New-York tribune., 1906-11-02

amount OF S66120 Nine corporations Nave
Neen fined, to the amount of S253.0o0. Thirty
I've indictments are ready for trial In their
REGULAR order upon the court calendar
The original statute provided only for punish
ment by fine. Last winter it was amended by
providing for punishment by imprisonment,
and, if the fines imposed under the original
law shall not prove to have stopped the prac-
ice, we shall see whether fear OF the peniten-
tiary under the amendment will not do
Under this statute also 1t was necessary to
sweep away defences which stood as barriers
to general prosecution, and IN the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad case, de-
cded by the Supreme Court February 10 of
this year, and the Milwaukee Refrigerator
Transit case decided In the Seventh Circuit on
May Il of this year. the courts have held that
the substance and not the form is to control
in the application of the statute, and that
however the transaction may be disguised an
unlawful discrimination can be reached and
punished The way is therefore cleared for
all other prosecutions.
The Railroad Rates act. which was the subject
of such excited discussion during the last ses-
sion Of Congress, has already justified itself
Since the passage of the act less than five
months ago. there have been more voluntary re-
the entire nineteen years of the previous life of
the Interstate Commerce Commission On the
single day of the 2sth of August. 1906, two days
before the act went into force, over five thou
SAND notices of voluntary reduction of rates
were filed w ith the Interstate Commerce Com
MISSION by the railroads of the United States.
ONercaplali2atio1 is an evil peculiarly within
the control of state governments and one for
Whlch we ought to have in every state capital a
hmseIf capable OF doing but the federal gov
ernment. through the bureau OF corporations. is
gong lar ON the road to a cure by getting at
the truth and dispelling the darkness under the
cover of which the evil has grown.
BEFORE THE PEOPLE FOR APPROVAL
eTal government is graphing be forgotten. The
Pure Food act and the Meat Inspection act Of
the last session Of Congress are protecting the
1000 OF the people against fraud and adultera-
ton and contamination: justice from the en-
Pioyer to the employed is advanced by the wise
employers Liability act Of the last session; the
FEDERAL Contractors Eight-hour Labor law, too
long ignored. is being vigorously enforced, and
every week come reports of new convictions for
IT'S VOCATION; the. safety appliance law. diScred
tied in the lower courts has been taken by the
government intervening in aid Of an injured
employe, 30 the Supreme Court of the United
States in a suit against the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, and has been established
upon a sure foundation by the decision of that
great court.
All this has not been easy; it has required not
merely skill and ability and patient industry
and the tremendous personality of the President,
against all powerful influences urging on Con-
gresS and lawyers and courts, but il has required
and still requires persistency, long continued
and constant effort a deliberate. settled and
unvarying policy
That policy is now before the American people
for their approval or disapproval, and it is con-
fronted by two dangers
The first danger is lest the people should
fuse to return majority Of Republicans in the
house or Representatives., which has stood so
loyalty by the President, and should return
Democratic majority which will be in opposition
10 the President Do not be deceived about
that. Under our system of government, effective,
affirmative governmental action requires the
cooperation of both President and Congress:
that cooperation can be had only with House
Of Representatives of the Presidents party.
1t cannot be had by rejecting and Furnishing the
members of the House who have been working
with the President in the past.
A Democratic House, in inevitable conflict with
a Republican Senate would not really help the
Democratic party, but it would hinder embar-
rass, weaken and dshearten the President and
his assistants in carrying on the policy in which
they engaged. Independent and patriotic
Democrats equally with Republicans ought to
avoid a result so disastrous to our country.
1t would be unpatriotic to deprive our govern
ment of the help and this state of the credit
found in the able and experienced service of our
respected and beloved Congressman. James S.
Sherman.
HUGHES THE PRESIDENTS OWN CHOICE.
The second danger is, lest in this greatest of
states, the Presidents own state the voters
shall reject Mr.. Hughes, who was the Presidents
own choice for the nomination, who by his char
acter and his achievements has shown himself
fit and competent in the great office of Governor
of this state to help hold up the Presidents
hands and to carry on in the state the same
policy that the President is carrying on in the
nation and should elect TO that great Office
violent and unworthy demagogue in the person
of Mr.. Hearst
What evidence has Mr. Hearst produced of his
fitness for this office?
OF his private life shall not speak, further
than TO say that from no community In this
state does there come concerning him that testi
mony Of lifelong neighbors and acquaintances
TO his private virtues, the excellence of his
morals and the correctness of his conduct which
we should like to have concerning the man who
is to be made the Governor of our state.
What evidence comes from his public career?
He has been a member of Congress from New
York City, and he owes his Office to Tamrany
orsanzatoG and M TammSny M any hotss vote in hs 1m
cipher in Congress. That is his entire public
career.
He is really known to us solely as a young
rOa inheritance become
the owner of a number of sensational yellow
journals; he has taken in his newspapers the
popular side upon al! questions relating to labor
and corporations. and has sustained it by much
violent denunciation and many falsehoodN, and
he has been persistent seeker for office the
strength of taking the popular side; he has pub
lished whatever he thought would please the
working people for the purpose Of getting the
labor It is difficult TO believe that the
hard headed, shrewd workingmen of America
will give him much credit for that
There is, however, affirmative evidence of Mr..
Hearsts unfitness for the great Office Of Gov
ernor. You viii perceive thar TO the remedy Of
corporate wrongs for which he offers himself
we'll devised legislation, which shall strip from
the wrongdoing corporate managers the ad-
vantage Of laws made under their influence to
facilitate their practices which shall clearly pro-
hIbit their wrongful acts, and which shall pro-
vide the machinery and procedure and the neces-
sary agencies for enforcing those. laws; and,
second. the judicial enforcement of the laws.
which requires upright and courageous judges
who will administer the laws without fear or
favor uninfuenced by wealth popularity or
personal friends political bosses
Underlying both of these and necessary to
both is political purity, for without that neither
legislatures nor courts can be pure.
How stands Mr.. Hearsts record as to political
purity? Why he comes to US covered all over
with the mark Of Tammany and Tammanys
leader, Murphy, whom he himself has denounced
as a scoundreI and thief; he comes to us not
to the call of the people of the state
not the honest candidate of the Democratic
party of the state, but nominated by his own
procurement. through as shameful deal with
q Of mr. as GsnFareH foa