, 1908-04-01
QUARTER MILLION
MINERS NOW IDLE
not those who say this propose to
erase a single line we have written?
Some of the Crackers,

erase a single line we have written?
i Some of the Croakers.
Why do they not propose to abolish
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor, to repeal the pure food and meat
inspection laws, the irrigation law or
any other statute in that great struc-
ture of righteous legislation whose
foundation and framework these laws
are? And if no man proposed to tear
down what we AVE builded, shall we
listen to their counsel that we should
not finish our work? For there is yet
work to be done. If there is not, let
us disband. When any party becomes
merely a machine, seeking the spoils
of office. it is no longer a political
party, but a company of brigands.
"A do-nothing policy is 10 repub-
lican-not American. Laurels fade
when not refreshed by new and noble
deeds.
To Revise Sherman Law.
I'VE must revise the Sherman law.
1t is nearly twenty years old in fact
and a century old in spirit. 1t pen
alizes dishonest combination, and that
is right; but also it manacles honest
business, and that is wrong.
Kill Pilfering Business.
Business is the name for the trade
activities of the people. Free it's
hands, u%nshackle its feet. Only upon
the dishonest let the ball and chain
be locked. Strike only that business
which pliers from the people; but
help all business that serves the peo-
pie. Our watchword is justice. For
the pirates of business the yardarm
or the plank; but for honest business
the open seas and welcoming ports.
After Presidential Election.
THE tariff must be revised imme-
diately after the presidetial election.
To revise it now would lock up bust
ness for months of disaster and doubt.
He who would refuse to revise the tar
if Immediately after the presidential
election is too ancient to be trusted; |
he who would revise the tariff on the
eve of the presidential election is too
hypocritical to be tolerated. But the
earliest possible revision of the tariff
is the will of the people, because it is
the demand of conditions. and to the
peoples will and changing conditions
Bourbon obstruction must yield. -
Acting Like Highwaymen.
Two years ago some of us began
this fight. We were met with AFRO
world does not move; from interests
whom the tariff properly protected
when it was made, but whom changed
conditions now enable to act like high
waymen to other honest interests; |
from a purchased press owned by glut-
tonous corporations and by men whose
wealth flowed from obsolete sched-
ules. But success is now in sight,
and, as Indiana led the first charge in
this battle, so let Indiana lead the last
charge that crowds it with victory.
The Work of Experts.
And let that revision be honest and
businesslike. Let experts at once be-
and making classifications. The man
who does not want experts to find out
the facts does not want the facts found
out. Our classiications are a genera
ton old. They are so out of date that
300, 900 contests have been decided to
find out in what class articles really
belonged.
Now Gathering Data.
Let us go to the people not only
promising revision, but saying to
them that we are already at work
gathering all the data upon which con-
gress can act with knowledge and
wisdom and without delay. BY com
nonsense tariff methods Germany il
passing us on the cas- of commerce;
even little Japan is rivaling us. Give
America the same common-sense meth
DDS, and she will beat Germany, ia
pan and all the world combined."