The progress., 1904-10-01

itself. This can be achieved by provid
ing that such a reasonable period shal
intervene between the date Of the en-
actment of the statute making q revi
sion and the date of its enforcement
as shall be deemed sufficient for tn
industry or business affected by sucl
revision to adjust itsen to the change
and new conditions imposed. So con
fident IN in the belief that the de
mand Of the people for q reform Of tn
tariff is just, that indulge the hop'
that should democratic house Of rep
resentatives and a democratic execu
tive De chosen by the people, even
republican senate may heed the warn
ing and consent to give at least SOM
measure Of relief to the people.
The combinations. popularity called
trusts, which aim to secure monopoly
Of trade In the necessariesof life as vel
fsas in those things that are employed
upon the farm. IN the factory ana ir
many other fields Of industry, have beer
encouraged and stimulated by excessive
tariff duties. These operate to furnish
a substantial market in the necessities
Of S0,O00,000 of people, by practical.
ly excluding competition. With SO large
amarket and highly renunera.ive prices
continuing long after the line of possible
competition would naturally be reached
the temptation Of all engaged in the
same business to combine so as to pre-
vent competition at home and result
ing reduction of prices, has proved ir-
resistible in number Of cases. All men
must agree that the net result of enact
ing laws that foster such inequitable
conditions, is most unfortunate for the
people as whole, and it would seem as
II all ought to agree that the effective
remedy would be to appropriately modi-
fly the offending law. The growth CT
monopoly, of which complaint is Justly
made, cannot be laid at the doors of the
courts of this country. The decisions OF
the supreme court of the United States,
the court Of appeals Of this state and the
courts Of last resort in many other
states. warrant the assertion that the
common law as developed affords COM
plete legal remedy against monopolies.
The fact that they have multiplied in
number and increased in power has been
due, not to the failure Of the courts to
apply the law when properly moved by
administrative officials or private indi-
viduals, but to the failure of officials
charged with the duty of enforcing the
law to take the necessary procedure to
procure the judgments of the courts in
the appropriate jurisdiction, coupled
with the fact that the legislative depart
ments of some of our state governments,
as we'll as congress in the manner al
ready referred to, have, by legislation,
encouraged their propagation. What is
needed-in addition to the passage of
statute revising the tariff duties to a
reasonable basis-is not so much other
and different laws, as officials having
both the disposition and the courage to
enforce existing law While this is my
view, of the scope of the common law, if
1t should be made to appear that it is a
mistaken one, then favor such further
legislation within constitutional limita-
tions as will give the people just and
full measure of protection.
1t Is difficult to understand how any
citizen of the United States, much less
a descendant Of revolutionary stock, can
the thought Of permanently
denying the right Of self-government to
the Filipinos. Can we hope to instill into
the minds Of our descendants reverence
and devotion for government by the
people, while denying ultimately that
right to the Inhabitants of distant coun-
tries, whose territory we have acquired
either by purchase or by force? Can we
say to the Filipinos: your lives, your
liberty 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 constitution of every
state, IS we'll as into the fourteenth |
of the constitution of the |
United States? Can we hope for the re- |
;pect of the civilized world, while proud |
y guaranteeing to every citizen of the |
United States that no law shall be made |
)r enforced which shall abridge the priv |
leges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, or deny to any person the
Qual protection of the laws, and at the
anne time not only deny similar rights
% the inhabitants of the Philippines,
,ut take away from them the right OF
rial by jury, and place their lives and
lie disposition of their property in the
leeping of those whom we send to them
o be their governors? We shall cer-
ainly rue it as nation if we make any
uch attempt Viewing the question
ven from the standpoint of national
elfishness, there is no prospect that the
f the islands and the $3.50, 900, 900 said
o have been since disbursed will ever
ONE back to us. The accident of war
'rought the Philippines into our possess
ion and we are not at liberty to disre-
ard the responsibility which thus came
0 us, but that responsibility will be best
observed by preparing the islanders as
apidly as possible for self-government
nd giving to them the assurances that
viii come as soon as they are reason
bly, prepared for it. There need be
ear that the assertion so often M
T late, that we have now become
-orld power, will then be without 81
ort. Ours is a world power, and as sue
must be maintained, but deny that ii
; at all recently that the United States
as attained that eminence. Our coun-
ry became world power over century
60, when, having thrown off foreign |
omination, the people established a
rec government. the source of whose
uthority sprung, and was continuously
, proceed, from the will of the people
themselves 1t grew as a world power as .
3 sturdy citizens, to whose natural in
rease were added immigrants from the |
Id world seeking to obtain here the
berty and prosperity denied them in
heir own countries. spread over the face
( the land. reduced the prairies and for {
Youth with a Mission.
81 can't imagine how you can dislike
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