Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-28

demonstrated to the people by what
he said, by what he recommended to
Congress and by what he did, the sin
cerity of his efforts to command re-
spect for the law, to secure equality of
all before the law, and to save the
country from the dangers of a pluto
cratic government toward which we
were fast tending. In this work Mr..
Roosevelt has had the support and
sympathy of the Republican party,
and its chief hope of success in the
present controversy must rest on the
confidence which the people of the
country have in the sincerity OF the
party's declaration in its platform.
that 1t intends to continue the poll
cies.
Necessary TO DEVISE Some Means of
Permanently Securing Progress
Made.
Mr.. Roosevelt has set high the
standard of business morality and
obedience to law. The railroad rate
bill was more useful possibly in the
immediate moral effect of its passage
than even in the legal effect of its
very useful provisions. From its en-
actment dates the voluntary abandon
ment of the practice of rebates and
determinations by the railroads and
the return by their managers to obe-
dience to law in the fixing of tariffs.
The pure food and meat inspection
laws and the prosecutions directed by
the president under the antitrust law
have had similar moral effect in the
general business community and have
made it now the common practice for
the great industrial corporations to
consult the law with view in keep
ng within its provisions 1t has also
had the effect of protecting and en-
couraging small and competitive com
panies so that they have been enabled
to do a profitable business.
But we should be blind to the ordi-
nary working of human nature,
If we did not recognize that the
moral standards set by President
Roosevelt will not continue to be OBJ
served by those whom cupidity and a
desire for financial power may tempt,
unless the requisite machinery is in
troduced into the law which shall I'm
its practical operations maintain these
standards and secure the country
against a departure from them
y
10 Cllnch What Has Been Done.
The chief function of the adminis-
tration, i'm my judgment, is distinct
from and a progressive development
of that which has been performed by
President Roosevelt.
THE CHIEF FUNCTION OF THE
NEXT ADMINISTRATION Is TO
COMPLETE AND PERFECT THE
MACHINERY BY WHICH THESE
STANDARDS MAY BE MAINTAIN
ED, BY WHICH THE LAWBREAK-
ERS MAY BE PROMPTLY RE-
STRAINED AND PUNISHED, BUT
WHICH SHALL OPERATE WITH
SUFFICIENT ACCURACY AND DIS
PATCH TO INTERFERE WITH LIE
CLIMATE BUSINESS AS LITTLE
AS POSSIBLE. SUCH MACHINERY
Is NOW ADEQUATE. Under the
present rate bill and under all its
amendments The burden of the inter
state commerce commission in super
Wsng and regulating the operation
OF railroads OF this country has grown
so heavy that 1t is utterly impossible
for that tribunal to dispose, I'm any
reasonable time, of the many COM
plants, queries and issues that are
brought before II for decision. II
ought to be relieved OF its jurlsdic- !
tion as an executive, directing body, ,
end its functions should be limited to |
the quasi-judicial investigation OF
complaints by individuals and by a
department OF the government |
charged with the executive business
OF supervising the operation OF rail I
ways.
There should be a classification of I
that small percentage of industrial |
corporations having power and op- |