The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-01

MIA . civil proceeding against the said
Federal Salt company for maintaining q
combination and monopoly In restraint OF
interstate trade and commerce. .9
''s. Interstate Commerce Commission
VS.. Baird and Others.-This proceeding
grew out Of an investigation which the
making into the business and methods
of the so-called coal-carrying railroads,
namely: The Philadelphia & Read1ng
railway company: Lehigh Valley rail-.
Western railroad company; Central Rail
road Company Of New Jersey. New YORK,
Susquehanna & Western railroad com
pany; Erie railroad company; New York
Delaware & Hudson company; Penn
sylVania railroad company, and Baltl-
moro & Ohio railroad company. me IN
the refusal of certain officers of the rail-,
road companies to give tesumony ana
produce books and papers which the com,
to the inquiry, petition was filed, under
the direction of the attorney general IN
the United States circuit court ior Inc
to section II of the act to regulate com
MERGE, for the purpose of compelling the
| recalcitrant witnesses to give the testl-
mony and produce the books and papers
in question.
'7: interstate Commerce Commisslo sion
VS.! Nashville, Chattanooga & ST. LOUIS
Railway Company ct al.-Thls was pc
Commission in the circuit court OF the
United States for the southern district or
Florida, under section l6 OF the act TO
regulate commerce, to restrain the de-
PENDANT railroads from charging rates on
shipments between certain points ~
Florida, Tennessee and Missouri, Wh1ch
the commission allege to be unlawful IN
the following. respects: la) Excesslv We
and unreasonable; (b) discriminating; ana
(c) higher for short hauls than for long
hauls
"s. Hay and Straw Classification Case.
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway Company)-This is proceeding
in equity in the United states 81 o p6o
brought by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, under the direction OF the
attorney general, pursuant to the PROV
It's object is to prevent and restrain the
defendant railroads from continuing what
the commission alleges to be an unJust
Just and unreasonable charges for their
transportation from the Mississippi river
to the Atlantic seaboard
49, Cotton Traffic Pool Cases. Omitted
Company ct al, in the United States dis
trict court for the northern DISTRICT or
Georgia, and United States. vs.. Illinois
United states district court for the west
ern district of Tennessee.)-- are
prosecutions in which It Is charged that
combination to control the routing Of
cotton, which resulted in q traffic pool
Immediately after the institution Of the
IN thess Gases cas- sb the sre
| left free to route their shipments as they
chose.
There have been number Of proceed
| ings OF minor character orousntf una ger
| the acts to regulate commerce, Tor ex-
| ample, proceedings to compel INTERSTATE
| carriers to make annual reports to the
| Interstate Commerce Commission, ano
the like; but it iss thought that 1t Is n e5
! the desire of the house to have deta1leo
| account Of that litigation" -
In his supplemental report Of Feb. TO-
1904, the attorney general states:
port of Jan, Ii, 1904, the case Of the In :
terstate Commerce Commission VS.. The
Chesapeake & Ohio and New York, New
pending in the United States circuit court
| for the western district Of Virginia AT
I,ynchburg. This was petition In equity,
fled July 49, 1872 tor the R nan;es q from e
Violating the act to regulate commerce,
which prohibits interstate carriers from
making unjust DETERMINATIONS or giving
undue preference in rates.
The government contended that the law
| was being violated in that coal CON-
pany controlled by the chesapeake q
Ohio company SOLO eoai to o me SeT for less
! than the cost Of mining plus the pup
| ished tariff OF the Chesapeake & ONO
for transporting the coal TO iss o les tbe
! Chesapeake & Ohio transporting the coal
in question at less than it's published
| rates.
Democrats Did Nothing.
Some Of the most important Of these
cases have already been decided IN taV e.:
| the supreme court of the United states.
Compare the apathy which prevailed dur
ing Cleveland's last administration, IN the
matter Of protecting the American people ,s
against the inroads of combinations IN
restraint Of trade, with the energy that a
has prevailed in that behalf during the
both in the legislative and executive &C.
partments Of the government. Inc Re
| publican party has In this matter, az IN
everything else that concerns Inc well ant
of promises but of action, while the Dem
! ocratic party has confined itself TO mere
| platform anathemas and platform Iulnl-
ises nor the candidate of the Democratic
| narfy. if duly scanned and weighed, give
anv valid ground for anticipating any
substantial legislative or aqh1lnlsira ~ :, :
source The only affirmative remedy the
| party suggests would not reach the worst
feat ures of the evil ana w1uid De Sfe ut'e cry
would put labor on the Struggling ana
hard level of labor in the Old World.
The Philippines.
| The Democratic party Is still shouting
| imperialism still finding fault with our
| ACQUISITION of the Philippine islands, and
with our government OF the same; II m
perialism consists in the fact that the
| Filipinos have not yet secured all the
political rights that are given to the peo-
pie of the organized territories of the
! United States-and this seems to be the
| sense in which the Democracy use the
| term-then worse form OF imperialism
| prevails in some of the southern states
| than anywhere else under our flag.
| ''Wherever" says the Democratic plat
| form, there may exist people incapable
| of being governed under American laws
| in consonance with the American Consti-
! tuition, the territory Of that people ought
not to be a part of the American do
country where a majority of the people
are deemed by the Democracy to be in
this condition., and are so treated BY
this Democratic token and rule these
states fought not to be part of the
American domain. 0, Democracy.
Judge not that We be not Judged
We have never made a territorial ac
QUESTION, in all our history as a nation,
on higher and nobler grounds than in the
case of the Philippine islands. At the
close of the Spanish war-a just war, and
one in which all our people had their
hearts-we found ourselves in possession
those islands had been for. more than
three centuries under the despotic and
tyrannical rule of Spain, landlsss, unedu.
Gated poems, Invested Of all political
rights. and without any knowledge or
exnerience in se1f-government. Polit-