmute mart OF
his days profits into a permanent
property interest; no pains were
taken to interest either worker or PEG