Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

| DONG business In competition with
state corporations or individuals
should be held amenable to the laws
OF the states in which they operate,
| and that In all controversies between
the individual and the corporation
due recognition should be given to
the distinction between the natural
person that God has made and the ar
tificial person that man has made, to
the end that the corporation shall
| not have any undue advantage over
the individual.
"We rejoice In legislation for
cheaper railroad fares, and we see in
| the abolition of the railroad pass one
OF the most happy auguries for juster
| relations between the railroad cor
| porations and the public.
I'm the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people
lies the most accessible avenue to ma
tional reforms, and until this result
is accomplished the people cannot
hope for the largest measure of pub
lie good.
"As before iterated and reiterated
In our national platforms, we declare
that a private monopoly is indefen-
oioiO anu iuCOlcddult anu W lu0 cuu
that 1t may be abolished we favor
the rigorous enforcement of the erim-
inal as well as the civil laws against
! trusts as monopolistic corporations,
and trust magnates as individuals,
and If the present laws are inefficient
we demand the enactment OF addi-
tional laws that will regulate and
control every private monopoly.
I'VE charge to republican discri-
mination and favoritism the enor-
nous development of the trust evil
and declare that the republican tariff
has become the parent and custodian
of giant monopolies that thrive by
unjust extortions, both from those
who produce the raw materials and
those who consume the finished pro-
ducts, and we favor the immediate
removal of all tariffs from goods sold
in competition with trust made ar
ticles until a revenue basis has been
reached by our tariff system.
"We condemn the deceit and dup
licity Of republican platform prom
ises for tariff reform, that, like the
| o-the-wisp, Is always just be-
yond reach, promising revision that
has been defined by an Iowa republi-
can platform to mean a lowering Of
schedules that are too high and a
raising of schedules that are too low;
and the determination that tariff
| schedules must be revised by friends
Of the tariff leaves the beneficiaries
of high tariff schedules the sole
| judges of whether or not they are too
| high or whether they are too low.
For many years the promise has been
made that the tariff would be re-
vised after election. Since then
! several elections have occurred, and
the republican party yet points to
some election in the future as the
| time for this will-o- the-wisp to sub
nit to capture.
'We believe that all public utilities
should be conducted for the benefit
| of the whole people without discri-
mination or eXtortion, and we favor
the enlargement of the powers of the
national and state railroad commits
sions to the end that every individual
| shall have full protection; and to do
| this 1t Is necessary to ascertain the
| present values of the railroads and
prevent that process Of highway
robbery known as watered stock, in
,suring to the stockholders of the rail-
road a fair return on their invest
ment and to the shipper a reason
able rate for the transportation OF
his products.
1.-THE present financial stringency,
occurring after twelve years of abso-
lutte republican supremacy. shows the
incompetency or unwillingness of the
| leaders of the republican party to
afford the people any relief further
than to loan to the gamblers of Wall
street the money Of the people need
ed to handle the commerce of the
country and market the crops of real
things In which honest men deal.
We favor the issue and control by
the general government only, of
emergency currency in times of finan-
cial stress and strain, to be loaned
upon adequate security, without dis.
elimination, at such rate of interest
as will insure its retirement when
the necessity for its issuance has
passed. We condemn the attempt of
the leaders of the republican party to
pass the Aldrich bill or the Fowler
bill as an attempt to take the con-
stitutional prerogative of issuing
money from the general government
where it belongs and placing 1t in
the hands of individuals or classes,
where it does not belong, and where
| it's exercise means renewed danger
to popular liberty.
I'VE believe that in all contests be-
tween capital and labor arbitration
is the best method Of arriving at
| just conclusions as between the
parties and at the same time it avoids
| in a great measure the demoraliza-
ton to public business that results
from prolonged strikes and lock-
outs, which not only injHre both en-
ployer and employee, but affect dis
| astrously the innocent public which
is in no wise responsible for the situa-
| ton; and we condemn the abuse OF
the writ of injunction in labor dis
| putes, believing that 1t should be
granted only after due notice and
full hearing, trial to be had before
some judge other than the one who
issues the writ, and a jury trial to
be bad iii every case except where
the contempt alleged occurs in the
presence of the court.
I'VE favor an eight hour working
| day and an employers liability law
| applicable alike 10 public and private
employers, and we call the attention
| CT labor to the fact that the democ-
ratio party was the first to declare for
a department of labor at Washing
| tor; that democratic platforms have
always recognized the rights Of Ia
Dor to it's just reward, honest pay for
honest work, but no platform of the
| democratic party ever promised a
dollar good in Europe and then
substituted clearing house certi-
| ficate,' nor full dinner pail that
| disappeared and left only the odor
| of the free soup house in its stead.
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