Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-30

one control in order to avoid undue
discrimination.
President Roosevelt directed suits to
be brought and prosecutions to be in
stituted under the antitrust law, to
enforce its provisions against the most
powerful OF the industrial corporations.
He pressed to passage the pure food
law and the meat inspection lay in the
interest of the health of the public,
clean business methods and great ulti-
mate benefit to the trades themselves.
He recommended the passage of a law,
which the Republican convention has
since specifically approved, restricting
the future issue ct stocks and bonds by
interstate railways to such as may be
authorized by Federal authority. He
demonstrated to the people by what he
said, by what he recommended to Con-
gress and by what he did, the sincerity
OF his efforts to command respect for
the law, to secure equality of all before
the law, and to save the country from
the dangers of a plutocra tic govern
Il0IlI,I . ara Wn1Cn we were IaSI CGDu-
ing. Ii 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 sim
csrity of the party's declaration in it's
platform, thatit intends to continue his
policies. o Q o
TRATIoN TO CLINCH WHAT
HAS BEEN DONE.
The chief junction of the next Ad-
ministration, in my Judgment, is dis
tinct from, and a progressive develop
ment of that which has been performe ed
by President Roosevelt. The chief
r function of the next Administration is
to complete and perfect the machinery
2 by which these standards may be
maintained, by which the law breakers
/ may be promptly restrained and
punished, but which shall operate
with su efficient accuracy and dispatch
to interfere with legitimate business as
little as possible. Such machinery is
not now adequate. Under the pres
ent rate bill, and under all its amend.
ments, the burden of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in supervising
and regulating the operation OF thu
railroads of this country has grown SC
heavy that it is utterly impossible fol
that tribunal to hear and dispose, il
any reasonable time, of the many
complaints, queries and issues that ar,
brought before it tor decision. 1t ough
to be relieved of its jurisdiction as al
:, executive. directing BODY, and 1T
functions should be limited to tn
q~uasi-judical investigation of com
plants by individuals and by a de
partment of the Government charged
with theEexecutive business of super
vislng he operation of railways,
There should be a classification o
that very smalla percentage of indus
trial corporations having power ant
opportunity to effect illegal restraint
: of trade and monopolies, and legisfa
ton either inducing or compellin,
= them to subject themselves to registr,
and to proper publicity regulation
and supervision of the Department @
Commerce and La Dor.
9 CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OF NEXT ADMIN
It TO UBoRD
n NATE AND MACHINER
e TO MAINTAIN STANDARDS ON On
HAND, AND NOT TO WITT
BUSINESS ON THE OTHER.
o Tne field covered by the industris
n combinations and by the railroads
q 50 very extensive that the interests {
II the public and the interests Of the bus
3 inesses concerned cannot be properl
4r s1bserved except by reorganization
Q, bureaus in ithe Department OF Com
g mercesandsLabor, of Agriculture. an
g. the Department of Justice, and
n change in the Jurisdiction of the Intel
le state Commerce Commission. It dos
e. not assist matters to prescribe ne
& duties for5Sthe Interstate Commerc
ID Commission which it is PRACTICAL
l. impossible fer it to perform, or to d.
lie nounce new ofenses with drast
ID punishment, unless subordinate an
III a%ncillary Legislation shall be passe
ir making possible the quick enforce
sr msnt in the agIeat variety of case
Is which are constantly arising, of tt
Of principles gIaid down by Mr.. Roos,
S, welt, and with respect to which onl
at typical instances of prosecution wit
l. the present machinery are possibl
n Such legislation should and woul
s. greatly promote legitimate business i
pr enabling those anxious to obey Il