Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-11-12

authority of the individual states Of
the union, but it is no longer possible.
with the modern combinations of in
dustry and transportation. to dis
criminate the interests of the several
states as they once could be discrimin-
ated.
1.-The debates of our coming cam
paigns must center upon the mean
we are to use in accomplishing ends
which the whole country sees that it is
necessary to accomplish. The Dem
ocrntic principle is the government
should study not only regulation. but
individual liberty and individual re
sponsibility, and that no regulation
incompatible with the freedom and
development of the individual is toler-
able.
apply these doctrines to the great
questions of the day and see what they
will yield you. The original principle
of protective tariffs in this country
turned at every point upon this single
subject; The calling out of all the re-
sources and energies of the nation. and
their protection against foreign COM
petition so long rs they should be I'M
able to bear competition.
THE priciple upon which the AL
drich tariff bill is based is II radically
different one-not the benefit of the
country ut large and the careful slim,
ulation of its industries. but the bene.
fit of those engaged in the protected
industries. the incompetent along with
the competent.
1T is Il means of insuring profits to
certain bodies of manufacturers on the
plea that what they are doing adds tc
the wealth and trade of the nation, but
without regard to the question whether
they are adding to the wealth and
is most wholesome and most suited tc
the common benefit.
THE demonstration of the whole
thing, its %corrupting effect upon ouI
politics, its enfecbling effect upon ON
industries. its sinister effect upon our
political principles, is now evident to
every man who allows himself to think
without ~obscuring his view by private
considerations of ~self-intereSt.
Apply our principles to the trust
question and observe what it will yield,
We are mt present trying the very
hazardous experiment of regulating
trusts in II Or another of two ways.
I'm the first place, we are ate mptinl
to restrain them from forms of organ
~ization and courses of action which art
against the general interest by the com
pulsiOn of fines and penalties.
''These fines and penalties generally
fall not upon the individuals RESPONSE
BILE, but upon the stockholders who are
without any real power to control the
business they nominally own.
The other means by which we seei
C Dntrol is the government of public
service corporations through commits
%sioners. We have carried this method
so far that we have virtually gone tn,
length of debating their management,
which carries us very much beyond the
point of mere control.
There is only one principle in regart
to these matters which the Democratic
party a consistently adopt. 1t il
perfectly possible to make all corpora
tions s disclose the detail of thei
organization as to make it evident t
tho officers of the law what official
what authority from it's board of direct
ors down to its most subordinate re
sponsiblc officer, is responsible for tn,
acts of the corporation with which tn
law chooses to deal. That being done
it is perfectly feasible for the law Il
punish the person or persons directly
who ordered any illegal thing done.
"The question l wish to leave wit
. you tonight is:
| will the Democratic party offer it.
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