he platform upon which he was elected was filled with praise of the lepublican party's record rather than jvith promises of reform, even the ?nthusiastic support given him by ;he Democrats has enabled the cham- > fions of the trusts to taunt him with ! following Democratic leadership. He lias probably gone as far as he could I without incurring the hostility of lead ers of his own party. The trouble Is that the Republican party is not [in a position to apply effective and [thorough going reforms because it has b'Jilt up. through special legis lation, the very abuses which need to be eradicated. Before any intelligent action can be taken against the trusts we must have a definition of a trust Because no corporation has an absolute and complete monopoly of any important products, the apologists for the trusts seem to insist that here are in real ity no trusts. Others insist that it is impossible to legislate against such I trusts as may exist without doing injury to legitimate business. For the purpose of this, discussion it is sufficient to. draw the line at a point where competition ceases to be effect ive and to designate as a trust any corporation which controls so much of the product of any article that it can fix the terms and conditions of a sale. What a Monopoly Is. Legislation which prevents a mo nopoly not only does not injure legiti mate business but actually protects legitimate business from injury. We are indebted to the ypunger Rocke feller for an illustration which makes this distinction clear, v. In defending the trust system he is quoth as say ing that as the American Beauty rose cannot be brought to perfection with out pinching off ninety-nine buds so that the one hundredth- bud can re ceive the fulf strength of the bush, so great industrial organizations are Impossible without the elimination of the smaller ones. It is a cruel illus tration but it presents a perfectly ac curate description of trust methods. The Democratic party champions the cause of the 99 enterprises which are menaced; they must not be sacrificed that one great combination may. i flourish. - • • - - There must be no mistaking of the issue and no confusing of the line of battle. The trust as an institution will have few open defenders. The policy of the trust magnates will be to insist upon "reasonable legisla tion" and then they will rely upon their power to* corrupt legislatures and intimidate executives to prevent the application of any remedies which will interfere with the trusts. Our motto must be "a private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable," and our plan of attack must contemplate the total and complete" overthrow of the monopoly principle in industry. We need 4ot quarrel over remedies. We must show ourselves willing to support any remedy which promises substantial advantage to the people in their warfare against monopoly. Something i$ to be»«?xpected from thi enforcement of the criminal clause of the Sherman anti-trust law, brut this law must be enforced, not against a few trusts as at present, but against all trusts and the aim must be to imprison' thfe guilty, not merely 10 recover a fine. If the criminal clause is not going to be enforced it ouglil to be repealed. If imprisonment is too severe a punishment for the emi nently respectable gentlemen who rob eighty millions of people of huu dreds of millions of dollars annually, the language of the statute ought to be changed, for nothing is more cal culated to breed anarchy than the failure to the law againr.t rich criminals while it is rigidly en forced against petty offenders. Need New Legislation. But it is not sufficient to enforce existing laws. If ten corporations conspiring together in restraint of trade are threatened with punish ment, all they have to do now is to dissolve their separate corporations and turn their property over to a new corporation. The new corpora tion can proceed to do the same thing that the separate corporations attempted and yet not violate the law. We need, therefore, new legis lation and the Republican party not only fails to enact such legislation but fails even to promise it. The Democratic party must be prepared to propose new and efficient legisla tion. Recent investigations have brought to light the fact that nearly all crookedness revealed in the manage-' DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK I Kidney Tm>lc Makes You Miserable. Almost cv-rybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful |r . cures made by Dr. . U K'imer's Swamp-Root, J | I tnc £ reat kidney, liver ' •/ !_; and bladder remedy. 