The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
FAIRBANKS SPEAKS
Vice President Addresses Big Audience at Stamford
 Rally.
HIS SUBJECT THE TARIFF
Republicans, He Says, Stand for Sound Money and Sound
 Tariff.


 before large gathering here tonight. Mir Fairbanks compared the condl- ton of the country under democratic and republican administrations saying that the republicans stood for sound | money and sound tariff. He said that | the panics under democratic adminis- trations had lasted all through their rule without any years of prosperity while the republican panics had been of short duration followed by contn- ued prosperity.
 Vice President Fairbanks will leave for New York in the morning His speech tonight was as follows
 There has, perhaps, been more loose talk upon the subject of trusts than upon any other which has engaged our attention in recent years. This is not at all surprising. The feeling against large aggregations of capital has grown out of the fragrant abuses of the comparative few, and out of their defiance of the law and their contemptuous disregard of the public interest and of public needs. The comparative few have infamed public opinion until 1t has become righteous ly indignant. and in desire and de- termination to secure relief, 1t is quite natural that many irrational and fool ish or impracticable schemes should be suggested as remedies.
 The subject is one to be dealt with with knowledge and deliberate judg- ment, so as to destroy the evil and There Is nothing occult about the question, We have access to all facts and we have the power to protect the people against all forms of corporate or trust abuse. The legislation enact- ed through the instrumentality of the republican party Is proof positive of It's desire and purpose to safeguard the people, l believe that all parties are equally desirous absolutely to protect against corporate or trust abuses. The methods they seek to employ are not the same, yet the end sought to be accomplished by each Is alike. The Interstate commerce law enacted more than twenty years ago was of repub- lican origin, as were also the amend | ments which were subsequently, adopt ed and which were suggested by larger experience and fuller knowledge The | Sherman antitrust law and the anti rebate law were likewise written into | i. .ta f,,tn ae vaIt iat Ia the leadership of the republican party. The credit for these laws must in all | fairness be conceded to 1t. The legis- lation was not enacted without difficult ty and without mistake.
 The abuses which gradually grew out of the development of our industry and commerce awakened the people to the necessity of restrictive and cor rective legislation. The republican party has dealt with the important question broadly and efficiently, It has taken each step resolutely with enc supreme purpose, and that has been to eradicate forever the acknow- 1 ledged evils and to protect the people in the enjoyment of equal privileges. We have struck down and destroyed the pernicious rebate system, which was ore of the most fruitful sources of discrimination and injustice, so as to secure equality of service and fair play to all under like circumstances. The republican party stands pledged to control so-called trusts and large corporations as impartial servants and not masters, of the people. This pledge the people can accept for the future. The assurance of its fulfill ment is found not only In the written statutes of the United States, but in tho records of the courts where vlo- lators of the statute have been prose- cuted and punished. do not pretend to say that our opponents if in power, would do or desire to do less than we have done, but I am fully convinced that they could not and would not do more. I feel that its platform declar- alton that one of the methods of deal ing with the trust question is through the abolition of the protective tariff upon so-called trust made goods, would fail miserably in effecting the result desired It Is perfectly obvious to the most casual observer that such abolition would result in the injury or destruction of the same industries competing with so-called trusts and would tend to give over absolutely and forever the control of the commodity affected, either to such trusts in this country or to like trusts abroad. Such policy is a confession of weakness or utter impotency on the part of oui government. We hold that we possess the power by direct enactment of the congress of the United States, if g subject of interstate cognzance or bI the legislatures of the respective state! 1. if the subject be appropriate to state , jurisdiction, to deal with the trus
 problem and that through these agen
 cies such trust evils as menace the people may be crushed out. Let u' not adopt policy of indirection. Le
 us meet the question fairly and frank ly and not invite competition from abroad in an effort to regulate do n, eetir affairs which if is in our power