The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-21

state commerce.; and on the 10Th Of
February, 1908. an act enlarging the
powers OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and of the courts, to deal with
secret rebates in transportation charge
which are the chief means by which the
trusts crush out their smaller com
petitors.
The attorney general has gone on in
the same practical way, not to talk
about the trusts, but 10 proceed against
the trusts bylaw for their regulation
In separate suits fourteen of the green's
railroads OF the country have ben re
strained by injunction from giving il.
legal rebates 10 the favored shipper,
and monopolizing the grain and meat
business of the country. The beef trust
was put under injunction. The officers
of the railroads engaged in the cotton
carrying pool, affecting all that great in
dustry of the South, were indicted an
have abandoned their combination. Thl
Northern Securities Company, which I'M
dertook by combining in one ownership
the capital stocks of the Northrn Pa
cific and Great Northern Railroads t.
end traffic competition in the Northwest
has been destroyed by vigorous pros
ecution expedited and brought to u
speedy and effective conclusion in the
supreme court under the act of Febru
AIRY II, 1903.
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 remain
der for the building of new homes ma
become of vital Importance.
The present administration has dealt
with this problem vigorously and circc-
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 relinquish their booty
and more than 100000 acres of land
have been restored to the public. Exten,
sive frauds in procuring grants of land
not for homesteads, but for speculation,
have been investigated and stoppd, and
the perpetrators have been indicted an5
ar being actively prosecuted.
To increase the profit Of the farmer,
toil;~to protect the farmers product and
extend his market, and to improve the
conditions of the farmers life; to ad.
vance the time when America Shall raise
within her own limits every product Of
the soil consumd by her people, as she
makes within her own limits every zee
essary product OF manufacture-thesc
have been cardinal objects Of Republican
administration; and We show record
of practical things done toward the &C.
eomplishment of these objects never be.
fore approached.
Four years ago we held the Island Of
Cuba by military occupation. The op-
position charged, and the people Of Cuba
believed. that We did not intend TO keep
the pledge Of April 90, 1898, that when
the paeiieation Of Cuba was accomplish.
cd we should leave the government and
control Of the island TO its people. The
new policy toward Cuba which should
follow the fuldllment Of thatp ledge wa
uniformed. During The four years it has
been worked out in detail and has re-
ceived effect. 1t was communicated by
executive order to the military governor.
1t was embodied in the act of Congress
known a. the Platt amendment. It was
accepted BY the Cuban constitutional
convention on the 18th u October 1901
It secured TO cuba her Thirty and her in
dependence, but it required ner 70 main.
] tain them. 1t forbade her ever to use