Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-14

and on lower scale the higher ups
stand ready to repeat on the highest
and broadest SCALE While the lower
down may corrupt cheap policeman
or a petty Judge, while he may bride
an alderman to grant him the privilege
to run a dance hall or bawdy house, or
to pursue his hateful white slave traf-
fic, the higher up having at his COM
mand not infrequently brains and gold
and education and manners plays TOT
greater game. His objective is to cap
ture legislatures and high courts ana
important municipal, state and federal
officials. 1t takes but hundreds OF loot
to satisfy the lower down.. Mll1ons
are insufficient to crafty the insatiapie
greed of the higher up Thls MAKES
him a dangerous enemy of the republic:
When this higher up with his gold
buys regiments of the lower downs
and with his higher mentality guides
and directs his low browed hirelings,
we have a combination that In the race
of the civic Indifference of much or our
so-called decent citizenship threatens
the very life of the government Let
this thing 20 on unheeded and un-
checked, and the day is nat far distant
when the American republic, In COM
mon with the ancient republics OF
Greece and Rome, must become a thing
of the past. Was it for the higher
ups' and for the lower downs that
your forefathers and mine fought for
eight long, weary and dreadful years TO
win independence from the tyranny of
a King George. was IL for the higher
ups and the lower downs that mil
lions fought and tens of thousands laid
down their lives and billions of treasure
was poured out during the Civil War?
Not on your life Better the tyranny of
King George III than the tyranny
of the beast Better that the blacks
only shall be enslaved than that whites
and blacks shall lose their political
freedom"
Mr. Wheeler also addressed the meet
ing and said, In part:
wHEELER's SPEECH
'Never in human history have of
flces so ennobling; that represented so
much for human liberty and human
advancement; never in the worlds his
tory until our nation was born have
they been within the gift of a people,
and when those offices thus dignified
are stolen and placed in the pocket of
q nonresident corporation and par
celed out to men of their selection,
who, when the question arises as be-
tween them and the people. viii do
their every bidding and stand as their
agents rather than as the peoples
that office Is prostituted. and instead
of being an office of dignity 1t is a
brand Of infamy and shame to wear
1t upon your shoulder with its collar
about your neck.
'In this great land great questions
have recently come up, and let me fol-
low them for a moment, for you VIII
understand when l am through the
real meaning of insurgency. / want
you to know that never In the course
| of its splendid history of half CEN
| tury did the Republican party so well
| deserve the ~ood will and the suffrage
| of the American people as IL did at the
| close of the administration of Theo-
| dore Roosevelt.
at want to tell you that in its whole
history the Republican party has never
stood upon a platform that was more
perfectly declarative of Republican
principles, of the square deal, of the
| duty to regulate these corporate chill
dren of the government, the railroads
| and the trusts-that never in its his
| tory did my party stand upon plat
| form that so completely appealed to
me as a Republican as did that plat
| form of 1908
PARTY PLEDGES
'TIave the pledges of our party been
kept? And IL they have not, why have
they not been kept? Was 1t not just
| in front of your eye when you read
! that platform that there should be i'm
mediate tariff revision? Did you not
have the right to demand it and to
expect It? Did you not understand
that tariff revision meant a protection
for every industry that was entitled
| to protection, and that it meant the
| tearing down and taking away all that
which was obsolete and wrong? Yes.
| you did, and that was why you voted
the Republican ticket. But when the
| conscientious and patriotic men of the
| house and senate who recognized the
obligations of their party and who
wanted to do their duty to the people
who had trusted them, what did they
| find? They found that congressman
there had been placed there by the beef
trust and that the congressman here
were controlled by the steel trust, and
| that the senator there had come from
| the rubber trust, and that senator after
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