The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-28


prchensIon OF public questions and
unfaltering and unswerying a1her-
cnce 70 duty
He has strengthened our prestige
with foreign nations and treated with
vigor and wisdom important inter
national problems, notably our tar
itt relations with Germany. France
and Canada.
Under his administration, the pros
ecution OF those implicated In the
sugar and other customs frauds have
been continued and convictions oh
tained there have been impartial and
energetic enforcement OF the Sher-
man antitrust act, Il substantial re-
ductIon of governmental expense, the
establishment of better business
methods. which Will result In greater
efficiency and real economy, remark
able progress In the construction Of
the Panama canal and the withdraw
al from private entry OF over 1000
600 acres OF the public domain, to
preserve for public benefit. valuable
an dother mineral deposits, timber
land and water power sites
On his recommendation, congress
has provided for commission TO In
vestigate and report on the reSula-
tions of the Issuance OF stocks and
bonds by public service corporations
engaged in Interstate commerce. He
has advocated a new system of ap-
propTiatlons for river and harbor i'm
provements under which each Item
after investigation by experts. shall
be approved and carried to compile
ton as a separate measure This rec
ommendatlon We heartily endorse.
The Tariff.
The Payne tariff law reduced the
average rate of all duties eleven per
cent
luXuries and articles not of ordinary
use. making. however, no increase on
any common food product, IT turned
a national deficit into a surplus. I'm
der Its first year OF operation, the
value of imports free of duty was the
greatest in our history by 100000. 900
and the average rate of duty was less
than under the Wilson law Unlike
that Democratic law, It's great re-
ductions of duty have not stopped in
duStry nor deprived labor of any part
of its hire. 1t gives free trade with
the Philippine islauds and it estab-
lishes a customs court Its maximum
and minimum rates give us for the
first time equality OF opportunity
with other nations in our foreign
trade.
In providing. upon the suggestion
nj prngiAnut
10 affords the means OF still more
accurately determining the difference
in cost of production at home and
abroad
A Republican congress is necessary
TO provide needed appropriations for
this board. and TO assure business and
labor that changes in rates Will be
made only to eQualize the difference
In cost of production and not to re-
duce rates to the free trade or pure.
ly revenue basis favored by the Dem
ccratic party.
To avoid disturbance Of business.
VIC urge the adoption by the congress
of joint rule of the two houses rec
ommended by the president and lead
ers in congress by which the two
houses could consider a single Scbed-
ule or a single paragraph OF the tar.
in without the necessity for amend
mcnt which would lead to 4 general
revision
Advances In the cost of living are
only the local reflection OF n len.
dency that Is worldwide and cannot
he truthfully said to be due to the
present tariff.
The Congress.
The congress has responded to rec.
concentrations OF the president by en-
acting measures of farreaching i'm
portance to the people. including val
liable amendments TO the interstate
commerce law a postal savings bank
law, law providing for the pub
licity OF campaign expenses. the Gre
alton of bureau 0l mines with a
view to the better protection Of mine
workers laws extending the regula.
tion OF safety appliances and the laws
providing a method by which the sur
face OF coal lands and other mineral
lands Is made available for agricul.
tural use, while conserving the mine
rails under the surface for the public
benefit
The right OF the President to with
draw public lands for conservation