New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-28
COL. BRYAN RAPS AT ROOSEVELT
Nebraskan Shifts in Presidents
Policy the faint Of Corpora
ton Influence.

ton influence.
William j. Bryan in commenting on
President Roosevelt's Provincetown
speech said: q
fThe president has at last disclosed
his scheme for Capitalization at which
he has limited in former speeches. In
his Provincetown address he proposes
the national incorporation of rail-
roads and other corporations engaged
in Interstate commerce.
"Here is the secret-it is out at last.
The states are annoying the corpora
tions and the corporations demand
federal protection from state legisla-
ton. The president thinks that action
is most pressing as regards those cor
porations which, because they are
common carriers, exercise quasi
public function.
''The states have been enacting two
cent fare laws and laws reducing
l. l
ayers demand that they shall be re-
lieved from further fear of such legis-
lation. The presidents Hamiltonian
ideas make him an easy victim and he
yields to the entreaties of the rail
roads.
IF it was the public he sought to
e.
remedies which would not interfere
with state remedies but it is the rail-
roads, not the public, that demand the
removal of authority to Washington.
''The Democrats can be depended
upon to oppose with all their might
| this movement toward Capitalization.
If any Democrat wavers, his consti-
tuents should look into his business
relations and see whether he is under
obligations to the railroads. A
Hamiltonian Republican, like the
president, may honestly think that the
farther the government is removed
from the people the better it will be-,
but Jeffersonian Democrat does not
cherish any such delusion.
Even the Hamiltonian Republican
ought to hesitate to trust congress with
any more power while the United
States senators are elected by legis-
latures.
cit is fortunate that the people have
had an object lesson SO recently. The
federal law stopped rebates and passes,
but the railways make more money
than they did before. The states, on
the other hand, gave the people a re-
duction in rates, and those who are
receiving the benefit of these reduc-
tions will be slow to surrender the ad-
vantage thus far gained.
ssIt is very doubtful whether the Re
publican congressman from the West
will dare to support the president S
proposition, but if an attempt is made
to put such a measure through con-
gress the Democrats will stand good
chance of retiring every Western Re
publican who votes for it. Let the
Democrats present an unbroken front
on this vital proposition
Springfield Republican: It needs
only the slightest analysis to show
whence emanates the 'shysteria of the
hour" 1t does not emanate from the
/ people; it does not come from the gov
eminent at Washington, or even from
those lesser soyereignties which OF late
1 have shown such vigor in asserting
their dignity that naturally railroad
whose Hobbies had dominated every
Southern capital for a decade was
astounded and then thrown into re.
treat. There is nothing about the
present popular attitude toward great
interests that need alarm them in the
slightest degree, so long as they re.
spect and obey the law and exaIt the
square deal above watered stock ano
| fancy dividends.
Bob Dunn is again very prominent.
I ly in the public eye as candidate fol
governor.
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