Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-24

ket would be free from the domination
of the destroying trust, wages would
be increased and cost of living re-
duced, 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
policies is this: Whatever mistake
Democracy may have made, it has al
ways firmly stood opposed to special
privileges, and whatever virtues Re-
publicanism may have possessed, it
has always stood for favors to special
classes. As long as this great prin-
ciple stands as the line of differentia-
ton between the parties, there can be
no question as to where lies the in
terest 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 a demand upon Con-
gress 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 exactions it imposed.
Will those Republican editors now
deny to the farmer the relief they de-
manded for themselves? Will they
pretend that the remedy so efficacious
in their behalf would be of no value
to him? The sauce for the editorial
goose will surely make good dressing
for the agricultural 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 prin-
ciples on which the government was
founded, until today they are threat
ening to attack the integrity Of the
states, in order that the general gov
eminent may have sufficient power to
crush this creature of its own breed
ing. We demand that the rights of
the states be preserved, and that the
power of the general government be
used only to supplement the power of
the states.
HADLEY Observation-Disclosures
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 Demo-
cratic doctrine, but now that his party
has announced its policy, we hear
nothing more from him along that
line. If he believes in this preserva-
ton of the states rights, and honest
ly desires to see it put in force, he
should his preference for
the election of a Democratic Legis-
lature that will send to the Senate of
the United States a man in harmony
with this great principle, and the cleo
ton of Democratic Congressman to
maintain it in the popular branch of
the Federal assembly. But perhaps
Mr.. Hadley has seen a new light D O
this issue, as he has on other ques-
tons. We were told through the col
umns OF the Missouri press Just be-
lore 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 usrrp the
jurisdiction of the states, and that the
cause of men who labored be pro-
tected from the too liberal use of the
1nJunctive process. We were told
that the Missouri delegation had al
ready decided he should be it's mem
Der on the platform committee in or
der that he might press these resolu-
tons, but when Chicago was reached,
and Mr.. Hadley had opportunity to
confer with the leaders of his party,
we were informed he would yield his
place on the platform committee 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
alternate from Kansas City.
ALSO GIVES LABOR THE COLD sHoUL-
f DER.
The Chicago convention not only
refused the demands made by the
labor leaders, but proposed to give
the force of statutory law to the pres
ent procedure in the Federal courts,
and since then we have heard moth
ing more of Mr.. Hadley's plank, but
only of his approval 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
boastful language the Republican
leaders announced they were respon-
sible for legislation. For years the
Republican party has refused every
reasonable demand of labor, and yet
with full knowledge of that fact the
tvotes of laboring men have main
tanned in Congress a Republican ma
jority. Has that majority not a right
therefore to believe that those men
approve their course? 1t is the
sheerest folly for a laboring man to
pretend he favors the bills proposed
by the American Federation Of Labor,
and then go to the polls and vote for
a Republican Congressman.
He knows full we'll whatever may
be the pledges that Republican Con-
gressmen make; he will at Washing
ton 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