The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-10-23

In this county depends solely upon full
vote being polled. If every voter exer-
cises his right of franchise a majority
of from 1900 to 1900 will be the ver-
dict for Taft, Warner, Fordney, the
county and legislative ticket.
The regulation and control of the
professional lobbyist is a matter on
which Gov. Warner made start last
year and which the voters should give
him chance to bring to a successful
issue next year. The proposed law is
solely in the interest of common hon
| esty and decency. 1t is simply aimed
to bring into the open the professional
lobbyist and his client so that the peo-
pie may know just who is working for
and against pending bills and what in
terests these lobbyists represent. Such
law as Gov. Warner has in mind
would not interfere with the appear
ance of any honest citizen before legis-
lative committees for or against any
bill nor embarass any such person in
the slightest degree. 1t would, how
ever, effectually dispose of the very un-
desirable citizen who, for hire, stealth
lily opposes the interests of the people
in matters of legislation.
The election of Mr.. Bryan would i'm
mediately make important his peculiar
views in favor of limiting the output of
producing corporation to a definite
percentage of the entire production of
given commodity. There are over
forty important factories and mills in
Michigan which are the largest in the
world of their kind. These industries
now employ many thousands of men.
In some of the smaller cities where such
industries are located an arbitrary re
duction of their output such as Mr.. Bry.
an suggests would prove ruinous to the
entire community. 1t would not be
known at once how Mr.. Bryan would
proceed to carry out his threat, but the
threat in itself of man who had power
to carry it out would bring disaster. Is
this suggestion in the least exaggerated
or overdrawn2 Those who have in
mind the conditions of dozen years
ago brought about through fear as to
the future will know that it is not exag-
gerated. There is not city or village
nor farmhouse that stands alone in
the entire state of Michigan that would
not feel in a hurtful way the effect of
the doubt and dismsy that would ac-
company Mr.. Bryan election In view
of this fact it should be vividly realized
by the voters of Michigan what relation
they and their homes possess to the
campaign now in progress and why, re-
gardless of party, they should at the
coming election unite in behalf of re-
publican victory and the election of the
republican candidates.
The Detroit Free Press yesterday con-
tanned an inspired dispatch sent out
from Saginaw, evidently under the
direction of the Democratic headquar
ters, and containing an unjust and
false attack on Congressman Fordney,
one of the kind that the writer would
not dare to have used locally or that
could be printed in any paper circulat
ing in the community in which tie
speech was delivered. 1t represented
that Mr.. Fordney made defense of the
Standard Oil company, the steel, sugar
and other trusts, every word of which
statement is false. On the contrary,
Mr.. Fordney devoted considerable of his
time to warning his auditors about the
sugar trust, also declaring for a maxi
mum and minimum tariff, such as is
generally favored by leading republi-
cans Mr. Fordney said that he would
never vote to degrade American labor
in favor of that of the Philippines, and
his entire talk was splendid discussion
of the issues and such that appealed to
every person in the audience Such at
tacks as the kind the Free Press printed
are of the meanest type candi date
must face, being made in such a place
that the majority of the readers, not
having heard the speech, are unable to
denounce the report as false the mo
ment that it is read. However, eyery
who heard Mr.. Fordney in.
stantly appreciated the malice of the re-
Courier Herald
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