The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-10

Turning to the issues involved in the coming congressional campaign the secretary pointed out that in Novem- Der, 1904, the republican party was con- tinued in power. Theodore Roosevelt, he said, had for more than three years and a half discharged the duties of president During that period MT. Roosevelt, he added, had again and again, by word and by act manifested to the people his determination to pur- sue the middle just and impartial course by which the rich and poor should enjoy the equal protection and suffer the equal and just enforcement of the laws. He recognized this as the platform of the republican party, He incurred the hostility of important i- nancial interests by his action in di- recting the prosecution to a successful issue of the so-called Northern Secur- ties suit, which prevented the merger for the purpose of guppresslng competi- tion of two great lines of railroad in violation of the so-called antitrust laws"
 The secretary then said the repub- lican platform and MT, Roosevelt pledged the further enforcement of the antitrust law and the interstate com nferce law to prevent discrimination against the shipping public and to pre- vent oppressive combination and mo- nopoly,
 Continuing, he said, only year and four months have elapsed since MT. Roosevelt took the oath of office after his election in 1904 land yet in that short part of his term of office, the republican party in congress of the United States inspired by MT. Roose- velt's recommendation has adopted a railway rate bill, which greatly in- creased the power of the Interstate commerce. and which taken together with previous legislation before his election will certainly have much to do in the abolition of violations of the un- 1 just discriminations and abuses"
 The investigations by the depart ment of commerce and labor said MT Taft, ''have shown the method by which the Standard oil company has maintained its monopoly of the oil bus | mess and prosecutions have been order ed in many of the federal courts of the country an order not only to vindicate l the law for past violations but to bring about condition of things in which the managers of prosperous and sue cessful corporations of the country shall pay heed to in functions of the statutes and not allow temptations of immense profits to blind them to the 1 necessity for obedience to law"
 The secretary said that the organi- zation of capital has reduced the cost of production and has therefore con- l tributed to the material prosperity of 1 the world and that the organization of labor has undoubtedly bettered the condition and raised the wages of la bor, but he said 1t would be unreason- ! able to suppose that in the power which organization has placed in the hands of individuals there would be no temptations to oppression and abuse, but when there are yielded to by the few as compared with the many it is no reason for hysteria or the destruc-
 tion of the whole serial order.
 Tt is no reason for giving up the system of private property or forbid
 ding the formation of corporations or preventing the organization of trades unions It is no ground for the advo-
 cacy of socialism" said the secretary adding, i've must take up the cases in
 the good old Anglo-Saxon way, adjust our statutory remedies to the fitness