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The Commoner.
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ment "must tax and manage all cor
porations, must oversee Insurance and
trust companies, and must either own
the railrojids or dictate to their owners
the minutest details of their business."
He asserted that these things are re
' sented not "because they are new but
because they are old as old as tyran
ny itself."
Meeting of New Issues
All new issues and all novel depart
ures, he said, must be met with "firm
ness and perseverance." He pointed
out the way:
"If we are to deal effectively with
these various issues, whether in oppo
sition or in power, it will be necessary
to have a real party with real follow
ers, attached to real and recognized
principles. It is not enough that it
shall have a collection of fads many
of them useless and some of them dan
gerous and opposed to the historic
position of our organization. We have
already had too many of these, because
it is safe to assert of a pplicy that if it
is radical it is not democratic; if it is
democratic it is not radical."
He touched on the monetary crazes
"which swept over the country only to
sink faster than they rose," and as
serted that the lesson to be learned
was that "whether as Americans or as
partisans, we must struggle out of the
treacherous bogs of opportunism and
get back to the solid ground of prin
ciple." And to do this he said the first
and most important step "is recog
nition of a fact inherent In our society,
fixed in our laws and institutions, and
the consistent policy of the democratic
party from the earliest days, that hon
est thrift, the natural fruit of industry,
must' be encouraged and "promoted."
He asserted that if the democratic party
is to continue its being "it must In the
future as in the past draw Its member
ship from these representatives of
work and thrift."
Warning on Confiscation -Mr.
Parker denounced any policy
"which shall directly or indirectly sug
gest even the possibility of- confisca
tion, or which, by any agitation, so
much as threatens the measure of
values." Taking up the subject of
corporations and trusts, he said of the
former that his recent experience in
politics had not inclined him to favor
overmuch the management of some
great corporations. But he said the
developments' of corporations is not
only logical, but is necessarily so. He
said the maJ6ri'ty of them are man
aged honestly, and that the wrongdoers
are punished.
Mr. Parker "mentioned" trusts, say
ing they were sometimes "good" or
"bad" according to their disposition
toward the party in power. He dis
cussed at length the remedies for
these evils, saying that first there are
existing statutes and the common law.
He declared that since the decision in
the beef trust case little has been
heard "about the impotence of the
law." He referred to "executive auth
ority" and averred "it had fumed and
fussed; It has thundered in the index
and failed to enforce the law, except in
' a few cases." He continued:
"At the instance of the attorney of
a foreign railroad with a branch in
this country also the representative
of a governor of a state It has very
. properly and legally broken up a great
railroad combination. "Was It because
' of satisfaction with having- suppressed
a 'bad' combination that a dozen oth
ers, larger, more flagrant in their vio
lation of the law, each of them affect
ing the interests of ten times as many
people, have not been punished or even
prosecuted? Is this the natural re
ward of a 'good' trust?
Sincerity in Trust War
"We have seen one department give
a character to a great and far-reaching
combination just as the local branch
of the government started out to lay
the case of the same combination be
fore a federal grand jury, ,1s th"is the
way of the prosecutor who Is pi 'earn
, .est?- In anotner instance the mana
gers iof a great railroad, .having admit
ted that they have paid rebates, tho
government, some years after the fact
has been avowed, appoints special
counsel to prosecute. Meanwhile the
official in power at tho time, and main
ly responsible for this admitted in
fraction of tho laws, is now a member
of the president's cabinet Must wo
construe this to mean that tho trust
which was once 'good' has now be
come 'bad?'
He said that when a trust or rail
road has violated the law "tho place
for the guilty official is in jail or the
penitentiary, not in the cabinet or in
the board rooms of great railroads."
The second effective way of dealing
with the trust proper, he said, "is to
take away all tariff duties on articles
made by any great combination so
long as it violates the law or while it
discriminates in price against the
American customer in favor of tho for
eigner." He continued:
"The tariff is the fertile and nurs
ing mother of all the abuses to be
found in these trusts, and yet, the very
moment the sacred subject is mention
ed, the president of the United States
draws a red herring across the trail,
all others in republican authority raise
their hands in holy horror, the order
to stand pat is passed along the whole
line of beneficiaries, and tho time-honored
process of throwing dust in the
eyes of the people is revived."
Points Way to Success
The speaker closed with the sugges
tion that there be an honest attempt at
democratic organization. His parting
words were:
"I would not for a moment convey
an impression that organization is not
important. It is even more it is vital,
if we are to give effect to the princi
ples and policies which buttress our
party faith. But however necessary
and vital, it may be useless a mere
empty bauble if it is viewed as the
end rather than the means. We are
confronted by forces which, when not
purely personal, are almost wholly
mechanical. They are represented by
a party, well managed, indeed, in that
two-thirds of the Union to which it re
stricts its activities. It has everything
that patronage can suggest or imply.
