Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-02
.LAFDLLEI1[' 5 WAS
A GREAT SPEECH
Wisconsin Senator's Argument
Was Vote Getter For the
Republicans
SHOWS UP THE TRUST EVIL
That is Real Issue in Campaign, Says
LaFoIlettc - Pays Governor Cum
minis Fine Tribute, and Says He.
the Kind Of Man Needed in Wash.
acknowledgements Able Successor.
cessor.

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shalltown Saturday. was one of tn,
strongest 'vote-getting arguments tina
has ever been presented from Mar
shalltown platform. Instead Of tickling
republicans by eulogizing the repub
lican party from Lincoln's time to date
he took up the live issues Of the day
! stated them as they are, admitted tn,
correctness Of some democratic poll.
| cies, scored republican senators ant
leaders who have been in the wrong
and then led the democrat who was
ready to vote for Bryan, right up tt
an overwhelming conviction that TAT,
| is the one man above all men to elect
president
The main part OF Senator La Fol-
lette's argument showed that the grea,
| question in this country today Is not
the tariff, not the guarantee OF bank
deposits. and not labor legislation, but
rather the control of the government
either by the people, or the syndl-
Gated interests.
He clearly showed that the trust
control and the consolidation of SYM
Dictated interests had grown 55 per cent
within the last four years The BUSH
ness of the individual is now gone
from a copartnership to a corporation.
! and from merger of corporations in
a given line the state Of development.
has ffnaliyl become merger OF the
trusts.
To more clearly show his point he
cited the business of the United States
tuted. represents an actual investment
of less than s4oo.cca,ooo. while its cap
itaI stock is scheduled as $1,400, 000,-
600. or $1,000, 100000 of water.
Just so the Standard Oil and Nor
gan interests have united to control the
banking of the country. for the pur-
pose of floating these industrial. rail-
road, and speculative enterprises. In
reality, the speaker said, they use the
same methods as the steel trust, and
are succeeding by pumping in the wa
ter. Now they have got the control OF
all these interests into the hands Of
less than 100 men.
The issue then, before the people Of
this country today, is whether or not
the government is to be controlled by
this same system.
Speaks Kindly of Bryan.
Senator LaFollette spoke very kindly
of Bryan. mo one has higher regard
for him than I; consider him honest,
and able" He then went on
to say that Roosevelt and Bryan were
two men who kept this issue before
the people. They agree as to the is
sue, but what about the remedy? Mr..
Blyan's remedy is to take the tariff
off of trust-made goods. He said under
this plan the labor OF this country
would be brought into direct competi.
ton with laborers Of competing coun-
tries in the same lines of work. II
there is any difference between condi-
tons in this country and competing
the removing Of the tariff will
work hardship to the labor Of this
country. He showed the difference in
labor conditions by the Mosely report,
made up by twenty-seven representa-
tives of leading manufacturing con-
Germs of Great Britain, who visited this
country four years ago and went into
every industrial center in the country.
pointed to the republican party as a
reports show that, considering the eff
cheney Of labor, advantages Of machin-
cry. manner and cost of living, that the
condition of the British workman in
the same lines is inferior to the Amer
lean workman. From this he argued
that if the manufactured products of
this country should go on the free list,
the manufacturer would either have to
reduce the cost of his labor, or close
down his factory.
Republican, Party Of Progress.
Mr.. LaFollette cited that Bryan HIM |
here would be a republican congress,
and asked what Bryan could hope to |
10 with his pet schemes with no one |
% help him. On the other hand he !
pointed to the republican party as n |
party of progress, and named the men |
IF every northern state who are stand
ing for progressiveness-Hu i'm I
New York, Churchill in New Hamp- |
shire, Cummins in Iowa, and q dozen
others. While there might he a di-
'ision in Nthe republican party that
,ery division was sign of hope for
he republican, party.
The democratic party was also di-
rided, but the division was hopeless
,ecauses it was on the race question,
md the majority Of the party was in
he south, where leading democrats
we're of the ultra conservative, aristo-
ratio type.
Lauds Judge Taft.
Touching on Taft, as the republican
candidate for president, La Toilette
aid that Roosevelt had plowed and
the ground for a constructive
tatesman. Roosevelts administration
lad left very few ways and laws that
we're adequate to control the corporate
'ower and give the people their own
still Roosevelt was unique, and could
e rightfully classed with Washington
nd Lincoln, as man who had aroused
he people and showed up the iniauities
n the consolidated life of the country.
What is needed now the speaker ,
aid. lis a strong and able lawyer for
n administrative officer
He then referred to Taft's success in
he Philippines, to his able work In the
abinet. how he had been sent to Cuba
, put that new countrys government 6
II its feet, and then to the Panama {
anal, where others had failed Roose- s
cit leaned on Taft IL the cabinet; was