The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-01

4ldl1Ve SouSLEuCL4uH Nu1EN 4S WVxA9OlS and intelligible.
 It is che custom of those who fnd if to their political interest to do So to sheer at, as innocuous, the decrees against the American Tobacco com pany and the Standard Oil company, and the administration is condemned in the Democratic platform for con- senting to a compromise in the Stand ard Oil case. There was no compro- mise. The Standard Oil decree was en- tered by the circuit court, and then by the supreme court, on the prayer of the government contained in the original bill filed in a previous administration
 Tobacco Case Was Fully Discussed.
 The decree in the Tobacco case was reached after full discussion and en- tered by the circuit court, consisting of four circuit judges, as proper decree, and the government refused to appeal from it because it did not feel that 1t had grounds upon which to base such an appeal. Both decrees are working well. Both decrees have introduced competition, the one into branches of the tobacco business and the other into branches of the oil business. They have not reintroduced ruinous compeE- ton, but they have affected certain prices in such a way as to show the presence of real competition.
 The division of the twostrusts by the decrees into several companies was not expected to show immediate radical change in the business. It may take some years to show all the benefits of the dissolution, but the limitations of the decrees in those two cases are so specific as to make altogether impossi- ble resumption of thesold combination against which the decrees were en- tered. Even if experience shall show the decrees to be inadequate, full op- ,portunity in future litigation will be afforded te supply the defects.
 I know that in this wide country there are many who call themselves Democrats who view with the same aversion that we Republicans do the radical, proposition of change in our form of government that are recklessiy advanced to satisfy what is supposed to be popular clamor. They are men who revere the constitution and the tn- stitutions of their government with all the love and respect that we could pos sibly have, men who deprecate disturb ance in business conditions and are yearning for that quiet from dema7 gogic agitation which is essential to the enjoyment by the whole people or the great prosperity which the good crops and the present conditions ought to bring us. To them l appeal, as to all Republicans, to join us in an ear nest effort to avert the political and economic revolution and business pa raIysis which Republican defeat will bring about. Such misfortune will fall most heavily on the wage earner. May we not hope that he will see what ms real interest is, will understand the shallowness of attacks upon existing institutions and deceitful promises or unde6ned benefit by undehned cnanges'
 Refers to "Fustian of Promise"
 May we not hope that the great ma iority of voters will be able to distin- a11ish between the substance or per fornance and the fustian of promise; that they may be able to see that those who would deliberately stir up dlscon' tent arHd create hostility toward those who are conducting legitimate business enterprises and who represent the busi- ness progress of the country are sow inp dragons teeth? Who are the peo- ple? They are not alone the unfortu- nate and the weak: they are the weak and the strong, the poor and the rich and the many who are neither, the wage earner and the capitalist, the farmer and the professional man, the merchant and the manufacturer, the storekeeper and the clerk. the railroad manager and the employee-they all make up the people and they all con- tribute to the running of the govern ment, and they have not any of them given into the hands of any one the mandate to speak for them as peculiar ly the peoples representative. Espe- cially does not he represent them who, assuming that the people are the un- fortunate and discontented, would stir them up against the remainder of those whose government alike this is. In oth- CT campaigns before this the American people have been confused and misled 1 and diverted from the truth and from