Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26
OPENS THE CAMPAIGN
Beveridge Principal Speaker
at New York Meeting.
DISCUSSES THE TRUSTS
Says Business Is Leading Question
Before the Country.
MEANS STEADIER EMPLOYMENT
Compares Situation With Thirty
Years Ago-Mentions Govern
ment of All the People.
MEANS sTEADIER EMPLOYMENT

NEW YORK, September 26-Former
Mayor Seth Low presided and Senator
Beveridge of Indiana was the principal
speaker at a mass meeting last evening
in Carnegie Hall that formally opened the
republican campaign in New York county.
Senator Beverage discussed business
and the Trusts" Unjust attacks on
business have made business the leading
question of this campaign he said. "A
big business country must have big bust
ness. and ours is the biggest business
country in the world. Business depends
upon the ease and quickness with which
people can mingle and trade together.
And the greater our civilization, the
greater our business will be.
What Stop Would Mean.
ITO stop the growth of business or
CARNATIONS is to stop the growth of the
country. If the steel industry were run
by the little concerns Of fifty years ago
there would be only fraction of the
output of the peoples building and trans
portation materials. And il, instead of
great railroads. the nations transporta-
ton were done by the little lines of the
last generation, none of these Industries
could ship directly and cheaply.
The price of the raw materials that go
into wagons and agricultural implements
has increased. while the price of wagons
and agricultural implements has gone
down. Politicians denounce big business,
but ask the farmer If he is willing to go
back to the blacksmith shop for his piows.
harrows. wagons and reapers.
Big business also means higher wages
and steadier employment for labor.
The speaker then compared the wages
and employment of thirty years ago with
those of today.
Only Shaped the Forces.
Continuing. he said:
THE beef trust founders thought they
built up the beef trust, yet they only
shaped the forces which the people them
selves created. The people said: We are
the ones who buy your products: our
families are the ones who consume them
None of us can know whether they are
good or bad. Our agent the government
of us ALL must do that service Tor Us.
Hence the meat inspection law. which
puts the peoples inspectors into private
packing houses to protect the defenSeleSs
consumer.
Thus we are ending the evils of big
business We are asserting the great
principle that when any business becomes
so big that II affects all the people. II
must be regulated by the government or
ALI the people. We declare that no power
nation: that no corporation created 10
serve the people shall be above the peo-
pie. And we are making that declaration
good in law and its execution under the
administration of the most fearless, fear
ed and beloved leader of any people In the
worlG-TheoGore Roosevelt.
I'm Americas elemental work of set
ting our business on straight paths. as
England, France and Germany have done
for their business long ago. our chief dan
ger is not from the dull reactionary VINO
calls his crablike reasoning the wisdom of
the ages, but from the excited extremists,
who calls his fiashlight philosophy the
gospel of progress.
Intentions as to Business.
LET no one fear the tories of legisla-
ton who have opposed this movement
And what now do we propose to do for
business?
I'VE will amend the railway rate law
to make government regulation more eff
fective. We will give to another depart
ment the execution of the law and to
the commission the decision Of cases