Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-17
JEFFERSON SPIRIT
MAKES EL0QUENCE
DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE THE
BIRTH OF PARTY IDOL
Republicans Arralsned for Existing
Evils - RooseveIt's Raid Upon
the Constitution Denounced
by Senator Morgan
BY Associated Press.

torney General Judson Harmon of Gin
cinnati, United States Senator John
M. Gearin Of Oregon, President Wilson
of Princeton university and Mayor
George B. Mcclellan of New York were
among the speakers tonight at the JEFF
ferson dinner of the Democratic club
OF New York, held in the Waldorf
Astoria. Former President Grover
Cleveland and Senator John T. Nor
gan Of Alabama sent letters of regret,
which were read.
President Wilson in his speech re-
ferred to the regulation of corpora
tions, saying:
mo doubt great corporations have
come to stay; no doubt certain de-
gree of monopoly is inseparable from
them, but they may by scrutiny and
regulation be freed from the spirit of
monopoly. The craftsmanship we need
is not the craftsmanship of destruc-
tion, but the craftsmanship of enlight-
eminent and of unselfish devotion.
Turn From Socialism
IF we were to act now with the spirit
of Jefferson in dealing with the affairs
of our own day what would we do?
First and foremost, we should turn
away from socialism as no remedy,
but only worse danger, danger of
the very sort we seek to escape, a
danger of centralized and corruptible
control Our remedy, If we seek 1t in
the spirit of Jefferson, would be to in
dividualize men alike in their energies
and in their morals, not to lump and
merge them. The whole trouble now
is not that they unite In corporate un-
dertakings, but that they sink their
consciences in the corporations Of
which they form part, and act as
instruments rather than as men, men
with consciences and individual re-
sponsibilities to God and their fellow
men,"
Mr.. Harmon also referred to corporate
wealth, saying:
1--WE have laws to prevent and pun
ish depredations of trusts and combina-
tions and the enjoyment of special
favors, through rebates and otherwise.
from public carriers. But these were
allowed to go so long with only de-
sultory attempts to enforce them that
the government does not seem able to
make It's belated efforts highly effective.
Republican Leaders Responsible
What is it the president and his fol-
lowers are trying to do? 1t is merely
to end a state of things for which the
Republican leaders are themselves to
blame. They let the spirit of CONNER
cial greed out of the bottle and shouted
with pride as 1t swelled and grew. Now
that 1t Is as big as the sky, they wish
to get back and call on the Democrats
for help"
Mayor Mcclellan spoke at some
length, saying:
"There is spirit of disorder and
lawlessness, and a spirit of unrest and
hopelessness sweeping around the
world, a spirit which masks under the
names of Socialism, collectivism, COM
munism, but which has for its object
and ultimately manifests itself by the
flaming torch and the red flag of an
archy.
"That spirit is with us in the United
States today, taking advantage of con-
ditions brought about by our oppo-
nents. Under Republican rule in the
nation the government has persist
emily been misused for the enrichment
of the few and for the oppression of
many. The people have been plundered
until the field has been plowed and
narrowed ready for the sowing with
the seed of diseased thought And the
sewers who SOW the seed without con-
science or thought of consequence are
men armed with the most powerful
weapons for the deliberate perverslon
of humanity.
''With the single ambition of per-
sonal elevation to feed their monstrous
vanity, they would not only wreck the
party to which they claim allegiance
but would without scruple place upon
this country the curse with which every
civilized nation in Europe has been
struggling for a decade. And these men,
God save the mark, call themselves
Democrats"
Senator Morgan's Letter
In his letter regretting his inability
to be present Senator Morgan said:
"Jefferson's professed followers. in the
vain efforts to accomplish their per-
sonal and political advancement, readi-
ly abandon the express guarantees of
the liberties of the people embodied in
the amendments of the constitution in
which the creed of the Jeffersonlan
Democracy has it's strongest founda-
tion.
1.-THE present effort to destroy the
right of trial by jury. secured in the
seventh amendment, Is the most re-
cent and conspicuous proof of this derl-
LECTION and is the most deplorable.
ut Is fragrant and shameless in the
Hepburn bill, called the railroad bill,
passed in the house of representatives
and supported in the senate by Demo-
Gratis for no other than expected party
advantages. Trial by jury is stricken
from the existing law, and the power
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