The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

Treasury department. and John C. Calhoun showed that it never had any business to live, but it was created, over his protest, and this year one of it's bureaus has spent twice as much money as the whole bilin cost the people the most extravagant year Buchanan was President. It only shows how insidiously power works. Generally these commissions are ere ated to give some repudiated Con- gressman a job. When the people cease to think a fellow is any longer fit for Congress-right then Congress makes a commission to give the man a job. Then the commission begins to reach out for more power. and 1t nev- CT rests until Congress gives it more. Generally the power 1t gets in the first place is unconstitutional. That is why say that two score of the ablest bus mess men in the country could take hold of this government, if 1t was their private property. run it better than 1t is run. and for less than half the money.
 As for tariff reform. that is no longer in the Presidents nomenclature. and if he doesn't make any better fight for regulating the railroads than he has for a reformation of the tariff, he might as well give up his gun before the fight begins. The Dingley law is for monop- oly only. It makes living in America the most expensive in the world. Whether it. or railroad rebate, put more money in Andy Carnegie's coffers we do not know, but we know that either is false economy, and wicked in morals. I entirely sympathize with the Presi- dent in his denunctation or rebate. It must be stopped if the business of the people is not to be another name for the stealing of the monopolies. Carne- EI,o oh nf nrfVila0A Ills char. ity is the dividend paid him by the railroads in rebate and by the people in extortion. Rockefeller is a richer man and made more out of rebate than Carnegie. He is the most marvellous product of Republican rule we have ever seen, but thirty years from now. if it can hold on to its privileges, the beef trust will have more than two Rockefellers and five Carnegies. The President does not believe in these men. hut I doubt If he has found the right way to light them. At this time the steel trust has effaced Carnegie's per sonality. It gets the benefit of the in- numerable taxes on iron and steel. It has the power of taxation.
 How the President is going to fight the corporations and leave the -tarin alone is an ineomprehensibility and 1t is more than that-it is an impossibil- ity. What will he profit if he gets for the Interstate Commerce Commission power to fix railroad rates, that will be in eternal litigation, and leave to half a dozen trusts the privilege of levying the taxes on more than 1000 different articles, all necessaries of life, that the American people buy every hour Of the day and pay the highest prices in any markets for? How does he expect to reform things after that fashion?
 believe it is the duty of every man to read and ponder the Presidents mes sage. He is no Democrat and that Is fiat. I don't believe in Roosevelt Dem- ocrats I doubt if there ever was one If there is a single act of governmental sovereignty that Roosevelt does not be- lieve attaches to the Federal establish meat. would like to be told what it is.
 That used to be the test of anti-De- rnocracy. Savoyard
 Washington, D. C.,