Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-27
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Indiana Senator Delivers Address in Chicago
Dealing With Government Owner
ship and Cuba.
ship and Cuba.

Cuba.
what individual enterprise can own
and manage.
Government supervision is q recog-
milton Of that American principle and
the application of its corollary that
business which affects all the people
should be regulated by the government
of all the people.
Government Supervision.
Government supervision leaves the
making OF rates, local and general,
over our maze of 100000 miles of rail-
ways, in the hands of men who are
familiar with local and general condi- |
tons and have individual interest in
the successful management of particu-
lar roads; and yet government super
vision corrects those rates when they
are unjust or oppressive. Government
ownership puts the making of rates in
the hands of an enormous crowd of
government officials unfamiliar with
local and general conditions and with
out individual interest In the manage
ment of particular roads.
/, Government supervision means the
intelligence and conscience of the peo-
pie laying their restraining hands on
the wrongs Of railway management;
government ownership means an Am
erican bureaucracy as much greater
than any other bureaucracy on earth
as the American railway system Is as
much greater than any other railway
system on earth.
Criminal Laws for Railways.
Those who advocate government
ownership admit that private manage
ment is more efficient, admit that Am
erican railway service is the best rail
way service in the world. But they say
that the government ownership is the
only way of keeping the railways out
Of politics. 1t is true that the rail-
ways NEEDLE, too much in politics
When they NEEDLE at all they NEEDLE
too much, and they NEEDLE great
deal. But government ownership is
not the way to stop them.
Criminal laws Is the way to stop
them. Prison bars for corrupting rail-
road lobbyists; prison bars for rail-
way agents In primaries and conven-
tons; prison bars for railway repres-
entatives who try to influence the NOM
ination and election Of senator, con-
gresham, judge, or any other public
oficer-that is the way to stop them.
Pure Food Laws.
1.-THE principles of government super
vision applies to any other business
so great that, like the railway business.
it affects all the people. That is why
we passed not only law to compel
the railways to give the people just
service, but also law to compel man
ufacturers to give the people pure
food: The government exists for the
; people, and not the people for the gov
eminent. The people established the
J government to do their work. the gov.
eminent did not establish the people
to do it's work.
"And therefore, when manufacturers
sought to make vast fortunes by pois
oning the people there was only one
way by which the people could protect
their health and lives, and that was
by requiring their government to In
: spect the food and medicine which
manufacturers were selling them
When the maker of foods and medi
cines conducts business not with indi
viduals his business is no longer priv
,, ate. but public. He is no longer ar
individual he is trustee-and his
trust is rendered sacred because it di
rectly affects human life.
Result of Government Ownership.
And SO we passed law requiring
} the products of every manufacturer o.
medicine and food sold to the people tt
! be inspected by the government of the
people. But that does not mean thai
the factories which make the peoples
t food and medicine should be owned by
the peoples government. And yet L
the making of the peoples food ant
: medicine, which concerns the health
8 and life of the people, ought not to bt
$ owned by the peoples government
! railroads, which affect only the bust
! ness of the people, should not b.
j owned by the peoples government
Government supervision naturally ap
: plies to all great industries affecting
! all the people; government ownership
could not possibly apply to all grea
business which affects all the people.
y "If It could we would, in hundred
!. years, behold the government dom,
everything and the individual doinl
t nothing.
: sInstead of being American W.
government supervision we would b.
a doing business under government EN-
l. ploy.
!. "Instead of individual initiative WI
!. would have government inertia. Instead
Of making profits as the owners and or
$ orators Of legitimate industry, w
e would be earning salaries as the EN-
n ployes Of government industry.
}. "Instead of the government beinI
8 our servant we would be the govern
< ment's servants.
INSTEAD OF being American W
would be Russian.
Regulation of Meat Industry.
r. at was this principle of government
!. supervision of all business which al
q fects all the people that wrote the his
toric law regulating the America
v meat industry and requiring America
.. hackers to sell to the American peopl