The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-13

the railroads are paying q larger per-
centage and in others a less percent
} age; hut that states the proposition
Public utilities.
Now, are you ready to endorse this
plank in the Democratic platform which
endorses Mr.. Bryan, and which, in an
independent provision on the first page.
endorses municipal ownership of public
utilities, without discriminating; that
is. without placing limit upon It?
favor city ownership. or municipal own
ership. of water, which is necessary to
every hour of your human existence;
hshts, which are in use half of your
lives Those are of different charac-
ter; they are public utilities for the
daily use Of the individual; and would
place 1t in the hands or power of no
man to Cypress the individuals in their
| homes. where they have no option as to
the use of these things, where they
must use them; 1 would place In the
hanos or no man the power, or any set
VI men, or any corporation, the power
10 Cypress the people in their homes
But the great transportation lines of
| the country are property Of a very diff
rerent character. performing a very diff
terent function toward the individual
"A large percentage of the people of the
united states do not use the railroads
at all. This great silent strength
| power--of the United States that ia rem.
resented by the farmers and the QUIET
homes OF the country have but little
| use In the way of necessity for railroads
Municipal ownership such as I have re-
| terred to-lights and water in a city
anect only the people locally--the peo
| pie of the corporation of the CITY. Rnt
railroads, transportation companies. af-
rect the people from one end of the
country to the other, and all over IL.
now In view of the suggestions that
nave made. as to the effect On your
pocket books, do you think that the
American people,-do you think that Won
and your neighbors will endorse the
principles of any man who stands for
that Kind of government? No You
are not ready to go into the railroad
business wholesale; you are not ready
to increase the burden Of povarn,,ar,
on your shoulders. and on yours or vonr
neighbors yet. I do not believe that the
DAY Will ever come when the American
people Will be SO dense, so incautious
so reckless, as to undertake such an en-.
terprise. 1t sounds tempting-eoyern-
ment ownership of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a
taking sound to 1t. But when YOU an.
aiyze II. 1t Is dangerous proposition.
"eil' they endorse that. the Democrats
OF Idaho in their platform.
The monetary spstsm.
This same apostle of modern Democ,
racy, who would not be recognized bv
either of the other two Democratic
prophets. Jefferson or Jackson, said to
you IN 1896 that he was in favor of
changing the monetary system of this
country and of adopting the free silver
or free coinage proposition, and a great
many of you were with him in that
matter; great many of you were
taught to believe that relief might come
through this change in the monetary
system. The people have becomer wiser
since 1896. and they no longer believe
that to be true; they no longer believe
in that doctrine. You could not get a
corporal's guard of the voters of the
United States today, If that single cues
ton were before them, to vote in favor
OF the free coinage of silver upon the
basis that Mr.. Bryan represented and
supported in 1885, The reason you at
tempted to follow it then was because
you were in the midst of distress and
poverty
Free Trade.
Four years of free trade. under the
disguise. the assumed name, Of tariff
reform. had so impoverished the people,
and brought them to 30 desperate a con-
dition of mind, that they were willing
to grasp at any straw Of promise that
might seem possible relief. And they
did not stop to reason much; they want
ed the promise and the hopes that It
might bring them relief and they ad-
hered to It,
Well. the people of Idaho persisted for
long time in following that false God
and that false belief. They would not
let go of it until good times forced
their hands loose. and compelled them
to. The Republican party of the coun-
try. realizing the truth Of that old max
i'm that like conditions bring like re-
suits went back to the conditions that
existed prior to the free trade policy of
the Democratic party which was adopt
ed in 1892 upon the election OF that par
ty to power. The people of the United
States went back to the condition that
existed before that time, and found that
old maxim could be relied on. that like
conditions produce like results. Under
the conditions that existed prior 10 the
Democratic reign of four years, from
1s9S-from March, 1898. to March. 1897
prior to that time. tho people OF this