The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02

NJ the coming election who will stand by
h'n. and work with him for The good Of he
country. This is patriotic duty in every
congressional district Of the United States,
nut there is "A special obligation resting upon
;te people Of New York to support and hold
np The hands 81 a son OF New i orb when
ho deserves support.
WORN or THE ADMINISTRATIONS
am no. going TO talk about what the
Republican Administration at Washington
has done further han to sav tina, believe
II has been honest and efficient and that it
has accomplished successfully many diff
QUIZ tasks. avoided many dangers and
attained many of the results beneficial
and creditabe to the scountry I think
is policies have been just flied and its con
duct of affairs approved by their fruits,
and that it is entitled to continuance Of
public confidence
CONGRESS HAS DONE WELL.
II will be difficult To find better record
Of wise and panst akng legislative perform
ances than is furnished by the Republican
dealing with all Of the great appropria' ion
bills. with their multitude of difficult uues-
lions affecting the public welfare. in their
first session they relieved the industry and
property of the country from the burden
of the war revenue taxes; they settled by
an admirable statute the long-yexed ques-
ton of an Isthmian canal; they inaugrirated
new system for the irrigation Of arid
lands in the West. they worked out and
adopted laws for the safe government of
the Philippine Islands. exhibiting a high
order OF constructive ability. All those
great measures received most thorough and
careful consideration ani involved patient
and laborous work in COMMITTEES and
instructive discussion in both houses
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA YET.
The one case of urgent necessity Of action
which failed Of response was the bill for a
just measure of reciprocity with Cuba, and
that was feated by a combination between
the Democrats in Congress and a small
minority Of the Republicans refusing to
go with the majority of their party. There
is good reason to believe that the measure
will succeed at the next session The
people Of the country have reason I o be well
atisficd with the ability, sense of duty and
honest pat riotism OF the Fifty-seventh
Congress. No reason for changing the
political compile zion of the House of Repre-
sent tives can be found in the past action
Of that body.
What is there to come in the future which
calls for such a change? Is the reason o
be found in desire for the curbing Of
trusts. for an effective treatment of labor
troubles, or for a revision of the tariff
Certainly not.
THE TRUSTS AND THE TARIFF.
Our Democrat friends talk as il some
capitalists securing undue profits, and
some tariff provisions becoming igrown
with changing conditions, and some Stub
born contests between employers who wish
to pay less and wage earners who wish to
I've paid more for labor. are new and strange
phenomena, threatening our social and po-
litical system and calling for desperate and
revolutionary remedies. They are not new
or strange or threatening They are but
reappearances, in slightly varied forms.
OF some Of the difficulties which have al
ways accompanied material prosperity
since the beginning of successful enter
prise. Unfair and oppressive trusts, so
called are weeds in the garden of pros perity.
II is easy 10 kill them II you kill the flowers
and the fruit also. but If you would Keep
the weeds down and have the garden grow,
you must devote yourself, not TO desperate
and dest ructive remedies, but TO a patient,
discriminating and unceasing process, pull
ing out the weeds and leaving the useful
plants. So in curbing and regulating these
combinations Of capt. al which are injurious
to the public, either because they monopo-
lie the market or the sources of supply
or the avenues Of employment. or prevent
competition unfairly and oppressively,
care must be taken not TO stop great enter
prises which have legitimately reduced
the cost of production. not o take America
out Of the race Of competition for he mar
kets of the world, not 10 close the mills and
the mines. not TO throw millions of work.
men out Of employment and deprive the
farmer of his market for the raw material
Of manufacture.
REGULATION. NOT DESTRUCTION.
The evils complained of are an out growth
Of the process Of industrial development
Of the age Their regulat ion is also a neces-
sary part OF that process. Our indust rial
history shows that the steady course of
the process has always been and is now
toward better and not toward worse condi-
tions: that the diffusion of wealth Is out =
stripping it's concentration: that the great
body of the people in the United States
are climbing above the hard condit ions
of poverty which have been the rule in he
worlds life, into general comfort and
independence, to a degree never before
known: that our prosperity is sound and
wholesome. and that courage and hope are
justified, rather than dependency.
INCREASED PRODUCTIVE POWER OF MANKIND