The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-10-21
HARTFORD, KY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1908

purely for pHOtection purposes. Re-
publican policies have built up a
class, rioh and autccratic, which is
the greatest menace to representative
government. placing the wealth. Of
the country in the hands of a few.
Democrats believe in equal distribu-
ton of wealth among all deserving
classes. The Democratic theory does
not object to rich men-wealth legi-
timately gotten--but to the laws which
empower certain classes to accumulate
immoderate sums and thus place a
handicap upon the workingman. There
Is no music in Mr.. Carnegies gift or
gan, wrung from the sweat and toll
of the laboring masses; no bread in
his free libraries for the unemployed,
the starving poor. Such gifts are
the usufruct, the result of a high pro-
tective tariff, which enriches men of
Mr.. Carnegie's class to an immoderate
degree, while it Expresses and i'm
poverishes the deserving working
classes.
The Republicans, said the speaker,
propose, If continued in power, to
call a special session of Congress to
revise the tariff. Why this action
now? Four years ago they scorned
to take action in the matter, but stood
pat" Why, if this tariff was such
a. coed thiHg dues IL need revising?
1t is merely false promise and pre-
tense of She Republicans and means
nothing. The word revise" does not
mean a reduction. 1t simply means
more Juggling, with the interests Of
the protected and enriched few main
ly at heart. 1t will permit the trusts
and big protected monopalies to
write their wishes as schedules in
the law. What privilege or chance
has the workingman or common la
borer to go before Congress and die
tate or help change the laws? What
does the Republican platform offer
the honest American laborer? Let
the workingman answer. =
The Democratic platform stands for
trials by jury, for the utmost liberty
of all honest people, fer a fair and
equal distribution of wealth, and for
laws which will affect the rich and
the pc)r alike. The Sherman Anti
Trust law was the work Of three Re-
publicans End twoDemocrats who were
two years in framing it, yet the Re-
publicans want to claim full credit.
hut, after all, who has it impris-
oned and how many? In what par
ticular prisons are they confined? The
$2a, 0OO,OOU Standard Oil fine has been
the first and only case, and what be-
came of il? Swept away with one
flourish Of the courts hand. The
Trust, the Steel Trust and
dozens Of other big trusts still stand
and unmolested.
Que of the prime tenets Of the
Democratic creed is a guarantee for
bank deDcsits-an ever-ready protec-
ton for the workingman. The Re-
publican platform ignores this plan
and Republican speakers deride it.
AS to what such a law would have
Capt. Ellis brought into
vivid remembrances to his audience
the recent calamitous failures cf the
two Owensboro banks, entliling the
greatest suffering, anguish and de-
privation to the honest but unsus-
pecting depositors. With the DEM
ocratic guarantee law in operation, the,
depositors would not have suffered
the loss of cent.
The above are just a few transcripts
Of Capt. Ellis splendid address, which
occupied nearly an hour and a
half, but which was so pleasing that
the time seemed hardly half that long.
There were many other
points taken and embraced in his
.alk. but space forbids a full steno-
graphic report He was frequently |
,pplauded during his remarks and |
was warmly congratulated at the
lose.