Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-24

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| and upon which we have acted and are
acting, in the. matter of sound cur
question from becoming unsettled is to
keep the Republiean party in power
| erence to capital and labor, Individual
way Of answer is to point to what We
| have actually done, and to say that if
carry out the policy we have been pur-
suing, and to execute the laws as reso-
we have executed them in the past
The action OF the sattorney-genera1 in
laws and she aa action Of ass
last congress in charging the scope of
creating the department of commerce
have for the first time opened a chance
for the national government TO deal in
| or for evil, because of the accumulation
cause Of the new reis f caused ih thepe
| by The laws are now being administer
WORKING need is Shown f for amen m nnef
| or addition to them-whether better to
| guarantee the rights of Shippers. or in
any other direction-this need will be
mon law. developed. affords a com
| Plete legal remedy against monopolies.''
only by the state courts and officers. No
action whatever under them. It was this
states 20 control trusts and monopolies.
winch led TO the passage of the federal
trust act and the Interstate commerce
act; and it is only through the exercise
and by the statutes of the last congress
experimenting them that the national
over the subject 70 say th nris aetion
against trusts and monopolies should be
limited to the application of the common
tiona1 government should take no action
Undoubtedly. the multiplication of
trusts and their increase in power has
Gals charged with the duty of enforc-
cedure-" Such structure upon the failure
of the officials of the national govern
eertainiy not Wholly ivy un nd ser as far
as the administration preceding Presi-
ministration. 1t is also undoubtedly true
having both the disposition and the cour-
age to enforce existing law This is
by the consistent and steadily continued
action of the department of justice I'M
der the present administration.
So far as the rights of the individual
wage-worker and. the Individual cal ital-
list concerned, both as regards one
another as regards the public, and
regards organlzed capital and labor the
SO clear that there is no excuse for mis-
popng It ugn5 ans f9F With
the limits defined by the national consti-
sought to secure to ench an the f ha
enjoyment of his right to live. his life
he deems best. SO long as he wrongs
no one else. 1t has shown in effective
this guarantee. it treats all men. rich nor or
poor, whatever their creed. their color,
fore the law Under our form of gov
eminent the sphere in which the nation
as distinguished from the state. can act
is narrowly circumscribed; but within
ths6 al That 9eua be Done has
of the restriction upon the power of ac-
matters. Being ourselves mindful Of
them we have been scrupuiously careful
promises. and on the other hand to keep
these promises in letter and in spirit,
the tariff we are at once confronted by
the doubt as to whether our opponents
say that protection is robbery and
promise to carry themselves accordingly
persons Sons among them assert that they do
not really mean this and that. if they
policy as regards the tariff: while others
seem anxious tS to prove that It is safe t
power would be only partial. and there |
fore they b wGg st not be apH to 90 ml5
plea to advance behalf of a party |
seeking to obtain control of the govern |
At the outset it is worth while 70 say
question of tariff revision or. tariff re-
duction with solution of the trust cues
ton. This is always sign of desire |
quately with the trust question. In |
oR ApFi on 1867 shiI 5 p2ah' at
THE question of tariff revision, speak !,
ing broadly. stands wholly apart from
the question of dealing. with the trusts
No change in tariff duties can have any |
substantial effect in solving the so-called |
trust problem. Certain great trusts or |
great corporations are wholly unaffected |
are of any Importance have as matter
of fact numbers of smaller American |
competitors: and of course a change in
the tariff which would work injury to
merely injury but destruction to its
smaller competitors: and equally of |
course such a change would mean disas-
ter to AN the wage-workers connected
with either the large or the small cor
pOrat ions. From the standpoint of those |
in the solution of the trust |
merely mean that the trust was relieved |
of the competition of its weaker Amer |
lean competitors. and thrown only into
and that the first effort to meet this new
would be made by cutting |
down wages. and would therefore be pri-
of some of our greatest trusts such
change might confer upon them a posi-
tive benefit. Speaking broadly. it is evil
dent that the changes in the tariff will
ply as they affect the whole country
The tariff affects trusts only. as it af-
fects all other interests 1t makes all
these interests. large or small, pront-
able. and its benefits can be taken from
the large only under penalty of taking
them from the small also.
It is but ten years since the last attempt
was made. by means of lowering the
tariff to prevent some people from pros
oering too much The attempt was en-
year was among the causes which in |
hat year and for some time afterwards