Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-09-24

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 Il has neces-
sarily created. The great distinction
between democratic and republican poll
cies Is this: Whatever mistake democ-
racy may have made, u has always
firmly stood opposed to special privi-
leges, and whatever virtues republican
ism may have possessed, Il 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 20
where lies the interest of the masses.
THE TARIFF KEEPS UP TIE rRUsrs
Never again can the Republican party
contend that the removal OF the tariff
win not destroy the trust. Last year
all the great newspapers of the land
Joined in a 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 II imposed. VIII those Repub-
liean editors now deny TO the farmer
the relief they demanded for them
selvesi Will they pretend that the
remedy so efficacious In their behalf
would be of no value to himl The
sauce for the editorial goose win sure
ly make good dressing for the agricul-
tural gander.
In the attempt to control the trust
under laws that have encouraged II, 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 It's own breeding We demand that
the rights of the states be preserved,
and that the power of the general gov
ernment be used only to supplement the
power of the states.
HADLKY BACKS Down ON FEDERAL
COURTS.
Some months ago, IL one might Judge
/ from the utterances accredited to him
by the press, MI. 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. II he
believes In this preservation of the
states rights, and honestly desires to
see Il 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 al
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 toe
liberal use of the injunctive process
We were told that the Missouri delega-
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.
" to confer with the leaders of hi:
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 oil
these issues on the floor, his place wa
taken by Nelson Crews, his colored al
ternate from Kansas City.
ALSO GIVES LABOR TIE COLD 'sHoUL
DER.
The Chicago convention not only re
, fused the demands made by the laboi
. leaders, but proposed to give the force
. of statutory law to the present proceed
ure in the Federal Courts, and sine
then we have heard nothing more o.
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, TIL
labor union is a twin brother TO tn
. criminal trust. In the last Congress
. labor begged of the Republican part.
, to be relieved from this odium. No
only was their request denied. but il
boastfuI language the Republican leader
announced they were responsible TO
legislation. For years the Republican
! party has refused every reasonable de
!. riand Of labor, and yet with full knowl
! edge of that fact the votes of iaborinI
!, men have maintained in Congress a re
publican majority Has that majorit
! not a right therefore TO believe tina
those men approve their coursef II
the sheerest folly for laboring man :
: pretend he favors the bills proposed b
I the American Federation of Labor, an
Z then go TO the polls and vote for a re
: publican CONGRESSMAN.