Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-09-10
REPUBLICANS
OPEN BATTLE
Senator Baverldge Fired Opening
Gun atYoungstOwn, O., Today.
GOV. HUGHES ALSO SPOKE

lndianan Aroused Great Enthusiasm In
Speech Enumerating Laws Passed
BY RepubIicans-said Bryan Never
Thought Of Them-compares Taft
snd Bryan and Says Latter Accom-.
Piished Nothing and Is lnexperi-
sneed-DecIares Nebraskan Is Use.
fui In That He Is Storm Of Unrest
Which Clears the Atmosphere.
Youngstown, O., Sept. 5.-The ma
tioual Republican campaign was open
ed in Ohio by monster mass meeting
In this city this afternoon. Senator AL
bert J. Beveridge; of Indiana, fired
the opening gun in stirring speech
that was received with cheers. Gov
ernor Hughes, of New York, also
spoke. In part Mr.. Beveridge said:
movement for righteousness written
into law. Shall that movement be car
ried out or wrecked? Its concrete ex-
preston is the Roosevelt policies.
Shall they be saved or lost? Seven
years ago we started upon the great
work of modern and humane legisla-
tion that has made the Roosevelt per-
Tod historic. In those years we passed
the railroad rate bill, which for the
first time in American history asserts
the principle that the government of
all the people can and will regulate
those who carry the products of all the
people. We passed the meat inspection
and pure food laws, which ended the
sale of poisoned foods and adulterated
drugs; the irrigation law, which is
making fertile the arid west and will
build within our own continental
boundaries new empire of productive
wealth.
1--WE passed the employers liability
law, which revolutionized the heartless
rule of the common law and gives the
railroad laborer or his family compen-
sation for his injury or death; the law
forbidding railways from requiring en-
ployes to work an inhuman number of
hours without rest; the safety appli-
ance act, which not only lessons the
danger to life and limb of employees,
but which increases the safety Of the
travelling public.
Bryan Never Thought of These Laws.
Cali these are Republican laws.
Each of them was opposed secretly or
openly by both Democrats and Repub-
licans; each of them received both
Republican and Democratic votes. But
each of them was urged by Republi-
can president, originated by Republi-
can statesmen, and some of them were
not even thought of outside the Re-
publican party. For example, even Mr..
Bryan never dreamed of the meat in
spection and pure food laws, yet that
law means more to the health of the
American people than all the curious
devices he ever proposed.
"Of the work that remains, the first
Is to revise the tariff. The tariff we
shall make will protect American in
dustries, and also open foreign mar
kets to American products. A straight
out revenue tariff is ancient; a single
protective tariff is out of date. We Re-
publicans propose to keep up with the
times. AS straight out revenue tariff
gives everything away to foreign ma
tions and gets nothing in return, so
straight out protective tariff gives
nothing away and gets nothing in re-
turn. The modern tariff is maximum
and minimum tariff-a high tariff to
be applied to any nation that will not
give us advantages in its markets, and
lower tariff, still protective, to be
granted to any nation that will give us
advantages in it's markets.
"Every labor law we have passed
Is part of that web Of industrial
questions which we call the labor
problem. But the fundamental labor
problem is the problem of employment
and pay. Work and wages are the
foundations of labors well being, with
out Of which all labor legislation is the
giving Of stone instead of bread.
Had any political economist been told
twenty-five years ago that carpenters,
miners and steel workers ever would
be paid the American wages of the
present day he would have scoffed.
Recovery From the Panic.
1--WE are quickly recovering from the
briefest panic in our history. Let
workingmen contrast that panic with
the one that occurred under the last
Democratic administration and then
answer this question for themselves:
VIII the election of Mr.. Bryan or Mr..
Taft best help the rapidly improving
business of the country? And remem-
Der that active business means well
paid employment
"That Mr.. Bryan and the opposition
would make business practically i'm
possible is proved by their national
franchise plan. They propose that
every enterprise big enough to do
business in more than one state shall
secure national license, which can
be granted or withdrawn by any ad-
ministration. But no business can
succeed without certainty; no business