Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-04-03
COUNTRY NEEDS PEACE

There is no doubt but that exp 'esi-
dent Cleveland put into word, whnt il
in the minds of most thinking men OF
the country today when he said, "OuI
people need rest, after period OF territ tic
hysteria; they need peace after Intense
excitement and appre he neion; Gnd they
need conservatism, after the dist ur bling
fever of radicaIism." The country is
now getting the r. st Of Ill action which
Is worse than no rest ut all, the KIND OF
rest Of which MIR. Cleveland spoke was
chat which comes to u busy man who
realizes the Just rewards OF industry and
progress toward tile fultillment OF his
ambition. There is ldIeness now but
no rest, and not until we have passed
through tho "hysteria" OF which Mr..
Cleveland spoke will the eituasiou be-
come healthy. The great prosperity of
the country had apparently created q
prejudice that has led to efforts to 80
hedge in the corporations and other
large enterprises that the incentive 10
build and construct has been tenn
porarily lost.
Tho eocialiatic element has gone on
the theory apparently that success can
only be achieved through cbicenery
and fraud, and there fore the wealthy
man Is OF necessity an undeslrab le
citizen. Unfortunately Lhe 70 has b, on
great deal Of loose talk from those
who should and do know better but v he
saw chance to Use the prevailing pre-.
JUDGES tor selfish purposes There has
been much said and written abont the
moral awakening of the people, but the
fact ID that we had just about reacl eG
the time when the study OF the probe
or controlling the transportation com.
panies had resulted III definite vi,ws
and fixed ideas, IT. took some years fol
example, to find that the Sherman law
could be applied to the railways for The
Trainers OF the law had nothing in mind
but the Industrial combinations which
strangely enough have gone ON us
though the law had ne YER been passed
1t ls not to be argued from this that the
law has been totally ineffective against
the industrial combinations, for il has
oeen useful IN preventing agreements IL
restraint OF trade but the movement. OF
combination was simply shifted from
agreements between different companies
70 the actual purchase Of the plants and
good wills.
Ihe effective work done by this aG
nUllstration has been under the Sb, r.
man law I'D the Northern Securities case
but more especially under the EIkGe
law, which has stool the test of ct n,
stitutionality; this is probably more tbs
could be said of the Hepburn law i! il
is ever taken into court, which il Ger
tainly will never be BY the railways, 10,
they have found it too satisfactory. I,
has been claimed that il was neoessra,
TO have a certain amount of hysteris
and eensatiop alism in order to q, cure
Eesults and perhaps this may be trne OF
action by congress, but the most effect
i've work OF the admin istration hos NOT
been in securing the passage Of new
Wave but in enforcing those that lac
been on the statute books for som,
years. 1t eurely will not be claiincc
that public hysteria aud sens ationalisu
are niece ssary adjupc,s to the successro
prosecution Of suits brought in the court
1t may be saiu OF former administra
tiops that'the Elkins law was not full,
understood and that the present admin
istration received the beuefi, Of the de
cisions that had been secured provinp:it
constitutionalitya and effectiveness Thor