Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-30
OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN
Wisconsin Loader lnvadss Taft's State
in Presidential Fight; Cites
Success Of Laws in His VIZ
Own State.

government. 81
The criticism OF the supreme cour
was predicated largely on tn,
recent rulings Of the court in tn,
Standard Oil and tobacco cases. TIL,
rule of reason he denounced as a "pro
found revolution in the position OF thu
courts
=! Refers to Trust Question.
! From this Mr.. LaFollette launched
into discussion of Ebert H. Gary's
plan for federal regulation of prices az
relief from monopoly. Mr.. LaFollette
said he had no patience with this
method. In his analysis he went far
Their and said that ultimately the gov
eminent would have to fix prices OF
llabor, hours of employment and com
Eensation of original producers in order
to fix accurately the prices to be of.
fered the consumers.
instead of the Gary plan or the Taft
plan of federal license for incorpora.
tons Senator LaFollette proposed his
| own plan for commission on re.
straints of trade to relieve the coun.
| try of the condition in which he finds
| it. The senator saw great evil in the
growth of the trust and describing
lit said: @
| A. tremendous power has grown ND
In the country in recent years. Again
and again it has proven strong cnnuet
to nominate the candidate Of boz
political parties. It rules in the or.
ganization of legislative bodies. STATE
and national and of the committees
which frame legislation. It's intluenre
is felt in cabinets and in the policies
of administration. Its influence is
seen IN the appointment OF prosecut-
ing officers and the selection OF judges
upon the bench.
"In business it has crippled or de.
stroyed competition. 1t has stifled in
dividual initiative 1t has fixed limita-
lions in the field of production. 1t
makes prices and imposes it's burdens
upon the consuming public at will
"In finance it's power is unlimited.
In large affairs 1t gives or w1thhofds
credit, and from time to time con-
tracts or initiates the volume of the
money required for the transaction OF
the business Of the country, regard.
less of everything excepting its own
profits.
1T has acquired large control of the
al resources, timber, iron, coal and oil.
"And this mighty power has grown
up in a country where, under the con-
stitution and the law, the citizens is
sovereign"
Tariff and Currency Plan Assaulted
Although Senator LaFollette made
no direct reference to the president nor
suggested his own candidacy he in
cluded in his speech denunciation of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law imme-
diately following his praise OF labor or
ganization and his opinion, that the
Sherman antitrust law did not con-
template their regulation.
THE passage Of the Payne-Aldrich
bill was the most outrageous assault
of private interests upon the people
recorded in tariff history" he said.
He criticised the proposed National
Reserve association of the Aldrich
monetary plan. "The greatest menace
to competition at the present time is
the control of credit and the concen-
tration of money in the hands Of those
who control the trusts he continued.
elasticity in our currency is impera-
tive, and must be secured, but any
plan to secure it, like that Of the pro-
posed National Reserve association
which puts control in the hands of the
banks and moneyed interests, will
the power of the trusts to
get capital. and to keep competitors
from getting it. Any such plan must
be controlled by the people. 1t Is the
peoples money that is expected to
give security to any plan, and the
peoples money must not be controlled
by those who on the plea Of elasticity
will be able to use it to kill competitors
Of the trusts s..
Senator La Toilette described the
manner of growth Of trusts and mon- :
opolies and attributed to patent rights. !
the tariff laws and the money trust
the reason for their being.
Progressive Leaders Face Trouble.
AT any time within the last ten or
fifteen years whenever a voice has been |
raised in protest, it has been silencedj
Or discredited as an attack upon bust
ness and prosperity" he said. Honest, |
unselfish, patriotic effort to awaken
he public to an appreciation of the |
dangers threatened by this great pow
sr, has been denounced as the work Of !
he demagogue and self seeker. Who
,ver has been conspicuous in any |
hat man has been marked and pro-
claimed dangerous, and wherever such
, leader has been thorough going ana
Effective in his work-through con-
rolled press, and upon the highest
BUSINESS authority, every such man
,as been especially characterized ard
he public particularly warned against
lin. But finally, the time seems to
lave arrived when even the most con-
ervative citizen admits the gravity Of
he problem confronting the Amer
can people, (
The progressive movement, Mr.. La
toilette declared has as it's aim the |.
estration of the government to the
eople. "The real cure for ills of DEM ,
cracy is more democracy" was one of |
is epigrams. I,
THAT is what the struggle in Wis
onsin, in California, in Ohio, and
New Hampshire and,
Kansas, and in every other state in this I
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