Evening star., 1924-07-05
La Toilette Outlines Aims
In Agreeing to Lead Race

q generation ago and sought to for
t1fy the government to meet and de-
''eS "of ii the private monopoly system
which had it's beginnings in the lat
ter part of the last century, he said:
"It Is a kingly preogative, incon-
sistent with our form of government
If anything is wrong, this Is wrong.
If we will not endure king as p;-
litical power, we should not endure
king over the production, transpor-
tation and sale of any of the neces-
stiles of life. If we would not sub
nit to an emperor, we should not
submit to an autocrat Of trade, with
power to prevent competition and to
fix the price of any commodity. The
remedy should be swift and sure.
Gave Effective Check.
'The Sherman antitrust act of $780,
enacted by a Republican Congress,
placed in the hands of the executive
department of this government the
most effective weapon that the in
genuity OF man could devise against
the power of monopoly, while 1t was
yet in it's infancy.
But between 1898 and 1908 monop-
oily was permitted to breed unchecked,
to crush out individual enterprise
through illegal combination. and to
control basic industries, until by
January /. 1905, the capitalization Of
the trusts had been increased from
$3.7S4, 100000 in 1908 to more than
$S1 ,672, 900, 900.
I'm the election of 1908 the Amer
lean people were given to understand
that the incoming Republican admin
istratior would revise the prohibitive
tariff duties, from which the monop-
olies derived much of their power.
But the iniquitous Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill, with it's increases in taxes
II a a - tT.ny F.lC
written in 1909, in admitted violation
of the solemn pledges of the Repub-
lican party.
Pledge of Wilson.
The people of the United States
voted in 1918 that the power of mo-
nopoly must be destroyed, and Presi-
dent Wilson. then the candidate of
the Democratic party. gave his pledge
that the will the people should be
faithfully executed. The dominant
issue upon which the Democratic
party sought the suffrage Of the peo-
ple was forcibly expressed by Mr..
Wilson in 1912 when he said:
The trusts are our masters now.
We have come to be one of the worst
ruled, ore OF the most completely
controlled and dominated govern
mentS in the civilized world-no
longer government by conviction
and the vote of the majority. but
of small groups of dominant men.
The government of the United States
n recent years has not been admin
'stered by the common people of the
United States. The government of
the United States at present is
foster child of the special interests.
1t is not allowed to have a will of
It's own. Our government has been
for the past few years under the con-
troll of the heads of great allied cor
DOrafi0nS oil inf TO
Text OF Platform.
These statements from the Demo-
cratic candidate were accepted as
true by the American people in the
campaign Of 1912. coupled with the
platform pledge of the Democratic
party in that year. That specific
pledge reads as follows:
A private monopoly is inde-
fensible and intolerabie. We. there
fore. favor the vigorous enforcement
of the criminal as well as the civil
law against trust officials and de-
tional legislation as may be neces-
sary to make it impossible for a
private monopoly to exist in the
United States.
From 1912 until the present time
no honest or continuous effort has
ton. either Republican or Demo-
cratic, to protect the American
people from the exactions of private
monopoly by enforcement of the
laws. These sections should and
must be enforced if the power OF
corrupt business is to be broken.
Withdrew Trust Suits.
While the Democratic party went
into office pledged to destroy monop-
oily by civil and criminal prosecu-
tions, it withdrew or compromised
IL Gir,cr 0tr-fl
against the trusts during the war
and left the American people at the
mercy of the greatest profiteers in
all history.
in the last years of the Demo-
cratic administration, under the
notorious regime Of Attorney General
Palmer monopoly was recognized as
beyond the reach of the law. while
labor unions, farmers organizations
and individual citizens daring to as
sert their constitutional rights
against this tyrannical power were
singled out for attack and destruction.
In 1920 the people expressed
their resentment at-their betrayal at
the hands of the Democratic party
by defeating it with the greatest
popular majority ever cast against a
political party in the history of this
country.
Tactics Of oil Men.
American people have learned that
monopoly has become as bold and
ruthless in time of peace as in time
of war. The oil monopoly. after
having been permitted under
Democratic administration to exact
from the people enormous and un-
considerable profits. reached out for
the remaining naval oil reserves of
the government. 1t had already sue
ceoded in obtaining from a Republi-
can Congress and a Democratic Presi-
dent control over large tracts of oil
and mineral lands outside the naval
oil reserves, under the guise Of a
leasing bill. 1t now resorted to the
outright corruption of a member of
the Presidents cabinet to attain its
ends. 1t obtained the services of
former members of the cabinet of
the preceding Democratic adminstr-
tion to aid it in extending it's domin-
ion over the natural resources of the
earth.
The American people will not be
convinced of the sincerity or of the
capacity of the Democratic party to
govern by its mere condemnation of
Republican corruption. Corruption
is the inevitable result Of the pres
ent system of monopoly control over
government
The American people now under
stand that so long as they permit
their government to remain in the
hands of the monopoly power they
Will be helpless to control their des-
TIMES either in peace or in war.
Principles of People.
Peace. liberty and economic free
dom are the great principles to which
the American people are devoted
Progressives must champion these
principles until they are firmly re-
established in the life of this coun-
try.
The present condition of agricul-
ture is the natural result of Demo-
cratic and Republican policies, which
have denied the farmer the equality
to which he IS fairly entitled. The
pr pfoEressives gre % have demanded repeal