Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-29

He pressed to passage the pure food
law and the meat inspection law 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 II law,
which the Republican convention has
since specifically approved, restricting
the future issue of 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
Congress. and by what he did the sin
certify of his efforts to command re-
spcct for the law. to secure equality of
all before the law. and to save the
country from the dangers of 2, pluto
cratic government, toward which we
were fast tending In 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 sincerity of tn
partv's declaration in its platform
that it intends to continue his policies.
Necessary to Devise Some Means Of
Permanently Securing Progress
Made.
Mr. Roosevelt has set high the stand
ard Of business morality and obedience
to taw The railroad rate bill was
more useful possibly in the Immediate
moral effect of Its passage than even
in the legal effect of its yer" useful
pro, iSion.. From its enactment of the
the voluntary abandonment Of tn"
practice If rebates and determinations
by the railroads and the return by their
managers to obedience to law in the
fixing of tariffs. The pure food and
meat inspection laws and the prosccu-
tions directed by the President under
the antitrust law have had Il similar
moral effect in the general business
community and have made it now The
common practice for the great INDUS
trial corporations to consult the law
with View to keeping within its pro-
visions 1t has also had the effect of
nrot Getting ard encouraging smaller
competitive companies so that they
have been enabled to do a profitable
business.
Eut we should he blind to The ordi-
nary warking of human nature if We
did not recognize that the moral stand
ards set by President Roosevelt will not
continue to be observed by thos" whom
cupidity and desire for financial pow
err may tempt. unless the requisite ma
chinery is introduced into the law
which shall i'll its practical operation
maintain these standards and secure
the country against a departure from
them.
Chief Function of Next Administra-
ton to CIinch What Has Been
Done.
The chief function of the next Ad-
ministratior. in my judgement, IS dis
tinct from. and progressive develop
ment of that which has been performed
by President Roosevelt The chief
function of the next Administration Is
TO complete and perfect the machinery
by when these standards may be
maintained, by which the lawbreakers
may be promptly restrained and pun
ished, but which shall operate with
sufficient accuracy and dispatch to In
terfere with legitimate business as lit
tie as possible Such machinery is now
adequate Under the present rate bill
and under all it's amendments, the bur-
den Y6f tie Interstate GemlnerceaE oanT
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