The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-08-28


should be as amenable to restraint and
punishment as the offender without
wealth"
This is tarit admission that there
has been one rule applied to malefacCors
of great wealth, and another applied to
malefactors without means. 1t is tao
it admission OF the old claim made by
democrats that malefactors of great
wealth, particularly those affiliating
with the republican party, have been
practically immune from the operations
of the criminal law, while the malefac-
tor of limited means has been made to
suffer the full penalty for any violation
thereof.
"He demonstrated to the people by
what he said, by what he recomme ended
to congress, and by what he did, the sin
certify of his efforts to command respect
for the law, and to save the country
from the dangers Of plutocratic gov
eminent, toward which we we're fast
tending. In this work Mr.. Roosevelt
has had the support and sympathy of
the republican party, and its chief hope
of success in the present controversy
must rest on the confidence which the
people of the country have in the sin
cerity of the party's declaration in its
platform, that it intends to continue
the policies"
The republican party, and no other,
is responsible for this plutocratic ten
dency. IL has had absolute power for
the last decade. What part of the re-
publican party has supported the presi-
dent in his reform policies? 1t is we'll
known fact the republicans of both
houses of congress have baked, or at
tempted to balk, the president in every
one of his reform measures, while the
democrats in congress have supported
him almost to mani 1t is also a we'll
known fact that the house of represent
atives is presided over by republican
who absolutely refused to recognize
member of either party for the purpose
of introducing one of those reform
measures of the president that is ''to
save the country from the dangers of
a plotucratic government" How can
the party lay claim to sincere pur-
pose of reform when it declines to in
corporate in its platform measures de-
manded by the people, notably the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people?
tThe chief difference between the
republican aud democratic platforms is
in the difference which has heretofore
been seen between the policies of Mr.
Roosevelt and those which have been
advocated by the democratic candidate,
Mr.. Bryan. Mr. Roosevelt's policies
have been regulative and progressive;
Mr.. BrYan's destructive"
This last paragraph is partly true
and partly Intentionally untrue. Mr..
Bryan's position is this: Suppose A. B
and @ are the owners each of plant
manufacturing the same article. They
form trust in order to establish
monopoly. Mr.. Bryan would destroy
the trust but would leave each individ-
ual member in the same condition as
before he entered the trust. E ,ch
would have his plant unimpaired, with
all his original facilities, together with
an Unrestricted commercial field. Mr..
Taft would have the trusts regulated. !"
Admitting that some of them are evils,
acting in restraint of trade, he would
permit the evil to continue but "regu-
late" it. According to this doctrine,
a murderer should be permitted to con-
Time numbering, but We should "regu-
late'' him, perhaps by selecting his vic
Tins and regulating" their numberl
Since the trusts, the principal beneflc-
iaries of robher tariff, and the rail
roads have financed Mr.. Taft's cam
paign for the nomination, and will f.
nance his campaign for the election, it
ia safe To nredict that tariff will be 70.