The Connecticut labor news., 1924-10-04
MORRIS WALLOPS (Continued from Page One)

MORRIS WALLOPS
 (Continued from Page One)
 the people of the state to grant mo nopo1y to a railroad or telephone com pany The service such monopoly Cal give us may in a few industries be ia better than the service we could ge from a job lot of single units. But w Democrats insist that with such centra lization of power must go adequate regulation for the public's protection Competition is far better where compe tition is possible Open competition ls the surest guarantee of adequate ser vice for the price. But when monopoly will give better public service than com petition 1t should be granted. That grant accompanied by adequate and farsighted public control. The principle of pub lie control of public utilities instead of the Republican habit of unbridled aban- donment of public utilities to big busi- ness, or the Socialist dream of public ownership and operation of such utili- 1 ties-the truly Democratic principle IS private management under public su- pervision. This principle has its diff culties in execution but It involves far less acute danger of exploitation of the people either by selfish political man agement than either of the other sys- l tens.
 'Regu1ation of monopolistic public utilities was a Democratic doctrine which Republicanism first opposed and later adopted as matter of course. Many other Democratic doctrines have been first opposed, then adopted and en- larged by the Republicans, when they in turn became the party in power. All too frequently, however, they have been distorted by that process of adoption. Regulation of monopolistic public utili party in power, but for the benefit of all the people alike, IS a proper and Demo cratic thing.
 But the party that believes that it
  of tariff to protect and enrich its friends whenever 1t IS granted power, naturally cannot be expected to conserve public utilities such as water powers for the benefit of all the people alike. The Republican policy as we have seen it practiced, works out III substance to give such public utilities or other gov ernmental favors as will make good Republican business managers prosper ous. This is done with the stated ex pectation that they in their gracious and generous mercy will probably permit 1 prosperity to trickle down also 10 their employees. That theory has been de- veloped at last to its logical conclusion in the woo1en schedule of the tariff. By placing an enormous tariff on wool and woolens the farmers were to be made prosperous by the Republicans and the woolen manufacturers were to be made 1 by the Republicans and 1t i was predicted that part of their pros perity would trick1e out of their over flowing hands into the channels of our common welfare, We know how the farmers hands have overfowed with prosperity so we can dismiss that part of the plan.
 "It was great mistake, somewhere, that wages had to be cut in the woolen mills just before a presidential cam paign. There is no real difference to the wage earner between half time work and lower wage during the half time period. But no Republican orator has heard of it yet. They remember the advice the old lawyer gave the student i'll his office; If the facts are against you, argue your case on the law. If the law is against you, argue you case on the facts If both facts and law are against you argue round them" Have you heard of any Republican orator in this campaign featuring the benefits of the woolen schedule?
 Special privilege, governmental ia vors, always appeals to its immediate benefciaries. But it always weakens them in the end"