Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11

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I recommend law prohibiting all cor.
oorations from contributing to the cam
paign expenses of any party.
1t is criminal to permit sympathy for
criminals to weaken our hands in uphold
ing the law.
If men seek 20 destroy life or property
by mob violence there should be no inn
pairment of the power of the courts to
deal with them in the most summary and
effective way possible.
There must te no such abuse of the iu-
junctive power as IS implied in forbid
ding laboring men to strive for their own
betterment in peaceful and lawful ways.
Mobs frequently avenge the commits
SION of crime by themselves torturing to
death the man committing it, thus aveng-
ing in bestial fashion a bestial deed, and
reducing themselves to a level with the
criminal.
No growth of cities, no growth of
wealth, no Industrial development can
atone for any falling off in the character
and standing of the farming population
Organization has become necessary in
the business world, and it has accom-
plished much for good in the world of
labor. 1t is no less necessary for farm
ers.
The government policy for the better
ment of our internal conditions has been
more fruitful of good than that of irriga-
ton and forest preservation.
1t is unfortunate that our present laws
should forbid all combinations, instead of
sharply discriminating between those COM
hInations which do good and those com
binations which do evil.
1t should be permitted to railroads to
make agreements. provided these agree
ments were sanctioned by the interstate
commerce commission and were published
There is every reason why the national
government should impose a graduated
Inheritance tax, and, if possible, a grad
uated income tax.
We must make it clear beyond perad-
venture that our aim is to distribute tie
burden of supporting the government
more equitaby than at present. that we
intend to treat rich man and poor rlan
on basis of absolute equality.
Many strikes and lockouts would not
have occurred had the parties to the dis
pute been required to appear before an
unprecedented body representing the ma
ton and, face to face, state the reasons
for their contention.
1t is not wise that the nation should
ALLEVIATE its remaining coal lands.
The passage of the railway rate bill,
and only to less degree the passage of
the pure food bill, and the provision for
increasing and rendering more effective
national control over the beef-packing
Industry, mark an important advance i'm
the proper ulTtCllOn.
Our effort should be not so much to
prevent consolidation as such, but so to
supervise and control it as to see that il
results in no harm to the people.
The best way TO avert the very unde-
sirabe move for government ownership
of railways js to secure by the govern
ment such adequate control and regula-
ton of the great interstate common car
riers as will do away with the evils whick
give rise to the agitation against them.
Combination of capital, like combina-
ton of labor, is a necessary element of
our present industrial system.
Every colored man should realize that
the worst enemy of his race is the negro
criminal.
The free public school, the chance for
each boy or girl to get a good elementary
education, lies at the foundation of our
whole political situation.
L
in newspaper or magazine are the worst
enemies of all men who are engaged in
an honest effort to better what is bad in
our social and governmental conditions.
Corruption is never so rife as in COM
munities whore the demagogue and the
agitator bear full sway.
The triumph Of the mob is just as evil
a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy,
and to have escaped one danger ayails
nothing whatever il we succumb to the
other.
The whole question of marriage and
divorce should be relegated to the au-
thority of the National Congress.
Our present currency system is seri-
ously defective. There is need Of a
change.
The bill to provide lower tariff for
or else absolute free trade in Philippine
products should become law.
American citizenship should be con-
ferred on the citizens Of Porto Rico.
Not only must we treat all nations fair
is, but we nus: treat with justice and
good will all immigrants who come here
under the law.
The United States wishes nothing Of
Cuba except that it shall prosper morally
and materially.
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