The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-09

forget that Narrow the lines of com
petition and you stiffen the lines Of
labor control. You have not now a
free market for your labor any more
than you have a free market for your
commodities, for under this system of
monopoly, regulated or unregulated,
the monopolist can determine the
amount Of goods to be produced, and
therefore determine the amount of
laborers to be employed and the prices
that the goods are to bring"
Light of Self Confidence.
AS I travel from one part Of the
country to the other" continued the
governor, 81 see no essential difference
among the people in the different
parts Of it. The same thing is writ
ten in their eyes and it is not a
CLEAN of fierceness. 1t is light of
self confidence. They know what they
want, and they know they are going
to get It Anybody who supposes that
economic questions and political
questions are two different things is
very much mistaken because these
things have been so closely married
with one another in our recent po-
litical practice that 1t is impossible to
discriminate between them.
"And. this gives me an opportunity to
allude to something that ! read very re-
Gently in an influential newspaper. It
was an editorial In which I must say
that the editor did me personally more
than Justice. But he saw IN me an I'M
intentional Nacchiavelli. It said, in ef-
feet. This Is an honest man. he honestly
believes that protective tariff is uncon-
stitutional, and If he gets a chance, being
an honest man. he will upset that uncon-
stitutional arrangement That is good
reasoning, but 1t was entirely inconsis-
tent with another part Of the editorial
which very kindly ascribed brains to me.
One Of the things that every well In
formed man knows is that about half the
people in the United States are Demo-
that they are engaged in every kind of
industry, and that they could not unite
to accomplish economic murder and de-
struction without also deliberately ac-
complishing economic suicide. So far as
am myself concerned. / would with the
greatest respect call the editors atten-
ton to little utterance which I ven
tured to make upon accepting the nomi-
nation for the presidency. in which | ex-
plicitly laid down the program which 1
thought We ought to pursue with regard
10 the protective duties. I said that
they ought not to be changed except in
such a way and at such a rate as would
not in any way interfere with the course
of sound business in the United States.
also said, and that Is what makes this
parenthesis applicable to my discourse.
particular items in which we found
special privilege entrenched We know
what those items are. The gentlemen
who enjoy the special privileges have
themselves: and what we are interested
in first of all with regard to the tariff is
getting the grip of special interests off
the throat of congress. We do not pro-
pose that special interests shall any
longer camp in the committee rooms of
the committee OF ways and means of the
house and the finance committee Of the
senate
Boss Backed by Money.
Those of us who handle the ma
chinery of politics know that the great
difficulty in breaking up tne control of
the political boss is that he is backed by
the money and the influence of these
very people who are entrenched in these
very schedules. / could write you out a
list II you were interested in. it, of the
gentlemen, not exceeding half a dozen.
who used to own the legislature of New
Jersey. All that I had to do was to
stand them up in front, nietaphoricaiy.
of audiences all over the state of New
Jersey and call the roll and their power
was broken by the mere exposure.
A Free Government.
How are YOU going to get a free gov
lutsly necessary first step is to disentan-
gle 1t from the things with which it has
been entangied. What we want is free
markets for our commodities and free
markets for our labor: and we haven't
got them. What we want is free enter
prise for one thing but we haven't got
It. What we want Is free competing wa
ter routes that VIII enable US to handle
the heavier kinds of our goods in trans
portation without depending too much
upon the railway routes; and we haven't
got them. and can't get them as things
stand now. What we want is geniIine
conservation of our natural resources
and we can't get IL as things stand now
Have you noticed that the trouble
about conservation is that the govern
ment of the United States hasn't any
policy at present? It Is simply marking