The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-05

and told plainly where he stood on
the great issues of the campaign. That
was all. But it wrought miracles with
a Kansas audience.
In writing of the overflow meeting at
the Grand the speech of Senator Dol
! liver, of Iowa, must not be overlooked.
This man is of presidential caliber HIM
self. His address last night, delivered
under the disadvantage of a make
| ready for the appearance of the main
| attraction. was the best campaign ar
Sument ever heard in the Sunfiower
state. Senator Dolliver was in fine
form and voice and he handled tie is
sues without gloves. He laced his e.
phatic statements and strong logic
with the keenest of wit and polished
1t all over with a fine sarcasm. With
out resort to abuse or offensive per-
sonality ne pierced Bryan's record
through and through and held it up as
an object of laughter. He declared that
the Peerless One had made more
| speeches than had ever been delivered
before any one man in the English
language. He treated Bryan's claim
as heir to the Roosevelt policies with
the remark, He should be we'll versed
in probate affairs by this time" The
Democratic platform, fashioned after
the Oklahoma document, the speaker
referred to as follows: Let it take its
place with the vicissitudes of affairs"
ROOsevelt's Policies the Issue.
The paramount issue is not the
tariff declared Senator Dolliver, "al-
though it has been with us for 127 years
and will still face our descendants. The
paramount issue is a higher thing thaa
the manufacture and sale of goods in
the market place. it is the perpetuation
of our moral character along the line
of the standard of the Roosevelt square
deal"
The speaker had known Roosevelt
ever since he came to Washington as a
labor commissioner. He had known
Taft for thirty years. and Mckinley
and other illustrious leaders He told
of the message Mckinley sent to Taft
when the latter was a United States
judge in Ohio. How Taft came to the
White House declaring he would have
nothing at all to do with the Philip
pines and of the interview where the
martyred president placed the burden
of the civilization, liberty and destinies
of ten millions of human beings on the
broad shoulders of the Ohio judge. He
told of McKinley's lasI word to TAFT
when the latter left for Frisco on his
mission to the Orient: mo man since
the Civil war has had such a great
work and responsibility as this If you
are successful it will make you presi-
dent of these United States, but even
in that event posterity will remember
you for your work in the PHILIPPINES
and not as chief executive of this ma
ton
THE three biggest Jobs tackled by
this country since 81 are the pacifica-
ton and organization of the Philip
pines, the guidance of Cuba to a sta
BILE and beneficial form of govern
ment and the digging of the Panama
canal, and strange as it may seem, the
man who accomplished all three of
them is none other than Judge Taft,
the man the Democrats tell you has
only Roosevelt's endorsement as a
presidential qualification.
II am glad to see Taft meet the
people face to face on this trip and
tell them straight from the shoulder
where he stands. The time was pass
ed when a candidate can win office
and preserve the attitude of sphinx
on public questions"
How the Dinglcy Tariff Was Made.
Senator Dolliver then told the most
interesting story of the Dingley tariff
law on which he worked night and
day for three months in the framing
He was proud of the job too. 1t had
served grand purpose, he said, in
the upbuilding of American industries
But the time had come now for a re-
vision OF the schedules, and he desired
to know whether the people wanted
this tariff assaulted with knife and
bludgeon in the hands of enemies or
pruned by its friends, or at least ac-
quaintances.
tie turned next TO the trust QueS-
ton and handled this issue as it has
never been handled before in a Kan
sas campaign. He declared that cor
parations went to form the greatest
of all assistants to civilization. Where
one man hesitates to build a factory,
dare not take hold of some raw pro-
duct on a concerted plan to make a
state great, cannot build railway,
dozen or a hundred men banded to-
gether in a corporation can do these
things to the great profit of the pub
lie as well as themselves. The danger
and evils arising from corporations
come from their methods of organiza-
ton and their INSCRIPTIONS practices,
and not from the fact that they are
corporations. Some of the trust mag
mates have in their lust for gold
changed good into an evil thing.
And Bryan would destroy corpora
tions, throw them into the sea. And
the market place of this country would
suffer as a result more than can be
told or estimated. These giant cor
porations should be regulated, not de-
stroyed. There are trusts in free trade
in England as we'll as America. Make
them organize on a dollar for dol
lar plan and water their stock with
cash investment. Cut out the rebate
evil and discrimination. Make over
capitalization legal impossibility and
stock thus issued beyond the pale of
government or legal protection of
property or sanction of values. The
speaker in a fine vein of sarcasm COM
pared these methods with the mir
acles and panaces proposed by the
man from Nebraska.
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