Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-09-24

" Au'htf uVtare inst all agree
ments or traffic or other associations
of railway agents affecting interstate
rates, service or classification shall no
unlawful unless filed with and APPROX
ed by the interstate commerce commits
sion.
We favor the enactment OF a law
giving ~ the interstate commerce COM
mission the power to inspect proposed
railroad tariff rates or schedules before
they shall take effect. and II they be
FOUND to be unreasonable to initiate
an adjustment thereof.
Believing with JET.
The Rights ferson in 1.-The sup.
Of the States. port OF the state
governments In all
their rights rs the most competent adj.
ministration for our domestic concerns
and the surest bulwark against anti.
republican tendencies" and In 1.-The
preservation OF the general government
In Its whole constitutional vigor as tn,
sheet anchor OF our peace ut home and
the safety abroad" we are opposed 10
the Capitalization implied In these sug-
gestions, now frequently made. that
the powers OF the general government
should be extended by judicial con.
struction
There Is no twilight zone between the
nation and the state In which exploit
Ing interests can take refuge from
both. and IL is as necessary that the
federal government shall exercise the
powers delegated to IL as IL Is that the
state governments shall use the Author
ity reserved-to them, but we insist thar
federal remedies for the regulation OF
interstate commerce and for the pre-
vention OF private monopoly shall be
added TO, not substituted for. state
remedies.
The Republican con-
Economy In gress in session lust
Administration. ended has made ap.
propriations amount
Ing TO $1,00S. 100000, exceeding the to-
tai expenditures OF the past fiscal year
by S90,000.0o0 aud leaving a deficit of
more than S60000,000 for the fiscal
year. We denounce the needless waste
of the peoples money. which has re-
suited I'm this appalling increase, rs a
shameful violation OF all prudent con-
ditions OF government as no less than a
crime against the millions OF working
men and women from whose earnings
the great proportion OF these colossal
sums must be extorted through Excess
siye tariff exactions and other indirect
methods. 1t Is not surprising that I'm
the face of this shocking record the
Republican platform contains no refer
IN lnaI .An Al lotx
promise thereof in the future. We de-
mand that a stop be put to this fright
full extravaganza and insist upon the
strictest economy In every department
compatible with frugal and efficient
administration.
Coincident with the
Officeholders. enormous increase I'm
expenditures is a
like addition to the number OF office
holders. During the past year 23.7S4
were added. costing $16156.O0O, and I'm
the past six years of the Republican
administration the total number OF
new Offices created. aside from many
commissions. has been $3.50, entaping
an additional expenditure OF nearly
S1O,OO0000. as against only 1929 new
offices created under the Cleveland and
Mckinley administrations, which in
volved an expenditure OF only $4,000
600. We denounce this great and grow
ing increase In the number Of office
holders as not only unnecessary and
wasteful but also as clearly indicating
a deliberate purpose on the part of the
administration to keep the Republican
If ~ In. %
thus increasing the number of its re-
tainers and dependents. Such pro-
cedure we declare TO be no less dan
gerous and corrupt than the open pur-
chase of votes at the polls.
The panic OF 1907,
Banking. coming without any
legitimate excuse.
when the Republican party had for u
decade been I'm complete control OF the
federal government, furnishes add
tional proof that IL is either unwilling
or incompetent to protect the interests
of the general public. 1t has go linked
the country to Wall street that the sins
OF the spectators are visited upon the
whole people. While refusing 20 rescue
wealth producers from spoliation at
the hands OF the stock gamblers and
spectators IN farm products, II has
deposited treasury funds, without In
terest and without competition. I'm In.
vorite banks. 1t has used an emer-
gency for which 1t Is largely RESPONSE
bic to force through congress n bill
changing the basis Of bank currency
and inviting market manipulation and
has failed TO give to the 1900 900 de-
positors OF the country protection I'm
their savings.
We believe that In so far as the
needs of commerce require an emer-
gency currency. such currency should
be Issued. controlled by the federal
government and loaned on adequate Sc
curlty to national and state banks. We
pledge ourselves to legislation under
which the national banks shall be re-
CURED 20 establish n guarantee fund
for the prompt payment OF the depos-
itors Of any insOlvent national bank
under an equitable system which shall
be available TO all state banking lnsti-
tutions wishing to use t.
We favor a postal savings bank II
the guaranteed bank cannot be secured.
and that IL le constituted so as to keep
the deposited money in the communi-
ffpa xrhnra n fe establishes Uttt go