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and bond issues, highly commended
the views expressed and declared that
the principles which the governor so
admirably upheld as regards the state
were "of course identical with those
which should obtain as regards the ma
tion."
The Standard Oil Side Of 1t.
1t was at the dinner Of the Ohio So
ciety of New York that the first public
response of the Standard Oil interests
to the attack in the presidents message
was heard, the word coming from John
10. Archbold, vice president Of the big
trust. He frankly defended John D..
Rockefeller as man of high business
|ethics and announced that he favored
la national incorporation law as rem
edy for the existing troubles, saying
that there would be no industrial peace
until such a law was passed.
Senator Foraker was also one of the
speakers, and, while he did not repre-
sent the oil trust in any official way he
did attack the administration and all
those critics to whom the president
himself gave the name of muck rakers.
He insisted that crusade had been
started not only against the wrong
doors, but against the innocent, until
success was a sign Of some kind Of
|crookedness. 1t had become disease
which had spread all over the country,
into state legislatures and into con-
gress. He called attention to the fact
that the message had not affected
stock values and regarded this as a
Sign that the public mind was getting
used to the presidents TRADES. He pro-
posed that the Sherman and Hepburn
laws be amended, the former 30 as to
permit reasonable combinations and
the latter SO as not to interfere with
vested rights, as in the forcible separa-
ton of the anthracite coal properties
from the owning railroads.
Chancellor Day on Message.
AS one Of the defenders of the trusts
and author of the raid on Prosperity"
Chancellor Day of Syracuse university
was accorded attention by the press
and public when he made reply to the
message of the president. "Of the pres
ident's message, if am entirely frank
and honest" he said, II am compelled
to say that much Of 1t reads like the
rawlings of disordered mind, and other
portions, in which appeal is made to
class prejudice and excitement, are
large with the suggestion Of the adroit
and cunning, the shrewd but reckless
fnr,o a CO nNhn xxyhn to- 10
familiar ranting against what he calls
criminal wealth. and it proceeds from
the slanderous assumption that so great
a per cent of the corporate business Of
this country is corrupt as to demand
special messages to congress, popular
harangues by the president and the en-
tire time, ability and effort of the con-
|gress in a volume of corrective leg
islation such as the world has never
seem"
Prohibition Convention Called.
The national convention Of the Pro-
hibition party has been called to meet
at Columbus on July Is. There will be
a total of 1912 delegates, the appor-
tionment to the various states being
based upon the vote cast for president
in 1904
Old Rate In North Carolina.
The extra session Of the North Car
DINA legislature ended Feb. / after
passing the bill fixing the railroad pas
senger rate at 211a cents, as formerly,
and telling the railway unions that this
action might make unnecessary the re-
duction Of wages proposed by the man
ayers. The clause delegating rate reg
ulation to the state corporation COM
mission was left out.
The East Listens to Bryan.
After leaving the national capital as
the acknowledged leader and adviser
of the Democratic minority in congress
William j. Bryan continued his tour of
the east without encounterlng any seri-
GUS detection among the Democratic
hosts. Enthusiastic audiences greeted
him at Wilmington, Philadelphia, New
York and elsewhere. Movements for
instructed delegations in his favor
We're started in the states visited by,
him. At New York lie made set adj
dress before the Civic forum. taking
for his text Thou Shalt Not Steal" and
reviewing the entire field of politics.
Here, as elsewhere, he took occasion.
TO commend the recent message of
President Roosevelt. He said it was a
brave message" and "call to arms"
and that the fight should now be to
pick out the purchased papers and the
purchased legislators. He hoped the