By William H. Berry, Treasurer Nominee No student of State polities can fail to the keynote in both, and moral qualities ¢ the importance of electing men to inbhere in all the voluntary acts of man. eo office f Auditor General and Dtate It is difficult to Imagine the elements ¢ rer who will be free of obligation of vice or virtue in the conduet of an ¥ erie of political bosses isolated man, but in &n assemblage of Ihe candidates on the Hepublican and men or in & society, it is at once appa~ W gton tickets must of necessity be rent. liberty is buman freedom in so- er obligations to either the Pittsburg ciety. Equal rights inhere in any indi- the Pi elphia jue. No one knows vidual! and the activities of each must which they serve, but it will cer be limited to a sphere that will not in- tainly be o or the other, That they fringe the rights of others. Liberty is 8 t abl en does not reassure us, the opportunity to do right in society Reputable men who have been thus elect and involves a guarantee of equal rights { ¢ pust have not been able to to all. The police power can only be th the influences surrounding justly used to restrain an individual when ' reason of their close affiliation. his conduct infringes the rights of others. e ele Monopoly is the opposite of competi- ho Wi tion. Whenever and to whatever extent gs ® it exists it is an infringement of human flue freodom, a prevention of the free choice f i of productive activity and in the process t if of exchange it sets up artificial, unjust Sat and larcenous values. It iss subtle form of larceny that enables those who use it . t to “gather where they have not sown,” ent and segregates the surplus product of human toil into the hands of the few at 1 Democratic and Keystone candi the expense of the many. Millionaires ates, Mr. Robert 1} Cresswell and my and paupers sre its certain fruit wherever olf are entirely free from entanglement it exists in private bands. Tyranny, th any partisan machine and if elected WILLIAM HARVEY BERRY. subtle and obscured, but no less tyranny, serve the State unhindered. Our election need not and is its keynote, and slavery, with a corresponding degradation i not be the National campaign, but of humanity its ultimate result. e are both I 1 vote for Woodrow Wilson As the “quality of mercy” falls as dew from heaven r President, and for Democra candidates for Congress. monopoly rises as missma from the festering swamps of hu- Many reasons might be gives, and I would be y man greed. It is twice sccursed. It curseth him that takes f the fidence hitherto extended to me if I did ne y the unearned fruit as well as he that doth produce it. tate the ' g for my course. It is simply The proposition to “regulate” and thus perpetuate mo- hat Mr. Wilson star elimination of monopoly i in private hands and by the power of government to | the restorati f petition in our industrial and f tee a dividend upon it, large or small, is at once un- | VS 1 he 1Y ROH f this issue om: i ensured wise ar unstatesmanlike, | ro ents he gintenance of true nhood, th Iu the presence of vast sccumulsted debts for which our i hieal development of gation and the perpetuit f frex nrominent forms of wealth are held as security, a seeming government ' A nvolved scossity exists for restraining their production lest their . a « tha free choice of the in jual as to price or power to carry or caucel debt decline and bankrupt ere { when and how o he will work, at what em} their owners. This is the sole excuse for the toleration of ent and f sgt and uj what ter he will « ge nopoi } a y ‘ the market. The m vy of currency preventing its adequate expan- Under froe less irksome tasks will be *°™ in response to sn increasing productive power in our b Pros chosen ot most large! Tered people compels a loss of price when such wealth is freely exchange The mot tasks will be less ch produced, snd the effect of this monopoly 1s mage the 3 tne pt ¢ I d in exchange. a a, yusand others, not one of which can accomplish aw of supply and tively scarcer pr ’ : yee except by restraining production and compe ling be e werf in exchange or more valuable 1 the among. workmen. ro al {a1 natural, equitable and exchange Excessive tariff rates, maintained to shield monopolists PR W a of The hardest jobs w vield the TY foreign competition while they exploit the home mar : 3 the ¢ hs the least, Social « { ket, ure paraded as the cause of prosperity, but the history . thus « hed and y be establishe ther way { the last HO vears has proven that the most disastrous panics { set i thus clearly seen to be synony s with have occurred under the highest tariff rates. In 1873 the An f of : woiee of the It dual the +iff was in force. In 1893 the McKinley Tariff yas ent as it is the foundation Wf social n force In 1007 the Dingley Tariff was in force, and the p t neither ean exist whole machinery of the Goyernment Was in the hands of its The fret eo of the indiviual is also the creator of an friends. A more transparent fraud than this sthicn]l or spiritual values Viee or virtue are 1mMposs hie can scarcely be imagined. thout 1t a the decrees of eternal justice In the day of ly 7¢ ulated or unre ulated 18 an infringement of final reckoning will be t sed upon it. Create the image human rights. It is therefore immoral and MUST BE DE ¢ the eternal the freedom of choice is the stamp ol shi CLARED AND TREATED AR A CRIME. 1f we remove the Ch o this day whom ye will serve.” is the old entreaty currency TN nopoly the permanent forms of wealth may be ri vy { 1 ty n man, and “whosoever will may come ’ {reely produced without a loss of price, full employment of 2 oc) the near time. The movement fh an prog and labor may then be constantly maintained, mo- ress is 1 rd a clearer recognition of the identity in char n y may be safely destre yed, human freecom restored, and ot f je and ethical conduct. Human freedom is the ethical and economic development of society promoted. . .
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