The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
BIRMINGHAM p. Q.
 GETS FIVE CLERKS
IN ANNUAL REIMBURSEMENT OF SALARIES IN POSToFFICES OF FIRST AND SECOND CLASS Lo- CAL OFFICE IS FAVORED.

Washington, June .-tspecial.)-The annual readjustment of clerks salaries in postoffices of the first and second class was made at the postoffice department today.
 Under the new arrangement Birming- ham receives five new clerks at salaries of S6O0 each. Four clerks are promoted from $500 to $7OO; one from $500 to s9O0; one from $900 to 5000, and one from $500 to si4O0.
 Montgomery gets two new clerks at SGOO; two promoted from $eoO to s700; two from $500 to 5000; one from $11O0 to s12eo; one from $12oO to $500.
 Mobile gets one new clerk at $500, one promoted from $500 to $6oo, three from s6oO to S7OO one from $500 to s9oO, one from ssoo to slOoo, one from s1Ooo to s11oo-
 Anniston has one promotion from $500 to s4O0.
 Bessemer gets new clerk at $500, one promoted to $eoO ard ore promoted to sIooe Florence has two promotions from $5O0 to seol each.
 Tuscaloosa has two promotions from $500 to $500 and one from $500 to $90o.
 
 piled up by wind and sea, to be swept away to be formed and reformed again. It is a growth. Traditions and sentiments reaching down through struggles of years gone, and the stress and heat of old con iicts, and the influence of leaders passed away and the ingrained habit of apply ing fixed rules of interpretation and of thought-all give to a political party f--,. f,,oI Iforo lN1a which must follow in it's deliberate judg- ment and ultimate action, like results for good or bad government. We do not de- ny that other parties have in their mem bership men of morality and patriotism; but we assert with confidence that above all others, by the influences which gave it birth and have maintained its life, by the causes for which it has striven the ideals which 1t has followed, the repub- lican party as a party has acquired a character which makes it's ascendency the best guarantee of a government loyal to principle and effective in execution. Through 1t more than any other polit- ical organization the moral sentiment of America finds expression"
 The Trusts.
 After reviewing the administration and it's attitude toward the trusts MT. Root continues:
 "The attorney general has gone on in the same practical way, not to talk about the trusts but to proceed against the trusts by law for their regulation In separate suits fourteen of the great rail- roads of the country have been restrained by injunction from giving illegal rebates to the favored shippers, who py means Of them were driving out the smaller ship pers and monopolzing the grain and meat business of the country. The beef trust was put under injunction The off cers of the railroads engaged in the cot ton carrying pool, affecting all that great industry of the south, were indicted and have abandoned their combination. The Northern Securities company, which un- dertook by combining in one ownership the capital stocks of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads to end traffic competition in the northwest has been destroyed by a vigorous prosecution expedited and brought to a speedy and effective conclusion in the supreme court under the act of February Il, 1903.
 ne right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to compel the production of books and papers has been established by the judgment of the Supreme court in a suit against the coal carrying roads. Oth- CT suits have been brought and other in- dictments have been found and other trusts have been driven back within legal bounds. No investment in lawful business has been jeopardized, no fair and honest enterprise has been injured but 1t Is certain that wherever the con- stitutional power of the national govern ment reaches, trusts are being practi- cally regulated and curbed within lawful bounds as they never have been before, and the men of small capital are finding in the efficiency and skill of the national department of justice a protection they never had before against the crushing effect of unlawful combinations.
 we have at last reached a point where the public wealth of farm land which has seemed so inexhaustible. is nearly gone, and the problem of utilizing the remainder for the building of new homes has become of vital importance.
 "The present administration has dealt with this problem vigorously and effec- lively. Great areas had been unlawfully fenced In by men of large means. and the | home builder had been excluded. Many of these unlawful aggressors have been compelled to relinguish their booty. and more than 100000 acres of land have been restored to the public. Extensive frauds ! in procuring grants of land, not for home | steads. but for speculation. have been in- i vestigated and stopped, and the perpe- | -~---~~7-->~-~----