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irreparable wrong. Yet ther0 are many
| Judges who assume matter of course
he ordinary and proper judicial disposl-
ton Of such cases and there have undonpt-
edly been hagrant wrongs committed BY
Judges in connection with labor even within
ths last few years
June 20, 1889. was passed at the arst session
OF the first Congress- that met under the
first Democratic administration after the
civil war. and there labor received Its first
recognition from the Government. One
Republican administration had succeeded
another for twenty-four yeare and not one
act was passed in the interest OF labor
or in acknowledgment Of Its right TO fair
and equal treatment.
THE TARIFF.
The President and his party declare
that a preelection general revision OF the
tariff would be unwise.
This assertion has been repeated in ad-
vance Of every election since the enaottnene
Of the Dingley law, and surely the country
will not again be deceived by Republican
promises 70 revise the tariff after the cleo
ton. Their appeal to the people 10 this
give us another chance TO make you prom
ise and the promise will be made.
the Republican policy Of protection the
people. the consumers. while paying
little over $500 900 per year into the
Treasury through import duties on foreign
goods, pay between $500 o0o. 900 and
of home produced goods. Our domestic
imports BY ten to one and
they are nearly all protected. It is safe to
hSt wsss si RsGpS a g ss
ism for every, dollar that is paid into the
Treasury. Behind the wall Of high pro-
lection, which I'm some cases Is altogether
prohibitive. the trusts levy enormous tribute
an kha ANr,lA haxs tnk tn NJ
less than sio 600 OoO, 600 in the last decade,
not counting the amount paid to support
the Government. This money has come
| from the pockets Of the farmer the me-
| and the laborer, and has been poured into
the oofers OF the protected classes. More
than two-thirds Of the capital that derives
benefit from protectionisIn belongs to the
trusts, The Democrats will revise the
tariff downward and In the interest Of the
taxpayers, who are always forgotten by
the Republican party.
There must be revision and a gradual
| reduction Of the tariff by the. friends Of
tariff reduction for the common good. and
not by the benefictaries OF it's abuses, who
| justify use Of the impost taxing power for
the chief purpose Of comforting privilege
| and profit upon the few at the expense OF
the many.
TRUSTS
It is the shortest Of steps from the tariff
to the trusts Let II be denied. II they care
to deny it, that the tariff is the real mother
| OF the trusts.
The President has made great pretenoe Of
destroying trusts. Let him tell OF the re-
he said:
| last four years devoted more attention to
the enforcement OF antitrust legislation
complished; particularly marked has been
| the moral effect Of the prosecutions, but 1t Ia
increasingly evident that there will be
a very insufficiently beneficial result in the
prosecution Of one device to evade the law
Immediately develops another device to
accomplish the same purpose. What Is
needed is not sweeping prohibition Of every
ARRANGEMENT, good or bad, which may tend
to restrict composition, but such adequate
supervision and regulation as will prevent
any restriction Of competition from being
to the detriment Of the publio-as we'll as
such supervision and regulation as will
prevent other abuses in no way connected
| with restriction or competition"
This is an admission Of failure and one
does not need to dwell on this admission
further than to say that the imprison-
ment of those who violated the law would
have had a more salutary effect than all
that has been done or might have been done
in this direction during his entire admins
traaon.
The Democratic party will strike down
|
high protective tariff or granted to Gov
! ernment chartered corporations by per-
mission Of law. All trusts owe their birth
and their ability to continue existence to
special privilege. No private monopoly
no business approximating private mon
opoly in methods or in magnitude can
endure without one or the other or both.
FEDERAL UsURPAT1oN.
President Roosevelt has constantly
clamored for more law and has frequently
| disregarded laws already on the statute
books. He has sometimes arrogated to
himself to say what laws should be en-
forced and what should not. He has ex-
ercised the unauthorized privilege Of decid-
ing against whom the laws should be en-
prosecution. He insisted on the punish
ment of certain railroads and of certain
men for giving and receiving rebates. and
then ordered the disoontinuance Of the case
against one Of his Cabinet officers who
had confessed that as an official
Of the railroad he gave rebates
to a company in which he was
stockholder and an official. And this man
the Presidents recommendation for more
lucrative position as the head Of a great
corporation. Indeed, by his defiance Of
legal limitations and the safeguards of the
Constitution. he has done more to inculcate
contempt Of law than all the mobs that
have claimed victims for their violence, in
| all the States
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.
We know there is a brighter prospect.
II the love Of country and liberty is still
strong in the hearts Of the American people,
If an oath to support the Constitution is
now considered by them as binding; II the
people are in earnest in their protests against
the rile OF insolent wealth, the unau-
thorized and baleful influence Of corpora
tions and the exactions of the trusts; If the
| nl;H 10 hn foth thar- haa trop
mitted to the SONS, the 4th Of next March
will mark the advent Of the gladstone light
of Democracy and the beginning Of the
return to constitutional government hon.
estly and economically administered.
To the banner we raise here We invite to
repair all citizens Of our common country
who revere the nobler traditions Of the
past, who deplore the grave alterations Of
the present. -,
| once again float over a government resting
secure on lasting foundations.
| H0ME FTGHT