Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-08-04

riOuS states should be preserved. Cen
tralizatiOn is both undesirable and dan
gerous.
Reposing confidence in the integrity
and learning of the judges of our own
courts. and believing that judges elect
ed by the people are imbued with as
high a sense OF honor as those ap-
pointed by the President, and further
believing that the laws OF sovereign
state are not to be lightly set aside,
| favor the enactment of a statute
which will prevent the annulment by
federal courts of a state law until the
tribunals of the state have been per
mitted to pass upon its constitutional
ity
If foreign corporation voluntarily
enters a state for the purpose OF con-
tInuously doing business therein, 1t
should be compelled to submit to the
laws and courts OF the state
To my mind, all public officers
should be responsible to the people
alone. | therefore favor the election
of United States Senators by direct
vote.
The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
should be made navigable, and their
rich bottom lands protected. But /
maintain that we should not wait for
relief against freight exactions until
this work can be accomplished. The
government should establish fair and
just railway rates without waiting for
the relief which water competition
may ,Ompel.
The criminal sections OF the
antitrust statutes should be en-
forced against all who violate them
regardless OF their wealth or station.
The provisions Of the law should be
enlarged SO as to prescribe fOrfeitures
sufficiently heavy TO punish the guilty
corporation, and deter others from
committing like Offenses. The power
and duty of courts to appoint receiv-
ers and take possession of every Grim
I inal trust should be made plain.
The Democratic party holds that the
law which penalties the poor and weak
is powerful enough to reach the great
and strong. For my part, | am op-
posed to Furnishing petit larceny and
overlooking grand larceny. The multi
millionaire who conceives a great
fraud to gain millions is worse than
the little rogue who filches 4 trifle.
The wastefulness and extravaganza
all men. The final certificate of its
/ reckless squanderings is furnished by
I Senator Aldrich, who recently declared
that three hundred millions of dollars
! of public revenues are annually wasted
| An administration which sQuanders a
million of the peoples money every
working day of the year ought to be
/ driven from office.
/ Graft in every form should be elm
/ mated.
! The beneficiaries of legislation and
their agents should be driven from the
halls of congress and the departments
of state, to the end that this may
once more become a government of
the people.
DemoBracy Will Triumph.
The signs of the times are propi-
tious. The sun Of Democracy is rising
in triumph. Every element of our
party in Missouri is united.
Harmony" is the watchword of the
hour. LET US ACT, AS WELL AS
/ TALK HARMONY. A great victory
awaits us in the state and nation.
The common people are about to as
sumo control. For my part, whether |
win or lose, my voice will still be for
! the Democracy.
! I am not an occasional Democrat.
! have never attacked the Democracy
I from the front, nor ambushed 1t from
/ the rear. | have never failed to vote
| in every election since l attained my
majority. My hand has never scratch
ed the name of a Democrat from a
ballot.
| have not only voted for every
Democratic candidate for Governor,
but l have likewise voted for every
Democratic candidate from President
to constable.
have never given aid or comfort to
the enemy. l have not claimed to be
wiser than the combined wisdom OF
my party as expressed in its platforms
regularly adopted.
Perhaps no man of Independent
thought has ever found a political
platform which exactly expressed all
his personal ideas. But most men rec
ogniZe the truth that individual pref
erence must be subordinated to the
common cause, and that if no man
would support platform unless It en-
braced his exact ideas, there would be
as many parties as there are men,
and organization would be impossible.
Recognizing the truth that there is
an irreconcilable conflict between Re
publican and Democratic principles.
but that the democracy has always
constituted the army of humanity. bat
Ting against the aggressions of privi-
lege, | have given unswavering allie
glance to its cause and candidates.
l have no quarrel with those who
abandoned us in 1896. These men had
the right to go over to the Republican
Party, if they regarded It's policies as
dearer than Democratic essentials.
Nor do | close the door of our party
to those who seek now to return; rath-
er l welcome them with open arms.
But of them. and of all men who love
their country. the question may now
well be asked, if, in the light of events
TRANSFERRED, the triumph of democracy
in 1896 would not have been a vic
tory for humanity in the calm after
glow, they cannot see that the vast
network of trusts which now enthrall
the land would not be here, had Bryan
been elected President of the United
States