Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-02

1 ties were raised so high that no I'm porter could bring his products to us for sale or trade, it became quite easy for the larger and richer concerns en gagged in the manufacture of that
 same article in this country to absorl l by purchase or other means all other
 concerns engaged in that same busi
 ness, and having thus stified competi l tion immediately begin to sell that 1 product at any price it pleased to the American consumer This, then, is a trust. A combination of people or cor porations to kill all competition and ! raise the price of saletto all purchas- CTS. With less duty they would have to sell for less, and l for one
 would put on the free list every article made by a trust in this country where the makers were selling in foreign markets cheaper than to OUT own peo- pie. But I am detaining you too long on this question. for there are cognate ones of weighty importance on which
 word or two now may not be out of place. It is in the unequal distriDu- ton of the wealth of the country an unequal, negotiable and unjust distri- button of this wealth as it is daily created There is but one source of wealth or rather two sources-the earth and labor. If these protected in dustries would give to labor fair share of the profits they reap from the sale the wealth would be more evenly distributed and our country to that eX- tent benefited Every step taken to- wards the betterment of the laborIng classes of any country is long step toward a higher civilization in that land, and every hour of toll taken from the weary shoulders of an hon est, hard-working man is not only a blessing to the man but even great CT blessing to his country. l there fore congratulate the democracy of Arizona on having passed the eight hour law against which So much dire prophecy was hurled at the time, but of which no word now Is ever uttered except in praise. The last congress should never have adjourned until such legislation had been enacted by it. The democrats tried 1t hard enough but Speaker Cannon said no and that ended it. So with many recommenda- tions of the president that democrats supported in congress last session. The really wise and good recommen- datiOns made by the president to con gress and to which much of his wonder ful popularity is now due were taken body and soul from the last democrat ic national platform. He got deserved praise when he did the right thing
 and got onts the democratic platform and tried to carry out democratic doc trines, but it came to nothing for Can non said mo- and Dalzell and Payne and Jim Sherman piped out little no too, and the hopes of the presi- dent to serve well his country were murdered by his own party in the house of his friends. When Roosevelt tried to carry out Bryan's doctrines the great body of the people. republi- cans and democrats alike, were with him and I believe those same patriotic
 republicans like that doctrine today better than they like Taft and will fol- low to victory this fall the banner on
 which such principles are blazoned and held in the hand which first pre- sented them in the later days to the careful consideration of waiting peo- pie. On the ultimate success of such doctrine and a return to the spirit and virtue of the older days our prosperity as nation depends if. indeed, our life
 does not depend on it.
 My friends, we have drifted too far from our ancient moorings. We nave lost sight of too many of the old land marks, we are approaching rocks and shallows and an angry surf. Local self-government is the very life of this republic When that is taken from
 us or surrendered by us an oligarchy will be found where the republic yet abides and the worst form of govern ment will have usuTped the place of the best ever designed by man for his happiness and safety. The speaker has become the house of representa- tives and that once august, able and powerful body is only timid and
 weak agency to write into the statutes the will and wishes of Joe Cannon of | the state of Illinois We felt that power when the joint statehood fight was on. No bill can pass congress 1 without his consent Every member of the house might be anxious to ell 1 act certain law, yet under present conditions the law could not be passed
 if the speaker opposed it. You could
 not pass it without first removing him from office, for he would not recog- i nize any member to call the bill up. It V eAS q ldE VI llJlll NdllASlt AO NsduLOuf while it is only short step from Can
 non to despotism. Yet the republi-
 can members in shameful cowardice submit to these aggressions seemingly careless or oblivious to the awful dan
 ger they invite. This spirit of sub serviency has been encouraged by the conduct of the president. Among the
 virtues of Roosevelt there is unfor- tUnately mixed many grievous faults dangerous far Us He demands obed- fence to his notions. He yields the
 big stick and the fountain pen, and
 creates as much havoc with one as with the other He has no respect for any clause of the constitution which
 limits his power as chief executive
 He illuminated a message of wrath and
 threatened with his dire displeasure any federal officeholder who should
 take any hand in politics and had some four hundred federal officehold- CTS in the convention to do his bidding in voting for Taft No punishment has been heard of. He caused the nomination of his successor and in this drove the wedge that will some