The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-09-27

nor j. w. Folk, of Missouri, a native
of Tennessee, was the guest of honor
today in Nashville, where home-com-
ers are assembled from every part of
the United States for a week of re-
union and celebration. Tonight at the
Duncan hotel, at a banquet rendered
him by the Commercial Club of Nash
vile, Governor Folk discussed the is
sues of the day. This afternoon he
| addressed a vast crowd of home-com-
ers and resident Tennesseeans at
Cumberland Park, where the state fair
is in progress. At the banquet tonight
Governor Folk said, in part:
'The prospects for the success of
Democratic ideas was never brighter
than now. By Democratic ideas,
mean those principles embraced in
the expression equal rights to all,
special privileges to none This max
i'm of Jefferson expresses every essen
tial element of real Democracy. With
this rule for our guidance, we cannot
lose our course or be led into the
quicksands of dishonor or despair.
With this axiom as our chart the in
famies of privilege in every form can
be destroyed. Jefferson's phrase
sounds simple, but it mas taken gen
erations for men to attain a practical
understanding of its wisdom and JUS
tice. 1t applies to the conditions to-
day with even greater force than
Nybn ErS Nv %
father of Democracy.
Revival in Politics.
"A political revival is going on all
over the land today on this subject.
The people are beginning to awaken
to realization of the fact that the
government of city, state and nation
belongs to them, and that they can
take the government into their own
hands whenever they wish. This is
the ideal the Democratic party stands
for-the rule of the people for the
people, as opposed to government by
class for class.
''The elimination of unjust privi-
leges conferred by law is a moral
question. Any privilege is a graft,
whether it be privilege exercised
itself may give. A tariff SO arranged
as to create monopoly and to give a
few people the privilege of preying
on the rest of the people is Iegalized
graft Considered from this stand
point, the tariff is moral question.
Are Moral Questions.
Indeed, every governmental ques-
ton in a sense is a moral question,
in that it is a question of right and
wrong But as an economic question
merely, a monopoly tariff is indefen-
sfble under the conditions that exist
today
"A monopoly tariff is not necessary
to protect the American workingman,
was never intended to do so, and has
never had that result. 1t is self-evi-
erence between the cost of labor in
this country and abroad is necessary
to keep wages of American laborers
on their present basis, then American
made goods could not compete with
European goods, for as the American
laborer receives more the American
products could not be sold at the same
prices as those made by cheaper Euro
pean labor.
Americans Worth More.
-ssThe average American laborer is
worth more than the average foreign
laborer because he is better educated
and ca1 accomplish better results in
a shorter time. He completes with the
world today because there is nothing
to event foreign labor from coming
here, and wnat he manufactures is
sold abroad in competition with that
same labor. Labor asks no largesse
OF the state. It wants but freedom of
opportunity to have and to enjoy and
To exchange the products OF its handi-
craft The protective tariff cannot
be for the benefit of the workingman.
Then for whose benefit 1t is? There
lis a tariff of $50 per cent on oil for
| the benefit of the Standard Oil com
pany. although this same company
sells It oil all over the world for less
than II IL s<11d hare The frs1efs In