Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-21

ter cf fact @he chef cause $ mani
 rulaIion of prices by the trusts. They
 know that mGnlpoly has been bult
 Gp in this country; they know tiat
 the austs practice monopoly, that mon~pcly was tle object of he | trusts; but they throw up their hands 1 ill despair when it $ suggested that
 monopoly may be destroyed, and re-
 ply. No, it is very unfortunate, but
 it has come to say Business now
 adays may be big. It can't be big n ! any industry without controlling, and l control must mean mastery of the
 markets. This is the only way of
 efficiency, and We will not stand in
 the way Of efficiency in madern bus | iHoess.
 No wonder, therefore, that the l leaders of the Republican and Pro- grsssive part es are saying less about high pric S. They dare not, or will not, go straight at the cause or nigh prices n t3is counry in the remedies wh ch they lropcse. ve.nment regulation will shield monopoly as well as guide it, and regulation $ no freedom.
 "The net result is that both these parties have 0 all ntents and Dur poses abandoned t..'a central issues Sf the campa gn. The Democrats d enc are bold enough and far sighted enough to see that hey must tackle frankly and directly this question.
 They understand he interests of the country quite as well as the gen. tlemen who nave played providence to those interes,s for the r cwn bene- fit understand them, but they see
 hem from another point of view, and they suspect this human providence and distrust it. They see as clearly as anyone else that business must iE our day be done upon a great scale, but they know that there is ze whic'i is "atural and size wh oh is unnatural in business. The size which Is unnatural is built upcn certain kinds of agreements, eel ta n kinds of practices. certain understan dings, with regard 70 the control, certain combinations of badly developed W. tn hetter developed fac ories and mills, wn ch are seldom economical and whose object is not proficiency. The right and wholesome kind of ze .came1 from natural growth, from the davelcpmenc of business man aged with brains, which the closest study of effic ency ard economy, with a sort of statesmanlike knowledge 0 fthe markets of the world, and i that kind of Ze no wise or well in i formed man feals or is jealous of. | Monopoly is always ir' the long run weak and ineffic ent, and the leaders of the Democratic party know per 1 fectly well taa, they are serving the business of the country much better, much mere in ell gently, than the 1 leaders of either of the other parties, because they mean so to regulate connection and free the cond ticns | of business in this country as to substitute he eff eent for the mere y powerful.
 Ana .th S isthe kind of government wh ell the working people tf ttls country are asked ta look for the be .tarment of the conditions which surround tieir Ives, and for the reg ulation of their wages. Tha biggest truss in this c1untry are known to all te working men of Ame. ca to be tie most powefu and the most successful enemies of organized labor. They have sought ai ever! turn, %lsd cfter successfully sought. to crush it. l wor der f, when regulated by ,l.. mere friendly to organized labor than hey are now l wonder Wat the regulation is to accomplish TOT he work ng men through the m strun. ar tality of those whc have been their most successful opponents.
 ..For, after all, tae att tude Of government towards labor lies at the heart of almos everything that cJn- cerns us as a nation. nau&n nay be sa d to consist of those WHO do its daily labor, and America has always tcast5d that she was the dome ot free :abor, that all were welcome Q come 70 her shores and paT'ake of her unbounded opportunities. ! TOT one Gs lieva that with just lite m telligence and just little courage we can restore American Fife 10 tn