Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08

order that there may be more land
owners, more homes and more happi-
ness among the masses.
THE Democratic party Is not an
enemy of all corporations 1t recog-
nizes their great value in the industrial
world. Through the agency of corpor-
atoms scattered wealth is brought to-
gether and given a force that 1t would
not otherwise possess. Great enter
prises are thereby undertaken and the
| undeveloped resources given to the
world.
"Our party is not opposed to produce
| ton on a large scale, but it is I'M
alterably opposed to monopoly in pro-
duction 1t is easier to prevent monop-
| oily than it is to control it after being
established. An ounce of prevention is
is worth a pound of cure, and the
withdrawal of special privileges will
take away the meat upon which the
| trusts are fed. If this be followed by
criminal prosecution and an i'm
prisonment of the directors and off,
GERS of the guilty corporations, monop-
oily will be shorn of many of its ter
rors.
mo radical man can be opposed to
corporations as such and the assertion
that the Democratic party is waging
an indiscriminate war against this con-
venient form of transacting business
has no foundation In fact. 1t is the
abuse only of corporate power that we
seek to eliminate.
How Parties Stand
"Viewed in the light of a great moral
question, the control of corporations
should remain a question of common
| concern rather than a political one;
but the shameful complacence of the
Republican party in permitting its
forces to be controlled and operated by
the most offending corporations of the
country throws the problem into the
political arena and compels the public
to choose between the Democratic
party that will, and the Republican
party that will not, place some restric-
tions on incorporated greed.
I'VE are now confronted with the
inquiry: What assurance has the Re-
publican party given that 1t will use
the forces at its command to restore
the people to their rights? In it's Chi
cago platform it did not make even
decent pretense of championing the
peoples cause and the proceedings of
that convention are glaringly insincere.
1t was noted that two elements were
present at that gathering, one with
sufficient votes to adopt platform and
nominate its candidate for president,
and the other powerful enough to un-
Write I1dJ pldlLUlIl anu IlG tlo hdhdS
of the nominee.
1.-THE distinguishing feature of the
Chicago platform is its oft-repeated
promise to do a lot of things that the
Republican party has heretofore failed
to do. That party went to Chicago
fresh from the halls of congress, where
an overwhelming Republican majority
In both branches enabled 1t to propose
and to adopt any legislation that 1t
-. M ha-
lieve that it can be absolved from its
dereliction Of duty by an empty prom
Use to do in the future what it has will
fully failed to do in the past?
Changes Two Words
"some one has suggested that this
convention should publish an indict-
ment against the Republican party. We
probably can expedite the proceedings
by entering the plea of guilty that is
contained in the Chicago platform sim
ply changing the words we Will to
the words we did not to conform to
the admitted facts. We then have the
following Republican confession OF
guilt:
1--WE did not revise the tariff
"'We did not amend the antitrust
laws to secure greater effectiveness in
the prosecution of criminal monop-
olies.'
1--WE did not add a single line to the
interstate commerce law giving the
federal government supervision of the
issuance of stocks and bonds by inter-
state carriers
1--WE did not enact a currency meas
ure that would mitigate the evils of a
financial panic, such as has recently
Frustrated the country under a Repub-
iican administration
"'We did not limit the opportunities
for abusing the writ of injunction
1--WE did not establish postal saw
ings banks
1--WE did not establish a bureau OF
mines and mining
1--WE did not admit into the Union
the territories of New Mexico and
Arizona as separate states
1.-THE last congress was in session
during a financial crisis when innu-
merable banking institutions, prefer
ring holiday to funeral, closed their
doors and filed the minds of millions
of depositors with anxiety and fear.
Then sentiment in favor of postal saw
ings banks, which has been steadily
growing, became almost universal dur
ing the recent panic.
RooseveIt's Special Message
80 insistent became the voice of the
people that the president sent a spe~
cial message to congress urging the
establishment of postal savings banks
where the earnings of our people might
be safely deposited under the direct
control and responsibility of the fed
eral government, and where no pecu-
| lating bank cashier or gambling board
of directors could eat up the savings.
"The United States senate showed its
hearty sentiment with this popular
demand and its profound respect for
the president by adjourning while the
message was being read, while even
| in the house of representatives they
refused to suspend the roll call long
enough to receive the communication
| that had been sent there from the
White House.
1.-THE Chicago platform points with
pride to the passage of a child labor
| law for the District of Columbia. Let
the Republican party go further than
the enactment of penal laws and in the
name of humanity use its vast ener-
gies for the removal of conditions that
are forcing our children into the labor
market.
1T is the reign of monopoly that is
emptying our schoolhouses and filling
the sweat shops with child labor, and
this same system of monopoly is fast
limiting the opportunities for indepen-
dent livelihood among those who are
forced into the Industrial field, and
thus 1t is doubly blighting that hope OF
youth which in former stages of our
national growth opened an avenue OF
honor and independence to every child
reared upon our soil.
THE most palpable instance of the
insincerity of the Chicago convention
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