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"My policies" soem to bo getting tho short
arm jab.
A tariff revised by its beneficiaries, will not
offer much comfort to its victims.
"Averngo reductions" will not take any of the
burdens from tho shoulders of the toilers.
If you want to hear a real call for help, just
propose a revenue tax on watered stock certificates.
It 1b announced that Pullman cars aro to be
Samo id10!'0?"01, Il0W ab0ut ih0 G(lulllbrm?
Tho tariff revision bill is full of "jokers" is
the information given out. With the laugh on
tho people instead of from them.
a Iopii1lap sIn for dry goods stores, "Buy
your stockings and gloves NOW; the Payne bill
will get you if you don't watch out."
Woro it not for tho wireless telegraph wo
might havo had at least six days' -r el iff Evln
J groat utility like tho wireless has is dmw-
"Tho law of averages" may look good on ti-
por, but when the workingman figures up the
Cr0nSiet cst of Hving under a ?s0d "tariff
joker " VGry litU0 dIfllCUlty in seeing Jh?
War taxes in time of peace; bond Issues in
time of pewo; growing deficit under a high pro
tect vo tariff; abandonment of the "home ma?
ket" cry and talk about "world marketed it
rTiisVes11 ld"timG rGDUblica - and
GutaTheTh eedure0dC?eretedof S at
thirty feet, ;;but UttterttStlo X gWeTto
tain not61" nS?i0rdQnB t0 thQ tapateh5.VeceS
JJSS t0 dis
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a senator nameTdrfch. d UUd Wlolded by
Governor Gilchrist Has Faith in Democracy
Governor Albert W. Gilchrist of Florida
writes:
I thought and still think, that the main issue
in tho recent national election should have been
tho tariff and the trusts growing out of tho
tariff. I noticed that during the entire campaign
but little was done toward making tho tariff
a live issue. During tho past three-fourths of
a century with the exception of Abraham Lin
coln, the greatest president of the United States,
Grover Cloveland twice won on the tariff issue.
Tho trusts aro largely an outgrowth of the
tariff. Duo to unequal opportunities, on ac
count of the operation of law, the bulk of tho
wealth of the United States is now held in the
hands of a few. Should any party come Into
power with tho avowed purpose of cutting off
those unequal opportunities, those few people
aro in a position to clog the wheels of industry,
to cause hard times and to almost compel tho
election of another set of men. With the con
tinuation of this excessive, high tariff twenty
years more, these few will have still greater
power.
The republican party freed the black man.
By the operation of the high tariff, they will
enslave tho white man and re-enslave the black.
Opportunity knocked at the door of the demo
cratic party. The party heard it not. The
party did appeal to the union labor vote Tho
republican party appealed to the manufacturers
by guaranteeing them a "reasonable profit."
And appealed to the "wage earner" by stating
that they are "the most direct beneficiaries of
the protective system." Towards the close of
the campaign the republican party accentuated,
i,i5? 0Pft07 and in thelr "terature, the
?m ? Se derIved from the Protective sys
tem to the 'wage earners of this country." In
the handling of the trusts the republican party
shnply stated that they proposed to amend the
the Sherman anti-trust law. They did not go
Jhe det.ails of tlle PPOsed law. The dem
Srh JS f?arty Went int0 details of te 'aw by
Sii?rnMeJ Wer t( handle "indefensible and
intolerable" monopoly. My experience as a
member of the Florida legislature! has Keen that
many people might agree with you on the gen
eral proposition of a law, but would disagree
with vnii fin fn Ha riot o1n tv. i.
, "7, - -w -iwo. m ita pmuorm thn
democratic party went into details and tho w2
publican party did not.
As to railroad legislation the republican partv
favored "such national legislation and sunervi
sion as will prevent tho future over issue of
stocks and bonds by interstate carriers " Thn
democratic party not only favored such a hw
but favored a physical valuation of such inter
state carriers. Every man who owned any bonds
or stocks or who was interested in such carriers
would be naturally opposed to tho success of
the democratic party. There aro several mil
lion people interested in railroads, either as
employes, bond holders and stockholders. The
bondholders and stockholders were naturally
opposed to the success of the democratic party
They naturally endeavored to have their em
ployes work with them.
