The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-11
Candidate For Delegate Out
lines Position on Liquor
Question.
OPPONENTS TAKE NO STAND
Progressive Movement in
Government Also
Discussed.
VI. u. Chase Discusses Trust Control
of Governmcnt--Trust Makes MObs
and Then Howl About Them-Di-
rect Legislation viii Cure the EVIL.

There was meeting at Big Island
Tuesday night in the interest of the
constitutional convention called for
next January and to consider the mat
ter Of candidates II. r. snyder. who
is a candidate for delegate, made
short talk discussing the liquor prob
| lem first. lie explained that the peo-
pie of Ohio are divided into two large
| segments and that an honest and fair
treatment of the liquor problem would
necessitate that both segments OF
voters be given an equal chance to
vote for what they want. for license
and for prohibition, and If he should
be the delegate he would vote to give
them that chance, he would treat
both sides fairly. Moreover, he held
that TO be the only honest position for
any delegate and he would be willing
to present his propositions to a dis
tlllers' congress or q, Prohibition con-
vention as It rested on the solid
grounds Of the square deal
His opponents, except the Socialist.
SO far have taken no position. said
nothing. but It is believed they would
rcfuse TO permit the temperance peo-
Pile to have chance TO vote on their
proposition. These facts were re-
vealed by the Enqulrer's symposium
of last sunday.
ON the question OF direct legisla-
tion the speaker explained the origin
of the initiative and referendum.
showed how they would operate and
why they or some other remedy for
corruption are neeoed.
The new movement in state ana
municipal governments such as al
governors cabinet, the short ballot.
the commission plan of municipal gov
ernment and the reform OF the jury
system were given consideration.
NJ. B. Chase was asked to speak ana
made the following address
Need of New Remedies.
New remedies must be applied to
the advanced stages of the Diseases
of the BODY polite. The public body
s now suffering from the plttine
smallpox, cancerous. tubercular. trust
disease. in its most vlrulent type. We
hear It said by friends Of the trusts, ]
nowadays, that there are good
trusts" and bad trusts. y If the body
polite IL suffering from the malignant
want to know how any disease can
be good. l can easily conceive of a
trust disease being bad, but ] cannot
make out how any injuriousthing can
he good.
Ii seems that a foreign, unhealthy,
dangerous growth has a foothold on
the vltals of our republic, threaten
ing the very life, liberty and happl-
ness OF our people. This abnormal
growth constitutes government ~
and of itself which is sapping the
life blood of the democracy. 1t is
composed of the few that by reason
Of their wealth and influence, control
presidents governors. congresses and
legislatures. and has become stronger
than the republic itself.
Shall IL Control the People?
The president of this new govern
ment is j. +. Morgan. The cabinet Is
Gary. Frick, Rockefeller. Carnegie es
90. IL Is a centralized government
state rights have no show. 1t Is the
supreme friend of the trusts, the
money trust, the sugar trust the meat
trust. the railroad trust, the express
trust. the telephone and telegraph |
trust. the manufacturers trust, the
wholesalers and retailers trust The
paper trust. and ad iniinitum, all un-
der the master hand of Morgan ana |
his lieutenants. whose seat of govern !
nent Is Wall street, New York city
the crater from which disease pro-
ducing miasma arises and goes over
the land, producing fears, panics ana
general business disturbances, sub
iecting the servants as well as the
people TO minority trust rule.
This private corporation Is causins
the great unrest Of the people We
have tried for long time TO subject
II TO It's utter overthrow, but with all
the remedies. provided as yet 1t needs |
the remedy 10 be founded on IN,
fundamental principles to be em-
bodied in the new constitution, that |
hagglers may not keen MS i'm tho
courts forever delaying justice being |
done, and allowing the appolntive |
power 20 peck our courts in the inter- |
est of the trusts. Thus we have the |
republic warning against itself. The |
republic proper, that Is a government |
of the people for the people and by |
the people, is warning against that |
element of oligarchy Of the trusts, |
for the trusts and by the trusts. mem