Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-08-21
Pointed Paragraphs
from Bryan Speech.

The Democratic party is not the
enemy Of any legitimate Industry or or
honest accumulations. 1t Is, on the con-
trary, friend of industry and the
steadfast protector Of that wealth which
represents a service to society. The
Democratic party does not seek to an
nihilate all corporations; 1t simply as
serts that as the government creates
corporations, 1t must retain the power
to regulate and to control them, ana
that it should not permit any corpora
ton to convert itself into a monopoly.
SO long as the Republican party re-
mains In power, it is powerless to re-
generate itself. 1t can not attack wrong
doing in high places without disgraclng
many of it's prominent members, and IT,
therefore, uses opiates instead Of Inc
surgeons knife. Its malefactors con-
strue each Republican victory as an en-
dorsement of their conduct and threat
en- the party with defeat If they are in
terfered with. Not until that party
passes through a period Of fasting in
the wilderness, will the Republican
leaders learn to study public questions
from the standpoint of the masses JUST
as with individuals, 1.-The cares OF thiS
world and the deceitfulness OF riches
choke the TRUTH so in politics, When
party leaders serve far away from nome
and are not in constant contact with the
voters, continued party success bl1hoS
their eyes to the needs Of the people
and makes them deaf to the cry OF DIS
tress.
An election is public affair If
man, pecuniarily interested in "concen-
trating the control of the railroads IN
one management" subscribes large
sum to aid in carrying the election, why
should his part in the campaign be con-
cealed until he has put the officials I'M
der obligation to him2 If a trust mag
nate contributes 100000 to elect poht-
ical friends to office, with view 10
preventing hostile legislation, why
should that fact be concealed until MS
friends are securely seated in their ON
cial positions?
Why were these "known abuses per-
mitted to develop? Why have they not
been corrected2 If existing laws are
sufficient, why have they not been en-
forced? All of the executive machinery
of the federal government Is In the
hands of the Republican party. Are
{ new laws necessary? Why have they
} not been enacted? With a Republican
President to recommend, with Re
} publican Senate and House to carry out
( his recommendations, why does the Re
) publican candidate plead for further
I time In which to do what should nave
s been done long ago? Can Mr.. TART
: promise to be more strenuous In the
prosecution of wrong-doers than the
} present executive? Can he ask for
larger majority in the Senate than his
) party now has? Does Ne need more Re-
publicans in the House of Representa-
tiyeS or a speaker with more unlimited
authority?
There is a divine law of rewards
When the Creator gave us the earth,
with its fruitful soil, the sunshine with
it's warmth, and the rains with their
moisture, He proclaimed, as clearly as
if His voice had Numbered from the
clouds, go work, and according to your
industry and your intelligence, so shall
be your reward" Only where might
has oyerthrown, cunning undermined or
government suspended this law, has
different law prevailed. To conform the
government to this law ought to be the
ambition Of the statesman; and no party
can have higher mission than to make
1t a reality wherever governments can
legitimately operate.