Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-09-03

ion that the use of the navy for the
collection of debts is unwise. While
protecting the lives of our citizens
everywhere and guaranteeing personal
safety he would give notice that per-
sons engaging in business and holding
property in other lands for business
purpose must be subject to the laws
of the countries in which they engage
in business enterprises.
Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly of the Phil
ippines, saying that at some future
time he would discuss this subject
more fully. lie believed we should
announce our purpose to deal with
the Philippines as with Cuba.
The main portion of Mr.. Bryan g
speech, as was anticipated, dealt with
the trusts. He congratulated Presi-
dent Roosevelt on the steps he had
taken to enforce the antitrust laws,
and counseled the support of any rem
edy which promises substantial advan-
tages in the warfare against monopo-
lies. He favored the licensing of cor
porations engaged in interstate COM
MERGE and would forbid privileges to
those which endeavored to monopolize
trade.
1.-THE control which congress has
over interstate commerce is complete,
and if congress can prevent the trans
portation of lottery tickets through
the mails, by the express companies
or by freight, it can certainly forbid
the use of the mails, the railways and
the telegraphs to any corporation
which is endeavoring to monopolize
an article of commerce, and no party
can long be credited with sincerity if
it condemns the trusts with words on.
~ and then permits the trusts to en-
ploy the instrumentalities of CON-
merce in the carrying out of their me-
farious plans.'
The tariff, he said, vas closely al
lied to the trusts, and the reduction of
the tariff furnishes an easy means of
limiting the extortion the trusts prac-
tice.
Railroads and Rebates
1.-THE high tariff has long been a
burden to the consumers in the United
States and it is growing more and
more menace to our foreign COM
MERGE because it arouses resentment
and provokes retaliation.
1.-THE railroad question is also inter
woven with the trust question. Near
ly all the private monopolies have re.
ceived rebates or secured other ad-
vantages over competitors.
absolute equality of treatment at
the hands of the railroads would go
far toward Gripping the trusts, and
rejoice that the president has had the
courage to press the question upon
congress. While the law, as it was
finally distorted by the senate, is not
all that could be wished, it deserves q
fair trial.
"Rate legislation was absolutely
necessary and it furnishes some relief
from the unbearable conditions which
previously existed, but we must not
forget that the vesting of this enor-
nous power in the hands of the com
mission appointed by the president in.
PRODUCES new danger.
eff an appointive board has the
power to fix rates and can, by the ex-
ercise of that power, increase and de-
crease by hundreds of millions of dol
larls the annual revenues of the rail-
roads, will not the railroads feel that
they have a large pecunisry interest in
the election of president friendly to
the railroads?
Favors Public Ownership
Experience has demonstrated that
municipal corruption is largely trace
able to the fact that franchise corpo.