The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative

| &reQ1entS OF Perund-
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative
destroy but to regulate. The great
lines Of transportation must be fairly
dealt with. Unfair dealing will rem
der them inefficient and will react up
| on their customers. The Republican
party has no sympathy with the dem
| agogues, under the leadership OF Mr..
Bryan, who would, through the party
of discomfort, destroy the great trans
| tries of the country that help to main
| tain them in commerce among the
states and with foreign lands.
Bryan Dominates His Party.
"Mr. Bryan dominates the party
which nominated him. His platform,
which he dictated to the convention,
harks back in it's economic policy to
the ancient platform of the Democratic
party and tariff for revenue only. 1t
pledges the party, if elected with pow
er. to journey as rapidly as possible in
that direction. This policy was born
Of labor conditions prior to the civil
war. Servile labor was cheap and per-
formed the same kind of labor that a
sovereign citizen now performs. 1t was
what made cotton and tobacco valu-
able. 1t was possible for the owners
of this labor to take its products to
pete with the cheap labor of Europe.
Therefore, the shibboleth of the Demo-
cratic party was for progressive free
trade throughout the world-a tariff
for revenue only. The policy of the
party Of the opposition-our-party
was for a tax or tariff on imports COM
peting with our products made by our
labor. We believe such products, when
imported, should be taxed so as to
equalize the higher pay given our labor
wv n1r- i-
der which our labor gets better wages
and our industries are built up.
Especial Friend of Labor"
The reason for the Democratic pol
icy Of free trade-a policy of tariff for
revenue only-no longer existed when
servile labor ceased to exist, since the
war, and notably so in the last IL years.
IN that period the states where slavery
existed are building up their industries,
and the factories Of Tennessee, North
and South Carolina and Georgia have
had development that is little short
of marvellous. Notwithstanding all this,
Mr.. Bryan harks back to the policy
that was always wrong and appeals
for power on a pledge that if clothed
with power he will secure legislation
so as to adjust our tariff laws so that
the products of labor that is not paid
half as much as labor in this country
shall come free into the United States
to compete with our labor Strange to
say, he advertises himself for the
square deal, the special friend of la
Dor and Of the producer who earns his
bread in the sweat of his face.
Protection the Great Issue
I'VE will get the verdict in Novem-
Der. We will learn the will of the peo-
pie then, and, for one, I await their
judgment with supreme confidence that
a majority of the people of the repub-
lie have not lost either intelligence or
patriotism. There are other issues in
this campaign. but this is the great is
sue. 1t is one which If decided wrong
ly will inf1ict vital damage to the citi-
zenship of the country. 1t would not
destroy the republic. but we would suf-
fer the consequences most bitterly I'M
til in the hard school of experience
we learn wisdom. and, after paying
a most severe penalty, we will learn the
correct policies.
Laws Should Cover All Alike
1.-THE next important ISSUE" con-
tinued Mr.. Cannon, after making
sure of a right economic policy, is to
put a foot on Mr.. Bryan's appeal for
class legislation. He proposes a
change of law that will make one law
for the farmers and the wage earners
and another law for the remainder of
the people. The republic is not big
enough and never will be big enough
or strong enough to have different
laws for different classes of her citi-
zens. The law, like the grace of God
must cover all alike. The fathers, when
they made the constitution, provided
three coordinate branches of the gov
eminent, each with its constitutional
function. The executive is to enforce
the law. the judiciary to construe the
law, with power granted it to enforce
| its DEGREES. Mr.. Bryan promises, in
the platform which he dictated to the
convention which nominated him,
that II clothed with power he and his
| followers will take away from the
courts the power to enforce their de-
crees. This is a power that the courts
held in England for 500 years and
longer. 1t is a power absolutely es-
sentiaI to the courts If they perform