Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-08-20


president one OF the men who shared
in the responsibility for the coercion
of the house. Our party demands that
! the house of representatives shall
again become a deliberative body, con-
trolled by a majority of the peoples
representatives, and not by the
| speaker and is pledged to adopt
! such rules and regulations to govern
! the house of representative as will
enable a majority of its members to
direct it's deliberations and contro,
| legislation
Other Issues Later.
Shall the people ruler l repeat is
, declared by our platform to be the
overshadoWing question, and as the
campaign progresses, l shall take oc,
casion to discuss this question as 1t
manifests itself in other issues; for
whether we consider the tariff ques,
ton, the trust question, the railroad
question, the banking question, the Ia
Dor question, the question of imeprial-
ism, the development of our water
ways, or any other of the numerous
problems which press for solution, we
shall find that the real question in
volved in each is, whether the govern
ment shall remain a mere business as
| set of favor seeking corporations on
be an instrument in the hands of the
people for the advancement of the com
mon veal
! Defender Of Honest Wealth.
We may expect those who have
committed larceny by law and pur
chased immunity with their political
influence, to attempt to raise false is
sues, and to employ the livery of
Heaven to conceal their evil purposes,
but they can no longer deceive The
! democratic party is not the enemy OF
any legitimate industry or of honest
accommodations. 1t is, on the contrary,
a friend of industry and the steadfasl
protector of that wealth which repre-
sents service to society. The demo
cratic party does not seek to annihilate
all corporations; it simply asserts
, that as the government creates cor.
porations it must retain the
power to regulate and to control them,
and that it should not permit any cor
poration to convert itself into a mo-
nOpoly. Surely We should have the
cooperation of all legitimate corpora
lions in our effort to protect business
and industry from the odium which
lawless combinations of capital will, if
unchecked cast upon them. Only by
the separation o. the good from the
bad can the good be made secure.
| Not Revolution But Reformation.
The democratic party seeks not rev.
olution but reformation, and l need
hardly remind the student of history
that cures are mildest when applied al
once; that remedies increase in sever
! ity as their application is postponed
Blood poisoning may be stopped by
! the loss of a finger today; it may cost
an arm tomorrow or a life the next
day. So poison in the body polite can
not be removed too soon, for the evils
produced by It increase with the lapse
of time. That there are abuses which
need to be remidied, even the repub
| lican candidate admits; that his party
is unable to remedy them, has Deen
fully demonstrated during the last ten
years I have such confidence in the
intelligence as we'll as the patriotism
of the people, that | can not doubt
! their readiness to accept the reason
able reforms which our party proposes,
rather than permit the continued
growth of existing abuses to hurry the
country on to remedies more radical
J and more drastic.
Our Party Ideal.
The platform of our party closes
with a brief statement of the partys
ideal It favors such an administra-
| ton of the government as will insure,
as far as human wisdom can, that each
citizen shall draw from society a re-
ward commensurate with his contlibu-
| ton to the welfare of society
| "Governmentsa are in good proportion
as they assure to each member of so
ciety so far as governments can, re-
; turn commensurate with indivlduaI
merit
The Divine Law Of Rewards.
| There is a Divine law of rewards.
! When the Creator gave us the earth,
with it's fruitful soil, the sunshine with
; it's warmth and the rains with their
moisture He proclaimed, as clearly
as if His voice had Numbered from the
! clouds, Go work, and according to
your industry and your intelligence,
so shall be your reward Only where
might has overthrown, cunning under
mined or government suspended this
law, has a different law prevailed. TO
conform the government TO This law
ought to be the ambition of the states
man; and no party can have higher
mission than to make it a reality
, wherever governments can Iegiti-
mately operate
Justice To ALL
Recognizing that | am indebted for
my nomination to the rank and file OF
our party, and that my election must
come. if it comes at all, from the I'M
purchased and unpurchasable SURFACES
OF the American people, l promise, il
entrusted with the responsibilities OF
this high office, to consecrate what
ever ability | have to the one purpose
of making this, in fact, a government
in which the people rule-a govern
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