Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-03
Rank and File of One Mind.

Al HedTt tHc rank ana lie OF tne party
are of one mind, and when the clouds OF
prejudice. misunderstanding and misin-
formation lift there will he a better and
truer vision of the impending issues and
important questions.
The republican party has past full
of wise administration and high accom-
plishment, and every citizen who loves
the flag must he proud of his country's
career during the period of our suprem-
acy. 1t is the height OF folly. however
to assert that we have done every thing
well. or left nothing undone.
The republican party was not born to
make men rich, 1t was born to make men
free. 1t cannot survive upon the feasts
of milionaireS, il must live at the plain
table of common men.
Full employment for everybody fair
distribution to everybody. protection for
the weak and a check upon the strong
these ought 10 be the watchwords of the
party. The square deal is now, as al
ways, the noblest expression of govern
mental purposes
Wealth is fighting hard for an undue
share of the profits Of labor. Great wealth.
combined wealth. cororate wealth is press
ing small wealth and individual wealth to
the wall with weapons that modern in
dustrialism should no more tolerate than
modern warfare tOlerateS poisoned bull
lets.
This then. is our problem: first to so
regulate public utility companies that
good service will be rendered for "A rea-
sonable charge, and that neither shipper
nor locality shall suffer the injustice of
discrimination.
Rights of property must he full, pro-
tected and the profits of capital must be
generously recognized, for both are essen
t1al TO the progress of the world.
The Issue in the Party.
1T is not my purpose said Senator
Cunmins. Ito define at this point lust
what the issue between republicans has
been, and is, not only In Iowa, but
throughout the length and breadth of the
country. 1t is sufficient for the present
to say that il relates wholly to those
questions which concern the control. reg
ula;ion and restriction of the powers and
practices of combined or concentrate
wealth. Or, to phrase it again-to the
undue and disproportionate share which
corporate capital Is able TO wiring from
the profits of industry. and the injustice
IT is able to infiict upon helpless in.
dividuals and defenseless communities.
I'm dealing with these problems the
members of our party have ranged them
selves along the whole stretch of eco
nom!c thought and governmental action
from the hopeless and retreating reac-
tionary to the extreme and visionary
radical The rear division of this long
line. with all its varying shades of po-
litlcal doctrine, has come to be known aS
the standpatters: while the other, with
some diversity of opinion upon specific
questions, marches forward under the
name of the progressives.
1T is probably true that some of the
want to go too fast and do
too much. IT is certainly true that there
are many of the standpatters who want
either to go back or do nothing. at ALL
Assuming that the divisions of the party
are equally honest. it is obvious that the
contest between them is not trivial, al
though ii is to be hoped that il is but
temporary.
II recur in this unparalleled situation to
the calm and optimistic philosophy of
Lincoln, who. in the epochal
debate of 1S5S. after quoting the maxim
A house divided against itself cannot
stand said:
L believe this government cannot en-
dure permanently half Slave and half
free 1 do not expect the union to be dis
solved. / do not expect the house to fall.
but l do expect it will cease to be di-
vided. 1t will become all one thing or
all the other
at is even so with the republican party.
II cannot endure permanently half pro-