The daily sentinel., 1908-07-09
DEMOCRATIC IDEAS
NOW MOST POPULAR
Ringing With Iuhues Terrific Force Arguments 0vepoweng its Ar
ramgm Of the Party Power Clear its Logic is the Speech Deliver
ed Today by Henry Clayton Brilliant Southener Who Made
Chairman Of the Democratic Convention


claring among other things that mo |
temporary restraining order should |
be issued by any court without no
tice.''
The speaker declared there had
not been a session of congress in 2
years at which the republican party
could not have passed a law pre-
scribing defining and regulating the
issuance of injunctions ami provid-
ing for fair trials in contempt cases:
yet, nothing had been done. and but
little promise that anything will be
was made in the Chicago platform.
Several other questions from the
messages of the president regarding
the injunction question and the rights
of labor were made by Mr. Clayton.
He further said that the first recog-
milton of labor from the government
was made at the FIRST session of con-
gress under the first administration
of Grover Cleveland. Here he paid
| the following tributes TO Grover
Cleveland:
"Among the contributions that
went to make up the monument that
this great man. Grover Cleveland,
builded in the respect and affection
| of his countrymen, few are more
striking than his almost instant rec
ognition. as evidenced by this act of
1856 of the sane and just demands
Of labor on the law-making power.
Under him democracy blaZed the way
and now remains the unfiinching
champion of every sound reform in
this direction. Immunity from law
we promise nobody: immunity from
oppression, the democratic party has
been dedicated to establish and Sc
cure
LET me go on. There has been
and is now public demand for legis-
lation regulating. not abolishing, the
process of injunction and the power
| to punish for alleged indirect or con-
structive contempts of courts. Ever
since 1896 the Democratic party have
| protested against hasty and ill-con-
sidered use of injunctions and has
been insisting on the right of fair
trial in all cases of constructive con-
tempts. The Republican party have
cen avoiding this question. So the
President. in taking it up, AID Mr.
Taft in his letter to the labor unions
advocated measure that the Demo-
cratic party, acting in behalf of the
correct administration of public JUS
ticc, has been demanding for twelve
ears. If the President was in earn
est when he sent his message to con-
Gress he was to that extent Demo-
cratic.
Trusts.
1t is the shortest of steps from the
tariff to the trusts. Let 1t be denied
If they care to deny it, that the tar
If is the real mother of the trusts.
The president has made great
pretense of destroying trusts. Let
him tell of the result In message
delivered to congress he said:
1.-The department of justice has for
the last four years devoted more at
tcntion to the enforcement of anti
trust legislation than anything else.
Much has been accOmplisIed; par
tiicularIy marked has been the moral
effect of the prosecutions; but ii is
increasingly evident that there will
be very insufIiciently beneficial re-
suit in the way of economic charge.
The successful prosecution of one de-
vice to cvade the law Immediately
develops another device to aCcOmp-
lisIl the same purpose. What is need
ed is not sweeping prohibition of ev-
cry arrangement, good or bad. which
may tend to restrict competition, but
such adequate supervision and Iegu-
latiOn as will prevent any restriction
of competition from being to the
regulation as will prevent other abus-
Is in no way connected with restric-
ton or competition"
This is an admission of failure and
one does not need to dwell en- this
admission further than to say that
the imprisonment of those who vio-
lated the law would not have a more
salutary effect than all that has been
done or might have been done in
this direction during his entire ad-
ministration.
The democratic party VIII strike
down special privileges, whether
granted through a high protective
) tariff or granted to government char
tered corporations by permission of
law. All trusts owe their birth ana
their ability to continue existence to
one or the other of these two forms
of special privileges. For private
monopoly, no business approximat-
ing private monopoly in another or
in magnitude, can endure without
one or the other.
The Tariff.
1.-The President and his party de-
, clare that a prediction revision of
the tariff would be unwise.
: This assertion has been repeated
in advance of every election since the
enactment of the Dingley law and
surely the country will not again be
deceived by Republican promises to
revise in this-give us another chance
to make you promise and the prom
'se will be made.
What does protection mean? Ua-
der the Republican policy of protec-
, tion.-the people. the consumers.
while paying little over 100000
, 900 per year into the Treasury
: through import duties on foreign
goods, pay between $3.50, 100000
and $1,5OO,OOO,OO0 a year in the
enhanced price of home produced
goods, Our domestic manufactures