The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-17
ROOSEvElT'S POLICIES ARE
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was. in 1907, Sc millions The pro-
duction of sugar mas advanced from
100, 200 tons to 204, 900 tons, valued
at Is million dollars.
When we took possession of the
island there was but one school build
ing owned by the governmnt- Now
there are over so. built ana under
construction, and the number OF pu-
pills in the public schools Is 10000.
Peace and order prevail throughout
the island, and representative is ac-
corded to the United States.
TN the Philippine Islands the peo-
pie have been given a legislative
body, the full power or conducting
their own municipal ami provincial
governments, the establishment or
their own tariff system. the direction
of the postal service, and indeed
greater rights and powers than those
possessed by any other people sub-
ject to our sovereignty. A sound and
reliable currency system has been es-
tabliShed, schools so enlarged that
the number of primary schools now
aggregate between 5000 and 1000,
with a total enrolment in March last
of 479,978. Post Offices have been
established throughout the arChipel-
ago, free delivery service in the city
of Manila, practically 10000 miles OF
telegraph and cable lines are in oper-
alton, and several hundred miles OF
new railway are under construction
or contract; while less than 10 per
cent of the government employees and
municipal. Offices are Americans, and
of the police and constabulary force
SO per cent are Filipinos. The work
OF civilizing and uplifting the inhabi-
tants of the Philippine Islands has
gone forward with remarkable prog
ress.
Department of Justice.
THE department of Justice has
prosecuted its work with fidelity and
diligence, seeking to prevent viola
lions of federal law and to mete out
meritorious punishment to the guilty.
Its most important work during the
past our years has been to defend the
soundness of the positions taken by
it relating TO prosecutions under the
Sherman antitrust law and the inter
state commerce law, by carrying pro-
ceedings thus inaugurated through
the various courts and to final de-
termination by the supreme court OF
the United States, that the constitu-
ticnality of these acts might be ad-
Indicated and settled.
The effort of the national govern
ment to invoke that provision of the
federal constitution which empowers
congress to regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the states
presented problems of the greatest
perplexity, the solution Of which has
been attended with no little difficulty.
Without rehearsing the legislation
y fn-
work of enforcing these statutes, it is
complained of are fast disappearing,
and carrier and shipper alike are CO.
operating in the enforcement of the
law, and wnat at one time threatened
to be a iprotracted and acrimonious
Struggle is fast assuming a peaceful
solution.
Transportation Problems.
s sThe tariff commission, in its last
annual report for 1907, says:
1t means much for the present
and more for the future that the prin-
cinles of this law have gained greatly
in general understanding and accept
ance. BY railway managers almost
without exception the amended law
has been accepted in good faith, and
they exhibit for the most part a sim
cere and earnest disposition to con-
form their methods to its require
ments. To a gratifying extent there
has been readjustment OF rates and
correction of abuses by the carriers
themselves. Methods and usageS of
one sort and another which operated
to individual advantage have been
voluntarily changed, and it is not too
much to say that there is now a free
dom from forbidden determinations
which is actual and generaf to a de-
gree never before approached
THE commission further says:
ait is in this general and marked
Improvement in transportation conH-
tons that the commission observed
ita special qualification. The amend
ed law, with its enforceable RENE
dies, the wider recognition of it's fun
damental justice, the quickeneJ sense
of public obligation on the part of
railroad managers, the clearer per-
ception of shippers of all classes that
any individual advantage is morally,
as well as legally. indefensible, and
the augmented influence or the COM
resulting from It's increased
authority have all combined to mate
rally diminish offensive practices of
every sort and signaIly promote the
purposes for which the law was en-
acted. This results in the voluntary
by the parties, without re-
sort to the commission, of a vast
of compromises, which other
wise would ripen into complaint and
while In numerous instances
a settlement is effected by a friend