The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-10
Says the Department Of Commerce and
Labor Will Go Far Towards SoIv.
ing the Trust Problem.
Calls Attention to Undesirable immigration.
Asks for More Stringent Naturaliza.
ton Laws and Enforcement
Wants COmmission to Investigate
Needs of Merchant Marine-Post
Ohlce and Public Land Frauds
Our Foreign Relations.

To the Senate and House of Representa-
The country is to be congratulated
on the amount or substantial achieve
ment which has marked the past year both
as regards our foreign and as regards our
domestic policy.
With a nation as with a man the most
important things are those of the house
hold, and therefore the country is espe-
clally to be congratulated on what has
been accomplished in the direction of pro-
Viding for the exercise Of supervision over
the great corporations and combinations
of corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce. The congress has created the de-
partment of commerce and labor. includ-
ing the bureau Of corporations, with for the
first time authority to secure proper pub
Gcity of such proceedings of these great
corporations as the public has the right
to know. 1t has provided for the expedit-
Ing of suits for the enforcement of the fed
eral antitrust law: and by another law
It has secured equal treatment to all pro-
ducers in the transportation of their goods
thus taking a long stride forward in max
ing effective the work of the interstate
commerce commission.
Bureau of Corporations.
The preliminary work of the bureau
of corporations in the department has
shown the wisdom of its creation. Pub
licity in corporate affairs will tend to do
away with ignorance; and will afford
be taken. Systematic. Intelligent inves-
tigation is already developing facts the
knowledge of which is essential to right
OF the .! word e The nq ea
which is honestly and fairly organized,
whose managers in the conduct of its
business recognize their obligation to
their competitors, and the public has
nothing to fear from such supervision.
The purpose of this bureau IS not to en-
barrass or assail legitimate business, but
to aid in bringing about better indus
trial condition-a condition under which
there shall be obedience to law and rec
ognition of public obligation by all cor
porations, great or small The depart
ment of commerce and labor will be not
only the clearing house for information
regarding the business transactions of the
nation, but the executive arm of the
government to aid in strengthening our
domestic and foreign markets, in perfect
ing up our merchant marine, in prevent
ing the entrance of undesirable immi-
grants. in improving commercial and in
dustrial conditions, and in bringing together
on common ground those necessary part
ners in industrial progress-capital and
is steadily growing in volume. and the
trade relations. Constant watchfulness
is neededt<to secure to Americans sthe
chance to participate to the best advan-
IDENTIFY expect that the new department
will justify the expectation of it's Gre
atorS by the exercise of this watchful-
ness, as well as by the businesslike ad-
internal affairs as are intrusted to its
care.
Capital and Labor.
The consistent policy of the national gov
hold in check the INSCRIPTIONS man,
whether employer or empioye; but to re-
fuse to weaken indiyidual initiatiye or to
ment of the country. We recognize that
this is an era of federation and combina-
ton. in which great capitalistic corpora
of tremendous Importance in all industrial
renters. Hearty recognition is given the
far-reaching. beneficent work which has
been accomplished through both corpora
lions and unions. and the line as between
different corporations, as between different
unions, is drawn as it is between different
duct, the effort being to treat both organ
ICED capital and organized labor alike; ask
ing nothing save that the interests OF each
shall be brought into harmony with the
interests of the general public, and that
the conduct of each shall conform to the
fundamental rules of obedience to law, OF
feir dealing. towards all Whenever either
corporation, labor union or indivtd ual dis
regards the law or acts in q spirit OF ar
bitrary and tyrannous interference with
or individuals, then where the federal gov
eminent has jurisdiction, 1t will see to 1t
that the misconduct is stopped, paying not
the slightest heed to the position or power
of the corporation. the union or the indi-
yidual, but only to one vital: fact-that Is,
the question whether or not the conduct
Of the individual or aggregate of fndiyid-
uals Is in accordance with the law of the
land. Every man must be guaranteed
his liberty and his right to do as he likes
with his property or his labor. so long as
he does not infringe the rights Of others.
No man Is above the law and no man Is be-
sion when we require him to obey it. Obe-
dience to the law Is demanded as right;
not asked as favor. --...1. --..o :. =.
Receipts and Expenditures.
From ALI eurces,-exclusixe=o OF. the post
al service. the receipts Of the government
Ter the last fiscaiyear aggregated s560, 3ss, 674
The expenditures for the same period
year being $54.297.667. The indications
are that the surplus for the present fiscal
year will be very small, IL, indeed. there
be any surplus. From July to Novem-
proximately. s., ooo, 900 less than the re-
ceipts from the same source for CORE
spending portion of last year. Should
this decrease continue at the same ratio
throughout the fiscal year. the surplus
"! would 1id od be redueed by, approximately
toms suffer much further decrease dur
ing the fiscal year. the surplus would
vanish.
Financial Legislation Not Needed.
The integrity of our currency is be-
yond question, and under present condi-
lions 1t would be unwise and unnecessary
to attempt a reconstruction of our en-
erty should be granted the secretary of
the treasury to deposit customs re-
seip.s as Is granted him in the deposit Of
receipts from other sources. In my mes