Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-10

certainty and instability that has on other
occasions manifested itself.
This can be achieved by providing that
such a reasonable period shall intervene
between the date of the enactment of the
statute making revision and the date of
it's enforcement, shall be deemed SUM-
Gent for the industry or business affected
by such revision to adjust itself to the
changes and new conditions imposed
Reform of the Tariff.
So confident am l In the belief that the
demand Of the people for a reform or the
tariff is just that indulge the nope that
should a democratic House of Representa-
tIyes and a democratic executive be chosen
by the people, even a republican Senate
NAV heed the warning and consent to give
at least some measure of relief to the peo-
pie.
The combinations popularity called trusts,
which aim to secure monopoly of trade
in the necessaries of life as well as in those
things that are employed upon the farm, Ill
the factory and in many other helds OF IN
dustry have been encouraged and stlmu-
lated by excessive tariff duties these opet-
ate to furnish substantial market in
the necessities of SOOo0,Uoo OF people
by practically excluding competition. win
so large market and highly remunerative
prices continuing long after the une Oh
possible competition would naturally be
reached, the temptation of all engaged IN
the same business to combine so as 10 pre-
vent competition at nome ana Tesui.ii,S
reduction of prices, has proved lrreslstlpie
in a number of cases. All men must agree
that the net result of enacting laws that
foster such inequitable conditions is most
unfortunate for the people as whoie' ahu
it would seem as if all ought to agree that
the effective remedy would be to appro-
priately modify the offending law The
growth of monopoly, of which complaint is
Justly made, cannot be laid at the doors OF
the courts of this country. The decisions
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
the court of appeals of this state and the
courts of last resort in many other states,
warrant the assertion that the common law
as developed affords complete legal rem
edy against monopolles.
Increase of the Trusts.
The fact that they have multiplied in
number and increased in power has been
due, not to the failure of the courts to APP
ply the law when properly moved by ad-
ministrative officials or private individuals,
but to the failure of officials charged with
the duty of enforcing the law to take the
necessary procedure to procure the Judg-
ments of the courts in the appropriate
Jurisdiction coupled with the fact that the
legislative departments OF some OF our
state governments, well as Congress in
the manner already referred to, have, by
lepislat ton encouraged their propagation.
.'What is needed-in addition to the pas
sage of a statute revising the tariff duties
to a reasonable basis-is not so much other
and different laws, as officials having
both the disposition and the courage to en-
force existing law. While this is my view
If the SCOPE of the common law, il it should
he made to appear that it is a mistaken
one then l favor such further Legislation
within constitutional limitations as will
give the people a just and full measure of
protection.
1t is difficult to understand how any citi-
zen of the United States, much less de-
scerdant of revolutionary stock, can toll
of ,,ayJtlN daUE
the right of self-government to the Fill
pinos Can we hope to instill into the
minds of our descendants reverence and de-
votion for government by the people
while denying ultimately that right to the
fnha bitants of distant countries. whose ter
ritory we have acquired either by purchase
or by force?
your liberty and your property may be
taken from you without due process of law
Tor all time and expect We will long
glory in that feature of Magma Charta,
which has become Incorporated. in sub
stance and effect. into the Constitution of
every state, as we'll as into the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States! ,.-
Denial Of Citizenship to Filipinos.
Can we hope for the respect of the civil
lied world, while proudly guaranteeing to
every citizen of the United States that no
law shall be made or enforced which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities Of citi-
zens of the United States, or deny to any
person the equal protection of the laws,
and at the same time not only deny similar
rights to the inhabitants of the Philippines
but take away from them the right of trial
by jury, and place their lives and the DIS
position of their property in the keeping of
those whom we send to them to be their
governors? We shall certainly rue it as
nation If we make any such attempt.
Viewing the question even from the
standpoint of national selfishness there
is no prospect that the twenty millions of
dollars expended IN the purchase of the
islands and the six hundred and fifty
millions said to have been since disbursed
will ever come back to us. The accident
of war brought the Philippines into our
disregard the responsibility which thus
came to us, but that responsibility will