Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-16

OF an American squadron TO smyrna was
followed by the long,delayed concession
of their just rights to those Americans con-
cerned in educational work in Turkey? |
CSb saey so o4}fet @ of for Se mt
lean people in the future? Do they object |
to the fact that the ships carrying the |
national flag now have n higher standard |
than ever before in marksmanship and in |
seamanship, as individual units and as |
component parts of squadrons and fleets? |
If they object to any or all of these things, (
we join Issue with them. |
Executive Encroachments."
when our opponents speak of en-
croachments' by the executive upon the |
authority of congress or the judiciary, APP |
parently the act they ordinarily have in
view is Pension Order No. rs, issued under
the authority of existing law. This order
directed that hereafter any veteran Of the
civil war who had reached the age of 90
should be prosumptively entitled to the
pension of six dollars n month, given un
der the dependent pension. law to those
whose capacity to earn their livelihood by
manual labor has been decreased 90 per
cent, and that by the time the age of 40
was reached the presumption should be
that the physical disability was complete;
the age being treated as an evidential fact
in each case This order was made in the
performance of duty imposed upon the
president by an act of congress, which re-
quires the executive to make regulations
to govern the subordinates of the pension
Office in determining who are entitled to
pensions. President Cleveland had already
exercised this power by a regula ton which
declared that rs should be set as the age
at which total disability should be con-
Mckinley established G5 as the age at which
half disability should be conclusively pre-
sumed The regulation now in question,
in the exercise of the same power, supple
mentcd these regulations made under
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley.
"If our opponents come into power they
! can revoke this order and announce that
| they will treat the veterans of 62 to 40 as
presumably In full bodily vigor and not en-
| titled to pensions. Will they. now authori-
tatively state that they intend to do this?
| If So we accept the issue. If not, then we
have the right to ask why they raise an
issue which, when raised, tney do not VEN
Criticisms of the administration set
tlement of the coal strike and the suit
are cited, and the president says:
| such mutually destructive criticisms
| furnish an adequate measure of the chance
for coherent action or constructive lesisla-
tion, if our opponents should be given pow
Democratic Policies.
OF 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
whSh they Rr95Gss to stand we are
statements of policy are so made that they
can be Interpreted in different ways. On
! some oil the vital questions tnat nave con-
fronted the American people in the last
decade our opponents take the position
that silence is the best possible way 10
convey their views They contend that
their lukewarm attitude Of partial ac-
quiescence in what Others have accom-
plished entities them to be made the Gus
todians of the financial honor and COM
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 party explicit
ly adopt the views which We hold and upor
| which we have acted and aie acting, In the
matter of n sound currency the only rea
way to keep the question from becoming
; unsettled is to keep the republican part.
in power
He points to the record of the admins
tration in its dealings with both capita
and labor, and carefully out!ires each stel
that has been taken for the enforcement
of the anti-trust laws, and explains th
need of such laws on the national statut
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 law Of tn
2 only by the state courts and officers. n
: federal court or officer could take an
e action whatever under them. 1t was thi
fact coupled with the inability of the state
e to control trusts and monopoieS whic
V led to the passage of the federal statute
e known as the Sherman antitrust act an
h the interstate commerce act; and it is onl
through the exercise of the powers cor
/ ferred by these acts, and by the statute
o | of the last congress supplementing then
n that the national government acquires an
n jurisdiction over the subject To say tha
r action against trusts and monopolie
r should be limited to the application c
common law is equivalent to saying tha
: the national government should take n
d action whatever to regulate them"
The Tariff Issues.
r He charges the democrats with insir
e cerity and evasiveness in their statement
l. regarding a tariff policy, and says:
d "Undoubtedly it would be possible at ii
o present time TO prevent any of the trus
IS from remaining prosperous by the simp
IS eNpedient of making such a sweepir
o change in the tariff as to paralyze the il
d dustries of the country. The trusts wou
IS cease to prosper; but their smaller con
t petitors would be ruined, and the was
e workers would starve. while it would n
pay the farmer to haul his produce TO ma
ket."
Continuing on the subject of the tariff, ]
rt says:
.e From time to time schedules must u
J. doubtedly be rearranged and readjust'
Y, to meet the shifting needs of the countr
but this can with safety be dore only |
In those who are committed TO the cause
m the protective system. To uproot ard d
ID prostraton of business. the closing of fa
lie tories, the impoverishment of the farme
rs the ruin of the capitalist, and the starv
a. tion of the wage worker.
ut 1t Is matter of regret that the pr
tx tectiye tariff policy, which, during t
I'd last 40 odd years, has become part of t
st very fiber of this country, is not row a
ne cepted as definitely established Sure
is we have n right to say that it has pass
to beyond the domain of theory, and a rig
st TO expect that not only its original adv
st Gates, but those who at one time distrust
u it on theoretic grounds, should now a
en- quiesce in the results that have been prov
r. over and over again by actual eNperient
s. These 10 odd years have been the me
d. prosperous years this nation has eV
d. seen; more prosperous years than a
on other nation has ever seen. Beyond que
IT. ton this prosperity could not have col
at If the American people had not possess
at the necessary thrift, energy and businC
,ct intelligence to turn their vast material
Ial sources to account. But 1t is no less II
,e. that 1t Is our economic policy as reSar
or the tariff and finance which has enabl
NJ us as a nation to make such good use
70 the Individual capacities of our cltiZe
its and the natural resources of our count
IA Every class of our people is benefited
Die the protective tariff During the last I
1t years the merchant has seen the exp
ar trade of this country grow faster than e'
as In our previous history. The manufactu
or could not keep his factory running II
ce; were not for the protective tariff I
. wage worker would do we'll to rememl
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