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When writing mention reading this generous regular 'fifty cent. and Homo or Swamp-Root. 4->Uar sizt— are sold by all good druggistc. idon't make any m:staKe, but remem ber tl.e name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kil mer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Bingbamton, N. Y., on every bottle. ment of our large corporations has been due to the duplications of direc torates. A group of men organized, or obtained control of several cor porations doing business with each other and then proceeded to swindle the stockholders of the various cor porations for which they acted. Many of the trusts control prices by the same methods, the same group of men secure control of several competing corporations and the man agement is thus consolidated. It is worth while to consider whether a blow may not be struck at the trusts by a law making it illegal for the same person to act as director or officer of two corporations which deal with each other or are engaged in the same general business. A still more far reaching remedy was proposed by the Democratic platform of 1890 namely the requiring of corporations to take out a Fed eral license before engaging in inter- State commerce. This remedy U simple, easily applied and compre hensive. If corporations were re quired to take out a Federal li cense, the Federal government could then issue a license upon terms ;md conditions which would pro* c: the public. A corporation differs from a human being in that it ha,s no natural rights, and as all of its rights are derived from thi statute ii can le limited or restrained according as the public welfare may re».'i»» The control which Congress hT3 «.ver"i:» ter-State commerce .s compittv No party can long be credited with sin cerity if it condemns the trusts with words only and then permits the trusts to employ all the instrumental ities of inter-State commerce in the carrying out of their nefarious plans. It is far easier to prevent a mo nopoly than to watch it and punish it, "and this prevention can be ac complshed in a practical way by re fusing a license to any corporation wh\ch controls more than a certain proportion of the total product—this proportion to be arbitrarily fixed at a point which will give free operation to competition. The Tariff Question. The tariff question is very closely allied to the trust question and the reduction of the tariff furnishes an easy means of limiting the extortion which the trusts can practice. While absolute iree traue would not necessarily make a trust impos sible, still it is probable that few manufacturing establishments would dare to enter into a trust if the President were empowered to put upon the free list articles competing with those controlled by a trust. I cannot permit this opportunity to pass without expressing the opinion that the principles embodied in the protective tariff have been the fruit ful source of a great deal of political corruption as well as the support of many of our most iniquitous trusts. It is difficult to condemn the manu facturers for uniting to take advantage of a high tariff schedule when the schedule is framed on the theory that the idustries need all • the pro tection given and it is not likely that the beneficiaries of these schedules will consent to their reduction so long as the public waits for the tariff to be reformed by its friends. But one of the worst features of the tariff, levied not for revenue but for the avowed purpose of protection, is that it fosters the idea that men should use their votes to advance their own financial interests. For a genera tion the "fat" has been fried out of the manufacturers by the Republican campaign committee and then the man ufacturers have been reimbursed by legislation. With the public conscience educated to believe that this open pur chase of legislation was entirely prop er, no wonder that insurance compan ies have used the money of their pol icyholders to carry elections —no won der that trusts have hastened to pur chase immunity from punisnment with liberal donations. How can we draw a moral line between the senator and the Congressman elected by the trusts to prevent hostile legislation and the senator and Congressman kept in Con gress by the manufactories to secure friendly legislation? The party which justifies the one form of bribery can not be relied upon to condemn the oth er. There never was a time when tariff reform could be more easily entered upcn, for the manufacturers by sell ing abroad cheaper than at home, as many of them do. have not only shown their ingratitude toward those who built the'tariff wall for them, but they have demonstrated their ability to sell in competion with the world. The Railroad Question. The railroad question is also inter woven with the trust question. Near ly all the private monopolies have re ceived rebates at the hands of the rail roads would go far toward the crip pling of the trusts and I rejoice that the President has had the courage to press this question upon Congress. While the law as it was finally distort ed by the Senate, is not all that could be wished, it deserves a fair trial. Rate regulation was absolutely nec essary and it furnishes some relief from the unbearable conditions which previously existed; but we must not forget that the vesting of this enor mous power in the hands of a commis sion appointed by the President intro duces a new danger. If an appointive board has the power to fix rates, and crease or decrease by hundreds of mil lions of the dollars the annual reve nues of the railroads, will not the rail roads feel that they have large pecuni ary interest in the election of a presi dent friendly to the-tailroad? Experi ence has demonstrated that .munici pal corruption is largely traceable to the fact that franchise corporations desire to control the city council and thus increase their dividends. If the railroad managers adopt the same pol icy the sentiment in favor of 'the own ership