The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-04-05

fore a loom for ten hours day. that
puts a boy of seven and upwards ON
the coal breakers, and that STILES tho
life out of little children in sweat
shops and factories.
Such child labor is crime against
manhood labor because each child
takes the place of an American work
ingman. 1t is a crime against equal
business opportunities for American
business men. for those business men
who do not employ children. are fore
ed to compete with those who do. It
is crime against the children them
selves. for It either kills them out
right, or ruins them in body. mind
and soul. 1t is crime against the
American nation, for it pours scores
of thousands of voters every year In
to our electorate with crippled In
tellects and slumbering hatred In
their souls against that social order
which robbed them of their manhood.
And 1t must and shall be stopped.
The possibility OF abusing the right
of injunction must be prevented.
Every man should have his day In
court-that is the first great maxim
of law-made liberty and liberty-made
law. This Is the foundation Of the
peoples respect for and obedience to
the courts. To give to the laboring
man his day in court ON any iniunc-
ton against him gives him nothing
more than his just rights, and takes
from the employer none of his just
rights. On the one hand. 1t takes
from the laborer's heart his sense
of wrong and from the constituencies
agitator his chief argument: while ON
the other hand it puts the employer
to no disadvantage II he is in the
right. and denies him improper ad.
vantage If he is In the wrong. 1t
quenches the fires of unrest: It
strengthens the nations faith in the
courts. and it does all this by occurring
justice. Justice is the sovereign word
of public peace and human welfare.
Republicans started the movement
to save from the interests the natural
resources of the nation. The hands
of monopoly and greed have already
siezed upon billions OF dollars worth
of these sources of our prosperity.
and they are now reaching out for still
more. They shall not have them.
Our natural resources must be de-
veloped not IN the interest of q privi-
legged few. but for the benefit of the
people.
Coal in the United States has long
since passed into private hands. yet
the nation still owns enough In Alaska
to supply fuel to American consumers
for centuries to come. That coal
land must be kept the property of the
people. Before the senate committee
on territories, of which I am chair
man, private interests testified that
on one single group of coal claims in
Alaska a net profit of two hundred
million dollars can be made. II such
profits are possible. should not the
people get part of them?
Had this been our policy In the be-
ginning, the Steel Trust would not
now own the iron ore deposits OF
Michigan. Tennessee: the Copper
Trust would not own the copper de-
posits of Montana and Arizona; and
our American financial nobility would
not now be SO dangerously rich -,
they are. But the people would have
been far richer. Had this policy been
pursued from the beginning, much OF
the expense of the government which
the people are taxed to pay would
have been derived from royalties
which would have diminished gigantic
fortunes but which wouldalso have
diminished the peoples taxes.
l am sorry that no Democrat ever
thought of or proposed any Of theso
| R1p
and great that they are policies Of
patriotism-and not policies OF partner.
ship. And yet no Democrat In pub
lie life ever did propose q single one
of them. No Democrat in public life
proposed the railway rate law: that
law wa4 Republican In origin and en-
actment. No Democrat proposed the
conservation of natural resources:
that was Republican In origin and
execution, and will be Republican In
enactment No Democrat proposed
tie meat inspection law: that was Re
publican in origin and enactment. No
that was Republican in origin and en-
actment. No Democrat proposed the
! child labor law: that was Republican
: in origin and will be Republican in
enactment. No Democrat proposed
: the employers liability law: that was
! Republican In origin and In enact
ment- And whatever the so-called
Democratic party has proposed before
an election, enough of the men who
are elected on those proposals repu-
dated them after the election to null.
lify them.
All this makes 1t clear that We must
E fight this campaign without money.
2 More than that We must fight enor.
: nous funds that the mighty interests
We have offended will pour into the
treasury of our enemy. Among 9th.
ers, the Tobacco Trust can afford ia
E spend great sums to defeat us-ita
Officers and agents already have been
In Indiana: the Beef Trust can afford
to spend great sums to defeat us-itl
headquarters are within sight Of ouI
: borders. l do not blame them fol
fighting US. What pirate ever con
sented to the stopping Of his piracy!
I do not blame the lobbyists for N
u sailing us-what Hessian ever de.
y serted the master who paid him1
e But they and their money win not de