Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-14
Pointed Paragraphs
from Bryan Speech

The Democratic party is not the
enemy of any legitimate industry or OF
honest accommodations. 1t is, on the con
trary IL friend of industry and the
steadfast protector of that wealth which
represents a service to society. The
} Democratic party does not seek to an
initiate all corporations; it simply as
serts that as the government creates
corporations it must retain the power
to regulate and to control them, ana
that it should not permit any corpora
ton to convert itself into monopoly.
SO long as the Republican party re-
mains in power, 1t is powerleSS to re-
generate itself. 1t can not attack wrong
doing in high places without disgracing
J many of its prominent members, and II,
therefore, uses opiateS instead of the
surgeons knife It's Indicators con-
strue each Republican victory as an en-
dorsement Of their conduct and threat
Ell the party with defeat if they are III
terfered with Not until that party
passes through a period Of fasting In
the wilderness, will the Republican
leaders learn to study public questions
from the standpoint of the masses. Just
world and the deceitfuiness of riches
choke the truth" so in politics, when
party leaders serve far away from home
and are not in constant contact with the
voters, continued party success blinds
their eyes to the needs of the people
and makes them deaf to the cry of dis
tress.
An election is n public affair. If a
man. pecuniarily interested in 'concen-
trating the control of the railroads Ill
one management" subscribes a large
sum to aid in carrying the election. why
should his part in the campaign be CON
cealed until he has put the Ohiclals I'M
der obligation to him? If a trust mag
nate contributes 100000 to elect poltt-
zeal friends to office, with a view to
preventing hostile legislation, why
should that fact be concealed until his
friends are securely seated in their OH
cial positions?
Why were these "known abuses per-
mitteG to develop? Why have they not
been corrected? If existing laws are
sufficient, why have they not been en-
forced? All of the executive machinery
of the federal government is in the
hands of the Republican party. Are
new laws necessary? Why have they
not been enacted? With a Republican
President to recommend, with q He
publican Senate and House to carry out
his recommendations, why does the he
publican candidate plead for further
time in which to do what should have
been done long ago? Can Mr.. Taft
promise TO be more strenuous in the
prosecution of wrong-doers than the
present executive? Can he ask for
larger majority in the Senate than his
party now has? Does he need more Re
publicans in the House of Representa-
tiyes or a speaker with more unlimited
authority?
There is divine law of rewards.
When the Creator gave us the earth,
with its fruitful soil, the sunshine with
its warmth, and the rains with Their
moisture, He proclaimed, as clearly as
if His voice had Numbered from the
Clouds go work, and according to your
industry and your intelligence, so shall
be your reward Only where might
has overthrown, cunning undermined or
government suspended this law, has a
different law prevailed. To conform the
government to this law ought to be the
( ambition of the statesman; and no party
can have a higher mission than to make
7 it a reality wherever governments can
legitimately operate.