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states. and not in the federal govern
ment
| From this it is apparent that the act
| of 1890 has substantially exhausted the
| power of congress in the premises: and
| that it is far from affording adequate re-
| lief. There are forty-five states in the
| Union, no two of them with similar anti
| monopoly legislation, and some of them
with none at all. A COMPUTATION or mo-
| nOpoly In production and manufacture,
erecting the welfare of the entire coun-
! try, can thus exist unchecked and I'M
trampled in any one of the states, from
| which the people of the other states suf-
! FER and against which they can obtain no
| protection Besides, it is often times diff
ticult to separate the consequences and eff
/ feet of local traffic from interstate traffic
| II the injury which monopoly can in
| tiict, We're limited to the state under
which it exists and has its seat, then
! there would be no harm in leaving it to
| the exclusive control of such state, but
! where such monopoly extends its oper-
ations throughout the entire country, then
! it is evident that the scope of the re-
! lief and protection ought to be co-exten-
sive with the injury and harm that can be
done.
Our state legislature. when the Repub-
| licans We're in a majority and under a
Republican executive, for the purpose
1871 9noP poged il t5 slTay
| lowing law:
mo railroad corporation, or the lessees.
purchaser OF managers or any railroad
corporation, shall consolidate the stock,
| property or franchise of such corporation
! with, or lease or purchase, the works or
1ranchlse or, or in any way control any
! other railroad corporation owning or hav-
| ing under its control a parallel or COM
| peting line; nor shall any officer of such
railroad corporation act as an officer of
| any other railroad corporation owning or
| having the control of a parallel or COM
! peting line, and the question whether rail-
/ roads are paralleled or competing lines
fSh0 II .1O1 O1.fxr
lplainant, be decided by jury as in other
| civil Issues" And in 1881 the following
1 law:
mo railroad corporation shall consol-
| idate with lease or purchase, or in any
way become the owner or or control any
| other railroad corporation or stock, fran
| chiSe rights or property thereof which
| owns or controls a parallel or competing
| line"
1t is now a matter Of public history that
| President Roosevelt has not suffered the
| federal law, nor Gov. Van SAINT, the state
| laws, to remain obsolete or a dead letter.
| am confident. however, and feel fully
| these high executive officials has-been ac-
| tuated by any feeling of ill will or hos
Utility to the railroads or their able and
| sense of public duty to execute the laws
! on our statute books, which laws they
! have taken an oath to support.
| The builders and managers of our vast
4 railroad systems in the Northwest have
| performed a great task and rendered a
| most noble and important service in set
| Ting and developing our great domain.
| They have followed with Swift pace in
| the wake of the homestead settler and
| often preceded him, and have borne many
| burdens and encountered great difficulties.
| They have brought good or fair transpor-
| tatiOn facilities within easy reach of
nearly all in the farthest corner of the
state, and whatever may be lacking in
| this respect they are fast supplying in
| energy, perseverance and ability. Our
| railroad men of Minnesota stand second
to none of their kind in the entire coun-
| try, and as such we are proud of them.
| We cherish no hostility to them and wish
| them no harm; but wish to live in har-
| mony and in cooperation with them at
| Solidation-not SO much because we fear
| that they would make a burdensome or
hostile use of it-as because we know
| that they are well along in years and
| midst, and that then we would be at the
midst, and that hten we would be at the
| mercy of nonresident corporate body,
! composed Of an army of nonresident
stockholders, who will be more concerned
about high dividends than low rates.
| More than two years ago we estab-
| Porto Rico, giving the people of the island
Porto Rico, giving the people the island
| the blessings of a free government akin
| to our own and such as they had never
trammeled and open to all, bringing
| speedy justice within the reach Of all
! have been established and are in opera
ton. A system of free schools with
]
] has been organized and established all
| over the land. Roads have been graded
and built in the interior and remote por-
| lions of the island, where only precarious
| bridal paths existed before. The people
| have recovered from the effects of the
| tornado and storms which devastated the
| island in 1899, and under a good govern
| ment and free trade with the States have
| entered upon an era of prosperity both
| for them and ourselves. A million of
| people, oppressed and in a state of tute-
| lage, have been regenerated and born to
| a new life under the Stars and Stripes.
| The very thought of it fills every patri-
| otto American heart with thankfulness
| and pride.
We entered upon the Spanish war to
| free Cuba, but when it was over we
Rico and Philippine Islands. Our sense
of duty and our sense of justice forbade
us to return them to the clutches of
Spanish tyranny and oppression. The
problem was even more pressing and I'M
| avoidable in the case of the Philippine
| islands than Porto Rico. Spanish rule in
the former had been even more brutal
| cruel because the people were not of the
same race, were only in part civilized,
We're composed of several races and many
tribes-from the savage Moros and i'm
beetle and dWarish Negritos, to the Ia
gals and cunning Chinese Mistizoes-a
very babel of humanity, lacking all CO.
heSion, all the elements of nationality,
and all experience in self governme nt, or
| indeed, any government at all, save the
deSpOtiSm of Spain.
| To abandon these untutored and heter-
| ogeneouS masses to the further rule of
| Spanish brutality seemed rather cruel and
| shocking to our sense of right and justice.
To abandon them absolutely in their then
| condition and helplessness to themselves
| seemed even more reckless and unjust,
| both to them and to us, for it would have
| led them irresistibly into dire confusion,
! chaos and self destruction, and ultimate
| ly and swiftly to their seizure and ex-
ploitation by one or more of the great
| powers of Europe. Strong fleets of for
| eign powers were there ready to move in
| the moment we moved out.
Under a liberal tariff law enacted by
| the Philippine commission and ratified
| and supplemented by an act of congress
| at this session, which eliminates the
| harsh features of Spanish taxation, am
| pie revenues will be received to cover all
| expenses of the government of the is
| lands, including the maintenance of a
| liberal system of public schools, the i'm
provement of the highways and harbors
and the necessary sanitation of the coun-
try.
The Democratic efforts to besmirch our
army, to exploit a few of it's shortcom-
ings without giving it credit for its pa
thence, it's valor and its manifold acts of
generosity and kindness, manifest a spirit
of sheer PARTISAN wantonness, unpro-
voked and unpatriotic, forN they have no
bearing on the policy of retention nor
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