Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-09

of feeling of responsibility and forbear-
| ance among capitalists and wage workers
| alike; feeling of respect on the part OF
each man for the rights Of others; feel
ing of broad community OF interest, not
merely of capitalists among themselves
and of wage workers among themselves
but of capitalists and wage workers in their
relations to each other, and of both In their
| relations to their fellows who with them
make up the body polite. There are many
| captains OF industry, many labor leaders,
| who realize this.
Bureau of Corporations.
The bureau OF corporations has made
careful preliminary investigation of many
| important corporations. 1t VIII make
| special report on the beef industry.
The policy of the bureau is to accomplish
| the purposes of its creation by cooperation,
| not antagonism; by making constructive
legislation, not destructive prosecution,
| the immediate object OF its inquiries; by
| conservative investigation of law and fact,
| and by refusal to issue incomplete and
hence necessarily inaccurate reports. Its
| policy being thus one of open inquiry into.
and not attack upon, business, the bureau
has been able to gain not only the conf
| dence, but, better still, the cooperation OF
men engaged in legitimate business.
The bureau offers to the congress the
means of getting at the cost of production
| of our various great staples OF commerce.
OF necessity the careful investigation of
special corporations will afford the COM
| missioner knowledge of certain business
facts, the publication of which might be an
improper infringement of private rights.
The method of making public the results
of these Investigations affords. under the
law, means for the protection of private
rights. The congress will have all facts
except such as would give to another cor
poration information which would injure
the legitimate business of competitor and
destroy the incentive for individual supe-
riority and thrift.
The bureau has also made exhaustive
examinations into the legal condition un-
der which corporate business Is carried
on in the various states into all judicial
decisions on the subject; and into the
various systems of corporate taxation in
use. call special attention to the report
of the chief of the bureau; and / earn
estly ask that the congress carefully con-
slider the report and recommendations Of
the commissioner on this subject.
The business of insurance vitality affects
the great mass of the people of the
United States and Is national and not
local in it's application. 1t involves a
multitude of transactions among the peo-
pie of the different states and between
American companies and foreign govern
ments. 1 urge that the congress care
; fully consider whether the power of the
bureau of corporations cannot constitu-
tionally be extended to cover interstate
, transactions in insurance
Rebates.
Above all else, we must strive to keep
the highways of commerce open to all on
equal terms; and to do this it is neces-
sary to put a complete stop to all re-
bates. Whether the shipper or the rail-
{ road is to blame makes no difference:
| the rebate must be stopped, the abuses
of the private car and private terminal
track and side-track systems must be
I stopped. and the legislation of the Fifty
eighth congress which declares 1t to be
unlawful for any person or corporation
to offer, grant, give, solicit, accept or
receive any rebate, concession or discrim-
ination in respect of the transportation
of any property in interstate or foreign
commerce whereby such property shall
: by any device whatever be transported at
a less rate than that named in the tariffs
3 published by the carrier must be en-
forced. For some time after the enact
ment of the act to regulate commerce ii
3 remained a mooted question whether that
act conferred upon the interstate COM
! | merce commission the power, after 1t had
found challenged rate to be unreason-
able. to declare what thereafter should
7 prima facie, be the reasonable maximum
, | rate for the transportation in dispute
The supreme court finally resolved tha
: question in the negative so that as tht
law now stands the commission simply
possess the bare power to denounce E
= particular rate as unreasonable. While
| am of the opinion that at present Il
| would be undesirable. If 1t were not i'm
I practicable, finally to clothe the commits
: sion with general authority to fix rail
! road rates l do believe that, as a fail
I | security to shippers, the commission
should be vested with the power, where
! | a given rate has been challenged anc
4 after full hearing found to be unreason
9 able, to decide. subject to judicial re
view, what shall be a reasonable rate Il
take its place; the ruling of the com
mission to take effect Immediately, anC
g to obtain unless and until 1t is reversed
o by the court of review. The government
r must in Increasing degree supervise ant
It regulate the workings of the railway
!, engaged in interstate commerce: and sucl
!. increased supervision is the only alterna
y tive to an increase of the present evil
: on the one hand or still more radica
6 policy on the other In my judgment tn
: most important legislative act now need
: ed as regards the regulation of corpora
= tions Is this act to confer on the inter
a state commerce commission the power t
3. revise rates and regulations. the revise
: rate to at once go into effect, and to sta
Ir in effect unless and until the court of re
e view reverses it.
'r Department Of Agriculture.
;. The department of agriculture has grow
'l into an educational institution with fac
3 ulty of 1000 specialists making researc
n into all the sciences Of production. Th
&c congress appropriates, directly and ind
work. 1t reaches every state and territor
in the union and the islands of the sea late
= ly come under our flag. Cooperation is ha
o with the state experiment stations. an
;e with many other institutions and individ
n uals The world is carefully searched fo
e new varieties of grains fruits, grasse!
= vegetables, trees and shrubs, suitable t
l. various localities in our country; an
l. marked benefit to our producers has re
y suited.
It The activities of our age In lines of re
d search have reached the tillers OF the so
n and inspired them with ambition to kno
N more of the principles that govern th
er forces OF nature with which they have
in deal. Nearly half of the people of tn
lie country devote their energies to CROWN
E. things from the soil. Until a recent dat
% little has been done to prepare these mi
e, lions for their life work. In most lines
In human activity college trained men al
t the leaders The farmer had no oppo
D. tunlty for special training until the col
c. gress made provision for It 40 years ag
A. During these years progress has been mac