Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-03

Inc pendulum Oh legislative n judi
cial wrongs has swung to the full arc.
The pilots have followed neither
chart nor channel and we are gov
erned, not by the first and just prin-
ciples of American government, but
by the will only of political masters
who in turn have no thought or creed
save and except the thought and creed
Of corporate governmental vampires.
But, as in all things, there must
come an end, so today the followers
of Taft e their finish, as they hear
the tread of the teeming millions who
feed and clothe this great republic,
men whose prosperity alone marks
the true progress of the nation; men
who are ready to declare that the
God of Mammon shall not prevail
owe the Goddess of Liberty; men
who value the hopes and future of
American ons and daughters more
than they do the shining form and
the golden ducat; men who are in
tent in purpose, determined in action.
bColOuo III lit IuuoO anu Hlm III LAC
faith.
Let the people continue to fight for
the principles of Jackson, Jefferson
and Monroe. Let them follow in the
footsteps of that Democracy which
has evolved greater governmental
principles and wrought more brilliant
achievements than all other parties
combined and on whose proud
escutcheon is written the emblazoned
glory of a century.
For twenty-five years l have cham
pioned the principles of Democracy
from a thousand platforms in Mis-
souri, and other states in the Union,
and in this, the sunrise Of the great
est of the worlds centuries, l thank
the Master | have lived to see the
opposition standing in the open, con-
Tossing its wrongs and acknowledging
that the Democracy has pointed out
the true path and the only way which
leads to the eternal welfare of the
American people.
Before our battlements the pro-
tective tariff must beat it's retreat,
trusts must surrender and the false
doctrines of the standpat Republicans
driven from the temples of the repub-
lie. Already their leaders have sound
ed an inglorious retreat-driven back
ward step by step before the bayonets
of public censure and the cavalry of
Democratic principles.
We purpose to ~re-establish Demo-
cratic ideas and institutions at the
nations capitol. We purpose to re-
establish the lost balance between
the people, the lawmaking power and
the federal judiciary. Our cause will
be submitted to the arbitrament of
the ballot box. There we will arraign
and convict the Republican party be-
fore the bar of public opinion. Our
proof will be Its record, and our chief
witnesses will be Republican Con-
gressmen and United States Senators
who in the extreme hour of peril have
cried aloud in the night.
Neither time nor circumstances can
change the issues. 1t is still truth
against falsehood. 1t is still true De-
mocracy against false Republicanism.
1t is still the plain people against
criminal plutocracy. 1t is still the
public welfare against the welfare of
special interests. 1t is still the pros
perity of the whole people against the
prosperity of a favored few. The
question is, shall the people rule or
shall the special interests rule? The
real attack is not leveled at the hun
dreds of thousands of patriotic, lib
~erty-loving citizens who have hereto
fore affiliated with the Republican
party, but against the Republican lead
ers and the special interests which
now formulate their policies, and rule
the republic to the injury of the men.
women and children who earn their
bread in the sweat of their face.
The Republican party In 1908 ac-
cepted the Democratic faith and de-
clared for a revision of the tariff
downward; yet, controlling both
branches of Congress and having the
presidency, failed to make good Its
promises to the people. In the SEES
sions of 1910 and 1912 the President
time and time again vetoed tariff
bills tightening the burdens upon the
American people. The Republican
party has confessed its sins, but has
failed to accept the plan Of salvation.
The covenant has been broken and
the ark has gone to pieces upon the
rocks.
The party d%enounces the trusts, yet
pursues a policy and enacts laws
which create them. 1t fosters a tariff
protection within the shadow Of
which they breed like microbes and
fatten upon the likelihood of the peo-
Pile. You cannot destroy the trusts
by propagation. You cannot destroy
them by multiplication. You cannot
destroy them by creating them by
hundreds apd prosecuting them by
tens. Remedy the policy and the
healthy blood Of commerce and bust.
ness energy will drive them from the
national system, Under the high pro-
tective tariff we shut out competition
from abroad and through the trusts
eliminate competition at home.
That wing Of the Republican party