In return for favors received it sells to
the highest bidder or freely gives the
powers of government. Nothing that
the ingenuity of monopoly can suggest,
as within its scope or interest, Is with
held. "On the other hand, we cannot deal
with a trust, or a self-seeking class,
We neither have nor can acquire the
things they want, and we can say with
trutn tnat, wnen in power, we have re
fused even to consider them as a pos
sible asset. It may be an element of
weakness, but we have never develop
ed the faculty of purchasing votes in
gross by turning over to chosen agents
powers belonging to the people.
Scope of Party Work
"With us, then, organization, to be
effective, must lie in the state, the
county and the district. By the very
necessity of our principles and our
existence we must protect the rights
and promote the interests of communi
ties, and carry up Into federal politics
only that reserve of power properly
incident to our institutions and system
of government. The ambitions we
must foster are infinite in number
and variety. All our later history has
shown that it is far more Important for
us to have our full share of governors,
legislatures, senators, members of
congress, ana or state, county and
municipal officials, than it is by neg
lecting these, to command a long list
of places under the general govern
ment." Other speeches were made by Mayor
George B. McClellan, Henry T. Rainey
of Illinois, John W. KernDf Indiana,
J. J. Willett of Alabama, Judge Augus
tus Van Wcyk and Senator Newlands.
The keynote of Mayor McClellan's
address was: "As the first step in the
direction of commanding public confi
dence so as to succeed in this patriot
ic work, let us prove to the people
that wo aro more anxious to teach and
to practice sound political doctrlno
than wo aro to framo our platforms
so as to catch tho passing vote."
By "patriotic work" tho mayor of
tho greater city meant spreading of
tho precepts "of tho true democracy."
Chicago Victory Cheers
Mr. Italnoy of Illinois referred to
the victory of tho democrats in Chica
go as a hopeful sign. Ho said tho
fight there was made by tho "radical
democracy along progressive lines
against the greed of great corpora
tions". Ho asserted tho Chicago vic
tory "is tho first great victory of tho
reorganized democracy thero aro
many more to follow."
The Hoosier orator, John W. Kern,
talked to tho theme, "Tho Rank and
File." He made a hit with this ex
pression: "We may as well make up our minds
now that tho day ofthe 'boss' in demo
cratic politics Is at an end and that
'gavel rule In conventions will no
longer be tolerated.' "
Mr. Kern also made the suggestion
that henceforth the work of organiza
tion in campaigns "must commence
with the voters and proceed upward,
rather than commence In a so-called
conference of leaders and work downward."
A STRIKING SERMON
The president's sermon before tho
Mother's club . at Washington is at
tracting as much attention as Dr. Os
iers' too-old-at-forty speech though
for a very different reason. If the phy
sician's statements are absurd and in
contradiction to innumerable conspicu
ous and incontestable facts, the states
man's contentions are true and dust,
something to bo pondered and to be
laid to heart by every thoughtful man
and woman in America.
The "vapid self-indulgence" and tho
"pseudo-intellectuality" which he so
cordially reprobates aro doing destruc
tive work among us, giving us barren
homes and robbing marriage of its
highest and holiest character. Tho
head of tho nation is not beating tho
air when ho holds up to scorn tho
thoughtful and tho intelligent, tho
cowardlco and moral dogencracy of
those who shrink from their first duty
to their country nnd to tho race.
Tho lesson which ho roads to tho
nation will not provo palatable to thoso
who neod it most. Tho "Now York
Times, in a bright odltorlal, says:
"Tho tenor of tho president's ad
dress was to dlsapprovo of, even to
stigmatize, tho childless family, as a
shirker of Its responsibilities toward
tho nation and tho race; and, so far as
may bo, to Invito the stigma of others
upon the childless family. Admitting ,
tho Inevitable exceptions, Mr. Roose
velt classed the wives who dccllno to
bring children Into tho world as In
stances either of 'vapid self-indulgence'
or natures twisted to 'a storilc"psou(lo
lntollectuallty.' Ho says ho has tho
same 'contempt,' which ho feels for a
runaway soldier, for 'tho man or
woman who deliberately foregoes tho
blessings of children, whether from vl
clousness, coldness, shallow-hearted-ness,
self-indulgence, or mere falluro
to appreciate aright the difference bo
tween tho all-important and the unim
portant.' "Mr. Roosevelt Is going to hear from
those who object to being Impaled on
any of these alternatives, and espe
cially from tho women with whom
speaking largely, tho question of race
suicide among educated Americans be
gins and ends. They will tell him that
their family affairs aro strictly their
own concern. They will say tho ho is
sneering at tho blue-stocking woman.
They will say that tho object of mar
riage is 'sympathy' and 'companion
ship not offspring. They will accuse
him of acting 'the little father to his
people without warrant; layman
though he is, of talking like a priest
to a bridal couple, and, man though
he is, of lecturing women how they
should rear their children.
"And yet tho president is right in
the broad comparison ho draws bo-
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