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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Slump in Wall Street Prices Not D
 to Presidents Policy.

Again, every time that there is a il in the prices of stocks in Wall strel those who are injuriously affected cd deinn the President with great bittd ness as responsible for their loss] Just at present there has been a vel serious depression in the values marketable securities, and it is sd that the Presidents. attitude towaI corporations has been the cause this. Such critics fail to observe tll there has been a similar decrease the marketable value-not only
 railway stocks but of government cd sols abroad, and that there is
 stringency in the markets of t
 world. But more than this, if Il prosecution of dishonesty and illea practices, like the giving and talliI of rebates and the destruction of co4 petition by monopoly, is to injure Il market for stocks on the stock d change, then this is a. burden td must be born and must be charged not to the head of the nation, whd duty it is to enforce the law, but l the violators of the law whose pd suit of criminal methods has been successful and far-reaehing as make their prosecution a serio| threat against the stability of the md ket. It is not true that the Presidd is engaged in a raid against all cd porations. It is not true that he p1 poses to rip up past transactions whl by reason of the injury to innocd purchasers such a course would more injustice than goods His orI policy and sworn duty is to prosecuI with the fullest vigor, the corpor| tions and individuals whose 1agra| violations of the laws make it need sary to do so in order that compld reform may be affected in our buI ness methods with respect to the evl which l have described
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Bryan's "EXtirpation
 Branch"
Root and

MT Bryan says; "He would extir- pate trusts, root and branch" If MT. 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 l am not in favor of his method
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20

certainly collected. The incidence of taxation is heaviest on those best able Ito stand it, and indirectly, while not placing undue restriction on individ- ual effort, it would tolerate the en- thusiasm for the amassing of inn mense fortunes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Abollllon of FelIow Servant Rnlo.

The most important provision of this law however, is that abolishing what is known as the fellow-ervant rule, by which an employe injured cannot recover from his employer for injury sustained through the negli- gence of a co-employe, This rule was incorporated into the law by Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts, on the ground of public policy. It was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20

lie money to the enterprise and no public officers are required to admin ister the property. There is no more attempt in this law to make trans portation a government business than there is in the National Banking act to making banking a government bus
 mess.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Legislation, Not Confscatory, Having Tendency to Divide Such Fortunes and to Discourage Their Accumu-
 lation Not SocialIstic.

On the other hand, it is not safe for the body polite that the power arising from the management of enor- nous or swollen fortunes should be continued from generation to genera ton in the hands of a few, and ef- forts by law, which are not contisca- tory, to divide these fortunes and to reduce the motive for accommodating them are proper and statesmanlike and without the slightest savor of so- cialism or anarchy, The law of prim- ogeniture was abolished in States where it had been adopted, merely for the purpose of securing a divison of the land among the children of the man who owned the land Many of the provisions of our public land laws are drawn to discourage the union of large tracts in one ownership, and to encourage small holdings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Radical Differences Between N Roosevelt's and Mir. Bryan's The
 orics of Government.

These same critics like to say til
 MT. Roosevelt has "out- -Bryaned" N Bryan in his policies and Mr. BryI has lent color to this saying by il claim that he was their original | ventor No one who has given II slightest attention to the attitude MT. Roosevelt and Mir, Bryan upI the social and political questions the day can for a moment miss Il radical difference between the twol
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Illegal Devices Badges of Unlawful
 Trusts.

Frequently contracts have been made with customers by which they are re- quired to deal exclusively with the Trust, on the threat that if there is not this exclusive dealing, then at a time when they most need the product, it vii not be sold to them at all, or only at 8 very high price, and ass sssasibi-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Secret Rebates Most Effect to Main
 tain Monopoly.

Another and perhaps the most effec- tive method in the past for an unlaw- full trust to maintain itself has been to secure secret rebates or other un- lawful advantage in transportation, by threat of withholding business from the carrier. This is undoubtedly what has enabled the Standard oil Com pany and the Sugar Trust and other great combinations, to reap an illegal harvest and to drive a5l competitors from the field If by asserting com plete federal control over the interstate railways of the country, we can sup press secret rebates and discrimina- tions of other kinds, we shall have gene long way in the suppression or the unlawful trusts.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Juries Hesitate to mprison by Their
 Verdicts.