of the railroads by the govern ment is likely to increase throughout the country as the sentiment in favor of municipal ownership has increased in the cities. I have already reached the conclusion that railroads partake so much of the nature of a monopoly that thev must ultimately become pub lic property and be managed by public officials in the interest of the whole community in accordance with the well defined thoory that public owen ership is necessary where competition is impossible. Ido not know that the cotmtry is ready for this change. I do not know that majority of my own party favor it, but I believe that an increasing number of the members of all parties see in public ownership the sure remedy for discriminations be tween persons and places and for the extortionate for the carrying of freight and passengers. Government Ownership. Believing, however, that the opera tion of all railroads by the Federal gov ernment would result in a centraliza tion which would all but obliterate State lines, I prefer to see only the trunk lines operated by the Federal government and the local lines by the several State government Some have opposed this dual owner ship as impracticable, but investiga ean by the exercise of that power in tion in Europe has convinced me that it is entirely practicable. Nearly all the railroads of Germany are owned by the several States, the Empire not even owning the trunk lines, and yet the inter-State'traffic is in no wise ob structed. The ownership and opera tions of the local lines by the several State governments is not only feasible but it suits itself 'to the conditions ex isting in the various States. In these States where people are ripe for a change, the lines can be purchas ed or new lines built at once, while private ownership can continue in these States in which the people still prefer private ownership. As to the right of the governments, Federal or State, to own and operate railroads there can be no doubt. If we can deepen the water in the lakes and build connecting canals in order to cheapen railroad transportation dur ing half of the year, we can build a railroad and cheapen rates the whole year, if we can spend several hundred millions on the Panama canal to lower trans-continental rates, we can build a railroad from New York to San Fransico to lower both trans-continen tal and local rates. The United States mail is increasing so rapidly that we shall soon be able to pay the interest on the cost of trunk lines out of the money which we now pay to railroads for carrying through mails. If any of you question the propriety of my mentioning this subject, I beg to remind you that the President could not have secured the passage of the rate bill had he not appealed to the fear of the more radical remedy of government ownership, and nothing will so restrain the railroad magnates from attempting to capture the inter- State commerce commission as the same fear. The high handed manner in which they have violated law and ignored authority, together with the corruption discovered in high places, has done more to create sentiment in favor of public ownership than all the speeehes and arguments of the oppo nents of private ownership. More About Trusts. Just a word more in regard to the trusts. Some defend them on the ground that, they are an economic development, anjd'that they cannot be prevented without injury to our industrial system. This may be an swered in two ways. First, trusts are a political development rather than an economic one; and second, the trust system cannot be permitted to con tinue even though it did result in a net economic gain. It. is political be cause it rests upon the corporation, and the corporation rests upon a stat utory foundation. The trust, instead of being a natural development, is a form of leganilzed larceny and can ex ist only so long as the law permits it to exist. That there is an economic advantage in production on a large scale may be admitted, but there is a point beyond which the economic ad vantage of large production ceases. The moment any industry approaches the position of monopoly it begins to lose its economic efficiency, for a mo nopoly discourages invention, invites deterioration in quality, and destroys a most potent factor in production, viz.: individual ambition. But the political objections to a trust overcome any economic advan tage which it can possibly have. No ecomonic advantage can justify an in dustrial despotism or compensate a nation, for the loss of independence among its producers. Political liberty could not long endure under an in dustrial system which permitted a few-powerful magnates to control the means of livelihood of the rest of the people. Landlordism, the curse of Europe, is an innocent institution in comparison with the trust, when the trust is car ried to it 3 logical conclusion. The man who argues that there is an eco nomic advantage in private monopoly is aiding socialism. The socialist., as serting the economic superiority of the monopoly, insists that it benefits shall accrue to the whole people, and his conclusion cannot be denied if the superiority of monopoly is admitted. The Democratic party, if I understand its position, denies the economic as well as political advantage of private monopoly and promises to oppose it