The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-20

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| trusts have not been convicted and
| sent to the penitentiary? One rea-
son Tor the small number of SEN
fences OF Imprisonment in trust prose-
| cut1ons is that the revelations of I'M
lawful trust methods and dishonesty
nave been chiefly made known in Sc
cret rebates and the E1kins act, until
amended by the rate bill, only pre-
| scrfbed fines.
Mr.. Bryan says: HE would extir-
pate trusts, root and branch" If Mr..
Bryan's language is more than mere
rhetoric and he means to seize the
property, to divide it up and sell it in
pieces and disassemble the parts, then
am not in favor of his method of
dealing with trusts, because 1 believe
that such large combinations legiti-
mately conducted greatly add to the
prosperity of the country
One of the results of the conditions
and evils which 1 have been describ.
ing has been the concentration of
enormous wealth in the hands of few
men, or course, great enterprises or
transcendent ability should result in
great profit to them. The captains or
legitimate industry, therefore, are en-
titled to large reward, and it is i'm
possible to impose a fixed limitation
upon the amount which they may ac-
cumulate.
The state legislatures have complete
control of what shall be done with
mans property on his death. He has
no right to leave it by will and his
children or heirs have no right to re-
ceive it which the legislatures may not
modify or take away
Federal action for a federal end
may legitimately have an Indirect ef-
feet to aid the states in reforms pc
culiarly within their cognizance. When
therefore, the government revenues
need addition, or readjustment, I be-
lieye federal graduated inheritance
tax to be a useful means of raising
government funds.
For Roosevelt Ideas.
1 have thus reviewed at great
length what have properly come to be
known as President Roosevelt's poll
cies and have discussed them with
what 1 hope you will think is entire
candor. am glad to express my COM
plete, thorough and sincere sympathy
with, and admiration for, the great
conserving and conservative moves
ment which he has with wonderful
success initiated and carried so far
against bitter opposition, to remedy
the evils of our prosperity and pre-
serve to us the institutions we have
inherited from our fathers.
Critics of President Roosevelt denounce
his policies as socialistic and likely to
impair the institution of private proper
ty. President Roosevelt knows and ev-
cry one must realize the plausible force
with which socialistic doctrines can be
see real wrongs in the body polite and
social.
For this reason he takes the most con-
sentative course in insisting on adopting
entirely consistent with the
of private property in order to
stamp out the evils which have attended
it's abuse. There is nothing either radi-
cal or severe in the reforms he pro-
poses.
Every time that there is fall in the
who are injuriously affected condemn
the president with great bitterness as
for their losses.
1t is not true that the president is
engaged in a raid against all corpora
TONS 1t is not true that he proposes to
rip up past transactions, when by reason |
Of the injury to innocent purchasers
such a course would do more injustice |
than good. His only policy and sworn |
duty is oeprosecute, with the fullest |
vigor, the corporations and individuals |
whose fragrant violations of the laws |
make it necessary to do so.
These same critics like to say that Mr.. |
Roosevelt has "out-Bryaned'' Mr.. Bryan |
n his policies and Mr.. Bryan has lent /
1dor to the saying by the claim that he |
vas their original inventor.
Mr.. Roosevelt believes not only in the |
people but also in the individual as the
init who multiplied makes up and gives
quality to the people -
'or a strong government that can and
will make both rich and poor obey the |
aw. s.
Mr.. Roosevelt knows no fayorite in
matters of lawlessness. be he rich or
Door corporation president or member !
If a labor union.
Mr. Roosevelt believes our present
government the best one possible for us
ind in every way adapted to the genius
If our people.
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ystem of administering law under
which the rich wrongdoer shall be GER
afnly restrained, while the lawless poor
hall escape. He would have his jul
Iicial machinery adjusted to restrict the
riolations of law by a corporation but
would give freedom of action to the
awless members of a labor union.
The constitution of Oklahoma, which
lie says is the greatest constitution ever
written this anomaly prevails. No one
an be punished for violating an order
f injunction or restraint except after
. verdict of jury deciding that the VIC
alton was committed, and yet in the
anne constitution, corporation COM
mission of an executive and administra-
i've character, a body of laymen, au-
horized to make orders against rail-
Dads and other corporations is empow-
red, if it's orders are not obeyed, to
hange itself into court and, after
living due process of law by hearing
o enforce It's own ORDERS ny d line VI
500 a day until the order is performed.
Tariff, Revision, Trusts.
I come now to the question of the
ariff, it's revision, and its relation to
he unlawful trusts. The Dingley
ariff was adopted Immediately after
he election of Mr.. Mckinley. Since
hat time we have passed through the ;
,panish war and have had a decade of {
prosperity and an increase and ex-
,ansion of trade unexampled in the
history of this or any other country.
The Republican principle of the /
protective tariff is, as I understand it, {
hat through the customs revenue law
tariff should be collected on all inn {
,orted products that compete with .
american products, which will at least