The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27

natural grandeur as the chief artistic pos
session Of humanity.
We believe the State should exact uni
versal maintenance OF peace and 0bser-
vance Of order. Within these limitations
we hold every citizen has the right TO occupy
bis leisure and pursue his amusement
without any yexatious or intrusive TO
straint upon his personal liberty.
AGAINST RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
We ask the Federal Government TO ex-
ercise Its influence to bring about speedy
cessation OF the atrocities now being oom-
mitted against the Jews in Russia, which
a shocked the conscience OF CAviliza-
ton.
We favorlthe electionvof United States
Senators by direct vote Of the, people, and
pending the adoption Of an amendment to
the Federal Constitution the enactment OF
State legislation providing for their direct
nominations by popular vote.
SOFT WORDS FOE BRYAN
In common with the Democrats Of all the
States and expressing the sentiment OF the
high minded citizenship Of the republic
without reference to party we view with
pride and satisfaction the hospitality n
acclaim which have been accorded at home
and abroad to that great Democratic
leader and typical American William Jen-
nings Bryan, to whom the Democrats OF
New York extend most cordial and sin
cere fluctuations.
PLUMBER DENUNCIATI0N.
Finally, we record our solemn belief that
corruption in the public service or in cor
porate management cannot be eradicated
While schemes Of plumber are implanted in
the very body OF law itself. Where the law
not only permits but empowers great trusts
to exact for their products from the people
OF this country prices vastly exceeding
those asked in foreign countries and this
power to plumber our citizens IL treated as
the property Of certain private corporations.
openly capitalized for billions OF dollars,
the vast volume OF tribute dra wn from the
masses Of the community is the least per-
nicious OF its results.
The wide emulation in plumber which
IL evokes Is its worst result. Every success
ful scheme OF spoliation breeds a thousand
limitations. Where a lew men are en-
powered to despoil their fellow citizens,
under protection of, the law, many men
soon devise innumerable schemes to de-
spoil them outside the law. From the
plumber OF billions, levied on the whole
community through manipulating the
statute books, TO plundering Stockholders
and ~policvholders OF millions through
manipulating books Of account, the step
is short and inevitable. The law, when It
denounces minor robberies as crimes,
Is d~isoredited and enfeebled by the greater
robbery which it permits.
NOR ABOUT SOCIALISM.
The spectacle OF Cove rnment taking
from masses of men some OF the profits
created by their labor to enrich a few
favorites encoura0eB the Socialists TO in
sist that Government should monopolize
the entire field OF indust y and divide all
OF its profits among the whole people.
And thus those enormous fortunes enjoyed
by benetciaries of socialistic high proteo-
ton have stimulated a demand for an eX-
tension of socialism into new fields.
We denounce the socialism which seeks
to make government the sole agent Of pro-
duction as nothing less than a proposal
to reestablish the institution Of tyranny
and industrial slavery which persisted be-
fore the advance OF Christian civilization.
For the very essence OF despotism Ia TO
vest in the State absolute control Of all
industries, and therefore ownership OF
Is to confirm in every man the right to
dispose Of his own labor and possess in
peace everything produced by it. We
hold IL TO be self-evident that IL govern
ment assume the whole control Of pro-
duction IL would be It's right and Its duty
to compel all men to work for it's enrich
ment, as it il its right and duty now to
compel all men to fight for its defence;
and enforced lab~or-whether it be en-
forced by government or by Individuals
ia servitude.
Realizing every socialistic proposal
however disguised under sonorous and
misleading phrases-to be a step leading
inevitably toward the establishment OF
despotism in government and servitude
in labor, the Democratic party must al
ways be vikilant in unmasking it Inc in
flexible in opposing It.
In this opposition we ask the coopera-
ton and support Of all citizens who feel
that the issue now before the country is
no mere struggle for office or for advantage
between political parties, but a contest for
the existence Of Christian civilization n
OF democratic government, its last aRd
most valuable fruit.