The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
WAS DEMOCRATIC DAY
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magnate in the penitentiary and at
the end of the seven and half
years there were more trusts than
there were in the beginning. The
steel trust went to Roosevelt and
threatened him with larger panic,
and under threat of panic he con-
scented that that steel trust should de-
YOUR its largest rival. If it had been
Andrew Jackson there, it would have
been very different. Mr.. Taft. in
his speech announcing his candidacy
for the presidency, said that the law
should be amended so that, instead
of prohibiting all combinations in re-
straint of trade, it should simply pre-
vent unreasonable combinations. The
democratic position is the only posi-
ton that can be taken by those who
want the trust destroyed. There is
ne reason why we should have a
corporation in this country big
enough to control the necessaries of
life. The democratic party wants
large protection, but it draws the
line at monopoly. 1t says that God
never made man good enough to
stand at the head of a private mo-
nopoly and fix the price of what we
must have and that he alone can
furnish. Our high prices today are
due to the fact that these trusts live
and defy legislation. My republi-
can friends, do you not believe that
the democratic position is the right
position and that the law should
control a monopoly of anything that
the people ought to use? That is the
position Frank Stuart takes and he
ought to be your representative.
You elected Mr.. Jameson two years
ago, and l believe that those of you
who watched his record will agree
with me that he never voted against
the interests of the people. He did
not vote for the republican speaker,
who, by his despotism, has aroused
such wide protest in the republican
party. Mr.Roosevelt said in one of his
messages, and Mr.. Taft endorsed it,,
that there should be national incor-
poration of railroads. What for? To
carry the government control of rail-
roads from the state to the nation.
1t is to make you depend for your
laws upon congress and give the
state no part even in the regulation
of its local interest in the railroads.
Are you willing to surrender the
power that you have in this state
and then wait for congress to do
what you need? The nearer you
get your government to you, the bet
ter it is. Mr.. Stuart stands upon the
democratic position on this subject
He says, let the state do what it can
and let the federal government add
what it can do, but not substitute it
for the power of the state. On his
question, it is very important to you
to have a representative like Frank
Stuart
Mr. Roosevelt seems to have the
idea that the only way that we can
bring peace in this world is to have
navy so big that we can scare
people That is no new doctrine. 1t
is the doctrine of the frontier. l be-
Heve that the great mass of the peo-
pie of this country will not adopt
this view; that we must enter into a
mad rivalry with the nations of the
world in building battleships. / be-
lieve the democratic party stands not
only for the interests of the masses
but for the Christian id. and for
righteousness, when it insists that
the strength of the nation shall be
in it's desire for justice and not in
its ability to scare the world with a
big army and big navy In Wash
ington you will find the corridors full
or representatives of these corpora
lions who find it profitable to stir
up an enthusiasm for big navy.
The tariff is the question which
seems to divide the republican party
at this time. They use the word
revise" l warned the people of
this western country that this word
revise" did not mean reduce I
warned them that it was not put in
there with honest intent, that it was
fraud perpetrated upon the people,
and now you realize that it was not
only perpetrated but was planned in
advance, and | believe that you are
prepared now to hear democratic
discussion of the tariff question, and
l believe that, when you get to
studying this question you will not
take the view even of the progress
i've republican. For a generation
they have stood behind that protect
i've principle. But the people now
have seen how these tariff laws are
made. They have had Mr.. Cannon in
the house and Mr.. Aldrich in the
senate, and these two men now stand
out as representatives Of the extor-
ton of the protective system. This
Mr.. Aldrich is the same Mr.. Aldrich
that has been down there fifteen or
twenty years, the same man repres
enting the same interests. The
change has not been in him it has
been in you. Who is this man Can
non who is now the object of con-
tempt? Ask your republican con-
gresham If he will vote for Cannon
and see if he will tell you. These
men out west don't want it known
that they ever heard Cannon's name
mentioned. This man Cannon has
been speaker for six years. He was
nominated for congress for the goth
time the other day. His service ex.
tends back over more than thirty
years, and all the time he has beer
the same Mr.. Cannon; all the time
he has stood for the same thing; the
change is not in him, it is in you
You know now what you did not
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