Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-02

| 1aclhtes and markets. and capital TO
| transform their natural wealth into mar
| ketable merchandise.
| He is equally enthusiastic about building
| up the navy, and If Ais purpose Is carried
out before the end of his administration the
| United States will stand third IL not Sec
ond' among the naval powers of the world.
The Trust Problem.
You may expect to see the trust problem
| treated in the message in the same manner
that 1t was treated in his letter OF accept
| ance. There will be impetuous prose-
| cutions, no grandstand plays. no sensa-
uonal demonstration of any sort; but the
bureau Of corporations under James r.
Garfield, will continue the Investigations It
! has been quietly making for the last six
months and, at the proper time, the results
or the inquiries will be laid before Congress
for Its information and for the information
OF the public If anything criminal be dis
covered 1t will be cited to the department
of Justice in order that the Attorney Cen
eral may use 1t as a basis for proceedings
IN the courts. The President has theory
that publicity is great safeguard; that a
knowledge that their transactions will be
off1cially advertised to all the world will
have wholesome restraint upon the man.
ayers and manipulators of corporations
he believes, too, that the public are euti-
tied TO accurate information concerning the
earnings. expenses and dividends of cor
porations whose stock is a marketable CONF
modify and is held by investors generally.
Change of Campaign Methods.
Secretary Wilson, who made canvass
of nearly every northern state during the
late campaign. and came in contact with
the agricultural element particularly, says
that radical change has occurred in the
conduct of campaigns in the country dis
tricts. which he attributes to the extension
OF the rural free delivery of mails Four
years ago, during the last Mckinley cam
paign, he says, the old-fashioned school,
tfaor
and lawyers and politicians members of
legislature, and the chairman of the county
committee eanvassed each school district
closely and held meetings I'm every school
house, at which the issues of the election
were explained to the voters and discussed
from the standpoints of both parties.
But that method is now obsolete There
We're very few school house meetings dur
ing the last campaign. They had to be
abandoned because the farmers would not
attend them. Almost every farmer in the
country has a newspaper delivered daily at
his house by postal carrier, and he reads
1t every night before he goes to bed. That
paper contains all the information he wants
concerning political issues; hence the Wis
Its of the politicians are purely personal
Discussions are superfiuous and the farm
efs wiz not go to a meeting unless some
famous man Is advertised as the speaker.
Then they are attracted by curiosity
Ihere was never a time said Secretary
wilson, in this or any other country when
there was so much independent thinking
and independent action as occurred at the
polls November g. There was never n
time when so little influence was exerted
by the politicians. There was never
campaign with so few meetings and L
think the change is a permanent one The
farmer VIII read the evidence and argu-
ments In his newspaper every day in polt-
ical campaigns hereafter, and will make up
his own mind. In my opinion this change
is due directly to the introduction of the
free rural delivery mail service.
Questions Regarded as Settled.
What struck me with great force, also"
continued the Secretary, lis the unanimous
among people of all classes
that two things have been permanently set
tied as the. national policy of our govern
ment, and those are g. gold standard of
money and the protection of industries
noticed in the papers that some of the DEM
ocrats think they might have carried the
election If they had made the tariff the pre-
dominating issue, but that is a mistake.
The democratic candida ties would not have
had even as many votes as they got The
question of the protection of American in
duStr1eS Is as firmly fmbedded I'm our ma
tional policy as sound money and IL cannot
be disturbed. The only difference of opin-
Ion concerns the extent to which that pro-
lection is necessary. Upon that people will
never agree, any more than they will ever
agree on doctrinal theology. Everybody
will be influenced by his own personal in
terests or opinion; but the general principle
cannot be shaken.
ITO one who Travelled about the country
as did," continued the Secretary "the re-
suit of the election could not have been a
surprise, and the reason for the overwhelm-
ng vote in favor of Roosevelt is perfectly
lear. Ten years ago, when President Cleye-
and was elected, everybody wanted
change, for one reason or another, and
here was a change. This year nobody
wanted change, because every one is sat
SIZED with existing conditions, and the con-
sequences of the change of 1893 are still re.