Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-09-24

upon US, our home market would be
| free from the domination of the de-
stroying trust, wages would be increased
and cost of living reduced, and every
branch of industry would take on new
life and activity.
Nothing has added so greatly to the
concentration of wealth in few hands
as the operation of the tariff law and
the growth of the trusts it has neces-
sarily created. The great distinction
between democratic and republican poll
cies is this: Whatever mistake democ-
racy may have made, it has always
firmly stood opposed to special privi-
leges, and whatever virtues republican
ism may have possessed, it has always
stood for favors to special classes. As
long as this great principle stands as
| the line of Differentiation between the
parties, there can be no question as to
where lies the interest of the masses.
THE TARIFF KEEPS UP THE TRUST.
Never again can the republican party
contend that the removal of the tariff
| will not destroy the trust. Last year
all the great newspapers of the land
| joined in demand upon Congress for
| the removal of the duty on wood pulp,
and every republican editor voiced the
assertion that this removal of duty
would break up the print paper trust,
and relieve him from the grievous ex-
actions it imposed Will those repub-
lican editors now deny to the farmer
the relief they demanded for them
selves? Will they pretend that the
remedy so effcacious in their behalf
| would be of no value to him? The
sauce for the editorial goose will sure
ly make good dressing for the agricul-
tural gander.
In the attempt to control the trust
under laws that have encouraged it, the
republican party has year after year
wandered farther from the principles
| on which the government was founded,
until today they are threatening to at
tack the integrity of the states, in order
that the general government may have
sufficient power to crush this creature
of its own breeding We demand that
the. rights of the states be preserved,
and that the power of the general gov
eminent be used only to supplement the
power of the states.
HADLEY BACKS DOWN ON FEDERAL
COURTS.
Some months ago, if one might judge
from the utterances accredited to him
by the press, Mr.. Hadley was very
much inclined to this democratic doc
trine, but now that his party has an
nounced its policy, we hear nothing
more from him along that line. If he
believes in this preservation of the
states rights, and honestly desires to
see it put in force, he should announce
his preference for the election of a
democratic legislature that will send
to the Senate of the United States a
man in harmony with this great princi-
pie, and the election of democratic Con-
gressmen to maintain it in the popular
branch of the Federal assembly. But
perhaps Mr.. Hadley has seen a new
light upon this issue, as he has on other
questions. We were told through the
| columns of the Missouri press just be-
fore the gathering of the convention at
Chicago that Mr.. Hadley was on his
way to that great body armed with a
resolution demanding that the Federal
Courts no longer usurp the jurisdiction
| of the states, and that the cause of men
who labored be protected from the too
| liberal use of the iHjuuctive process.
| We were told that the Missouri dclega-
ton had already decided he should
be its member on the platform commit
| tee in order that he might press these
resolutions, but when Chicago was
reached, and Mr.. Hadley had opportuni-
ty TO confer with the leaders of his
party, we were informed he would
yield his place on the platform commit
tee to Senator Warner, and when the
time approached for a discussion of
these issues on the floor, his place was
taken by Nelson Crews, his colored al
ternate from Kansas City.
ALSO GIVES LABOR THE COLD sHoUL-
DER.
The Chicago convention not only re-
fused the demands made by the labor
leaders, but proposed to give the force
of statutory law to the present proceed
ure in the Federal Courts, and since
then we have heard nothing more of
Mr.. Hadley's plank, but only of his ap-
prevail of the republican. policy.
Under the Sherman antitrust law,
as construed today by our courts, the
labor union is a twin brother to the
criminal trust In the last Congress
labor begged of the republican party
to be relieved from this odium. Not
only was their request denied, but in
boastfu1 language the republican leaders
announced they were responsible for
legislation. For years the republican
party has refused every reasonable de-
mand of labor, and yet with full knowl-
edge of that fact the votes of laboring
men have maintained in Congress re-
publican majority. Has that majority
not a right therefore to believe that
those men approve their course7 1t is
the sheerest folly for 1aboring man to
pretend he favors the bills proposed by
the American Federation of Labor, and
then go to the polls and vote for a re-
publican Congressman.
He knows full well whatever may be
the pledges that republican Congress
men make; he will at Washington enter
the caucus of his party; that caucus will
again choose Uncle Joe Cannon as
Speaker of the House, and Uncle Joe,
if elected, will appoint a committee that
will never permit a labor measure to
| come before that body. So every Ia