Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-01

closing factories and mines, OF turning the
wage-worker idle In the streets and leav-
Ing the farmer without a market for what
II believe that monopolies. unjust dis
I ordinations, which prevent or cripple
competition, fraudulent o~vef-capitaiiza-
ton, and other evils In trust organizations
and practices which i~njuriously affect In
t~erstate trade, can be prevented under the
power OF the congress TO regulate COM
mercs with foreign nations and among the
several states through regulations n re-
quirements operating directly upon such
commerce, the instrumeatalitieS thereon,
and those engaged therein"
passed three practical statutes: on the
18th Of February, 1903, an act to expedite
hearings In suits in enforcement of the
antitrust act; on the 18th OF February.
1908, the act creating a new department Of
commerce and labor with a bureau or
corporations. having authority 10 secure
systematic regarding the Or
g~anization and operation Of corporations
engaged In interstate commerce.; and on
the 18th OF February, 1903. an act en-
larging the powers OF the interstate COM
merce commission and of the courts, to
charges, Which are the chief means by
which the trusts crush out their smaller
competitors.
Attornsy General Knocks Work,
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
10 the favored shippers, who by means OF
them were driving out the smaller ship
pers and monopolizing the grain and
meat business OF the country. The beef
trust was put under injunction. The Of
icers OF the railroads engaged In the cot
ton carrying pool, Affecting all that great
industry OF the south, were indicted and
L NJ yA d pHnppl fbafT- continuation The
Northern Securities company which UNI
dertook by combining In one ownership
the capital stocks of the Northern PACING
and Great Northern railroads to end traf-
fc competition In the northwest, has been
destroyed by a vigorous prosecution ex-
pedited and brought to a speedy ard ef-
~fective conclusion in the supreme court
under the act OF February II, 1903. The
attorney general says:
Here, then, are four phases of the at
tack on the combinations in restraint OF
trade and commerce-the railroad in1unc-
ton suits. the cotton pool cases, the beef
trust cases, and the Northern Securities
case. The first relates to the monopoly
produced by secret and preferential rates
for railroad transportation; the second to
railroad traffic pooling; the third TO a
combination Of independent corporations
to fix and maintain extortionate prices
for meats; and the fourth to a corporation
organized to merge into itself the control
OF parallel n competing lines of railroad
and TO eliminate competition In their rates
OF transportation"
The 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 2
suit against the coal carrying roads. NO
investment In lawful business has been
jeopardized; no fair and honest enterprise
has been injured: but 1t Is certain that
wherever the constitutional power OF the
national government reaches, trusts are
being practically regulated and curbed
within lawful pounds as they never have
been before, and the men of small capital
are finding In the efficiency and skill or
the national department of justice q pro-
lection they never had before against the
crushing effect Of unlawful combinations.
The Public Lands.
We have at last reached a point where
the public wealth Of farm land which
has seemed so ~ineXhaustible is nearly
and the problem of utilizing the re-
mainder for the building Of new homes
has become OF vitalsimportance.
The present administration has dealt
with this problem vigorously and effect |
lively. Great areas had been ~unlawfully
fenced by men Of large means. and the
home-builder had been excluded. Many or
these unlawful aggressors have been COM
PEELED to relinquish their booty, and more
than 100000 acres of land ave been re-
stored TO the public. Extensive frauds
in procuring grants OF land, not for
homesteacs but for speculation, have been
investigated and stopped, and the perpe-
traitors have been indicted and are being
actively prosecuted.
The postal service has been extended
and improved. It's revenues have
increased from SIG, 10000 In 1895 to $95, 600. coo
in 1899, n $14i,000;000 in 1904. In dealing
with these vast sums, a few cases Of
p~eculation, trifing in amount and by sub
ordinate officers, have occurred there as
they occur In every business. Neither fear
favor, nor political or personal in
huence has availed TO protect the wrong
doors. Rural free delivery has been wide
ly extended. lit is wholly the creation of
republican administration. The last demo-
cratic postmaster general declared II inn
practicable. The first administration of
Mckinley proved the contrary. At the
beginning Of the fiscal year 1893 there
We're about 200 routes In operation. There
are now more than q, 900 routes, bringing
Of our people In rural communities, en-
the circulation OF the newspaper
and the magazine, increasing communi-
cation, and relieving the isolation OF life
on the farm.
The Department Of Agriculture.
The department of agriculture has been
TO a point of efficiency n practi-
cal benefit never before known. The OLE
onaargarine act Of May 3, 1902. now sus-
tanned In the supreme court, and the act
OF July /, 1892. to prevent the false
branding OF food and dairy products.-
protect farmers against fraudulent trc-
RE act of February . 1902,
enables the secretary OF agriculture to-
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fictitious diseases OF live stock.
-Four years ago we held Cuba by mill
ltary occupation. The opposition charged,
and the. people OF Cuba believed. that we
did not intend TO keep the pledge OF April
20. 1898, that when the pacification OF
Cuba was accomplished we should leave
the government and control of the island
to its people.
On the 10th of May. 1902 under a consti-
which embodied these stipulauons,
the government and control OF Cuba were
surrendered to the president and congress
by her people. and the American
gan its existence with an administration
OF Cubans completely organized In all It's
and trained to effective service
American officers. The administration
OF President Palma has been wise and
Peace and order have prevailed.
The people OF Cuba are prosperous and
happy. Her finance ave been honestly
administered, and her credit is high. The
naval stations have been located and
bounded at Guantanamo and Bahia Hon
and are In the possession OF our avy
The Pfatt amendment Is the sheet ncho
OF Cuban independence and of Cuban cred
II. No sue revolutions as have afflicted
Central and South America are possible
an attempt to overturn the FOUNDATIONS
OF that government will be confronted by
the overwhelm ming power OF the United
States. The treaty or reciprocity and the
act OF congress of December 6, 1903.
which confirmed X, completed the express
sion Of our policy towards Cuba.
The Philippines.
When the last national convention met
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