Again, it Is difficult to induce juries to convict individuals of violation of the antitrust law, if Imprisonment is to follow. In the case of the Tobac- co Trust, the government declined to accept plea of guilty by the indi- vidual defendants, offered on condi- tion that only the penalty of fine ibe imposed, and the result was that the jury did not hesitate to stultify itself by finding the corporation guilty and acquitting the acts upon which the conviction of the corporation was bas- ed. In the early enforcement of statute which makes unlawful, be- cause of it's evil tendencies, that which has been in the past regarded as leg itimate, juries are not inclined by their Iverdicts to imprison individuals. The course which the government has pur- sued of resorting to civil processes first and clarifying the meaning of gen. eral statute which needs definition, is probably the best course to pursue. As the criminal prosecutions go on, (and many such prosecutions have now been begun), if the violations of the trust law are continued, undoubtedly some shining marks will be hit, but the vigor with which these prosecu- tiCns have been continued, has creat- cd an anxiety among those engaged in doubtful enterprises that has either driven them out of the business or made them careful not to give occa- sion for further complaint.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Mir. Roosevelt's Belief in Strong a
 Efficient Government.

MT. Roosevelt believes. in the nec sity for a strong government u can and will make both rich and pd obey the law, and he would have officers charged with it's mantenal render due account of their stewaI ship to their masters, the people. Roosevelt knows no favorite in ml ters of 1awlessness, be he rich or po corporation president or member of labor union The courts must
 strong enough to restrain them MT. Roosevelt believes our presI government the best one possible us and in every way adapted to genius of our people. He has the most confidence in the capacity of people through their representatil and by the means provided in the C9 stitution by our fathers to remedy evils that arise in our material pI gress.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Mir. Rryan's Theories Based on l trust of Individual and Failure J
 Representative Government.

Mir Bryan's whole system of ren dies, on the other hand, for the e' that both MT. Roosevelt and he 1 many others recognize, is based on
 distrust of the honesty, courage a impartiality of the individual as
 agent on behalf of the people to cal on any part of government and rd on the proposition that our pres system of representative governmI is a failure. He would have goveI ment ownership of railways beca1 he does not believe it is possible to
 cure an interstate commerce comm sion that the money power" canI and vii not ultimately own. He vol have the initiative and referendum cause he distrusts representative gI ernment and has no confidence in ability of the people to find men VI will conscientiously, and free from
 (Continued on Twelfth Pagsae
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Answer to NTr Bryan's Question: What Should Bc Done to Trusts?
 Government action.

MT. Bryan asks me what I would do with the trusts. I answer that would restrain un- lawful trusts with all the efficiency of injunctive process and would punish with all the severity of criminal prose- cution every attempt on the part of aggregated capital through the illegal means l have described to suppress competition.
 There has been great activity in the Department of Commerce and Labor and in the Department of Justice in an effort to investigate and restrain the continuance of such unlawful methods, and the success which has attended this effort in the dissolution of a number of such trusts where they consisted of several companies or partnerships united by contract in restraint of trade has been gratifying. In the case of those who have made themselves into one corporation their restraint is more difficult. It involves enormous labor on the part of the government to prosecute such a com hination because the proof of the gist of the offense lies underneath an all most lmitless variety or transactions. In the outset, 1t can be very much more easily reached by bill in equity than in criminal prosecution and the questions of law arising may be more quickly settled. When the law is declared so that the corporation un- derstands exactly the limits upon it's action, and it then pursues its previ- ous illegal methods, nothing but crim- inal prosecution ought to be resorted to.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Why Trust Promoters Have Not Been
 Imprisoned,

MT Bryan is continually asking why some of the managers of unlaw- full trusts have not been convicted and sent to the penitentiary? I sympathize with him in his wish that this may be done, because I think that the im- prisonment of one or two would have "a most healthy effect throughout the country; but even without such inn prlsonment I believe that the prose- cutions which are now on foot and the iniunctions which have already been issued, have had a marked effect on business methods. One reason for the small number of sentences of im- prisonment in trust prosecutions is that the revelations of unlawful trust methods and dishonesty have been chiefly made known in secret rebates and as I have already said, the El- kins act, until amended by the Rate Bill, only prescribed fines as a mode of punishment in such cases.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
The Railroads-Not Mir. Roosevelt sponsible For Restrictive State
 Legislation.

The critics have referred to are in the habit of charging to MT. Roose-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Policies Framed to Defeat Socialism.

For this reason, he takes the most conservative course in insisting on adopting measures entirely consistent with the principle of private property in order to stamp out the evils which have attended it's abuse. There is mo- thing either radical or severe in the reforms he proposes. What is there in the tenet of private property that pre- vents close government regulation of the exercise of a public franchise like that of interstate railways, or the en- actment and criminal laws or civil pro- cedure to restrain the evils which re- suit from the improper use of the right of property in combinations of capital to suppress competition and to monopolize trade, or the adjust ment of tax laws or laws of descent in such a way as to reduce the motive for accumulating fortunes so great that the power they give their indi- vidual owners is politically danger ous?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Criticism That Mir. Roosevelt's Poli-
 cies are Socialistic Absurd.

