Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-02

instead OF $4,000. 10000. and instead of cost
ing siS.Oo0OOO or Sis.OO0.oOO. they cost $780,
900. Then they we're composed OF 1000 en-
listed men for the marine corps and the
navy. IN order to equip our new navy. Now
Of course II is entirely consistent with
democratic logic to approve an adequate
navy, and then to condemn the republicans
party for putting men on the ships TO run
the navy. And. second, there were 5000
additional servant in the postoffice. Now
the postoffice is se~lf-suporting, and they
increase when they need the men to do the
business. It is self-suporting IN every de-
partment except in the free rural delivery.
Now are the democrats prepared to oppose
the necessary increase in the free rural de-
livery? or course they are not, and that
Is the advantage Of making n general de-
nunciatlon without going irto specification.
Another old Charge.
They charge us again with extrava-
gance, in that in six years we increased the
offices 1889. at a cost OF s7O.O0O.OOO. When I
tell you that the platform was drawn by
Governor Haskell, you can readily under
stand the character and accuracy that pre-
vented him fro mmaking that 100000 In
stead OF $3.50, and you can understand It
still further, when 1 tell you that instead
u ANVfNlNt Llb alAudA UNIV nd1 OiAAA uAfNNNr
only a 30 per cent increase, which is very
moderate of course for a democratic plat
form, and the cost was Just half OF what
was stated, SIS. 900, 600. When you come to
examine the bulk Of these increases, you
find that they arose from what? They
arose from the increase due to the carrying
out Of the meat inspection bill, of the pude
food law. of the rate bill. and of those
otH.r aaut ror,a1Ioe uybl,b nartaIpIv tha
democrats are not nov preparing to de-
nounce; and in addition to that, $4,000 for
enlisted men in the navy; $4,000 in the
Postotfice department, under the same cir
cumstances as these I have explained with
respect to last year.
And then we come to something that
always brings forth the hearty denuncia-
ton Of a democrat. because It relates to the
soidiers-the army. That is something that
Is calculated to make them very much ex-
cited. There were 5000 men added to the
coast artillery for the purpose of equipping
our batteries IN our coast defences. Add
that IN. and we have not now but two
thirds enough men to make one shift in
order to man those batteries, and I say
that It ought to have enough TO make at
least one shift for every gun that Is in
ohS mp NhN OdNNSAy Oh OhH OOdShs "
many guns do you think we had when Mr..
Cleveland sent that Venezuelan message
and notified Great Britain that IL it did
not come In and %arbitrate, we'll, she would
see. How many guns do you suppose that
we had to resist the attack of the greatest
navy In the world, the British navy? We
had just one gun mounted at Sandy Hook,
and no other gun on either coast. Now
ME hava ndad,,ata roact Drofactt1p-pOt
sufficient. 1t is going on according to a
general plan, but l say that we must have
coast artillery sufficient to equip the guns
that we do have, in order that the man
behind the guns may know how to point
them should It become necessary for us to
defenl our shores.
Evils and Abuses Come.
NOW, my friends, during all this pros
perity, this enormou advance, material
and business. there crept in evils and
abuses. Men through greed OF financial
power forgot the existence of lines. and
forgot even the ten commandments. and
early In Mr., Roosevelt's second admins
traitor there came a revelation through
official sources and otherwise. of the fact
that some businesses had been permeated
by dishonesty, that railroads were grant
ing rebates and unlawful discrimination
generally, that great corporations were
violating the antitrust law. that men in
charge OF enormous financial trusts were
violating the rules of fidelity and there
arose among the people a determination
that that sort of dishonesty and lawless-
ness should be stamped out. There was
a moral awakening, and the exponent OF
that moral awakening was Theodore Roose-
vett. And so he applied to congress for
additional legislation in the shape of the
rtae bill that should subject the railroads
to closer scrutiny. to government examlna-
ton and government control, and he dl-
rected his executive officers to go to work
n prosecute the trusts.
Never Was "A Much Done.
81 say without hesitation that never in
one short four years has as much been
accomplished In the way OF stamping out
an evil most difficult to stamp out, be-
cause II arises from the of hu-
man nature and is difficult to stamp out,
because 1t Is usually con~cealed-never in
the history of the country has there been
such successful steps made toward ma
tional virtue as Theodore Roosevelt and
his administrator have accomplished in
the last four years. The railroads have
practically abandoned and abolished re-
bates and undue determinations, and the
railroad men in their hearts are glad OF 1t.
They were brought to 1t by the bulldozing,
by the pressure of these great corpo. atoms
who had so much merchandise TO trans
port that they were able to come to "a
railroad and say: Here, II you don't give
us a preferred rate, a secret rebate. an
unlawful discrimination. we will give all
our trade to your competitors
I'm that way they broke down the law
full barriers OF the railroad traffic, and
by the tremendous advantage that they
acquired over their competitors, they
stifled competition, and that was the chief
fundamentally In building up the so.
called trusts. Now that instrumentality
has been ended. and the railroad man is
glad to be able to say to the trust magnate
that comes 70 him. No longer are there
any rebates. II you insist, you can take
your business somewhere else. because II
you do, 1 will know you are granted re-
bates, and I Will report you to the gov
eminent officer"
Mere Than All Others.
THE prosecution under the antitrust law
have been more under Theodore Roosevelt
than under all tht administrations before.