wherever it manifests itself. It offers as an alternative, competition where competition is possible and public mo nopoly wherever circumstances are such as to prevent competition. Socialistic Tneory. Socialism presents a consistent the ory, but a theory, which in my judg ment, does not take human nature into account. Its strength is in its attack upon evils, the existence of which is confessed. Its weakness is that it would substitute a new disease —if not a worse one —for the disease from which we suffer. The socialist is hon est in his beliefs that he has found a remedy for human ill. and he must be answered with argument, not with abuse. The best way to oppose social ism is to remedy the abuses which have grown up under individualism but which are not a necessary part of individualism, and the sooner the rem edy is applied the better. As I was leaving home, I set forth my reasons The Democratic party offers a solution that the government should own and operate all the means of production and transportation; my observations during the past- year have strengthen ed my convictions on that subject. Be cause I am anxious to preserve indi vidualism, I &in earnest in my desire to see the trusts exterminated, root and branch, that the door of opportu ■-Women's Pains-i "I was a total wreck," writes Mrs. Beulah |i| Rowley, of Champoeg, Oregon, £4 from pains I had 1 fj ! suffered, for 4 years, every month. Sometimes I |g ll would be unconscious for 12 hours at a stretch. I Eg .5 did not know that anything could stop the pain I entirely, but Wine of Cardui did. I advise all B women suffering with painful periods to use Car dui and be relieved." >, v . , ■ | It does this by regulating the functions and .' toning up all the Internal female organs to health. 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The Democrats pffer a solution which is both reasonable and aduquate, a solution in which time honored prin ciples are applied to new conditions. Democratic position. The Democratic party Is not the enemy of property or of property rights; it is, on the contrary, the best defender of both becav.se it defend? human rights, and human rights arc the only foundation upon which proper ty and property rights can rest secure ly. The Democratic party does not men ace a single dollar legitimately a?cu mulated: on the contrary, it insists up on the protection of rich and poor alike in the enjoyment of that' which they have hontestly earned. The Demo cratic parey does not!iscourage thrift, but, on the other hand. ?rahddtaoinnn but, on the contrary, stimulates each individual to the highest endeavor by assuring him that he wMI not be de prived of the fruits of his toil. If we can but repeal the laws which enable men to reap where they have not sown —laws which enable them to garner in to their overflowing barns the harvests that belong to others —no one will be able to accumulate enough to make his fortune dangerous to the country. Spec ial privilages and the use of the taxing power for private gain—these are the twin pillars upon which plutocracy restts. To take away these supports and to elevate the beneficiaries of special legilation to the path of honest effort ought to be the purpose of our party. And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the appli cation of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and" special privil eges to none? Only those whose ac cumulations are stained with dishon esty and whose immoral methods have ( given them a distorted view of busi ness, society and government. Accu mulating by conscious fraud more mon ey. than they can profitably use upon themselves, wisely distributed or safe ly leave to their "children* these de nounces as public enemies all who question their, methods or throw light upon their crimes. What Is Plutocracy. Piutocracy is abhorrent to a RepuD lie; it is more despotism than anarchy, more heartless than aristocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It preys up on the nation in time of peace and con spires against it in the hour of its calamity. Conscienceless, compassion less and devoid of wisdom, it enervates its votaries wihle it impoverishes its victims. It is already sapping the strength of the nation, vulgarizing so cial life and making a mockery of mor als. The time is ripe for the overflow, peal to the awakened conscience of the nation in the name of the counting room which it has defiled, in the name of business honor, which it has sullied, In the name of the people whom it has opposed, in *the name of the homes which it has despoiled, and in' the name of religion upon which it has placed the stigma of hypocricy. And, if I may be permitted to sug gest a battle hymn, I propose a stanza l»ut slightly changed, from one of the strongest of the poems of Scotland's Democratic bard: "Columbia! My dbar, my native soil! i "For whom my warmest wish tq Heav en is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil. Be blest with health and peace and \ sweet content. And O. may heaven their simple lives prevent! From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile; Then, tho' unearned wealth to wick edness be lent, A virtuous populace may rise and stand, A wall of fire around their mach loved land." 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