Critics of President Roosevelt de- nounce his policies as socialistic and likely to impair the institution of pri- vate property The institution of pri- vate property next to that of civil lib erty is the most important factor in all that is good in modern society. It is indispensable to individualism and is one of the two chief means by which man raised himself from a low estate near to that of the beasts of the Held to his present condition. But if the people are not convinced that it is possible to eradicate the evils and abuses arising from the interruptions use of wealth and corporate combina- ton under the system of private prop erty, the movement toward it's aboh- tion and the adoption of socialism in some form will gain great strength. President Roosevelt would stop this movement by a demonstration that it is possible under the system of pri- vate property, by efficient government regulation, supervisor and prosecu- ton, to stamp out the evils which nave CFSdleu our SOCldi uuIeSl, IlS knows what futile remedy socialism will prove to be, Socialism looks to a dead level of life, to an absence of all motive for material progress, to a stagnation in everything. It involves a lack of individual freedom and re- quires an official tyranny to carry out its system that finds no counterpart in modern government. It offers no real remedy for the evils that appear from time to time as the accompaniment of our progress. And yet, President Roosevelt knows and every one must realize, the plausible force with which socialistic doctrines can be pressed upon a discontented people who see real wrongs in the body polite and social.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
Proposed Railway Regulation Not In-
 consistent with IndiyiduaIism,

The supervision proposed need not materially reduce the legitimate oper- ation of individualism in railway en- terprise It will indeed limit the op- portunity to accumulate enormous fortunes through over-capitalization or secret rebates, but the legitimate profit which comes from close atten- ton to operation, to efficiency of ser- vice, and economy in details and from broad conceptions of new methods of reducing cost without impairing the service will not be disturbed in the slightest. There is no attempt to take away the property of the railway com ,aies; there is no furnishing of pub
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20

l amposed to government ownership
 First, because existing government railways are not managed with either the efficiency or economy of privately managed roads and the rates charged ars not as low and therefore not as beneficial to the public;
 Second; because it would involve an expenditure of certainly twelve billions of dollars to acquire the interstate railways and the creation of an enor- nous national debt
 Third, because it would place in the hands of @ reckless executive power of control over business and politics that the imagination can hardly conceive. and would expose our poular institu- tions to danger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20

Continued on Twelfth Pagsae
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
AS TO MACHINISTS.
Half Holiday Denied Those in Dis
trict Employ.

Emmett l.. Adams. president of District
Lodge. No. A, International Association of
Machinists, recently took up with Engineer
Commissioner Morrow the subject of Sat
urday half holiday for the machinists in
the employ of the District government at
the Bryant street pumping station and the
placing OF the men on the same footing
with the other employees of the District of
Columbia government who enjoy the Sat
urday half holiday
Following a personal interview with Com
missioner Morrow and Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Kelly by Mr. Adams CORE
spondence on the subject ensued. The last
communication from Capt. Morrow to Mr.
Adams informed him that the President s
executive order authorizing the holiday
during July, August and September does
not apply 10 District government employees
and as the District is a municipality sepa-
rate from the national government, Capt
Morrow, IL is stated. told Mr. Adams that
as the men he sought to secure the half
holiday for are mechanics they could, not
be Included In the list OF those given the
holiday.
The original order providing for the holt
day was issued January Is. 1904, and April
%, 1907, was slightly changed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
TO ENJoIN SALE.
Suit Filed Today in the District Su-
preme Court.

Suit to enjoin an advertised sale of prem
Uses 2015 Sd street was today filed in the
District Supreme Court by Thomas H.
Brown against Meyer B. Newman. party
secured under the deed Of trust, for the al
legged default in which the sale is adver-
tised, and the two trustees named in the
trust. Mr.. Brown charges that the trust
was secured on his house. when he thought
he was conveying only a lot adjoining in the
rear. He claimed to be ignorant of the
lot numbers.
Brown says that in October, 1904 he
made a verbal agreement with Newman to
represent the latter at the government
printing Office in lending money to his fell
low-employes, with the understanding that
he was to receive one-fourth of the profits
AS Newman's name did not figure in the
loans 1t Is stated. Newman suggested that
Brown execute trust to secure a note of
$500, to be held as security for the moneys
received from time to time from Newman
for the purpose of making the loans to
the employees of the government printing
office. Brown also asks an accounting.
Attorneys Hayden Johnson and Thomas
Walker represent the complainant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
UNIQUE ~AUCTION BY MAIL" IDEA