It seems to me that the depositors should
have favored the national guarantee of bank
deposits. With the exception of the discussion
of the guarantee of bank deposits, the campaign
of the democratic party was largely a matter of
crimination and recrimination.
t " old arSulaents of the republican party
In behalf of the tariff aTe no longer tenable.
They used to say "infant industries." They
haven't the cheek now to claim the giants to
be Infants. They used to say that the foreign
ers paid the tax. They haven't the cheek to
make that argument now. They used to say
that the competition among American manu
facturers would reduce the price to a reason
able basis. Since the formation of trusts they
haven t the cheek to make that argument: They
have the cheek to assert now that the "wage
earners of this country are the most direct
beneficiaries of the protective system." During
the recent campaign the democratic party failed
to make them ashamed of this proposition.
The republican party came into power through
revolution. They established a high protective
principle of graft and unequal' opportunity as
an incident of revolution.
I am not discouraged at the defeat of tho
democratic party. I have an abiding faith in
its final success.
ALBERT W. GILCHRIST.
"Useless War on Trusts," By a Republican P.
In Its IkSIIO nf X7nAn.i -m-i.
Tfnaoo r.7; t ""muyt reoruary Z4, the
Kansas City Journal, a stalwart Taft organ
printed a significant editorial entitled "The Use
re!fdYvarGvvTrUStS;; That editorial BhJuld &
faVoZrilBt eXaCti0nS' rns
ni'"rJ10Se ?erso"s' demagogues and sincere by
11-informed political economists alike, who
Imagine that the present anti-trust laws ccJuld
he successfully invoked to settle the trust Ques
tion have sadly missed their guess. The entire
legal machinery of the Roofevel administra
tion has been kept going at full steam for seven
years directed by the best legal talent which
tho attorney general's department and S
prosecutors could afford; attorney generals Sf
various states have devoted thrtr flSrgiel
V? ,aSlf : 6Vf7 ava1lable means has 'SS
used to curb or drive the trusts out of business
and the result Is that the trust breakers find
werHth T V1 th miro nw than they
Tln. the beginning. It is true that a few
out of existence "a. e busmess enterprises
out of Missouri .and U S be ataiS?1
years and greater nnw? i? ? But mature
mind a graved VSSg
ican r aper
sibilities, a thing which aTgues well for his
.v, D ,uu j.ur wmen- tne people of Mis-
n?U?nay Wei! h,f thanlui- The best augury
wplf Jf &0T Hadley's ture, and guaranty as
Z tin- ? eminent fitness for his high office,
h Tnl frank cknowledgment that the thing
four vpnlt Sred earnstly and successfully for
out Hp?SSa f?CCOm?1Idl Is impracticable with
out serious injury to the commonwealth.
In Kanenamn JnclusIon will be found Inevitable
m Kansas in the case of the International TTir
vester company. The anti-trust law can no? bo
ousted it would hf S ereat corporation were
ing o : eaull ?i 2 ?C nSaJ7 in the adminfster
unions fa?mGr ,f0 a" f1Ike to 0U8t the labor
ZationSs anTmore ttaH' &SVB' 0TSani'
tions and assnninB hundred other corpora-
and useful ?nnf?,? m.OS of beneficial
come Wiftin tii blghest degree, all of which
K oTg?n?ZationPRUrtVleW J the law which for
prices In swt t cn.tro1 Production and
boomerang fataf 5e fantI"trust law is a deadly
"d h1 ttoee who invoke its use
nopolies at wK'u really oppressive mo
Is plain. No arflon7iaS ,a,ime d ThQ reason
man brain can SeviL1661811011 that the hu"
counter to the ntdf7oiGi can successfully run
on, the great eSn 7 f societ5r' EvoIu
give'n blrthtothf great ?S?f of at,ure' ha3
binations in trade because ?w r Cm"
celerity and imnrovmS i ?J man econmy,
sale of the rartioS twQt ln. the Production and
for the consumer V ??ntro1- They are best
Great combinSfnnf61 aa fr the producer,
inevitable o?tni?i, ,n .trade are Ule natural,
exemplify alEO t society's need. W
trade moves aW nfS lstlble law that
Therefore hew 1 J ?,easIest 1Ine ot resistance,
ereiore, being for the good of society, as thii
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