The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-09

or Mr.. Bryan, a serious problem and
the message to congress will not be
expected to- settle the question this
winter. II Is too large topic to be
dealt hastily with and it is very doubt
full If the recommendation will bring
forth fruit in the way of legislation.
National regulation and supervision
OF corporations engaged In interstate
commerce, either by act of congress or
through constitutional amendment
is to be suggested by the president no
doubt as a means of dealing with the
trust problem and 1t will probably fol
low the rate bill into some sort of leg
islation. 1t is to be noted that, though
Mr.. Bryan has criticised Mr.. Roose-
welt for not doing things In this re-
gard yet this is measure put forth
expressly by Mr. Roosevelt and 1t Is
outside of anything ever suggested by
Mr. Bryan.
The president will make a plea for
shorter hours for railroad employees
and government employees excepting
those on the Panama canal. He will
also attempt to remedy the strike sit
uations by asking that law be made
by which notice of injunctions in labor
disputes must be given to the other
side before granted and a hearing
held.
The race problem, which has been
riots and other racial outbreaks in
| the south, will come in for a bit of
mention but even President Roosevelt
seems not ready to offer a genuine So
luton of this problem at this time.
More elasticity in the currency sys-
TEN of the country, in order to more
easily prevent panics and kindred
evils, will be asked.
The president will take the Japan
csc discrimination by San Francisco
schools as a text for urging greater
tolerance upon people of this country
for foreign citizens. From the presi-
dents attention to the Japanese sub
ject, and from his attention also to the
need of a better navy and a better
fighting force, it is apparent that the
administration has been somewhat
worried by the seriousness of strained
relations between this country and the
orientals.
One of the most satisfactory of the
presidents features is the absence of
any word in regard to tariff revision.
Bryan has said that we need tariff re-
form and even Beveridge (whom Mr..
Bryan likes because he resembles the
Nebraskan in many of his views) has
said that the stand pat principle was
a bad one with regard to the tariff.
But President Roosevelt, in line with
Cannon aud Taft and in line with the
policies of William Mckinley, has de-
cided that more harm than good might
! result from touching the tariff and he
is going to let it alone for this year
at least This will be a disappoint
ment to many of the socalled reform
element of the republican party and
TO the free-trade democrats who have
claimed that the president has been
following out their ideas in every de
, tail But President Roosevelt has be
fore this declared that the principle
of the protective tariff is sacred one
( 50 far as the laboring man of America
is concerned, and that it is in no way
connected with trusts, despite the
democratic claim that the tariff feeds
the trusts.
And so, as Secretary Bonaparte put
it the other day, the republican admin
istration will continue the supply Of
feed for the country by keeping up the
, tariff, but will see that the little pigs
get an even chance at the trough witt
the bigger ones by regulating inter
! state business.