The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-06


takes under one management and |
makes much more effective the provi-
stons against the importation OF dis
ease into this country from countries
less careful than we, of the hyg1enic |
condition Of their people: the pure
food act. considered by many con
crosses and PASSED by this one, for
ghe purpose OF discouraging the use OF
deleterious adulterants, and opposed
by most powerful private interest; the
consular act, adopted for the purpose
of rendering more efficient our impor-
tant consular service, and Introducing
into 1t merit system of appointment
and promotion. and taking it out OF
politics; the Panama canal legislation
that fixed the type OF the canal by
which in eight years at the farthest
cur largest ships of peace and war
may pass from one ocean to the other,
comforting enormous benefit upon the
commerce OF the world; and doubling
| the efficiency of DIR own navy; the
Statehood act which unites Oklahoma
and Indian Territory into a great state
/ Of more than 100000 inhabitants,
and which gives to New Mexico and
Arizona, each containing an insuffi-
| cient number of people to become a
state, an opportunity to come in as
united state or to await the growth
Of the population until they may be
taken i'll IS two states; the denatured
alcohol bill, which, against the most
I
houses, providing for the use OF cheap
alcohol in the arts and in heating and
| lghting-are some Of the measures
which stamp this congress as one anx-
ious to serve the true interests of the
people.
Tariff Revision and Trusts
zone of the contentious of the
Democratic party is that the protective
tariff develops trusts; and that the
most formidable weapon that could be
used against them is the revision of
the tariff. The operation of the tariff
affects broad sections and localities,
and is deemed important to the well
fare of millions of workingmen and
small dealers and the country at large.
/ Substantial changes are attended with
/ risk to the important legitimate bust
ness interests.z This is what makes
legislators hesitate at revision in
period Of unexampled prosperity
Moreover, 1t IS impracticable by a re-
vision of the tariff to destroy trusts.
The best and only safe way to reach
the evils of the trusts is, as the presi-
! dent has said, by direct legislation and
executive action.
Favors Revision of Schedules.
Speaking my individual opinion and
for no one else, I believe that since the
passage of the Dingley bill, there has
/ been a change in the business condf-
tons of the country making II wise
and just to revise the schedules Of the
existing tariff. The sentiment in favor
| OF a revision of the tariff is growing
in the Republican party, and in the
near future the mem bers of the party
will doubtless be able to agree on a
reasonable plan. But the work of the
present session, which was pressing in
its urgency, could never have been ac-
complished If there had been intro
duced into congress and the councils
of the party the heated discussions Ger
tain to arise over the questions of the
revision of the tariff. How soon the
I inc IL of ch
tallize into action can not be foretold,
but it is certain to come, and with II
those schedules of the tariff which
have INEQUALITIES and are excessive will
be readjusted. The reasonable pros
pect of a revision of the tariff by the
Republican party on conservative lines
l should certainly be greatly preferred
by those who favor revision and vet
believe in the protective system, to
? Legislation which is always threatened
= by the incoming Of a Democratic con-
gress and a Democratic administra tor
= under the battle cry, "A protective tar
: iff is a robbery of the many for the
benefit of the few and to the disaster
4 to general business which inevitably
follows
and unjust in the history of politics thar
the recent attempt by magazine articles
= to destroy the reputation of some of tbs
: greatest and ablest men in the sena te
by attributing to them corrupt motives
. charges of the vaguest and most I'M
, | satisfactory character which it is i'm
a | possible for them to answer and which
s they must leave to a grateful public K
spurn and reject as unfounded, in The
; | light of their honora BILE lives. Such
J. charges are not made merely out of {
j. malicious desire to injure the particular
2 senator's but they are made cunningl
and viciously to further the impression
e that most men now prominent in public
4
4 fiuences, and thus to stir up and inf1ams
= the passions of the ignorant and the un
e fortunate against the existing order.
0 Business Is Prosperity.
e Mr.. Littleheld, together with Mr.
q Cannon and some other congressman
Z have incurred the pronounced politica
T opposition of the American Federation
, Of Labor and Mr.. Gompers because il
: the discharge of their congressional
. duties they have opposed the passag
= Of a bill which is very urgently presses
- for passage by the American Federation
:, of Labor. ssee1e
THE first section of the bill in effec
IL denies to any person engaged in bust
) ness the right to an injunction agains
n those who propose unlawfully to inJur
II his business in labor disputes. The su
~ preme court Of the United States, in a
- opinion concurred in by all the member
T of the court has decided that in
IL junction may issue against an unlawfu
d | interference with property rights of
# pecuniary nature, whenever a suit an
s. Judgment for damages after the com
mission of the injury and unlawful act
would not be an adequate remedy 70
. the injured party.
h ..The exact and only question at is
r sue. therefore. in determining whethe
le the first section of Mr.. Gompers' bi
Y should be enacted into law is whethe
r an unlawful injury to a going CON
le merciaI manufacturing or transports
ID ton business is an injury or interference
with either a right of property or
. right of a pecuniary nature A man
" business mas peei
IS py lngunceioils etse.lii r-..s1at an
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