The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-28
WANT BUSINESS.

political parties. 1t rules in the or.
ganization Of legislative bodies, state
and national, and of the committees
which frame legislation. Its influence
Is felt in cabinets and in the policies
of administrations. Its influence is
seen in h appointment of prosecut-
ing officers and the selection Of judges
upon the bench.
In business it has crippled or de-
stroyed competition. 1t has stifed in
dividual initiative. 1t has fixed linn
ftations in the field of production. It
makes prices and imposes it's burdens
upon the consuming public at will.
I'm finance its power is unlimited.
In large affairs it gives or withholds
credit, n from time to time con
facts 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.
It has acquired large control of the
public domain, monopolfzed the nat
ural resources. timber. iron, coal and
oil.
"And this mighty power as grown
up in a country where, under the con-
stitution and the law, the citizen is
sovereign"
Although Senator La Toilette made
no direct reference to the president
nor suggested his own candidacy, he
included in his speech a denunciation
of the Payne-Aldrich law Immediately
following his praise of labor organiza-
ton and his opinion that the Sherman
antitrust law did not contemplate
their regulation.
9TH passage of the Payne-A1drich
Dill was the most outrageous assault
of private interests pon the people
recorded in +"riff history" he said.
Dcnounccs .Aldricl's Plan.
He criticised The proposed national
monetary plan.
Tile greatest menace to COMPETE
ton at the present time is the control
of credit and the concentration of
money in the hands of those who con-
troll the trusts" he continued. Elias
ITCHY i'll Il currency is imperative
and must be secured, but any plan to
National Reserve association. which
puts control in the hands of the banks
and moneyed interests, will strengthen
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 m plan n the peoples none
must not be controlled by those who,
on the plea of elasticity will be able to
use 1t to kill competitors Of the
trusts"
Causes Of Trusts.
Senator La Toilette described the
manner of growth of trusts and mo-
noPolies and attributed to patent
rights, the tariff laws and the money
trust the reason for their being.
"A any time within the last ten or
fifteen years whenever a voice has
been raised in protest, it has been
silenced. or discredited as an attack
upon business and prosperity" he
said. Honest. unselfish. patriotic ef-
fort to awaken the public to an APP
probation of the dangers threatened
by this great power. has been de-
nounced as the work of the dema-
gogue n self-seeker. But, finally,
the time seems to nave arrived when
even the most conservative citizens
admit h gravity of the problem con-
fronting the American people,"
The progressive movement, Mr.. La
Toilette declared has as its aim, the
restoration Of the government to the
people.
The real cure for the ills Of de-
mocracy is more democracy" was one
OF his epiFrams.
That is what the struggle in Wis
consin. in California. in Ohio. and
1 StitSE INdIlid, New n
Kansas, and in every other state in
this Union. means. that government
shall be brought back to and COM
mittcd to the hands of the people;
that they are supreme over legisla-
lures. over government. over presi-
dents. over constitutions, over courts"
asserted.
Tho senator pointed to the record
Of legislative and administrative
achievement in Wisconsin on the So
progressive principles as proof
of his theory that better government
al be given the people by restoring
function to them.
h speaker spoke in favor of pres
primaries and attacked the
of the republican national COM
on the matter.
In his discussion Of trusts La Fol-
lette said the combination Of corpor-
ations was the cause Of the high cost
Of living because they controlled
prices and God almighty never made
board of directors good enough to
the homes and families Of
citizens"
During La Follette's arraignment Of
the Standard Oil company and the
institutions Of the countryl
Rockefeller. a brother Of John
D. Rockefeller. sat on the platform
q committeemans badge.