Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-04-01

IL Is said that we have gone TOO
far and done too much: but why do
not those who say this propose TO
erase n single line we have written?
Why do they not propose to abol-
ish the Department of Commerce
and Labor, to repeal the pure food
and meat inspection laws. the lrri-
cation law or any other statute I'm
mat great structure OF righteous leg
islation whose foundation and
framework these laws are? And II
no man proposed to tear down what
we have builded. shall we listen TO
their counsel that we should not fin
ish our work? For there Is yet
work 10 be done. II there is not.
let us disband. When any party be-
comes merely machine. seeking the
spoils OF office, Il is no longer a po-
litical party, but company OF bril-
gands.
A do-nothing policy Is not Repub-
lican-not American. Laurels fade
when not refreshed by new and
noble deeds.
We must revise the Sherman Law
IL is nearly twenty years old In fact
and a century old in spirit II pen
allies dishonest combination, AMI
that Is right; but II also manacles
honest business. and that Is wrong.
Business Is the name for the trad
activities OF the people. Free it's
hands. unshackle SIS feet. only up
on the dishonest let the ball aud
chain be locked. Strike only that
business which pilfers from the peo-
pie; but help all business that serves
the people. Our watchword Is JUS
tice For the pirates OF business
the yardarm or the plank; but for
honest business the open seas ana
welcoming ports,
The tariff must be revised imme-
diately after the Presidential elec-
tion. To revise II now would lock
up business for months of disaster
and doubt He who would refuse
10 revise the. tariff Immediately af-
ter the Presidential election Is too
ancient 10 be trusted; he who would
revise the tariff on the even of the
Presidential election Is TO hypocritl-
cal TO be tolerated But the earliest
possible revision OF the tariff Is the
will OF the people because IL is the
demand of conditions, and to the
peoples will and changing eondi-
tions Bourbon obstruction must
yield
Two years ago some of us began
this fight. We were met with ar
rogance from those who think that
the world does ont move; from In
terests whom the tariff properly
protected when II was made, but
whom changed conditions now en-
able 20 act like highwaymen TO other
honest interests; from purchased |
press owned by gluttonous corpora
tions and by men whose wealth |
flowed from obsolete schedules. Butt
success Is now I'm sight, and. as In
diana led the first charge In this
battle. so let Indiana lead the last
charge that crowns II with victory /
And let that revision be honest
and businesslike. Let experts at /
once begin the work OF finding out
the facts aud making elassffieations. |
The man who does not want experts \
10 find out the facts does not want /
the facts found out. Our classified !
tiOns are a generation old. They /
are so out OF date that three hun
dred thousand contests have been ,
decided 10 find out in what class ar
ticles really belonged, Let ms go 10
the people not only promising revi-
sion. hut saying 70 them that We are
already at work gathering all the
data upon which Congress can act
with knowledge and wisdom and
without delay. BY cOmmOn-sense
tariff methods Germany is passing
us on the seas of commerce; even
little Japan is rivaling us. Give
America the same cOmmon-sense
methods. and she will beat Ger
many. Japan. and all the world COM
bined.
For Constipation.