The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-07-11

isfy the sober, common sense of the
multitudes whose interests are at
stake"
In other words, the three things are
| % the need of trust reform, (2) the
Republican alliance with the trusts,
! 90 Democratic promise of tariff re-
form.
There are good things in the speech.
Here is one memorable sentence
among many others: whenever the
wrongs of today become the vested
rights of tomorrow, the nation is in
deadly peril"
The speaker pointed out that the
Democratic party is not the enemy of
property; that its policies would result
in more landowners, more homes, and
more happiness among the people.
The Democratic party, the maker of
the keynote speech declared, is not OPP
posed to all corporations, but to the
evil trusts; it does not oppose pro-
duction on a large scale, but it does
oppose monopoly.
Referring to the Republican platform
recently adopted at Chicago, and its
promises of reform, the speaker per-
tinently inquired: Does the Repub-
lican party believe that it can be alb.
solved from it's dereliction of duty to
do in the future what it has willfully
failed to do in the past?"
Very clever is his substitution of
1--WE did not" for I'VE will" to get
clearly before the people the record of
the Republican party. Instead of an
! indictment against the Republican
party, the speaker suggests that pro-
ceedingsr1Might be expedited by-enter-
ing the plea that is Contained in the
Chicago platform, simply changing the
words we will to the word we did
not to conform to the admitted facts.
We then have the following Republi-
q ran ron fpSsiOn of p1ilt.
eve did not revise the tariff.
1--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 in
the interstate commerce law giving the
federal government supervision over
the issues of stocks and bonds by in
terstate carriers.
I'VE did not exact currency meas
ure that would mitigate the evils of a
financial panic such as has recently
Frustrated the country under a Repub
lican administration.
I've did not limit the opportunities
for abusing the writ of injunction.
I've did not establish postal say.
ings banks.
I'VE did not maintain a bureau of
mines and mining
1--WE did not admit into the union
the territories of New Mexico and Ari-
iona as separate states.'"
1t is the Republican reign of mon
opoly, he charged, that is emptying our
school houses and filling the sweat
shops with child labor, land this same
system of monopoly is fast limiting
the opportunities for independent live
lihood." The Republicans injunction
plank, he charges, is insincere.
AS to campaign contributions, Mr.
Bell declares that the Republican par.
tvs refusal to use cash register
in its present affairs clearly exhibits
crookedness and dishonesty that will
not bear the light of day" Cash reg
ister' is good.
Mr.. Bells speech is an able one.
attacks the dominant political part,
. vigorously, to the end that it may b,
dominant no longer. There is reason
: in what he says, and right. And thu
8 American people are certainly anti
o. panic, antitrust and anticrooket
. campaign contributions.
Mexico Not Threatened.