Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-12
REPUBLICANS
IN CONTROL
Continued from page one.

all. If they were not afraid of the
wrath of the beneficiaries of their
specialprivilege laws, they would pre-
pare and introduce and pass a bill for
. central of the United States such
ss exists today in every other i'm
portant financial and commercial ma,
ton Of the world. There should be
established throughout The land post
al savings banks as in other conn
tries. In this way millions and mil
lions of dollars which are now hoard
ed would come from their. hiding
PAGES and ultimately be deposited in
the Government Central Bank and by
1t kept in circulation through the 9TH
err banks of the country. am now,
and always have been, opposed to the
Government delegating away its con-
stltutional powers to the national
banks. We must obey the Constitu-
ton. We must legislate on this sub
ject, and ON all others, for all the
people and not for the benefit of
the few.
My friends, the Republicans fallacy
that we could not have panic while
the country was under a high protec-
tive tariff, god standard, and the
administration has been
exploded. The people are now look
ing to the Democratic party to pro-
tect them from the selfishness of
special privileges. The people want
monopolies in restraint of trade abol-
ished. They are tired of paying more
at home for Amer.can-made products
than foreigners in foreign countries
pay for the same goods. They de-
mand through Democratic agency,
Equal rights for all, special privi-
lege for none," and with harmony for
our watchword and a Democratic
platform strong enough and broad
broad enough for every Democrat in
all the land to stand on the candidates
of the Democratic party will win in
the coming election.
The Democratic party is for the
restoration of our merchant marine,
which Republican special privilege
has wiped off the high seas. The Re-
publicans in Congress seek to remedy
the situation by ship subsidies. and
hence earnestly favor and eloquent
ly advocate the ship-subsidy bill,
which is no remedy at all, but mere
temporary makeshift to rob the many
for the benefit of the few.
Democracy is opposed to ship-sub-
sides. The taxpayers, when they un-
derstand it, will never consent to it
We do not need to take dollar out
of the pockets of the taxpayers or
out of the Treasury of the United
States to revive our shipbuilding in
dustries or restore our merchant ma
rine. All we need to do is to legis-
late intelligently, repeal the iniquit-
GUS laws against our deep-sea ship
ping now on the statute books and
put in their stead laws similar to the
navigation laws that were enacted
by the early Democratic statesmen of
the country.
The Democratic party favors tariff
reform in the interest of the consum-
ers of the country. 1t is in favor of
reducing the tariff taxes wherever
they foster trusts or shelter monopo-
ly. 1t would reduce the tariff taxes
on all goods, wares, and merchandise
manufactured in this country and sold
cheaper abroad than at home. The
Republican leaders in Congress turn
deaf ear to the burdened taxpay-
ers of the country and decline even
to take the tariff off wood pulp and
white print paper. demanded by near
ly every newspaper publisher in the
country. The removal of this tariff
tax on wood pulp and white print
paper would protect our forests and
give the owners of the newspapers of
the land cheaper white paper. But
the paper trust says no, and the Re-
publican leaders in Congress say no,
and that is the end of the matter uu-
til the people turn the Republicans
ont and elect Democratic Congress
that will respond to the urgent de-
pands of the people of the country.
Rtection for projections sake is a
m of indirect taxation (which
he many for the benefit Of the
No party that stands for the
interests Of all the people can
t 1t.
The Desperate party does not be-
lIeve in IN Fade any more than it
believes in prolestion for the sake Of
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