Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-03
PALESTINE, TEXAS, DECEMBER 3. 1907.

merely by means of law suits. No
corporation or association, declares
our president, should be permitted to
engage in foreign or interstate COM
merce that is formed for the purpose
OF, or whose operations create, a mo-
nopoly or general control of the pro-
duction, sale, or distribution of any
one or more of the prime necessities
of life or articles of general use or ne
cessity. He says he believes congress
has the power to close the channels
OF interstate commerce against them
for the peoples protection. He be-
leves in the compulsory publication
of accounts and the subsection of
books and papers to the inspection of
government officials National con-
troll, he thinks, would be to the bene-
fit of every well-managed railroad.
On the tariff question the president
says this country is definitely com
mitted to the protective system and
any effort to uproot it could not but
cause widespread industrial disaster.
And thousands of democrats share
this opinion with him But in a coun-
try of such phenomenal growth as
ours, he says, it is probably well that
very dozen years or so the tariff
laws should be carefully scrutinized |
so as to see that no excessive or i'm
proper benefits are conferred thereby, |
that proper revenue is provided, and |
hat our foreign trade is encouraged. |
In this connection he recommends
the repeal of the duty on wood pulp /
for paper making. He says there
should be no tariff on any forest pro.
duct grown in this country The re.
peal of this duty, he declares, should.
if possible, be accompanied by an
agreement with Canada that there
shall be no export duty on Canadian
wood pulp. The demand for the rel
peal of this duty on wood pulp-|has
been incessant on the part of the
newspapers and others interested for
7 long time, as It iiss enabled the pa
per trust to more than double the cost
If newspaper in the past few years.
He reiterates his belief that there
should be provided a system Of gen
3ral government to provide for an in
,ome and inheritance tax.
The president commends to con-
yress the consideration Il the post
generals recommendation for
IN extension of the nq.rals post, es-
pecially on rural routes He says
fhese recommendations have been
irawn up to benefit the farmer and
the country storcEeeper otherwise he
would not favor them.
The Herald has opposed the parcels
post, for in it turks grave danger to
the merchants of small towns. and
while the present accommodations
make it impractical for the big mail
order houses to take immediate and
direct advantage Of the system. It
would prove the entering wedge Of
what these interests have long striven
for and if successful in this, they will
find a way to adapt the system to
their advancement and to the undo
ing of the country merchant. II
would be an easy matter for these
concerns TO establish distributing
stations in the different towns Of ev
cry state, and crush the life out OF
the small dealers. And it is desirable
that the country merchants should
not be crushed ont.
On the question of presidential
expenses, out OF which has
grown so much recent scandal, the
president recommends that corpora.
tons shall not contribute to presiden-
tial or national campaigns, and he