The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-24
SENATOR BEVERIDGE's SPEECH

The speech made by Senator Beveridge
yesterday before the Indiana republican
state convention was a sturdy and unim-
peachable presentation of, the progress
sive republican principles,
If he spoke for the administration, as
is stated, the administration has no need
to weaken it one iota by adverse criti-
cism, for the speech reflected, certainly,
the spirit and practice of the admins
tration. 1t was declaration of that ad-
mirable spirit s,of the party which
so tempers it's radicalism with certain
restraints Of conse ryatism, that the for
ward movement destroys nothing which
ought to stand and be utilized, while it
gathers momentum in the accomplishment
o. beneHcent departures from the old
methods which have had their day and are
ready to perish The republican party has
directed all the transformations when
have impelled this nation forward through
the last forty years, because it was con-
coded by the nation to be the party or
action. 1t is such to-day and, if anybody
thinks that the current attrition on the
subject of the Cuban bill is going to i'm
pair the strength of the party to It's un-
doing, he knows not the material of which
the party is made.
Senator Beveridge, in his speech, IN no
uncertain tones emphasized the portion
OF President Roosevelt's annual message
to congress dealing with combinations Of
capital generally called trusts The pres
ident distinctly declared that the trusts
growing out of changed conditions OF
trade and in a period when the world de-
manded that great things shall be DONE
should not be prohibited and "abolished,'
but supervised and, within reasonable
limits, controlled and placed under the
headlight of publicity. Senator Bever-
idge declared as to these combinations
that I'VE insist that the tree shall not
be felled because of it's evils; when COM
binations of capital attempt arbitrarily
to raise prices from motives of greed,
they must be prevented, punished; apply
a remedy--do not administer medicine
of death" The Sherman antitrust law,
he contended, must be applied outrance,
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enough, it will reach the evils complained
Of. Otherwise it will have to be cast
into the limbo of inutilities and law
which will prove effective must be placed
on the books. The senator named the
proposed department Of, commerce as the
coming agency of national supervision of
national industries. which will finally
supervise every trust that does business
throughout the nation"
Significant was the senator's intimation
that reciprocity with Cuba was only the
beginning OF an expansion Of that policy
to amplify our export trade and strong
his insistence that the "scuttle'' policy
of the democrats as to the Philippines is
% policy of decrepitude, proposition OF
disgrace"
So far as the action by the government
in bringing the antitrust law in opera
ton against certain combinations is con-
cerned, the president Is absolutely CON
sistent with his public declarations. He
has no purpose of gripping any combina-
ton of capital acting within the law, but
he is determined that, where any trus
is violating the law against restraint O.
trade. he will bring it to time if the ex.
listing law is able to do 1t.
The jury have pronounced Herbert Gal
lehugh guilty of murder in the secont
degree. This seems to be about tn,
right conclusion. His plea of self-de
Tense and of Drovocation because of in
suits offered to his wife seems to hav
been poorly substantated by the evidence
AS to whether the insults complained O
were ever offered or not there may al
ways be disagreement; but the Jury evi
IDENTIFY found no substantial support 70
the plea of self-defense, Nor has the at
titude OF Gallehugh beon in his own favor