The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-09

Of feeling Of responsibility and forbear-
ance among capitalists and wage workers
alike; a feeling of respect on the part OF
each man for the rights of others; a feel
ing of broad community Of interest. not
merely of capitalists among themselves,
and of wage workers among themselves,
but of capitalists and wage workers in their
relations to each other, and Of both In their
relations to their fellows who with them
make up the body polite There are many
captains of industry, many labor leaders,
who realize this.
Bureau of Corporations.
The bureau of corporations has made
careful preliminary investigation of many
important corporations 1t will make
special report on the beef industry.
The policy of the bureau is to accomplish
the purposes of its creation by cooperation,
not antagonism; by making constructive
legislation, not destructive prosecution,
the immediate object of its inquiries; by
conservative investigation of law and fact,
and by refusal to issue incomplete and
hence necessarily Inaccurate reports. Its
policy being thus one of open inquiry INTO,
and not attack upon. business, the bureau
has been able to gain not only the CONN.,
dence, but, better still, the cooperation OF
men engaged in legitimate business
The bureau offers to the congress the
means of getting at the cost Of production
of our various great staples OF commerce.
OF necessity the careful investigation OF
special corporations will afford the COM
missioner knowledge of certain business
facts the publication of which might be an
improper infringement of private rights.
The method of making public the results
of these Investigations affords, under the
law a means for the protection OF private
rights. The congress will have all facts
except such as would give to another cor
poration information which would inJure
the Legitimate business of a competitor and
destroy the incentive for individual supe-
riority and thrift.
The bureau has also made exhaustive
| examinations into the legal condition I'M
| der which corporate business is carried
| on in the various states; into all judicial
decisions on the subject; and into the
various systems of corporate taxation In
USE 1 call special attention to the report
| of the chief of the bureau; and l earn
! estly ask that the congress carefully con-
| slider the report and recommendations OF
the commissioner on this subject.
The business of insurance vitality affects
the great mass of the people of the
United States and is national and not
! local in it's application. 1t involves a
| multitude of transactions among the peo-
| pie of the different states and between
| American companies and foreign govern
| ments. / urge that the congress care
| fully consider whether the power of the
bureau of corporations cannot constitu-
tionally be extended to cover interstate
| transactions in insurance.
Rebates.
| Above all else, we must strive to keep
| the highways of commerce open to all on
equal terms; and to do this it is neces-
sary to put a complete stop to all re-
| bates. Whether the shipper or the rail-
| III
the rebate must be stopped. the abuses
! of the private car and private terminal
| track and side-track systems must be
stopped, and the legislation of the Fifty
/ eighth congress which declares 1t to be
unlawful for any person or corporation
| to offer, grant, give, solicit, accept OF
| receive any rebate, concession or diScrim-
nation in respect of the transportation
of any property in interstate or foreign
| commerce whereby such property snail
by any device whatever be transported al
less rate than that named In the tarlHs
published by the carrier must be en-
forced. For some time after the enact
ment of the act to regulate commerce II
remained a mooted question whether thai
act conferred upon the interstate com
merce commission the power, after it hao
found a challenged rate to be unreason'
able to declare what thereafter should
prima facie be the reasonable maximum
The supreme court finally resolved tina
question in the negative, so that as the
law now stands the commission simply
possess the bare power to denounce
particular rate as unreasonable. While
am of the opinion that at present i
would be undesirable, if 1t were not i'm
practicable, finally to clothe the commits
sion with general authority to fix rail
road rates, 1 do believe that, as a fai
security to shippers, the commission
should be vested with the power, wher'
a given rate has been challenged ant
after full hearing found to be unreason
able, to decide, subject to judicial re
view, what shall be a reasonable rate t
| take it's place; the ruling of the com
mission to take effect Immediately, ant
: to obtain unless and until 1t is reversed
} by the court of review. The government
must in increasing degree supervise an
regulate the workings Of the railway
engaged in interstate commerce; and sue
increased supervision is the only alterna
tive to an increase of the present evli
on the one hand or still more radlca
policy on the other. In my judgment tn
most important legislative act now need
ed as regards the regulation of corpora
lions is this act to confer on the inter
state commerce commission the power t
revise rates and regulations, the revise
rate to at once go into effect, and to sta
r in effect unless and until the court of re
, view reverses it.
r Department Of Agriculture.
The department of agriculture has grow
I | into an educational institution with faC
ulty of 1000 specialists making researc
l into all the sciences of production. Tn
e congress appropriates, directly and ind
l rectly, S6,OOO,0O0 annually to carry on TIL
work 1t reaches every state and territor
| in the union and the islands of the sea late
: | ly come under our flag Cooperation is ha
D with the state experiment stations, an
e with many other institutions and indivit
\ uals The world is carefully searched fc
e new varieties of grains, fruits, grasse
: vegetables, trees and shrubs, suitable
= | various localities in our country; an
: marked benefit to our producers has r.
Y | suited.
[ The activities of our age in lines Of RI
4 search have reached the tillers Of the so
n and inspired them with ambition to kno
n more of the principles that govern tt
r forces of nature with which they have
n deal. Nearly half of the people of tn
e country devote their energies to CROWN
: things from the soil. Until a recent da
o little has been done to prepare these mi
!, lions for their life work. In most lines
n human activity college trained men a.
: the leaders. The farmer had no oppo
: tunity for special training until the col
: gress made provision for 1t 40 years az
: During these years progress has been mao
i and teachers have been prepared. Ov
y 5000 students are in attendance at our sta
d agricultural colleges. The federal COVER
y ment expends 900 annually towal
o this education and for research in Was
d ington and in the several states and teri
N | IONS rtro Of III ripu1tnro /,