Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-09-04
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.

VAMHA1UN 1SS UE0.
Let it not be said there are no issues
in this campaign. The Republicans
have twitted the Democrats with try
ing to find issues when there are none.
This is tantamount to saying that they
have so well administered the govern
ment that there is nothing of which to
complain. But that is impossible. The
Republican party no matter how well
led, or how conservatively inclined,
breeds issues as swamp land breeds
malaria.
That party tries to hold capital and
labor in the hollow of the same hand.
1t tries to mix the trusts and the peo-
pie so adroitly that the people believe
the trusts are working for them and
are essential to their existence.
1t puts the Tariff and the consumer
in the same pen, and shows the con-
sumner, who is the lamb, that the Tar
if, which is the wolf, would not harm
hair of its head, or the most delicate
fiber of wool on its back.
1t airs in national presence its
foundlings the National banks, and
puts the depositors to playing wet
nurse, and to wheeling around the baby
carriages in which they are snugly
tucked.
1t chucks the South under the chin
in familiar and patronizing way,
telling it, "You are precious old ass.
You can't get on without me" and at
the same time, in stage whisper says
aside, "You internal traitor l have not
even collected the interest on the debt
I'll make you pay before I am done
with you"
These are but a few of the Mr.. Hyde
and DIR. Jeelel tricks of that party,
and yet We are told there are no issues.
Labor has at last opened its eyes.
The sleeping lion has been aroused and
the treatment il has received at the
hands of that party has created an
issue which is today causing more con-
sternation than most any other in Re
publican ranks. The Federal Injunc-
ton is a thing of momentous character.
One Federal Judge in West Virginia
released his marshals when they killed
laborers who were alleged to have vio-
lated his injunction. Another in the
same State enjoined workmen from
making faces at, cat calling, or creating
other noises when in the presence of
Capital which owned and controlled
some mines where the enjoined laborers
had been working, but were then On a
strike These are but few instances
of the lengths to which federal courts
are going in behalf of Capital. They
have never interfered in behalf of La
Dor, save to dissolve the Labor Unions
as unlawful combinations.
The subject of Trusts is another issue
stretching to the furthermOst limits of
the nation. 1t was through the Trusts
which includes everything, even to the
Railways, which is incorporated, had
become alarmed, that they were afraid
of the Republican party, certainly its
present head. This is untrue. They
no more fear Mr.. Roosevelt than fish
fears the water. They have Speaker
Cannon. He will hold his office of
Speaker as long as Mr.. Roosevelt holds
his as President, and in Speaker Can
mons hands the Trusts are safe. Not
wheel can be turned, not law chang
ed, not Trust crushed, but by his con-
sent. When these have ceased to be,
they hope to have Mr.. Taft. They will
be unframed with him. They know
that whilst he processes that he will
carry out Roosevelt policies, those pol
icies will be SO smoothed down, mel
lowed and changed, that Mr.. Roosevelt
himself will never recognize them. The
Trusts want Taft.
The Tariff is, and should always be,
an issue. How the American farmer
supports party which passes laws by
which a farmer in Europe can purchase
a harvester for $65, for which he, the
American farmer, pays $3.50, is beyond
explanation. 1t is needless to say that
the Harvester Trust makes money on
the $65 machine after paying freight
and cost of sale, otherwise they would
burn the machines in bonfire at the
factory door. Yet the American farm
er is cajoled and deceived to such an
extent that he will never put stop to
this, for fear he will be made to lose
elsewhere.
The guarantee of bank deposits is
another gigantic issue. The Democrat
ic party under its indomitable leader,
Mr.. Bryan, is for the first time bring
ing this issue to the front. He has
shown in his Topeka, Kansas, speech
that when the government deposits
money in bank it requires guaran-
tee. When the State, the county, the
city, the court, deposits money there,
they do the same thing, and that the
only unprotected person is the general
depesitor. OF course tie banks object. |
When they can get the peoples money
without any guarantee they want it.
Who would not? They borrow your