Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-22
ON PRESIDENTIAL FIRING LNE.
Facts for the Thoughtful COnsidcra-
ton Of Wage Farmers.
Baltimore Sun Qnd. dem.).

Baltimore Sun Qnd. DEM.
A proper control" of corporations is alb
solutely essential to the welfare of the
wage Garner in all walks of life. The de
struction' Of corporations will bring with
1t untold sorrow and misery and depIiva-
ton of labor. We believe Mr.. Taft stands
for and represents that form of admins
tration which will adequately control and
regulate those corporate interests which
work a hardship on the buying public and
inflict injury upon the employe. We be-
lieve Mr.. Bryan represents a tendency to
destroy corporations which in the public
interest should be controlled, but not an
initiated. Large corporations in this coun-
try have been the outgrowth Of years of
thought and incessant work on the part Of
their projectors. Important towns have
been built up through the enterprise and
resourcefulnes of corporations. To apply
to the corporations a policy OF de-
struction, entirely or in part, will involve
not only the annihilation OF the corpora
tons, but the section in which they are
located will suffer proportionately. The
wage Garner who by his industry has pur-
chased his home and as a citizen is a fac
tor in that section will be left entirely de-
peluenl OH the NlClSSlluutS VI lOlAuhN' we
do not believe in the destructive method
as applied to the nations industries to
bring about a reform in the affairs of this
government, no matter who wants to have
the honor of being president. We must
control, not exterminate. To destroy will
bring the country into a state of industrial
chaos.
A presidential candidate should have def
mite ideas and principles. After mature
consideration and consultation with those
in whom he has confidence, after he has
weighed we'll the relations between en-
ployer and employee and all economic ques-
tions involved, he should announce his poll
cies and stand by them. A man who, for
the purpose of currying favor with voters,
changes his views and policies with the
rise and fall of political temperature is a
mere opportunist, without fixed principles
or fixed purposes.
His only ambition and desire il to obtain
a personal political advantage. We believe
that a man who can with all his fervor in
one campaign beseech and implore the
people to adopt certain policies, who Will
In the next campaign evade the measures
and policies he advanced in the first, and
in the third campaign temporarily at least,
nut aside the things he has 40 ardently
advocated in his two former campaigns, Is
a man without a fixed purpose. who ought
not to be president of this great country
Such a man is Mr.. Bryan, and we think
his election should be opposed by those who
have their own interests and the interests
of their country's progress at heart, who
desire to see their fellow men benefited in
proportion to their deserts, who believe
that the interests Of both capital and labor
Of rich and poor, should be safeguarded
and promoted. Mr.. Bryan has been all
things by turns and nothing long. MI
Taft has fixed ideas and purposes We
! believe he will be a constructive not a
destructive, president-a president who VIII
control" but will not destroy