The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-11

| reasonable period shall intervene,
between the date of the enactment of
he statute making Il revision and the
late of its enforcement, as shall be
leemed sufficient for the industry or
business affected by such revision to
adjust itself to the changes and new
conditions imposed. SO confident am
the belief that the demand of the
people for reform of the tariff is
ust, that l indulge the hope that
hould a Democratic House of Repre-
5entativeS and a Democratic executive
>e chosen by the people, even a Re
publican Senate may heed the warning
md consent to give at least some
measure of relief to the people.
The Tariff Feeds the Trusts.
The combinations popularity called
rustS, which aim to secure mono
poly of trade in the necessaries of
ife as well as in those things that are
Employed upon the farm, in the fac
DRY and in many other fields of in
iuStry, have been encouraged and
stimulated by excessive tariff duties
These operate to furnish a substantial
market in the necessities of eighty
nillions of people, by practically eX-
luding competition. With SO large u
market and highly remunerative
prices continuing long after the line
Of possible competition would natur-
lilly be reached, the temptation of all
engaged IN the same business to COM
bine so as TO prevent competition at
home and a resulting reduction of
prices has proved irresistible in q
lumber of cases. All men must
gree that the net result of enactnS
avs that foster such inequitable con-
iitions, is most unfortunate for the
people as q whole, and il would seem
as if all ought to agree that the effec
tive remedy would be to appropriately
modify the offending law The growth
If monopoly, Of which complaint is
Justly made. cannot be laid at the
toorS of the courts of the country.
The decisions of the Supreme Court
IF the United States, the Court of APP
oealS of this State and the courts Of
iaSt resort in many other States, war
ant the assertion that the common
aw as developed affords q complete
egal remedy against mOnopOlieS. The
fact that they have multiplied in num-
0erS and increased in power has been
iue, not to the failure of the courts
20 apply the law when properly moved
0y administrative officials or private
Individuals, but to the failure of of
icials charged with the duty of en-
torcing the law to take the necessary
If the courts in the appropriate juris-
liction, coupled with the fact that
,he legislative departments of some Of
our State governments, as we'll as
congress in the manner already re-
ierred to, have, by legislation, encour-
aged their propagation. What is
leeded--in addition to the passage of
| statute revising the tariff duties to
/ reasonable baSis-iS not so much
nth 10 nnin lie,
having both the disposition and the
courage to enforce existing law. While
this is my view of the scope of the
common law, if it should be made to
appear that it is ii mistaken one, then
favor such further legislation within
constitutional limitations as well give
the people q just and full measure Of
protection.
Self Government for FiIipinos.
1t is difficult to understand how any
citizen of the United States, much less
L descendant of Revolutionary stock,
can tolerate the thought of permanent
~ denying the right of self-govern-
ment to the Filipinos Can we hope
TO inStll into the minds of our 0e-
scendants reverence and devotion for
a government by the people, while de-
nying ultimately that right to the in
habitants of distants countries, whose
territory we have acquired either by
purchase or by force? Can we say
to the F'ilipinos, your lives, your Ii
terty and your property may be taken
from you without due process of law
for all time" and expect we Will long
glory in that feature of Magma Charta,
which has become Incorporated, in
substance and effect into the Consti-
tuition of every State, as we'll as into
the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States? Can
we hope for the respect of the civil
lied world, while proudly guarantee
ing to every citizen of the United
States that no law shall be made or
enforced which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens OF
the United States, or deny to any per-
son the equal protection of the laws,
and at the same time not only deny
similar rights to the inhabitants of the
Philippines, but take away from them
the right of trial by jury, and place
their lives and the disposition of their
property in the keeping of those whom
we send to them to be their govern
ors? We shall certainly rue itsas a
nation if we make any such attempt.
Viewing the question even from the
standpoint of national seihshhess'
there is no prospect that the twenty
millions of dollars expended in the
purchase of the islands and the six
hundred and fifty millions said to
have been since diSbursed will ever
come back to US. The accident Of
war brought the Philippines into our
possession and we are not at liberty
TO disregard the responsibility which
thus came to US, but that response
bility will be best subserved by pre-
pairing the islanders as rapidly as
possible for government and Civ
ing to them the assurances that 1t
will come as soon as they are reason
ably prepared for it. There need be
10 fear that the assertion SO often
made of late, that we have now be-
come a world power, will then be
without support. Ours is world pow
er, and as such it must be maintain
cd, but l deny that it is at all re-
Gently that the United States has at
tanned that eminence. Our country
became a world power over a century
ago, when, having thrown off foreign
dominion, the people established a
free government, the source of whose
authority sprung, and was continu-
ously to proceed, from the Will of the
people themselves. 1t grew as world
power as it's sturdy citizens, to whose
natural increase were added immi-
grants from the old world seeking to