The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-09-17

abducted and that p each case the wronl
complained OF was righted and expiated
That thn The sst few " d s%yt tns ys
followed by the long, delayed CONCESSION
OF their Just rights to those Americans con
eerned In educational work In Turkey
Do they object to the trade treaty will
/ China, SO full of advantage for the Amer
lean people In the future? DO they objec
to the fact that the ships carrying tn
national flag now have higher standar'
| than ever before In craftsmanship and II
| seamanship, as individual units and a
component parts OF squadrons and fleets
Ii they object to any or all OF these things
We join Issue with them.
Executive Entertainments"
when our opponents speak OF ZEN
croachments by the executive upon tn
authority OF congress or the judiciary, ap
parentiy the act they ordinarily nave !
view Is Pension Order No y. issued unde
directed that hereafter any veteran OF IN
civil war who had reached the age OF .
should be Presumptively entitled 10 TN I'm
der the dependent pension law 70 thos'
whose capacity to earn their livelihood b,
cen ana Sa has Sy s he y
was reached the presumption should %
that the physical disability was complete
the age being treated as an eyidentlai f &C
| performance of duty imposed upon the
| president by an act OF congress, which re-
| qures the executive to make regulations
| to govern the subordinates OF the pension
! office In determining who are entitled 10
| pensions. President Cleveland had already
exercised this power BY q regulation which
declared that rs should be set as the age
at which total disability should be con-
clusivelyf presumed. Similarly President
Mckinley established 90 as the age at winch
half disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed. The regulation now in question,
In the exercise of the same power, supple
mented these regulations made under
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley
III our opponents come into power they
can revoke this order and announce that
they will treat the veterans Of 62 to 20 as
presumably in full bodily vlgor and not en-
tnt T 70 state that they inters to do this?
II so. we accept the issue. II not, Their, we
have the right to ask why they raise an
issue which, when raised. they DO not-ven-
Criticisms OF the administrator set
Element OF the coal strike and the suit
against the Northern Securities company
are cited, and the president says:
"Such mutually destructive criticisms
furnish an adequate measure of the chance
for coherent action or constructive legisla-
ton II our opponents should be given pow
err"
Democratic Policies.
or the policies for which the democratic
party processes to stand the president says:
$50 much for what our opponents openly
or covertly advance In the way OF an at
tack on the acts OF the administration
When we come to consider the policies for
which they profess TO stand we are met
with the difficulty always arising when
statements of policy are so made that they
can be interpreted In different ways. On
some of the vital questions that have con-
fronted the American people In the last
decade our opponents take the position
that silence is the best possible way to
their lukewarm attitude of partial ac-
quiescence in what others have accom-
plished entities them to be made the Gus
mercial interests which they have but re-
Gently sought to ruin"
He reviews the history OF the republican
party's efforts to establish a stable national
currency, and says:
Until our opponents as party explicit
ly adopt the Views which we hold and upon
which we have acted and are acting, In the
way to keep the question from becoming
unsettled Is to keep the republican party
in power"
He points to the record of the admins
tration In its dealings with both capital
and labor, and carefully outlines each step
that has been taken for the enforcement
OF the antitrust laws. and explains the
books In opposition to the democratic claim
that the common law, as developed af-
fords a complete legal remedy against mo-
nopolies," and Of this he says:
but there is no common law OF the
United States. It's rules can be enforced
only by the state courts and officers. No
federal court or officer could take any
action whatever under them. 1t was this
fact. coupled with the inability Of the states
to control trusts and monopolies, which
led to the passage Of the federal statutes
known as the Sherman antitrust act and
the interstate commerce act; and II Is only
through the exercise Of the powers con-
ferred by these acts. and by the statutes
OF the last congress supplementing them.
that the national government acquires any
jurisdiction over the subject. To say that
action against trusts and monopolies
should be limited to the application, Of
the national government should take no
action whatever to regulate them"
The Tariff Issues.
He charges the democrats with insin-
cerity and evasiveness in their statements
regarding a tariff policy, and says:
Undoubtedly it would be possible at the
present time TO prevent any OF the trusts
from remaining prosperous by the simple
eXpedient Of making such a sweeping
change In the tariff as to paralyze the in;
dustries of the country. The trusts would
cease TO prosper; but their smaller COM
petitors would be ruined. and the wage
workers would starve, while II would not
pay the farmer to haul his produce to mar
ket."
Continuing on the subject OF the tariff he
says:
From time TO time schedules must un.
doubtedly be rearranged and readjustet
to meet the shifting needs Of the country
but this can with safety be done only by
those who are committed to the cause oil
the protective system. To uproot and De
stroy that system would be to insure the
prostraton CT business, the closing of fac
tories the impoverishment OF the farmer
the ruin OF the capitalist, and the starva
tlon of the wage-worker.
1T is a matter of regret that the pro
tective tariff policy, which, during tn,
last 40 odd years, has become part of tn,
very fiber of this country. is not now &C
! ccpted as definitely established. Surel,
| we have a right to say that II has passed
! beyond the domain Of theory, and a RICH
! to expect that not only it's original advo
! Gates, but those who at one time dlstruste,
! 1t on theoretic grounds, should now &C
| quiesce In the results that have been prove,
! over and over again by actual experience
| These 40 odd years have been the mos
prosperous years this nation has eve
| seen; more prosperous years than an!
| other nation has ever seen. Beyond ques
! ton this prosperity could not have com
| II the American people had not possesse
| the necessary thrift, energy and bushes
! intelligence to turn their vast material re
sources to account. But II IL no less tru
| that II is our economic policy as regard
| the tariff and nanceNwhich has enable
| us as n nation to make such good use o
| the individual capacities OF our citizens
| Every class OF our people Ii benefited b
| the protective tariff. During the last fe,
| years the merchant has seen the expor
| trade OF this country grow faster than eve
| In our previous history. The manufacture
| could not keep his factory running ~
| were not for the protective tariff. TIL
| wage worker would do well to remembe