Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-03
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country 8 career during the period "
our supremacy. 1t is the height Of folly
however, to assert that we have don
everything we'll, or left nothing un'
done. While the memories Of victories
already won will comfort and inspire
US. our eyes must be kept steadily up
on the present and future, for we have
greater work to do han ever before
has fallen to the hands Of man.
The republican party was not born tc
make men rich, it was born to make
men free. 1t can not survive upon the
feasts Of millionaires, 1t must live 81
the plain table Of common men. Riches
are not to be despised: but wealth
lshould be the incident Of a Justly or
ldered society and not the chief object
of government.
Full employment for everybody, fail
distribution to everybody, protection
for the weak, and a check upon the
strong-these ought to be the watch
words Of the party. The square deal
is now, as always. the noblest express
sion of governmental purposes.
Tho Problem Of Wealth.
Wealth is lighting hard for an undue
share Of the profits Of labor. Great
wealth, combined wealth. corporate
wealth, is pressing small wealth and
Individual wealth to h wall with
weapon that modern industrialism
| should no more tolerate than modern
warfare tolerates poisoned bullets. The
nation was founded upon the assump-
ton that in full, free and fair COM
petition each man would receive his
Just dues. Collectivism has made
| some inroads upon its rival theory In
our public utilities: but as yet we have
not courted socialism in general pro-
duction. It must be manifest, however,
that there Is no middle ground between
com petition and cooperation, and
equally clear hat those who either &C.
lively or passively aid the forces of
monopoly or combination are the real
apostles Of socialism, for it is not to be
doubted hat II we must choose be-
tween a monopoly or dominating COM
bination of selfish Individual or cor
porate interests and the monopoly OF
the government we are as sure to adopt
the latter as are the seasons to come
and go.
This then, is our problem: First, to
so regulate public utility companies
that good service will be rendered for
a reasonable charge, and that neither
shipper nor locality shall suffer the
injustice of discrimination. AS I have
already observed, this duty surpasses
in difficulty any that we have ever
encountered. We have been feeling our
way along. touching the subject here
and there: but we have not had the
courage to go to the heart Of the ques-
ton, and therefore we have in some
respects unfairly dealt with common
carriers without giving to commerce
the full relief that 1t r%isftfuiiy asks at
our hands; second. in the vast field Of
private industry and enterprise to pre-
serve the competition we have and re-
store It to power where 1t has been
eliminated by monopoly and combina-
ton.
TIC do this will require all the genius
OF the American mind. and all the
patriotism Of h American heart. No
timorous soul who has friends on both
sides and fears their displeasure Ear
successfully meet such an emergency.
No man who believes that production
alone Is the keynote to prosperity car
reach the desired end.
Broadminded. fearless representa-
tives who stand far apart from the
interests to be controlled on the one
hand and high above the clamor Of
prejudice upon h other. are needed
now as they were never needed before,
and It is for the republican party to
supply these men for the public SER
vice.
Rights Of property must he fully pro-
'tected and the profits of capital must
be generously recognized, for both are
essential to the progress OF the world,
We all know. however, that In the
effort to determine Just where the line
- ..-,1o&too ,1%oly h 5~ourn I>~a-<
Judgment will oftentimes hang in the
balance, and when It Ices I believe in
giving men, not money. the benefit Of
the doubt.
The republican party is profoundly
impressed with the Necessity Of con-
serving our natural resources, not emily
for this, but for future generations.
The government OF the United States
is still the owner Of vast forests and
they should be SO used that they will
perform the double duty Of supplying
the people with lumber n Of regulat-
ing the flow of our running waters,
These forests belong to all the peo-
pie and they should not be allowed to
pass for a mere pfttance into the hands
of fortune hunters.
The United States is also owner Of
mines IN which untold treasures are
stored. It is obvious that IL Sums
way, consistent with continuous
growth and development these mines
should be made a source Of revenue
for the government, and that we should
not deliver them for nothing into the
hands Of those who are waiting to
exploit their unparalleled riches.
We are the owners as wen Of lands
which by nature are fitted for water
power sites. AS time e on water
power will become more and more
valuable, and we ought to see to II that
these sites are devoted to h interest
OF all the people and ara not 30 COM
bined that our own possessions are
made the Instruments Of Injustice.
We are also under q sacred obliga-
ton to do all that a be done thru
education, the spread Of scientific in
formation, and thru every other meth
Cd open to the government to preserve
the strength Of the soil now In private
ownership. The prosperity and happi-
mess Of our people and the permanence
Of our institutions depend In greater
degree upon the productiveness and
fertility OF our farms and gardens than
upon any other thing that enters our
national life, and the increasing mill
lions d our population have trans