The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07

uniOn .tDe terrltorleS or New Mexico
and Arizona as separate states
| l'sI repeat that the Congressional
Record of the Goth congress read in
lpnjunction with the Chicago piatrorm
converts that platform into a confess
sion of guilt upon the above issues.
That whole platform seems TO have
been an emergency measure like the
Aldrich-vreeland currency bill, and in
tended to give elasticity to the par
Ity's position on great public ques-
,tions and to expand and contract with
, the commercial needs of the campaign.
"The United states senate showed
its hearty sympathy with this popu-
lar demand and its profound respect
for the president by adjournlng the
senate, while the message was being
read; while over in the house of rep
lresentatives they refused 10 suspend
the roll call long enough to receive
the communication that had been sent
there from the White House.
"The hostility OF the Republican
organization toward popular measures
of reform Is illustrated in its refusal
10 establish postal savings banks. and
the country can safely accept this as
a sample of what II Republican con-
gress. controlled by special interests
will do TO every other measure In
tended for the peoples relief
| at Is the reign OF monopoly that
Is employing our school houses and
filling the sweatshops with child labor
and this same system or monopoly Is
fast limiting the opportunities for in
dependent livelihood among those who
are forced into the industrial field.
and thus It Is Gorbly blighting that
, hope OF youth which In former stages
iot our nfional growth opened an
avenue of honor and Independence to
every child reared upon our soil.
/ elm these days of financial panic
and industrial depression we hear
but little about the full dinner pail
and Republican prosperity. 1t is true
that Senator Burrows. in his address
as temporary chairman of the Chicago
convention, under the head of statist-
les of prosperity, did give some fig
ures showing that our population had
increased six millions during the last
four years. and this fact. In addi-
ton to others concerning raw silk, pig
iron and cotton fabrics. are quoted in
support of Republican prosperity. Not
/! even nature has chance with the
RenubllCrn party. The productivity
c' the soil tho sunny skies. the gen
tie showers. everything that grows,
creates or yields. somehow becomes a
part of Republican prosperity.
1 "a question Is being asked In every
quarter Of the country today and a d.
rect repfy will he demanded In his
campaign frcm the spokesmen OF the
Republican party. II the Republican
party made prosperity why doesn't
the party keep 1t mp? The inability Of
the Republican party to meet this
inquiry in a satisfactory manner will
explode IT'S false claims to whatever
blessings beneficent Providence has
vouchsafed to the American people
during the last decade.
'.The courts are but human in
stitutions and of human composition,
created by the peopja, presided over by
men. and exercising only such pow
crs as sovereign people may confer
upon them. and amenable at all times
20 such limitations as public policy
may dictate; and II Is difficult to un-
derstand wherein the sanctity of the
1nl vi an
by demanding limitation on their
equity Jurisdiction that may prevent
manifest injustice toward any subject,
high or iow.
'Surely this great question, prob
ably the most conspicuous OF all
questions now before the people, ought
TO be discussed in dispassionate
manner and disposed OF according TO
It's merits. Nobody, short of an an
Trchist. desires to cur;aH the right OF
the courts to prevent a threatened
dc.triction OF property.
"The idea seems to be creeping In
othe popular mind that II the nomi-
nee of the Chicago convention shall
HE elected IN November we will have
a blsected presidency at the head of
cur affairs. The American people are
sticklers on some things, and one Of
the things that they will not stand for
Is divided responsibility In the
white houhe. They will demand, that
he heart that conceives, the brain
that plans, and the hand that executes
shall be directly answerable to the SOW
creign power thai built the white house
end selects one man at time to fill
It.
.'rhe democratic idea is that where
the tariff enables the trusts 10 MAIN
tain system of extortlon the duty
should be removed from all Trust made
goods, 50 that competition from abraod
may compel reasonable prices to our
own peop'e. There Is a vast difference
between the protection of American IN
dustries sud the protection of criminal
monopolies. which kind OF protec-
ton does the republican party really
intend to preserve, aud what tariff
tchcdules does II propose to scale down
Avill 1t not dNDeud upon the prepon-
tel'auce of power H the councils or