The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-20
AFT SPEAKS AT COLUMBUS discusses the Rate Bill, the Trusts, Socialism and
 Errors of MT.
 Bryan.
|XALTS POLICIES OF
 PRES. ROOSEVELT
avors Revision of Excessive Tariff Rates, But No De- parture From Protec-
 tive Principle.

tive Principle. Secretary of War William H. Taft 5 st evening at Columbus, O., before e Buckeye Republican club delivered notable address. It follows in full; embers of the Buckeye Republican Elub and Fellow Citizens of Ohio: Iickening of Public Conscience in Midst of Prosperity.
 zThe present is a period of the great prosperity, general comfort and en luxury. Throughout this country, demand for labor has increased hges to 8 higher point than ever own before. The compensation of filed labor now frequently exceeds at of certain professions, like teach and the ministry. Wealth has ac- mulated enormously in the hands of #1ividuals and never before have rich En given so freely of their fortunes educational and charitable objects. lch conditions are apt to dim and |sIH the eye and ear of the people to buses and dishonesty in the body poll c and social. It was such periods in @ history of ancient republics when ! eir foundations were sapped and their #ll ultimately brought about, Prophets evil have foretold the same fate for is republic, They have been refuted.
 spite of the general comfort, there < I've been made manifest by signs not # be misunderstood, quickening of &e public conscience and demand for &e remedy of abuses, the outgrowth z this prosperity, and for a higher Eandard of business integrity. Every Hver of his country should have a Seling of pride and exaltation in this fidence that our society is still sound the core.
 8 Abuses of Railway Determinations. V have been invited by your body to Iscuss the national issues. Some of ese involve the abuses over which e public conscience has been aroused, <ld the proper remedies for their re- oval The first, and possibly the &eatest, abuse has been in the man. #ement of the arterial system of the untry which the interstate railroads rm, Any unjust discrimination in the vIat t11a IA 2 Right or passengers is afforded an in ='vidual or locality, paralyzes and thers the business of the individual
 the locality exactly as the binding
 the arteries and veins leading to a ember of the human body destroys it's e.
 ! allure of old Interstate Commerce
 Law and Causes,
 #The result of twenty years operation der the interstate commerce act of #B7, passed to restrain abuses of un- .st discrimination and unreasonable < ss of rates, was that the railroads me to regard the action of the com
 
 Z be delays, due to the necessity of re- ! rting to the courts to try out the Erits of every order of the commits bn, before it became effective, made e remedy of the complaining shipper
 locality so slow and burdensome | lat in contested cases 1t was no , nedy at all The commission was not, der the old act, authorized to fix hsonable rates. It could only say lat particular rate was unreason- le. The railroad might fix new rate
 anything less than the rate declar-
 to be unreasonable, and if the re- ction made was not sufficient, a new tion had to be brought to decide that e new rate was also unreasonable.
 resident Roosevelt's Recommendation
 New Rate Bill.
 Made aware of the moribund condi- Il of railway regulation under the ; law and of the widespread abuses lich prevailed in railway manage mt, President Roosevelt, in his mes ge of 1904, recommended that the wers of the commission be largely ,reased first by enabling the commits n to fix rates and second by making
 order effective against the carriers thout resort to courts to compel per- rmance. He asked that it be made an ministrative tribunal with real pow
 This was done by the passage of Rate Bill, in June, 19O6 The new
 enables the commission to fix rates d gives efficacy to all of it's orders
 providing that they shall go into ect thirty days after they are made, less suspended by an order of court, d failure to comply with them is nishable by a fine of $5,OO0 a day ring the delinquency. Express com- nies, sleeping car companies, and oil be-line companies are brought under jurisdiction of the commission as E Inmon carriers. The act gives the nmission power to fix the rates for
 various incidental services per- med by railways at terminals and
 the journey and to require them to
 performed for every shipper By thholding such services from one, d extending them to another, and by posing varying charges for them, npanies have been able in the past make them a, convenient instrument m discrimination, The new law re- res the publication of rates charged
 such incidental services. Railroads
 compelled to furnish cars without crimination for the movement of fife. After May, 1908, they are con ed in their business strictly to importation by a provision forbid
 them, after that date, to trans ,tation by q provision forbidding