The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-24

- LAAnHHH W
found to be ineffective, and congress refused to grant the relief that was
asked for. The president has spent his whole time in office ain trying to break
up trusts and railroad control of the government but without success He
found his party against him lie believed lie could get the party committed
to his policies and incorporate them in tn National republican pNauam' o'
his failure was lamentable and amounted to a slap of rebuke. The railroads
whole show.
calling for a physical valuation m railroads. in order that the interstate cor
commission might have a basis for fixing rates Railroads base heir
rates upon IN enormously inflated stock valuation and the public has to pay
high rates IN order to enable h railroads to pay dividends o. their watered
stock. The idea of the interstate commerce commission vas to get a fair ply
valuation of tn property or thu investment. to SO regulate rates as to
give a fair return OF the money actually represented by the railroads and at
the sam time, protect TIM public against exOrbinnt charges. An amendment
was offered to the committee on platform at the Chicago convention calling for
this plank IT was voted down by the railroad controlled convention by a vote
of e17 to g. and, on the other hand, the railroads were gven favorable amend
ments to the Sherman antitrust law ths more n more usntenms 'n@r sHp
upon tn government ,r su. rm,o,d
ened by the conscious power ovr congress- the trusts went further this year
than ever before in their demands for tariff legislation President Roosevelt
promised the country that he would call a special session OF congress, after
election to revise the tariff. This promise vas made in reply to the popular
demand # the neope hat the tariff shoud be reduced. What did the rust
ridden convention at Chicago d7 1t lot only declared for the continuance of
a high protective tariff, but demanded that it b raised still higher. so that it
would not only meet the differences in cost If production abroad and 1t home
but also guarantees the home manufacturer a reasonable profit N hiss goods"
In other words. the government had to g into business with the trusts and
guarantee them not only protection ut a 'proht' aio. MS Is a monsrOus
proposition. Why should the government so legihate to guarantee any set
tmted against l@s but be guaranteed a profit in their business9 The tariff
barons ave pushed their demands % the very height of insolence, and forced
the Republican party to subscribe hereto.
TRUSTS OWN REPUBLICAN PARTY.
But the Republican party is rot accountable; it is not to blame for the
lion IN 80 us Dsn a, !" ,artv. ~ ,rns+ ,s NOT the child ~ he Renubucan
party. The trust does not exist because of the Republican party. The reverse
is true The Republican party proceeds from the trusts-hom this predond-
special interests that benefit by railroad and tariff legislation, and there is 10
escape from this domination It is absolutely helpless in TIT premises
Not only our tariff and railroad laws. but most of or other industrial
laws ave been enacted a the dictahon of the plutocrats and for their class
benefit. This legislation has been so neatly contrived and so servicabry inter
'pretcd by the courts that nov, in the larger industries OF The United States
there is n such thing as competition. All are united into n great system,
fellow separator W. nav inc presiaen. ~ou =" sa lnousn uu
hands the products OF labor nus flow, and if they have their way labor will
a., n aa moi a cent r s ~m oarav enouas to keen the working man alive.
vvhat does President Roosevelt say regarding h protected interests that
dominate he country? The president has made a severe indictment # prda-
tory weanh-"of the wealth accumulated o. a giant scale by all forms Of
inouty RANGING from the oppression of wageearncrs to unfair and unwhols-
some methods of crushing ut competition and to defrauding he public by
stock jobMng and he manipulation IF securities land Mr.. Roosevelt say they
have banded together to work for a reaction They succeeded in al i'm.
portant step in the policy of reaction when they compelled the Republicans in
their national convention at Chicago % defeat the resolutions offered to pledge
the party to the reform measure that predatory wealth. opposed and
by ratifying the Republican platform, the mighty struggle If the people caused
by the morala awakening IF the past ten years will come to naught or be deferred
no WY p~sssort roosovel+ nen permitted to devolouq NV havc thew not
been corrccscdq, He points nj that during the past many years all the
executive machinery # h Federal Government has benin the hands of the
.ncpubncaps.,' and yet Mr.. Taft asks selection by the people "n order %
reform known abuses, which have grown up under Republican rule. Can
Mr.. Taft promise to be more strenuous in III prosecution of abuses than
President Roosevelt has been? If MI. Roosevelt lacked the power, with Re
publican majoriies in both houses of congress, to remedy these known
abuses 10Y can the American people expect them to be corrected by the
nominees that repudiated in convention, by a test vote, the very measures neces
e correct tho known abuses?'
OTHER REFORMS DENIED.
The Republican party setsi itself against other reforms necessary to curb
predatory wealth, at the national convention.
gremive republics of Switzerland and France. also. in England and Germany.
The Demo Gratis adopted it, Oas the Republicans voted it down.
A plank was offered to elect United States senators by the people and
thus destroy the enuenched power of the great corporations The house of
representatives had voted for it in five different sessions ant twothirds of
the states had memuianzcd congress for such a constitutional amendment.
The Democrats incorDorated it in their platform, nut the Republicans voted it
Gown-114 for, and 876 against
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competition having beer throtled?
"no ? and demand demands higher nssD'a saH h' duties % "su as tas'a a PROFIT 'I to the a u.s.
manufacturers.
Shall a reasonable tax be paid by banks to create a guaranty fund to
doroltors. thus preventing runs n banks q mon panEs and there
by bringing into circulation boarded wealth?
The Democratic platform says yes The Republican platform is
client.
The s.sa.s.ss and dangerous rs, so.S gsso, by tn: sm nse 4. s ssm s. ssnD ss
ton. th-curh publicity. whence and from whom anne these great contributions?
Tho Democratic platform says yes The Republicans voted it down.
$50 to g..
The Democratic platform is progressive and advocates reforms that will
bring the overnmert back Il FIRST principles, but the Republican platform
dominated ard dictated by tho mcney power, voted against every proposed e.
and committed the party and the government, should Taft win, to a
continuance of the known abuses that la been fostered under Republican
ADMINISTRATIONS. and made this not a government OF the people, nut the gov
.nmtn CT the money power.
The neral for all this is to vote for the Bryan electors and for Newlands
sr senator ana Bartlett for congress and do our part in curbing thu dangerous
tendencies in the government II today. and rsstorc tho people to power.