The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-25
True Democratic Principles
 Stafed by Senator John ". Daniel


 currency. it's value being tested by the gold standard The expression. asset currency. emergency currency and elastic currency which have super seded the old-fashioned sound money talk, mark deep change in the spirit of the times. but we must maintain the redeemability of paper in coin and take care not to allow such a volume of it as cannot be maintained at par
 Time te Revise Tariff fs Now.
 -Do you think a modification of tariff schedules essentialT'
 T have been for years in favor of tariff revision. and I think that the time Is now fully ripe for 1t and that it should come immediately. All men recognize that 1t Is impossible to make purely theoretical tarif, such are the divergence of the conditions and situa- tions of different sections of our pro- digious country, but the high prices which now consume wages salaries and dividends are undoubtedly largely due to the high seaward wall the tariff puts around our country to things coming in. but which let's our own products De sold cheaper in other countries than In our own.
 The records of the Interstate Com- mercs Commission show that the pres- enf conditions are pinching those for v -t<7@ eShont t4E1 were GESANSUa F'II Instance. freights are such that plate glass from Europe is put down in St. Louis and other great Western markets cheaper than our American giass of Eastern manufacture. which has tariff protection. can be put down in the same places; that Is. the foreigner is selling his goods cheaper in some of our markets, notwithstanding the high protective tariff. and the American o n "a nfss au Tn the narts of the world cheaper than he IS here at the doors of his factory tected.
 These paradoxfcal conditions re. quire revision and correction ana should come from the regulation of transportation and revision of the tar- m working continually for the benef,t or Americans. As things stand, Amer lcah msnufactHrers as well as Ameri- can consumers, are discriminatess against and the American folks are cat'ning 1t going and coming. The sooner the correcting hand Is applied the better for all concerned.
 Gevernment 0wnershipy Nc.
 shin o you ,, iavor government owner
 would as soon substitute A aing Tor q President at once, for 1t
 me most imperialistic idea that has yet appeared in American politics. If means the appointment of a rniilion lnen m Washington. from the Preei- dent Of railroad down to d brake man It means. too, an incumbrane nee 70 our government which would suffo- cate It with patronage and also to be 2 burden to the people from which Lney would never escape unless by an unprecedented revolution.
 eT AnnDv &N should have government ownershtp ex- cept Tor that which has applied 10 the Fniiippfne Islands; that is, to stsm- uiats an opportunity to get rid Of them. All races would be equally aduaissfI,Ie 70 railroad employment, as they are unaer the civil service as 1t now exists ena among other evils government ownership would revive the race aues- tlon m q most disagreesbie ana ob- noxi0us manner. It would bring to us again the experience of the past with the burdens that would De heaped upon the people and conapiicatIons which would be brought into our poli. ties all of which furnish abundant reasons against the tremendous ex- pertinent of purchasing and owning the great railroads. State and Federal ex. periments on this line have already furnished reasons against 1t. It Fs the very antithesis of Democracy ana now any man who calls himself d Demo- erat can be in favor of 1t is mystery to me"
 JeaEersen's Teaehinks.
 Thomas Jefferson taught that gov. ernment is the best government that governs the least The more things We undertake to govern in this coun. try through the Federal agency, the more we congest this movernrnant. which Is already overwhelmed by the magnitude and the number of things tnat dt is undertaking. It would better Eat Tid of something's that 1t is doing than add others Co those which are al- ready so heaped up that Congress is dfsabIed from givtng them timely and proper attention.
 ''T'he. fact is our nation Is already cOugesfed: the House of Repgesenta. tiveg has become q close corporation, coptr6iled by a few men, without op- porfunity to the mass of it's members to participate fully in Legislation. Our whole government win follow the example, and the function of the House as a public forum will disappear if we continue to pile up on the hands of our Congress and administrators new concerns for their attention. The fact is. the Federal government, in it's just relation to society. is falI-handed, and nothing would be moro injurious to the people nor more Burdensome to the taxpayers than to invent for our aAlvea new ucuu1hfaneea.