The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10

such cases, and there have undoubt- edly been fragrant wrongs committed
 even s within the tsSSn last lew years. -@o''
 of June 20, 1sss, was passed at the
 met under the first Democratic
 administration after the Civil
 War and there labor received
 Government. 70 eoGsnT one RspubiieaD Dm adminis. ns l twsnty-four years and not one act was
 ssosnowisdsement ss of It's ' r1 risSt to @ fair
 cans cant enacted q tariff which S enSanced fsd
 ns pfSsa asa S that and aSSs Ssy p d
 ing for labor higher wages. What
 they ssys ssav rstsa was S,m to the ssg That the increased profits of pro- tected employers have made them
 able to pay the laboring man higher
 for the saving grace of Almighty God So to touch their hearts as to make
 them willing to pay the higher wages- 70 make up the monument that this great man. Grover Cleveland, builded in the respect and affection of his | his almost Instant recognition. as evil | denced by this Act of 1886, of the sane and just demands of labor on the law
 biaasd tke way snd ier now Vsn remains tho tho unfiinching champion of every sound
 reform in this direction. Immunity
 aT from s pae%ss fro s very % | infancy the Democratic party has been
 dedicated fo estabush ana secure.
 rhe presiaent aria and eSs"sasa is psaty declare | that a prediction revision of the tar.
 i1 would be unwise
 This assertion has been repeated | in advance of every election since the | enactment of the Dingiey law and
 surely the country. will not again be
 Sss s tsyr Sy Pper se Psec r Their r
 appeal to the people. is this-give us another chance to make you a promise
 and the nromise will be made.
 Under the Republican policy of pro tection. the people. the consumers. while
 paying lit little oyer ssSo,ooo; so, ;oo9 os, per
 2s6.o0o, 900 ana sf5O0, ,Oo6.o6o . year
 in the enhanced price of home produc-
 exceed our total imports by ten. tsi one and they are nearly all protected. It
 Is ssfs to say, that the people pay at | nciariea of proteetionlsm for every dol- | lar that is paid into the treasury. Be-
 hind the wall of high protection. which the trusts sevy enormous tribute on the l people. This has amounted to not less
 than S1o.000. 900. 900 in the last decade.
 port the government This money has come from the pockets of the farmer. l the mechanic. the merchant, the pro l fessional man and the laborer, and has been poured into the coffers of the pro | tected classes. More than two-thirds | of the capital that derives benefit from l Democrats will revise the tariff down ward and in the interest of the tax
 payers. who are always forgotten by -There must be revision and a l gratual reduction of the tarifr by the I friends of tarin reduction for the
 common good and not by the bench | ciaries of it's abuses who justify use of
 the impost taxing power for the chief I purpose of conferring privilege and
 proht upon the few at the expense of | the many. M
 l aThe President himself has said: am of the opinion. that one
 change in the tariff could with ad-
 vantage be made forthwith. Our for method of protecting them would be l to put upon the free list wood pulp, I with a corresponding reduction upon
 paper made from wood pulp. when not put an export duty upon, them
 What was the fruit of this reeom-
 mendationf In the House 3 committee was appointed to investigate thA sub | ject. This was a scheme to muddy the | waters,a to pIacate the newspapers and l to excuse non-action. The Republican
 majority SsSidsd to do nothlpF ,b5s In | only work done by the great Ways I and Means Committee of the Republi- l can House in the matter of revise | ion or reduction of the admittedly un- l Justinable tariff was to report out a sweepings or tea dust This is the
 sum total of the result of all the ante. election tariff revision promises made and repeated in several campaigns. Real Mother of Trusts
 Tt is the shortest of steps from
 the tarTt0 fh the trusts Ssn Let s De de tariR Is the real mother of the trusts. 'The President has made great pre-
 tense of destroying trusts Let him iivered to Congress he said:
 "'The Department of Justice has for the past fear years devoted more at-
 if lh thSn anythiSs Much has been accomplished; particu- larly marked has been the moral ef-
 feet of the prosecutions; but 1t
 is increasingly evident that there will suit in the way of economic change. The successful prosecution of one da- vice to evade the law immediate de-
 velops another device to accomplish the same purpose. What is needed is sweeping prohibition of every ar-
 rangement, good or bad. which may f9HQ 70 reSLTtCt CDmQeIlLlOus put SucD
 adeGuate supervision and regulation as will prevent any restriction of com. petition from being to the detrtment Of the public--as well as such supervis.
 ion and regulation as will prevent l other abuses in no way connected with | restriction or conapetftion.s
 This Is an admission of failure and | one does not need 70 dwell upon this l admission further than to say that the | imprisonment of these who violated the l law would have had a more salu | tary effect than all that has been done | or might have been done in this di-
 Tection during his entire administra- i ton.
 down special priviIeges whether | granted through a high protective tar- | If or granted to government chartered | corporations by permission of law. All I trusts owe their birth and their abtl" | ity to continue existence to one or the l other of these two forms of special l privilege. No private monopoly. no | business approxfmattng private mon- | opoly In methods or in magnitude, can
 endure without one or the other. | Proceeding at once to mention ot | the Republican Party's dealing with | the disturbed finances of the country. | we are brought before that curious Legislative compound. the Yreeland- Aid | rich bill. The Republican Party boasts l of It's knowledge or nnancc- What l have they given us in this lawf
 1 Tt will be remembered that in | IS92-3 under a Republican administra- | panic came and with Republican ef- | frontery they charged that panic to r the Democratic Party. Now control | ling every branch of the government | they ignominously seek to charge on
 us every conseauence growing out oi their own maladministration of the
 ''Ths only sort of Legislation with