The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-03

An order has been issued by s. c. Hatch, general passenger agent of the Illinois Central railroad inaugurating a daily sleeping car service between Chi cago and Jacksonville, Fla, via Birming- ham and Albany, Ga., the first car to leave Chicago at D. m. Sunday, October IS, arriving at Jacksonville at 7:50 a. m., Tuesday, October 20; the first car to leave Jacksonville at S.O5 D. m, Tuesday October 20, and arrive in Chicago, Thurs day 10;3O a. m., October 2.
 The feature of the order is that on the same date the company will inaugurate 
 I come to Alabama not to do missionary work. When told to make a speech in Ala bama and one in Georgia l demurred, wishing to be in the thick of the fight, but my devoted leader, w. J. Bryan, in- sisted that we must show our apprecia- tion of your record and send a member of the national ticket to bring you words of good cheer.
 ''I am here to assure you that every where I have been there is a class of peo- pie who are determined that plutoeracy shall cease it's rule in this country of ours.
 1 ignoring the bitterness of my opponents, but I am here to appeal to the patriotic , sentiment that ought to breath in every true American breast.
 q think you men of Alabama know how true to you and your interest has been the great democracy of Indiana. When re- construction had you by the throat Thom- as Hendricks of Indiana raised his voice in your behalf, and when this force bill was brought against you the men of h. diana rose up and helped to beat back the bloody shirt of sectionalism"
 He referred to the charge of Alabam- ians and Indianans together at San Juan under Joe Wheeler and loud ap- plause rang out.
 T trust the democracy of the south will always stand up for the grand old union. We have run upon hard times, great wrongs exist, for even our opponents ad- init it. The President in every message he has sent to Congress has begged in vain to have these evils remedied, and during the republican administration of 12 years evils have sprung up for which they are responsible"
 Bird's-Eye View of Situation.
 He then took bird's-eye view of the situation. He remembered where the millionaires of America could have been counted on his two hands 50 years ago when the money was equally distributed among the people, but he declared that laws have been enacted for the benefit of the few; the money has been drifting away from the people until more han half of the wealth is owned by 5000 people in theFland.
 He referred to Senator Lafollette's speech in the Senate the past year when he declared that the financial welfare of this country is in the hands of less than 100 men.
 This is a startling situation, one which ought to engage the attention of the people MT. Roosevelt in his recent mes- sages has called attention to these swol- len fortunes, but he has nothing to pro- pose to remedy the conditions
 While the masses have been toiling on, fighting battles of life for their fam flies, these few men have caused to be enacted laws for the purpose of plunder- ing the laboring men and robbing the poor
 First, he said, 1t was the war tax, increasing the cost of everything the poor people at, or wore. He described the fight to remove the war tax off the people and told how the privileged classes were making money out of the high tariff
 Te narrated the numerous tariff raises made by republican congresses against
 
 traced the raises down to the Dingley bill, a great high wall for the protection of the monied interests.
 Why Not Combine?
 ''When these manufacturing companies saw that foreign competition was cut off they said Why fight among ourseles; why not combine and then in a few years monopoles obtained control of tho necessities, preying upon the American people, until the standard of American living was lowered because people could not buy the necessities of life" He re- called the time when he used to have large, juicy porterhouse steaks on his table and said that if he found them there now he would charge Mrs. Kern with trying to bankrupt him.
 Beef Trust as Example.
 MT. Roosevelt in one of his many let ters told the American people how he had stamped the life absolutely out of these trusts and had driven them out of business, but he was unfortunate in using the beef trust as an example. We remem- Der the time when he sent his man out there and found that the trust was mak- ing a measly per cent dividend. But somehow or other this did not change the opinion of the great thinking public who saw the nefarious work of con trolling the price paid the ldr1lef ana drover on the one hand, and the prices of meat sold over the counter on the other hand
 We remember that in spite of the Presidents report on the beef trust an injunction was granted by Chicago judge, taken to the supreme court and confirmed The decision held that no set of men should have the right to combine against the American people.
 What process was had to enforce the injunction? If it had been against the laboring men, the law would have been pulled down tight. All you have to do is to consult Judge Taft and he'll tell you about that, but was the law enforced? No. the case was abandoned by the government, and the meat trust continues to rob and plunder the people. The case sleeps the sleep of the dead and the beef trust is doing business at the same old stand.
 That $29 100000 Fine.
 But here comes MT. Roosevelt with supplemental letter telling how he had tho corporations flned Did that hurt the men who had violated the law? Mo- 1t Just raised the price of their products, and the people had to settle the bill. MT. Roosevelt tells US how he fined the Stan dard oil company $29,000,0o0,, which was the greatest joke ever perpetrated since creation But if it had been in earnest I have a mental photograph of MT. Rocke- feller or MT. Rogers going down in their pocket, forking up, and suffering for it. The output of the Standard oil company te, o l,iIltou of pa1lous and all the cOn-