Evening star., 1924-10-28
Put People in Control Of US.
Is La FOIIette's Battle CRY
Privilege and Monopoly No,O Rule Coz
ernn,ent, Independent Candidate
for President Asserts.

Government can en0ure Oni! III iLo
policy is directed to the promotion OF
the general social welfare. No govern
ment that fosters special interests by
granting special privileges to those in
terests can long survive.
Growth Of Monopolies.
Popular control of government
means an end to special privilege.
But in the meantime the privileges
that have been secured during the
control of Government by a small but
powerful minority have resulted in
the growth of trust and monopoly or
ganizations on Nationwide scale.
This may be seen in the history OF
the railroads, for instance. For nearly
40 years the people have been trying
to compel them to perform the public
service they are organized to per-
form honestly and efficiently. But
the greed of the railroad owners, con-
cerned with their own enrichment
and not with the public interest, has
compelled the public to place them
under regulation by Government.
Government regulation has not been
successful hitherto because the rail-
road owners have thwarted the pub
lie VIII by securing control of the
agencies created to control them.
Since the public will must prevail
the uDShot of the conflict is obvious.
The public will wrest control of gov
ernment from the railroad and other
interests and proceed to carry out a
Government policy in regard to rail-
roads. public utilities and monopolies
in general that will enable the people
to secure the services they need on
the terms that are fair-namely,
maximum of service at a minimum of
cost.
IF regulation should prove unsuc-
cessful, the public will insist upon the
extension of Government control. If
this prove unsuccessful, the public
will take the final step, and take the
railroads, public utilities and monop-
olies from private ownership.
Remedy May Take Years.
"The final step may perhaps require
many years for its consumption Such
large undertakings require investiga-
tion. careful planning, and legislative
enactment But the monopolists will
do well not to deceive themselves that
1t is necessarily a long way off,"
Does the world need peace su-
premely?"
UNLESS world peace can be main
tanned our civilization is in imminent
danger of destruction. The ideas prev
alent among our politicians and edi-
tors, who have so great an influence
on public opinion, are the ideas of
children, not of grown men with re-
Elective and responsible minds"
What is the best way to get
peace?"
The best, and. I believe. the only
way to insure peace is offered in the
progressive platform, which declares:
We favor firm treaty agreements
with all nations to outlaw wars: to
abolish conscription; to insure drastic
reduction of land. air and naval arma-
ments; to guarantee public referen-
dums on war, except in case of actual
invasion.
do you favor international team
work."
Against Policy OF Secrecy.
international understandings are
essential if peace is to be preserved.
But 1 favor an altogether different
method of arriving at those under
standings from the one now prevail
ing. There should be no secrecy in
conducting negotiations between
countries.
1.-The militarists of Europe could
not maintain their policies for a year
if the United States Government were
to discuss those policies publicly. The
American militarists would be rem
dered equally powerless by such a
policy.
open discussion, by tearing the
veil, would reveal to the French peo-
pie that their government is being
used by the French steel trust-the
Comite des Forges-and the bankers
who own it, in just the same way
that ]. p. Morgan uses the American
Government"
DO you consider the League of
Nations a peril?"
I'm its present form, and with it's
avowed objects. the League of Ma
the people Of the world. An integral
part of the infamous treaty of
Versailles, a treaty conceived in
violation of the armistice agreement,
1t was signed under coercion of
blockade and the threat of invasion.
THE League of Nations is a mere
device to guarantee to the benefici-
aries of this iniquitous treaty the
plunder they acquired as a result
of the great war.
Sees America Embroiled.
From the American point of view.
if the United States became a party
to it, we should be liable to be called
upon at any time to protect England
in her grasp on India and Egypt,
Mesopotamia and Africa. We should
be called upon equally to protect
France in her held on Syria and Mo-
rocco and her policy of suicidal
coercion toward Germany"
DO you think protective tariffs
have come to stay? Do you consider
them international irritantser
The only justification for a tariff
In this country is to protect the
American standard of living Rut
the protection from which the Amerl
lean people now suffer not only fails
| to protect the standard of living but
lowers that standard.
favor, accordingly, the drastic
revision downward of the tarifY
schedules, which contain excessiv.
rates, until they reach a point al
which the American standard Of 1iv.
| ing is protected and nothing ale.
Such tariff policy would result in :,
| saving to the American public of No,
less than 100000 a year. o'
rs immigration a strictly domestio
| question in each country, and will -
remain such?" ~
Question Is Domestic.
The question Of immigration is O
domestic question. Any country 10
| and always must be, free to deterr
mine who shall enter it and on who .
| conditions.
"On the other hand, I am ut+.-,,
| opposed to the policy of the present
immigration law, which abitrariIv
discriminates against certain Euro.
pean races. Such method is witbon.
| Justification