The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-27

to discharge because the discharged man was member of a labor union. It is c poor rule that does not work both ways.
 Another decision of federal court the decision of Judge Gouid-has gone so far as to gay that . tabor mans newspaper should not publish we don't patronize.' A, man has right to patronize or not to patronize anybody according to his own sweet will. and he therefore has the right to publish those whom he does not pat ronize.
 "The presidents recommendation of . law to place wood pulp on the free list with corresponding resduction upon paper made from wood pulp whAn they come from any country that docs not put an export duty upon them. meets with Mir. Williams approval, except that 1t does not go quite far enough. Not only ought wood pulp be placed on the free list" he says, but print paper ought to be placed there also. The publishers will not be very much benefited by the placing of wood pulp upon the free list If there be only slight reduction of the duty upon print paper"
 There are other things in the Presidents message" said Mir. Wit Hams which as one might naturally expect, considering his education in the line of Hamiltonism and his ten- dencies toward federalism, cannot meet with Democratic approval. One is his idea that he Attorney General, repre- senting the government should have the right to nominate receivers when a common carrier is thrown Into the hands of receiver. That right ought to rest In a court--not in the execu- tive"
 No Good Trusts.
 The Presidents utterances concern ing the anti-trust law are an indica- ton of his inability to see that which will appear plain to a Democratic mind. to wit: That anything approximating . private monoply is intolerabie and uncomfortable in a free government. His attempt and that of others to classify trusts as good trusts and bad trusts Is abhorrent. There can be no such thing as a good trust. There may sometimes be a great trust magnate who uses his powers beneficially. but the power Is too much fraught with danger to be vested in a few men.
 we ought simply to provide that organizations of labor and of working men for the purpose of securing short CT hours or higher pay or more equit- able treatment, shall not be construed to fall within the inhibition of any existing law
 ''The Presidents idea of letting the substantive part of the antitrust law remain as it is. but giving to some branch of the executive government authority to determine when trust is a good trust and when it is a bad one--in effect to license one and to restrain another--is so very vicious in his ultimate effects. if adopted. that 1t would seem that no friend of a well ordered government could stand for it.
 As to the Presidents proposition for tariff revision by consideration at the hands of commission composed of members of the House and Senate and so-called experts 1t is both cum bersome and useless. The very bsst possible tariff commission Is commfs- sion consisting of the representatives, of the people, selected by the people. in the interests of the people. Even that body has too many men selected by private interests in the interest os private interests.
 sIf the Republicans party cannot fur nish ways and means committee with sufficient intelligence to revise the tariff. then will it surrender the reins of power to us of the minority and let us see whether we can or not?"