The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-09-08

The Senate has been too long the bull
wark of predatory wealth.
An income tax should be provided for
by Constitutional Amendment.
As he favors arbitration between Ma
tions, so he favors arbitration in all
labor disputes. The strike is bad
thing at best. Society has right to
demand that differences between Labor
and Capital shall be settled by peace
able means.
Government by injunction is really
an attack upon the jury system. So
long as the meanest thief is guaranteed
trial by jury. jury should not be
denied TO wage-earners.
The struggle to secure an eight hour
law is an international struggle. 1t is
sure to be settled in favor Of the work
ingman. and it is right that it should be
SO settled.
The money question is not an issue.
The unlooked-for and unprecedented
increase in the production OF gold has
brought victory to both the advocates
of gold and the advocates of bimetallism
the former keeping the gold standard
and the latter securing the larger vol
ume of money for which they con-
tended.
No party can exterminate the Trusts
so long as it owes its present success to
campaign contributions secured in the
Trusts. The Democratic Party should
set an ex ample by refusing such contri-
buttons from corporations. and by open
ing its books to the public before the
election.
The Trust issue is the great one be-
fore the people. President Roosevelt is
to be congratulated ON what he has
done in this line. although he has fol.
lowed the Democratic rather than the
Republican platform. The Democratic
Parry champions the nine-hine enter
prises that are menaced-they must not
be sacrificed that one great combine
shall flourish.
Private monopoly is indsfensible and
intolerable. The violators of anti Trust
laws should be jailed, not fined. Moth
ing is more calculated to breed Anarchy
than the failure to enforce the law
against rich criminals. while it is
rigidly enforced against petty offenders.
IL might be made illegal for the same
person to act as Director or President of
two corporations which deal with each
other. or are engaged in the same bust
ness. A more far-reaching remedy
would be the one proposed in the Demo-
cratic platform Of l900-that corpora
tions shall take out Federal license
before engaging in Interstate Com.
merce. The Federal Government
could then issue licenses upon terms
and conditions which would protect the
public.
The principle embodied in the pro-
tective tariff has been fruitful source
OF great deal of political corruption,
as well as the support OF many OF our
most iniquitous Trusts. For gener-
alton the 'fat" has been fried out of
the manufacturers by the Republican
Congressional Committee, and then the
man nufacturers have been reimbursed
by legislation.
The railroads must ultimately become
public property. The trunk lines
should be operated by the Federal Gov
ernment. the local lines by the several
State Gov rnments.
Socialism would substitute a worse
disease for the disease from which we
suffer. The best way to oppose Social
ism is to remedy present abuses.
Special privilege and the use OF the
taxing power for private gain-these
are twin pillars under which plutocracy
rests. To take away these supports
should be the purpose Of the Democratic
party.