St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-10-09
PEE. rAFr HoPEFuL
Hears Cheering News From All Sec
tons Of The COuntry-Declares
His Attitude Toward Trasts

nave every reason 10 be salts
fed with political conditions. I have
been simply overwhelmed for days
past with letters and newspaper
clippings showing the trend of the
tide to the republican party, its
platforms and it's candidates. I have
been especially gratified by the news
from the northwestern states. Chair
man Hilles, of the republican Ma
tional committee, who has been Wis
iting the northwest, tells me the re-
ports from all parts of those states
bring most gratifying evidence of
republican confidence and activity.
with earnest determination to
achieve the success of republican
principles and candidates.
1.-THE population of the northwest
is not surpassed anywhere in intel
ligence and thrift and attachment to
American institutions. The farmers
of that part of the Union were never
so prosperous, and they do not mean
to risk the loss of their prosperity
by abandoning the republican party,
whose policies have enabled them to
prosper. They are convinced that
the third term candidate is no longer
in the running, and that the choice is
between the republican platform and
the other hand the democratic plat
form, with it's plank of a tariff for
revenue only; and it's candidate, Gov
ernor Wilson, who said in an address
at Williams Grove, Pa, that the
farmer does not need protection. 1t
is unnecessary to explain to the farm
er, west, east, north and on the Pa
cific slope what Governor Wilson's
very frank declaration would mean,
with Mr.. Wilson in the White House
and a democratic majority in the
capital
Why We Prosper
1.-THE principal reason for the ex-
listing prosperity is the assurance
that, under the republican policy of
home protection and trade expansion,
American industry, while reach
ing for the foreign market, is not in
danger of losing the home market.
While our foreign trade is growing
more rapidly than at any time in our
history, domestic commerce is making
advances fully as remarkable. Our
population is increasing, the de-
mand for the necessaries of life is
increasing proportionately, and,
thanks to active business and good
wages, the people are able to pay for
what they want, and to keep our in
dustries busy supplying their wants.
Hence, general and growing prospect
ty, with a certainty of still better
times, provided the machinery of our
national activities is not disarranged,
and brought to a standstill by undue
reduction of the tariff or anarchistic
assaults upon our institutions and
upon the harmonious relations now
1%s 11<1fr 11rNrv
and employed.
There is no serious danger, be-
lieve, to our institutions from indus
trial agitations, So long as such agi-
tation keeps within legal bounds it is
not without wholesome significance,
and may tend to improve conditions.
When it passes beyond the legal linn
it, whether those self-OutlaWed are
connected with capital or with Ia
Dor, it is a menace to be dealt with
by lawful authority. Notwithstanding
occasional outbreaks of violence in
labor disputes, there is growing
tendency to settle differences by
peaceful means, and there is I'M
doubtedly manifest a much more
friendly and humane attitude on the
part of employers toward employed
than was apparent not many years
be more and more a guide in bust
ness as we'll as in religion. Social
and economic conditions are growing
better, not worse, and republican
policies, fostering and stimulating
national prosperity, undoubtedly
tend toward this betterment.
The Trust Problem
81 propose, in dealing with the
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combinations of capital within eX-
actly the same control as the city or
crossroads grocery which pays a
federal license for selling cigars.
mean that both shall obey the law.
That's all. Simple, is it not? The
Sherman law has been and will con-
tinue to be enforced against all VIC
lators, however rich and powerful
they may be. have recommended
national Incorporation, without in
fringing on the rights of the state, to
tax corporate property, but such in
corporation would not suspend or
nullify in any degree the Sherman
law or any other law against mono
poly in restraint of trade. / am ut
terly opposed to the proposal to
have an interstate trade commission,
fixing prices and otherwise eXercis-
ing control over business ana1rS. Such
a control, because not guided by law,
but by personal discretion, would be
both despotic and socialistic, and no
reader of history needs to be told
that the two terms have a very close
relation. 1t was not a broad step
from the convention to Napoleon. In
a government of law, no individual,
no combination, can be above the
law. Outside of that is either anar-
chy or tyranny, or one followed by
the other. This must always be a
government of law
Must Keep Up Wages
1.-THE high cost of living, as I have
said before, is worldwide. The aim
of the republican party is to see that
American workers are enabled to
meet the cost of living by keeping
employees at good wages. 1t is sim
pie purpose, and as direct and prac-
teal as it is simple, and does not |