The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-16

who also has the ability to define
those evils and point them out so that
other men can see them. He declared
that the ten years of the administra-
lions of Roosevelt and Taft would for.
ever stand out in the history of the
republic as the era of the great moral
crusade in business methods. at
will be known" said the senator, "as
the ten years war for honesty in the
lives and practices of men"
He said that parties are essential
in our political system, but they are
only the instrumentalities of national
life and the peoples welfare. parties
can only live in action when their
policies are right because wrong poi.
cies will not produce good results, and
the American people judge parties by
results. There have always been those
who treat party lines lightly and some
who treat them contemptuously, but
the number is not large and never
will be large because there has never
been any other practical way of fur
nishing the people an opportunity To
express their opinions as to how they
want public affairs conducted. We
sometimes hear it said that party lines
are breaking down. But let me tell
you that party lines will never break
down so long as the aggressive, pro
gressive spirit of Americanism con-
trolls the minds and hearts of the
American people. So long as the
states rights doctrines and strict con-
struCtion theories rule the councils of
democracy and lead them to oppose
the postal savings bank legislation,
meat inspection laws, regulation of
the issuance of stocks and bonds of
railroads, there will be a republican
party to stand for the progressive
spirit of this day that believes in such
legislation
Il recall in the last session Of con
gress the struggle that we had in pass
ing a postal savings bank bill. it
has been the dream of the American
people for forty years; one postmaster
general after another had recommend
ned it, commercial organizations by the
hundred had endorsed it, farmers al
liances had petitioned for it, and la
Dor organizations had demanded it..
Both party platforms had declared fer
it in their last national conventions,
but the great leaders of the democracy
opposed it in congress because there
was no specific authority for it, as
they commended, in the constitution of
the United States, and every democla at
in the senate, but one, voted a. iinst
the postal savings bank bill. So long
as that sort of strict construction con-
trolls the councils of democracy there
will be republican party to represent
the progressive ideols of the great
majority of tbs American people Con.
, gress passed a new railroad regula-
ton bill ar the last session. 1t is the
: most complete law that has ever been
enacted. In fact, it is ten great bills
combined into one. And yet one OF
the most important parts of that bill
as it was sent to congress by Presi
dent Taft was stricken out as a trib
ute to the states rights theory of the
democratic party. There was pro
S vision that gave to the federal gov
: eminent the right of investigation into
. stocks and bonds. If that section had
passed there would have been nc
: more Chicago & Alton mutations
l. where thirty million dollars worth o.
l. watered stock was issued at one time
/ without single dollar of cash OF
; benefit coming to the road for it. The
great leaders of democracy in the sen
T. ate informed us very courteously, bu
5 firmly, that the democracy would no
d stand for federal regulation of stocks
Il and bonds of railroads organized il
e the states, as it was an invasion o
" states rights, and if we wished to pas
L. the bill we must eliminate this partiC
II ular section. That was equivalent t.
d a threat to filibuster, and accordingl.
y the section went out as a sacrifice t.
y the old time-honored states right
" heresy of the democratic party. S.
~ long as democracy adheres to the prir
~ ciples of states rights of Calhoun an
Il. Jeff Davis, of Valandingham and SenG
~ tor Bailey, there must be republican
party to represent that virile, enel
IL getic, progressive, up to date mass G
G American citizenship that believe tina
W the whole of America is bigger tina
a. any part of it, and that the govern
ie ment at Washington is big enough
II do anything it ought to do and 100 bi
to fall short of absolute and complet
duty to the people.
to 81 call attention to these to sho
is that it is impossible for the democrat
n party to enact the progressive legisl
b. ton that we people of Nebraska h
on lieve in. We admire the genius al
on the courage of Theodore Roosevelt
le' we are loyal to him and to the polcit
us that he so manfully stands for. Bl
to we should remember that not one
to the laws had democratic support m
nd any which he would enact to carr
at out these progressive policies could
lst enacted by the democratic party, co
lat STRUNG governmental authority striC