Evening journal., 1915-04-13
TUESDAY APR. 13. 1915
ENCROACHMENTs UPON MRERTY.

ENCROACHMENTS UPON LIBERTY.
q oAlBT1IlNG should be done TO put a stop TO the
~ tendency Of the Federal Government to absorb the
individual liberties Of tho people Business men and
others who value such liberties and realize what an
important part they have played in the creation and
maintenance OF this republic owe It to themselves
and to their children and all others in whose welfare
they interested to protest against the persistent
assaults upon them. They also should take steps
to arouse effective public sentiment against such
enoroachmonts as those from which the people
suffering. Men who engaged in financial COM
mercal and Industrial pursuits have special interest
in protecting those liberties that still left TO the
people and in seeking to regain for them many of
those that already have leen lost
Former United States Senator Elihu Root, in a re-
cent speech, complained that through failure to under
stand the processes conditions and requirements of
the complicated business which created and maintains
the wealth of this country, a feeling of adverse in
stead of common, interests, has been produced. lie
added;
This has had its result in a series OF lawsAthe In
lerstate Commerce Commission law the Central Re-
serve board the Trade Commission and the Pure Food
law Understand me- l am not criticisng these laws;
am just pointing TO them as facts illustrating my
point and showing that distrust Is rampant. Every
where suspicion of business is the characteristic Of
the day
power So il is we have proposals to amend the Con-
stuuon which will give the national Government
power TO extend and increase its SWAY over every bus
and act of the individual in every locality.
The prohibition amendment Is of these proposals.
rhe suffrage amendment is another, both steps toward
Federal control OF sumptuary law
In general the great industrial communities OF the
North and the East are becoming subject to the
troll of people in other sections of the country who
know nothing of the North and the East or its busi-
less, its ideals.
You cannot say it was the tariff that caused all
this nor the Federal Reserve law nor the antitrust
legislation. But the who control teh Government
today are the men who have been fighting the tariff
and the trusts and the railroads so long that when
they come to administer the Government they can
not rid themselves of underlying hostility 10 Amer
enterprise. Many OF them good, honest Amer
lean citizens. They do not believe il, but it is true
that underlying all their actions is the ineradicabe
no. not that but uneradicated sense of hostility TO the
men who they think have profted unduly by tho tariff
On prevailing business processes.
The reason why business does not start booming is
because way down in the hearts OF Americans, there
Is the doubt as to what is going to happen at the hands
OF a hostile Government
Well, what is going to be done? Nothing can be
changed by more counter-balancing. Merely eoctng
Republican President in 1916 will not be enough.
The country cannot live and prosper under this under
standing. Il must be cleared away and il must not
be done by attack
The who doing all these things to business
good and patriotic Americans, but they not un-
derstand. IL is question again of preserving the
Union, and think do well to come here and call on
This famous old Union League to take up task The
frst thing is that the business America should
become vocal Talk, agate and explain. The trouble
been that the business men have taken all these
aspirations lying down Fight to clear the air Try
10 make the people understand that business is hon
est. Il is fair il is just If the who elected Nc
accomplished.
All this regulation, inspection and inquiry is dan
gerous There is a tendency 10 be afraid OF it, DO
not be afraid Meet IL and fight IL. Protest against
It and tell your If permit bureaucracy
10 establish itself daily lives conditions will
go bad to worse Power will be abused Conf.
dcnce will be utterly shattered.
/ grieve 10 business failing and to see men ou
of work, but all that is nothing compared with tn,
danger that the people of the United States shall be
come subservient to power and that love for in
dependence and individual effort shall be suppresse,
and killed. So long maintain love of indi
vdualism nothing prevail against it. But lost
it, and chaos will follow.
This is too high and too great question for politics
But since Il has been drawn into the realm of part
war il TO be the mission the Republican
party individual rights and fight for them
We not proper suspects of suspicion. we peopl
of the great industrial cities of the East We are hon
est I'VE Americans We will not be governed b
mem who look unfit participate in govern
mek- Strike, strike. strike with the weapon @
xnlf intelligence; strike upon the fields of publi
discusson; strike for the porpetuity the Union fo
the continuation Of freedom and for the foundation
Of Justice.
That is clarion cry from leading American cit
that should arouse all business men, and all me
Who dependent upon business. to stand up an
speak out against continuance of a Federal polio
that has been harmful them their liberties an
their varied and vital material interests