Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-28


votes:
PARISH SEES CHECK ON
INTRENcHED INTERESTS
81 believe Mr.. Bryan will be elected
president" says Oscar e. Parish.
'Why?
Because he is an honest, good, clean
man, a man possessed of sufficient
qualifications to serve the best interests
of all the people, and because he is the
candidate of party that stands for
law enforcement to all alike and special
privileges to none; the party of prin-
ciple and not of dollars
''And, furthermore, we need a change
in administering the affairs of this gov
eminent by some other party than the
Republican party, from the simple fact
that this party has been perpetuated in
office so continuously that it has grown
drunk with power, and anything that
gets drunk and continues in state OF
intoxication grows abusive, rotten and
intolerant.
Amy honest man, be he Republican
or what not, knows that conditions to-
day in this country are not what they
should be under a free sovereign and
republican form of government, and
that this condition exists because laws
and orders have been made under the
rule of Republican administration in
states and nation that virtually bars or
deprves the free, honest and thinking
individual from giving expression to
his wishes and desires to himself and
fellow mankind by ballot or otherwise.
'I say special privileges have been
granted by laws or in one form or an
other through lack of knowledge or
with malice aforethought or for spe-
cial consideration, until a small minor
ity of the men in this country are to-
day in control of the finances and in
dustries of this country, and are today
in control of the finances and indus
tries of this country and are able to
laugh at our government officials and
to saw If you don't like what we do,
what are you going to do about !"
There are interests so well en-
trenched and so rich in this country to-
day, that they have no fear of our
state and federal laws and are con-
stantly violating them; and if by
chance they are hailed into court and
are fined a paltry million or so it does
not deter them in the east for COM
mitting other offenses.
'sThey know that if they really have
to pay fine that they are clothed with
enough power to squeeze it out of the
people.
"These same interests have it in
their power to throttle the largest in
dustries of our country or cause
financial strngency at any time they
may fix upon, similar to the one that
occurred last fall.
DO YOU know this condition has
arisen while the Republican party has
been in control and in absolute power?
And do you know that the people are
asked now to perpetuate this party in
power; the party that has fostered and
fathered these interests?
"I thank God that there are men to-
"a 40 nt1 how
ticket in their lives than the Republic
can ticket that are able to see the rot
tenness and corruption that has grown
up in that party and that they have
resolved to put principle above party
and are going to vote i'll such way as
to thoroughly rebuke that party for be-
traying the interests of the majority of
those that put it in power and have
steadfastly helped keep it there
MARTIN SEES LESSON
IN THE DEPRESSION
at has been said that no admins
tration ever survived a financial
panic" said George c. Martin. 1--WE
have had our taste of the panic GER
tanly and l look to see it get in its
deadly work this time, asi it has here
tofore.
The present hard times have at
least had this effect-they have taught
the moderately well-to-do and the poor
people a very severe lesson, and that
the Republican arguments. which have
been used to such advantage in the
past with respect to the tariff, are
without foundation.
Hard times are probably due more
than anything else, to a long period
of reckless speculation, brought on, or
at least encouraged, by greedy and
careless banking methods.
""But whatever they are caused by,
the present panic has proved conclu-
sively this much, that a protective
tariff is neither a preventive nor an
antidote for hard times.
"A high tariff on manufactured ar
tcles not only has not kept hard times
from our door, but it has, in the opin-
ion of the best disinterested economists,
been the father Of the trusts.
protected by a tariff wall, which
has throttled competition, the trusts
have been able to gain control of prac-
tcally the entire transportation facili-
ties of this country and | do not see
how it is reasonable TO expect the Re
publican party 10 get back for the
people those things which it has faith
lessly permitted them to be robbed Of
Mr.. Bryan must be elected if we
hope to break the web, which favor
able legislation has enabled the great
predatory corporations to spin around
us.
Il believe the same conditions pre-
vail throughout the nation as exist in
Los Angeles county.
1--WE must place Mr.. Bryan in the
presidential chair for the same reason
and by the same token that we must
send to the legislature from Los An
Seles county men who are not con-