The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-10-22
Republican Gubernat0rial
Candidate ''Prudently ST.
lent on Vital Issues.
ed. Smith, says Governor Lind.
elias Served With Eberhart.
Under Eberhart and
Over Eberhart.''

Oh supply and demand, and not by rea-
son OF any tariff. The only way the
tariff affects the price of a commodity
Is by limiting the supply. The avail.
aole supply of farm products has been
limited, as have shown by operation
of natural causes
now much longer, my farmer
friends, are the trusts qoino to be AHA
TO pull the wool over YOUR ewes and
make you believe that you are benefit.
ed by the monopoly tariff?
Standpat Treachery.
Another evidence of standnat
treachery to the people is furnished
by the history of the railroad bill in
the last congress. The Republican
party has promised to amend the in
terstate commerce act. Ostensibly to
redeem this pledge, the attorney gen.
eral, under the. presidents direction.
prepared bill which was sent to the
senate for introduction. The bill was
introduced by Sen. Elkins. It was
most generous in it's terms to the
railroads, but appeared to overlook
that the public had any rights. It Gre
ated a new court open to railroads to
enJoln the orders of the interstate
commerce commission, but denied the
pubic admission to that court upon
equal terms. 1t denied shippers. com
munities, firms and individuals inter-
ested in defending the orders of the
commission, from appearing by coun.
sci or otherwise to sustain the orders
in court. It repealed the Sherman
antitrust act, so far as railroads were
concerned, and authorized pooling. II
the bill had become law in the form
IN which it came from the White
House, every shipper and every indus
try in this country would have been
at the absolute mercy of Wall street.
People Owe Much to CIapp.
Sen. Clapp is entitled to the graft
tude of the people of this state for
the able and fearless manner in
which he combatted the vicious proyi-
sions of that bill. On April rs last. he
| gave voice on the floor of the senate
to the indignation he felt over the un-
scrupulOus methods resorted to bv
the president and his attorney general
to force this measure through con-
gress. He said: when this bill came
from the committee. it was with a
declaration more or less official-if
we are to regard as official the die
tates of anyone-that it should be
passed without crossing t. or dot
ting an H. More than that, we were
told, with an assumption of authority
in the widespread publicity given to a
declaration which l cannot question.
that the test of party loyalty would
be to pass this bill without question:
| ing it's provisions. More than that,
we were told that the protests which
| minority members of the committee
might make to the provisions of this
bill, while no power could prevent our
making our protests, would be met
with that condition which, in military
| parlance, is clothed in the expression.
Give them the cold STEEL and in
| parliamentary parlance with the ex-
! preston, Give them the roll CALI
But I am glad to say that we have
finally reached point where those
who would seek to defend this bill
have been obliged to meet debate with
debate.'
| Sen. Dolliver of Iowa said on the