The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10

s. lican party Under that party's man aRement the Federal government mas become the handy instrument or pred atory wealth. The rights and liper- ties of the masses are M m, no Rnngsn,ssn longsnI re, garded or respected oy the HepeDi'0ah Tn his address on the first inaugura- ton of George Washington as Presi- dent of the United States before con warned us against the evils that ne feared would come upon the republic of our fathers. He said on that occa- sion that, With the increase of popu- lation and wealth and power. with the spells of office dependent upon the elections. with vast interests anected by legislation. as in the care and ots- position of public property. the raising of public revenue. the grant or regula- tion of corporate powers, and monopo- listic combinations the danger, IS that corruption always insidlous, always az plar. government will control parry machinery to effects its ends. tempt public men into accepting favors at it's hands by taking office purchased by its ance under the shelter of system which confounds the honest and the patriotic with the cunning and the
 An intelligent public opinion ceases to exist when It cannot assert Itself and great measures and great principles are lost when elections de- generate into the mere registration Of the decrees of selhshness and greed.
 The evils against which Chief Jus tice Fuller warned us then have. under the sheltering wing Of the Republican party, come upon us In all their force barter of the ballot and sold seats in the House and in the United States Senate to the highest bidder. The trust Is the direct offspring of the Eepsen. protective tariff system.
 "Ex-Senator William E. Chandler, a Republican. eight years ago joined the Democrats in condemning trusts and h 6 said then, The opposition to trusts is based upon the certainty that if they are allowed to flourish unrestrictedly they will destroy competition as bus iness principle. crush out individual property, its politics and It's govern ment into the hands of opulent oli-
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 MT. Chairman. trusts have flourish ed unrestrictedly and there are more among us now than when Mr., Chand- Ter predicted what would come if they edly. His d prediction n has SasA come stru true. and trusts have destroyed competition as business principle and they are exerting powerful and corrupting in- nuence in politics and today the soul of individualism cries out from every quarter of the republic. My country how long will this form of tyranny
 Tn the last letter that he ever write, Judge John H. Reagan that able and faithful old Democrat of Texas, said:
 The party in power no longer respects government as a machine to enable those who control 1t to make money. The idea that the object of the gov- ernment Is to protect society and all Is members in the free enjoyment of political and religious liberty and to give all an equal chance in life's race, seems to me to have become almost lost and class interests and monopoly substituted for right. justice and law.
 'Mr. Chairman, these messages that bring to you and to this convention were uttered when the Republican par E was In power and when the coun- Try was In a large measure enjoying material prosperity. In that same let ter Judge Reagan said: The present apparent prosperity. like the song Of the .,ar siren is, I fear, iulling the people unless policies should change may burst upon us sooner than would seem possible How true were hts words. The panic that came upon us in 1907 with it's whitening, blighting touch was the child of Republican policies. The depositor was denied his own money at the bank--the farmer could not obtain money with which. to move his crop. The full dinner pail became empty and soup houses sprung up in all the large cities of the country. The army of the unemployed was never so great and the number of mercantile failures was unparalleled in the history of the country-and these are the fruits Of the Republican party.
 American people are looking anxiously to the future. They see their indus tries passing into the hands of gigan- tic combinations of capital. They sec the managers of these corrupt combi- nations absolutely dominating the gov ernment. They see the financial instt- tutions of the country controlled by few men, called money kings. who can produce a panic in twenty-four hours. They see that the republican party no longer respects the aspirations and the rights of the masses; and they nave seen the tariff tax become burden grievous to be borne. Terrible Conditions.
 The whole country sees now the ter.