Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-12

party affirms that in this campaign IL is
the only party. having prospect of
success. which stands for justice I'm gov
eminent and for equity in the division
of the fruits of industry.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEFENDER
OF HONEST WEALTH.
We may expect those who have COM
mitted larceny by law and purchased i'm
munity with their political influence to
attempt to raise false issues and to en-
ploy 1.-THE livery of heaven to conceal
their evil purposes. but they can no
longer deceive. The democratic party is
not the enemy of any legitimate industry
or of honest accumulations. 1t is. on the
contrary. a friend of industry and the
Steadfast protector of that wealth which
represents a service to society. The demo-
cratic party does not seek to annihilate
all corporations; 1t simply asserts that as
the government creates corporations Il
must retain the power to regulate and
control them. and that ii should not per-
NIT any corporation to convert itself into
monopoly. Surely We should have the
cooperation of all legitimate corporations
in our effort to protect business and in
dustry from the odium which lawless
combinations of capital WILL If unchecked
cast upon Them Only by the separation
of the good from the bad can the good
NOT REVOLUTION, BUT REFoR-
NATION.
The democratic party seeks not revolu-
ton, but reformation. and I need hardly
remind the student of history that cures
are mfldest when applied at once; that
remedies increase I'm severity as their ap-
plication is postponed. Blood poisoning
may be stopped by the loss of a finger
today: ii may cost an arm tomorrow or a
life the next day. So poison in the body
polite can not be removed too soon. for
the evils produced by it increase with the
lapse of time. That there are abuses
which need to be remedied even the re-
publican candidate admits; that his party
is unable to remedy them has been fully
demonstrated during the last ten years. I
have such confidence in the intelligence
as well as the patriotism of the people
that 1 cannot doubt their readiness to ac-
cept the reasonable reforms which our
party proposes, rather than permit the
continued growth of existing abuses to
hurry the country on To remedies more
radical and more drastic.
OUR PARTY'S IDEAL.
The platform of our party closes with
q brief statement of the party's ideal.
1t favors such administration of the
government as will insure. as far hui
man wisdom can, that each citizen shall
draw from society e reward commensu-
rate with his contribution TO the welfare
OF society.
Governments are good in proportion AS
they assure to each member of society,
so far as governments can, a return COM
mensurate with individual merit.
THE DIVINE LAW OF REWARDS.
There is divine law of rewards. When
the Creator gave us the earth. with its
fruitful soil, the sunshine with its warmth
and the rains with their moisture, He
proclaimed, as clearly as if His voice had
Numbered from the clouds, Go work. and
according to your industry and your in
telligence, SO shall be your reward. Only
where might has overthrow cunning I'M
dermined or government suspended this
law has a different law prevailed. To
conform the government TO this law
ought to be the ambition or the states
man; and no party can have higher mis-
sion than to make il a reality wherever
governments can legitimately operate.
JUSTICE TO ALL.
Recognizing that / am indebted for my
nomination to the rank and file OF our
party, and that my election must come.
IL it comes at all, from the unpurchased
and unpurchasable suffrages of the Amer
lean people, 1 promise, If intrusted with
the responsibilities of this high office, TO
consecrate whatever ability | have to the
one purpose OF making this. i'm fact. a
government in which the people rule-a
government which will do justice 10 all,
and offer to every one the highest posi-
BILE stimulus to great and persistent effort,
by assuring to each the enjoyment of his
just share of the proceeds of his toll. no
matter in what part of the vineyard he
laborS, or to what occupation, profession
or calling he devotes HIMSELF
people of Alaska have recorded them