Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-02-13


Of the great corpora
| c No.. lions and the limita-
ton of their stock
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 It.
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
D. Archbold. vice president of the big
| trust. He frankly defended John d.
Rockefeller as man of high business
ethics and announced that he favored
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 a crusade had been
started not only against the wrong
doors, but against the innocent, until
success was 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 so 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
demagogue. The whole message is his
familiar ranting against what he calls
criminal wealth. and it proceeds from
the slanderous assumption that so great
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 volume Of corrective leg
islation such as the world has never
seen. .
Prohibition Convention Called.
The national convention Of the Pro-
hfbition 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 2Ia 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 encountering any seri-
Gus detection among the Dempcratic