Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-08
FLAYS POLICY
OF ROOSEVELT
RULE BY TRUSTS OR PEOPLE
THE REAL ISSUE
REPUBLICANS MERE AGENTS OF
THE MONEY POWER
Warner DiscIoses True Inwardness Of
Presidents Administration and
Growth of Plutocracy Under
His Despotie Sway

Adam Dixon Warner of Los Angeles
Sherman last night, his subject being
Roosevelt Policies"
There was big attendance and Mr..
Warmers speech caused great en-
thusiasm. He said in part:
The issues in this campaign are more far
reaching and important than any that have
been presented to the American people since
the war since 1860.
There is really only one great question ibe-
fore the American people: shall the trusts
rule this people, shall the people rule.
All other questions auxiliary or subord-
mate to this, the main question.
You have heard great deal about the
Standard Oil trust and you have heard
good deal about certain gentlemen being con-
nected with the Standard Oil trust. But If
all that has been said to be true, they were
only attorneys-at-law, and claimed to have
the right to accept attorneys fees. But the
president president of the United States
when he commanded $780, from Hartman
who controls more miles Of railroad than any
other man on earth.
Four years is not very long; eight years is
not very long, and twelve years is easily
within the memory of every man before me
tonight For twelve years the Republican
party has been in absolute control of this
government In all It's branches
Four years ago Mr.. Roosevelt put one of
his cabinet officers, Mr.. Cortelyou. in charge
of his campaign, and commissioned him and
the man Sherman, whom he has now nomin-
ated for vice president, to go out into the
Highways and byways and secret recesses
of the trusts and secure fund from the
benehciaries of his Roosevelt policies
Did he not get the money?
Funds Pouring In
You remember the insurance Investigations
and how much money of the widows and
orphans was contributed. And IL Mr.. Harri-
man, who only controlled at that time 10000
miles of railway out of the 100000 miles, con-
tributed $260,O0O, how much did all the rail-
roads give toward that election?
Any schoolboy can figure that. IT would be
Just ten times as much, 81, 900. Now If
one trust--the railroad trust-gave $26OO00O.
how much did the oil trust, and the steel
trust, and the beef trust, and the sugar trust.
and the tobacco trust, and the 100 other trusts
give?
Mr. Cortelyou, open your books!
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft, please tell the
people.
Now, you have heard something about the
steel trust and you have heard 1t intimated
that there are 'good trusts and bad trusts.
You have heard 1t said that there are about
seventeen hundred trusts in the United states.
You have heard it charged, and not denied,
that the trusts control the product and the
price of nearly every article consumed by the
American citizen except that which Is pro-
duced by himself from the soil
But there is one trust, one great trust
mighter than all these combined, and that is
the railroad trust. .
And tonight the great question before the
this country and this government, or shali
the people rule? .
people"
Not Political Party
And I am here to say. AMI charge tonight,
that the Republican party is not, nor has lt
been during the last twelve years, poitlcai
party During all the last twelve years IL
has been a party headed ana eontroleu py
trust magnates, combining together for the
express purpose of securing special privileges
and looting this country.
IL is the trust party, and the party Oh the
trusts.
1t has been and is today party Of looters
and plundercrs. There has been no neld OF
opportunity that has not been exploited ior
The trusts-the Republican, party-during
these last twelve years increased the tariffs
under the Dingley bill 25 per cent, and this
tariff has been absorbed by the railroads, ana
1t was created by the trusts and the railroads
for the benefit of the railroads and the trusts.
Railroad rates are fixed on the basis of the
tariff, plus the wtaer haul, and the result is
that all the tariff is absorbed by the railroads
The Republican party has. during the last
twelve years, increased the cost OF living IN
every home and hut in America.
II has increased, with an extravagance un-
known in the worlds history. the cost OF ad-
hlnistraton of government.
He has increased the Offices and the
otnce holders to greater extent tnan any
government in the history or the worie ever
Increased them in the same period of time.
At mas Increased the faclliueS OF tHe ihiiioau
corporations to plunder and rob the people;
ana increased their revenues more than 10 per
cent. or more than three hundred and hfty
mllioFs of dollars year. by the Hepburn bill,
whicn they pretended to the American people
would reduce railroad rates.
IL mas increased the cost of the army and
navy more than double
Il has increased the expenditures Of the
government In one session more than double
what II cost ten years ago to run the gov
ernment two sessions.
IL mas permitted more vicious trusts and
combines to be effected and maintained under
RooseVeits administration than under all for
NOR administrations
Forming Despotie Government
He has done more to create despotic form |
OF government than all the presidents from |
Washington down to the present time, and |
has appointed moro trust magnates and trust |
lawyers to official positions than all the |
other presidents in all our history have ever
appointed
lie has set at naught the constitutional and
statutory safeguards to American working
men and american homes by insisting upon |
flooding America with the yellow races, be-
cause his chief contributors to ais election