The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-06
rAfT's .sAueuRAt ADDRESS.

TOT nope for great big administra-
tion from the great big man who TOOK
the oath of office.
The president is of the opinion that
some drastic amendments are needed
to the and-trus and inter state COM
merce laws, and ne has told the peo-
pie that at the first regular session
Of congress in December he proposes
to submit some definite suggestions on
that line.
The most important suggestion, of
course, made by President Taft is
that one with reference to a revision
Of the tariff There IS no question
but that this is the most important
matter now pressing congress for at
tention, and keeping his promise made
before his election he says he is 60
ing to call congress together March
18th for the specific purpose Of revis-
Us thN ioitiouo bAuSiSS Dili. lHlst Oh
course, is the most promising utter
ance of the new president However
1t was no news as the general public
has known that special session of
congress would be held at that time.
As we said yesterday morning. IL is
orr haOaSt onu vfotfn,, fha4 ~ ~. .a..gef
is revised and revised along the
proper lines. it win go far way to-
wards the restoration of business and
the revival of industries generally
He had very little to say touching
the government regulation of railroads,
but went far enough to say that all
transportation companies ought to at
least have governmental supervision.
That this is true there can be no
question, and that he was not drastic
on those lines is also the subject Of
congratulation
Touching upon the southern sub
iects generally the president said;
look forward with hope to in
creasing the already good feeling
between the south and the other
sections of the country. Ny chief
purpose Is not to effect a change
in the electoral vote of the south
ern states. That is a secondary
consideration. What ] look for
ward to is an increase in the toll
erance of political views of all
kinds and their advocacy through
out the south. and the existence OF
a respectable political opposition
in every state; even more than
this, to an increased feeling on
the part of all the people in the
south that this government is their
government. and that its officers
in their states are their officers.
The eolored men must base their
hope on the results of their own
industry. self-restraint. thrift and
business success, as well as upon
the aid and comfort and sympathy
which they may receive from
their white neighbors in the south.
There was a time when northern
ers who sympathized with the ne
gro in his necessary struggle for
better conditions sought to give
to him suffrage as protection and
to enforce its exercise against the
prevailing sentiment of the south
But IL may well admit Of doubt
whether in the case of any race,
an appointment of one of their
number to local office in a COM
munity in which the race feeling
is so widespread and acute as to
interfere with peace and facility
with which the local government
business can be done by the APP
pointee, is OF sufficient benefit by
way of encouragement TO the race
to outweigh the recurrence and
increase of race feeling which
such an appointment is likely TO
engender, Therefore. the execu-
tive. in recognizing the negro race
by appointment must exercise
careful discretion not thereby to
do it more harm than good.
On most of the economic problems
of more OF less Importance the presi-
dent touched only briefly. but in each
ease his utterances indicated an alb
solute lack of the abandon and OF the
peculiar temperament with which
President Roosevelt has come to be
known The address was mild tenn
perd, dignitied, and indicated the we'll
poised jumcial mind of the speaker
On the whole it strikes MS that the
people OF the entire country. ought &c
be pleased with it, So far as the
south is concerned. it ought to be
very happy over some of the utter
ances made by the newly inaugurated
president and on the whole the PEG