The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-30
THE BIG STICK
WHACKS BRYAN
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RAINS BLOWS UP
ON DEMOCRACYS LEADER.
TAFT'S DEEDS VS.. BRYAN'S WIND
Says Corporations Having Nothing to Fear from
Bryan Except The Generel Panic Which
Would Follow His Election.

publican organization to misrepresent
the attitude of your party in the
present campaign. You will have
no difficulty in getting me to re-
present it Alright. for my sole anxiety
is that the people of the country
shall understand this attitude clearly,
and shall then condemn it as it
should be condemned.
You say that you have advocated
more radical measures against private
monopoles than either or my party
associates have been willing to under
take. You have indeed advocated
measures that sound more radical.
but they have the prime defect that
in practice they would not work. |
should not in this letter to you dis
cuss your attitude on this question
if you cid not yourself bring it up
but as you have brought it up, | ans
wer you that in my judgment the
measures you advocate would be
who,iy ineffective in curing single
evil. and so far as they had any
effect at all would merely throw the
entire business of the country into
hopeless and utter confusion.
put Mr.. Taft's deeds against
your words.
ask that Mr.. Taft be judged by
all his deeds, for he wishes none of
them forgotten. ask that you be
judged both by the words you wish
remembered and by the words that
seemingly you and your party now
desire to have forgotten.
Digging Up Skeletons.
ask that your present plan for
regulating the trusts be judged in
connection with your utterances that
YOU did not believe in their regula-
ton. but in their distinctions, and
again in connection with your past
utterances to the effect that only
government ownership by COM
plicated national and state system Of
railroads would avail; and again by
your past utterances when you pro-
posed to remedy all the sufferings of
our people by deprecated currency.
For several years now | have been
steadfasly fighting to secure
thorough going and far reaching
control in the interest of the public
over the great business combinations
which do an interstate business. In
this effort have been as much
hampered by the extremists, we'll
meaning or otherwise. who demanded
visionary and impracticable radical
ism, as by those other extremists. nc
less dangerous, who stand for the
reactlonary refusal to remedy any
grievance.
Nothing To Fear in Bryan.
Oae side, the side on watch | am
Obliged to say you have placed You
self, has shown itself to be just a.
much the enemy Of progress as tn
other. hold it entirely natural TO
any great law defying corporation t
wish to see you placed in the presi
dency rather than Mr.. Taft. You
plans to put stop to the abuses @
these corporations are wholly chimer
ical; how chimercial your last plan j
you will yourself see if you reat
Gov. Hughes speech at Youngstown
O. To recall to your mind wha
Gov. Hughes said quote as follows
when we consider those [pro
posed] remedies [of Mr.. Brya
against the trusts] we fin
ourselves journeying in a land O
dreams. Again the magician Ct lS9
waves his wand. At strok
difficulties disappear and the compile
problems of modern busine IS are for
gotten in the fascinaIie / Of tn
simple panacea.
.'The most important p oposal {
Mr.. Bryan is that any manufactul
ing or trading corporation engage
i'm interstate commence shall
required to take out federal licens
before it shall be permitted to contr,
as much as % per cent of the produt
in which it deals, and no corporate
shall he permitted to control MOI
than SO per cent of the total amour
of any product consumed in the Uni
led States.
1T might be interesting to il
Quire what is the meaning of ar
=, oduct consumed in the Unite
States Does it refer to class {
commodities And if SO. what a.
count does his proposal take of tt
skill and initiative of manufacture
who have built up more or less e1
elusive trade in particular article
often prote ted by trade marks. a
though in most active competitio
with other articles designed for tt
same general purpose and seekir
the same market:
NJ. e. D>o.Io r. Cr,ck