Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-29

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great soil which Is made up of all the
vast body of unnoticed men. the great
masses of ,oilers, the men who never
energies to the general view the men
who go quietly, painfully on from day
| to day, from month to MONTH from
year to year, from generation to gen.
Grafton and sustained by their labor
the whole economics of a political
body. There is the sap of the nation;
and the glory of America has been
that 1T again and again, not rarely so
as to make any singular circumstance,
but again and again plain men have
arisen from the ranks in order to be
first the captains of the things they
found Immediately to do, and after
awhile the captains Of the country it.
self.
81 found a gentleman today with
whom I was talking who did not know
that one of the most celebrated char
acters of our history gained his eleva-
ton by arduous effort just in that way
no less a person than George Wash
ington. He could not afford more than
a common school education, had to go
out in the rough country that sur
rounded his home to serve as sur
veyor had to endure all the hardships
of frontier and struggle for an ed'i-
cation which he gained from practical
affairs, and never to the end OF his lie
could he spell correctly.
This great figure that all the world
turns to as the typical figure of Amer
lea was rooted in the common soil oil
every day life of the country where he
hot nor
has so far as / have known 1t always
felt the keenest, intensest sympathies
for the greatest body and mass of cit
izenship is the party wish to work
with. and I believe In the long run can
serve the country best.
! Identified with Trusts.
"Then there is another reason-a rea-
son which concerns the Republican
party--it has a very distinguished his
tory, and l would not want to take
away from its laurels in any respect
but from circumstances l need not
stop to narrate to you, the Republican
party has in one circumstance and an
other identified itself with policies
which were meant to sustain special
interests in this country. l say that
because of changes in economic pol
icies; 1t has been at pains to serve the
particular economic interests which
have sprung up from generation to
generation 1t has established a part
nership which it cannot break BY say
ing 1t cannot break it, / am not sug-
gesting corrupt reasons why 1t cannot
break it; it cannot honorably break II
II II has tied itself up In its policies
with certain dominating interests In the
country, | leave it to you, Is 1t honor
able for it to break it to get the votes
of a large number of citizens? Anc
r say that the Republican party has
identified itself with particular inter
ests from which 1t cannot be expected
to divorce itself in a single genera
ton.
You will say that the Democratic
party has not done so because 1t ha'
not had the chance. l do not thini
that is fair Judgment at all, but lie
us assume that is the case. The Dem
ocratic party has not formed these ALI
ances and the Democratic party Il
therefore free to go In any directioi
ii pleases in the service of the coun
try. l think, for my part, that Is
very good reason for choosing my owl
party lines. Not that 1 would hav
for I have been Democrat ever sine
1 was born.
"I was first a Democrat because
was born that way; then l became
~ Democrat because l believed that way
II Now l am giving you the reasons wh'
ie l believe that way. ! want to peion
SC to a party which at present, at an
rate. is free to serve the country with
:, out too many entangling alliances.
ID This is not an easy time in whic
- to live / do not wonder that grea
n. mistakes of policy have been made
1 could point out to you the tremen
y dous economic changes which have oc
I Cured in this country within singl
20 lifetime, aye, in some instances In
A. single decade, that have changed tn
10 whole face of economic endeavor
g Twenty Years Ago and Now.
~ Fifteen or twenty years ago, for eN
fa ample, business was conducted by par
ly nership, by individuals, by small group
be of men. and now as everybody knows
"a the great sorts of business are con
Quoted by corporations; are conducte
= by big combinations of men, not con
trolled by any one group, including tn
means and savings and investments {
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look what has followed: The board {
directors of a joint stock corporatio
is using more money in the bushes
than the board of directors could hav
ever through their own separate en-
deavors collected and amassed.
"They have piled upin one enterpris
the small contributions of hundred
and thousands of stockholders. The
have, therefore. yielded enormou
economic power. And yet we find thi
singular circumstance that If I di
this by myself, with my own small &C
cumulations, the law always know
who 1 am and where to find me whe
" I am responsible If I am a membe
y OF board of directors--the most In
g f1uential of a board of directors--an