The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-08-25

furnaets and enid Feed 1dleness. He
knows that Anne lean workmen With
their !. superior intel igence and 1ngenu.
fty, With their Improved machinery,
with cheaper raw materials and earn
Ing Tor theft. employers more than
twice as much as the laborers Of any
other country, have nothing to fear
from CONF etition with workmen any
where VINE When the products Of their la
.hor are set down side by side IN the
markets Of the world. The American
Worklngman has had bitter expert
ences under the operation Of the Ding
ley bill. Under the shelter Of this tar
IL wall trusts and combines have
sprung up on every hand and with ex-
5tort1onate prices confront the con-
sumner on every occasion when he
seeks to buy the necessaries of life.
Under this system the cost of living
SO Increased as to absorb the earn
1ngs of the laborer after the most
rigid economy and self-denial on his
part and that of his family. And it is
noteworthy fact when, as an inev-
liable result of the fiscal policy Of the
Republican party, the panic of 1907
came hundreds of thousands of these
American laborers who were thrown
out OF employment, instead of being
able to draw upon the fabulous saw
tnss bank accounts so exploited in po-
litfcal literature in recent campaigns,
found themselves and families in a
state OF restitution. The souphouses
of 1908 in the large cities of the
country were a realization of but a
part Of the 'roseate expectations" of
Republican statesmen.
The farmer understands that while
he has to buy everything in a pro-
tected market, where, on nearly every
purchase, he is compelled to pay
tribute to the trusts and tariff bene-
ficiaries, he is compelled to sell his
surplus products in a free trade mar
:ket, where he comes in competition
with all the rest of the world. q
One Cause of Swollen Fortunes.
Senator La Toilette, in a speech de-
livered in the senate last March, ex-
hibited list of less than one hundred
men who, he declared, controlled the
industrial life of the nation and held
in their hands the business of the
country. A casual reading of this list
shows that it is made up of men who
have been the benefciaries of legisla-
ton or fayorites in the administration
of the law. .'r -@5s. - III. ~
The president rails against swollen
fortunes as menaces to the public well
fare and as promotive of evils which
eat at the very heart of society," AS
remedies he has suggested an income
tax and an inheritance tax, that their
growth may be to some extent
checked. - y. ... %zEs-1 ..--. ..r.--y.
The national convention of his
party is silent upon the question of
these reforms, while the possessors Of
most of these swollen fortunes, allied
as they are with the dominant forces
of the Republican party, are giving
generous support to the Republican
nat1Onal ticket. s=.-.. .s-. - r..
The Democratic party, while favor
ing the reform measures repudiated
by the Republican national conven-
ton, has another remedy. 1t would by
legislation in large degree cut off the
streams of money which under the
present system are flowing from every
home In the land and 5emptying into
the Golfers Of the trusts. It would
leave in the pockets of the producers
and laborers of this land every dollar
of the money they earn, save only
such amounts as may be needed for
the economical administration of the
government. -
will not at this time discuss the
several planks of the national plat
form. endorse that platform in all
it's parts and pledge my best en-
deavors towards securing the reforms
to which the party is by its terms
committed. AS the campaign pro-
crosses I shall discuss its various fea-
lures from time to time, as opportunity
presents. p -: 49,
-.@ 6ryan talks on Trusts.
Mr.. Bryan's prepared address on
'Trusts" concluded the days pro.
gramme. He began by saying that
nowhere does the Republican party
show its Indifference to real reform
more than in it's treatment of the
trust question" He then quoted the
Republican plank on the trusts and
said of the Sherman antitrust law
that, instead Of being a wholesome
instrument for good" it has been al
most useless, so far as the protection
of the public is concerned, for the
trusts have grown in number, in
strength and in arrogance at the very
time when the Republican party was
boasting of it's enforcement of the law.
He added that although the Repub-
lican platform says that the law can
be strengthened by amendments
which will give the federal govern
ment greater supervision and control
over, and greater publicity as to-, the
management of those interstate COM
merce corporations which have the
poWeI auu opportunity 10 duecL mO-
nopolies, that platform points out no
remedies. - o.
Then he quoted the Democratic
platform and said: "Here is plain,
candid statement of the party's posi-
ton. There is no quibbling, no eva
sion, no ambiguity. A private monop-
oily is indefensible and intolerable 1t
is bad-bad in principle and bad in