The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-05
Says 1t Is s"StOIen Goods Under
Guise of Charity"
PROTECT EARNINGS OF POOR
Suggested That Commerce
Commission Settle Wages.
Outcome of Tariff to Seal Fate
of Democratic Party.

Washington, May 5.-Efforts in con-
gress to incorporate the $10O,000,00O
Rockefeller foundation were scored to-
day by Senator Works who declared
them a proposal to farm out to John
D. Rockefeller and his associates the
right and power to educate the peo-
pie of the country with money accum-
ulated by criminal means" Senator
Works statement was made in con-
nection with a speech he delivered in
the senate today on trusts and COM
bination, the existence of which he
blamed to the high protective tariff
policy.
1.-The extent to which this may be
carried out is practically unlimited.
The corporations and institutions OF
learning which may be established
throughout the country in the hands
of people who will be subservient to
the interests and views of Mr. Rookie
feller and his associates are without
number or Imitation, said the SEN
ator.
I'VE do not want our children to be
taught the ways nor the methods Of
John D. Rockefeller or his kind, nor
to be generous with ill-gotten gains,
nor to touch, handle, or profit by gold
that should blister the fingers of the
man who has accumulated it by extor-
ton, oppression and crime, and is now
attempting to rid himself of it by Civ
ing it away, nor to become the recelV-
ers of stolen goods in the name and
under the guiSe of charity
Amand sherman Antitrust Law.
The continued existence of trusts and
mOnopolieS the senator said was due
to the inadequacy of the Sherman anti
trust law which he declared should be
so amended that specific restraints of
trade shall be unlawful with suitable
punishment for those who violate the
law. While he was not in favor of a
high protective tariff which fostered
capitalistic combination, he said he
would be in favor of an effort to protect
the wage Garner in his earnings and
that he believed it would be IAN ex-
cellant thing to harmonize the tarln
and wages.
THE interstate commerce commits
sion,' continued the senator, should
be allowed to determine whether fair
wages are being paid by any concern;
and if not, to compel the employer en-
ploying foreign laborers and paying
European wages to pay the same tariff
on its manufactured goods that are
enforced against foreign importations
until it's wages are increased to a fair
scale for American workmen. If
high tariff did in fact protect the wage
Garner 1 would cheerfully stand for it's
continuance, even at the expense OF
higher prices TO the consumer. 1ne eNl-
dent purpose of the so-called tariff ex-
perts is, so far as progress has been
made to deprive the farmers, who are
themselves laboring men and wage
earners in most cases, of all protection
and preserve it to the trust and mill
lionaire manufactur This would be
a fatal mistake. In most cases our
and business men can
compete with the world and make pro-
fits. They can and do sell their goods
cheaper in foreign markets than at
home. With the farmer, in many
cases, it is different.
Wage Garner Needs Protection.
1.-The wage Garner must be protected
in his earnings and reasonable hours
of labor, the consumer in reasonable
prices, and the whole people must be
protected in their independence and
The equality of all men must
be made a reality and not a theory.
If the Democratic party can and will
accomplish these results, demanded by
the people, it may live and maintain
itself in power. If it does not. it's
reign will be brief. If neither of the
old parties can or will restore the |
government to the people as our fore
fathers handed it down, then a new
party will be raised up that will do the
peoples will. 1t will be a party of the
peoples own making, founded on jus |
tice. fair dealing, and disinterested pat
riotism. I am ready to give the Dem |
ocratic party fair trial. 1 am will
ing to wait and see and so lend my |
about just and beneficent laws through |
and by which the whole people may be
brought into their own and their just |
rights foStered and protected"