brain-broiling rebus turned out by
the dizzy thinkers in this little land
of ours.
Just the other day I was looking
over one of the big Chicago dailies
and saw paragraph which said that
the Chickering piano was older than
the railroad or the telegraph, and
quite as far-reaching and beneficial
in its particular sphere as any inven-
ton. Of course, l had heard and
seen mighty nice things said and
written about the Chickering piano.
A man can't we'll mingle with civil
lied people and be deaf to remarks
of that sort. But l wasn't quite so
sure about this telegraph and rail-
road comparison, never having come
across it before, and so looked it
up. Twas a fact, all right, and if
age imparts particular value to
product where ideal standards have
always been maintained, then the
Chickering piano logically ought to
be covered with brand of glory all
its own. And from what l have
heard and have found out for myself
| am very willing to admit the glory,
too.
There is no doubt in the world
that the Chickering piano had its
birth when the republic was very
crude and very young indeed. By
latter-day comparisons the piano
was just as crude as the republic and
distressingly young as we'll. and
there seems to be no better way of
marking the general advance along
all lines than by comparing the long
and wonderfully developed career OF
the Chickering with that progress
that has been made in commercial,
industrial and artistic lines.
Why, the history of the CHECKER
ing piano practically covers the first
part of the history of the American
republic, back through more than
eighty-four long and crowded years
to the day when James Monroe was
President of the United States and
when Daniel Webster took his seat
in Congress for the first time.
IT'S enough to make one dizzy to
contemplate the changes that have
occurred since that time. Indeed,
the everyday mind can hardly grasp
the achievements that have been re-
corded on the national register since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
PROXIMITY OF MARS
Responsible for the Weather, Accord
ing to Prophets.


The sages of the weather bureau predict
showers for Washington and vicinity this
evening and tomorrow. The remarkably
cool spell for July continues, and amateur
weather prophets are attributing the alb
normal conditions to the near approach
Of the red planet Mars to the earth in COM
bination with the sun spots
Scientists must look far beyond mere
meteorology for the causes of the prevailing
abnormalities of the weather" Prophet
Watkins of Pennsylvania says in his latest
statement to the public They must asso-
ciate with the science of the atmosphere
the science of the stars, including the sun
and moon, before they can hope to make
the proper predictions of coming condi-
tons"
An official statement issued by the weather
bureau says:
Warm weather continues in the central
valleys, the southwest and the extreme
central west, the temperatures during Fri
day ranging from 80 to ITO degrees 1t is
slightly warmer in the east, and decidedly
cooler in the Dakotas. Nebraska and Wy
oming With the exception of local showers
In the upper lake region, Minnesota, the
Dakotas and eastern Florida, the weather
was generally fair throughout the country.
There will be local showers Saturday in
the lower lake region and the upper Ohio
valley, extending by night into the middle
Atlantic states, and probably by Sunday
into southern New England. Showers will
also continue in eastern Florida. Elsewhere
the weather will be generally fair Saturday
and Sunday, except in eastern Colorado and
the north portion of New Mexico and Ari-
IONA, where local thunderstorms are proba-
bic Saturday.
northwest is moving southeastward it is
probable that several days of fair weather
with seasonable temperatures will prevail
after Sunday east Of the Rocky mountains"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Foe MISS BONDS PARDON
Petition Already Received at the De-.
partment Of Justice.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt will soon be called
upon TO pass upon an application for par
oon that involves a young woman of for
mer nigh standing in Baltimore The case
Is one OF the most curious ever brought to
the attention of the Department of Justice.
ana when 1t has received the attention OF
Attorney General Bonaparte 1t will he
passed up to President Roosevelt. whose
record Of pardons and combinations of
sentences is not encouraging to nersons
hopeful OF securing freedom from peniten-
tiaries.
Miss Bond was a clerk to a Methodist
missionary body in Baltimore. nnmhsr
OF her male relatives are minister's and
her family is of the best She was a de-
Voted church member and took part in
missionary and other work. She was treas
urer OF fund for missions. In that posi-
tlon she had raised probably $780, when the
temptation to spend some of it overcame
her better Judgment Toward time for the
Methodlst conference to meet the minister
IN charge of the work called on Miss Rond
for the money. She was in DESPAIR and
oio not Know what to do. She made it all
worse by taking a $40 note of the United
states government and raising it by means
OF pen to 500. She handed the minister
the counterfeit note. and he found he was
nlmnammed when he got to the conference.
secret service men arrested Miss Bond. and
she was recently sentenced to spend five
years in the city Jail at Baltimore. Strong
petlt1ons for her pardon have been received
at the Department of Justice The case
Will be referred to United States Judge
motifs and District Attorney Rose at Bal
tlmore. They are both said to favor com
mutation Of sentence for the young woman.