The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-10

ferent epochs. The danger from
armed resistance to constituted author
ity is open and manifest and is met by
simple. obvious methods. The dangers
to free institutions, arising from the
concentration of vast wealth and great
power in few hands is far more in
sidious than that arising from open
revolt against government, and the
methods by which these dangers may
he met and averted are less obvious
and more subject to misunderstanding
than the work of resisting force by
force. The daily work of endeayoring
to carry on the great increasingly COM
plex business of government without
perpetual turmoil and commotion, but
none the less efficiently and adequate
ly, is far less attractive to spectacular
Imagination and can only be done by
men who are content to endure mis-
representation and misinterpretation
of their acts, and to look to the fu-
ture, rather than to the present, for a
yindication of their motives and JUS
LITIGATION of their deeds.
MUCH ACCOMPLISHED.
'The administration of President
Taft has been in office a little more
than year. That it has accomplished
much in that time is abundantly at
tested by the volume of criticism and
by the increasing vehemence Of at
tacks upon it."
Mr.. Wickersham then went on to re-
view the presidents acts, his recon-
mendations to congress and his efforts
to secure legislation promised in the
republican platform. The corporation
tax, he said, was a practical applica-
ton of the provisions of the party
pledge, which declared for strengthen
ing the law against trusts that it's real
objects might be better attained. II
was a perfectly legitimate and effect.
i've system of taxation, he said, by
which federal supervision over BUSH
ness of corporations could be estab-
hshed and the knowledge obtained
would be a long step toward that
supervisory control of, corporations
which might prevent further abuses of
power.
People who had for years been
clamoring for greater publicity in the
affairs of corporations and for govern
ment supervision, became highly in
dignant when they found that their
own particular corporations we're re-
quired to make returns as well as their
neighbors. What they wanted was
publicity for. others-and not for them
selves" he exclaimed.
THE TARIFF BOARD.
In speaking of the tariff board. the
attorney general declared that by its
operations and with the aid of the in
formation furnished through the cor.
poration tax amendment, the country
would be spared a repetition of the
scenes in the framing of the last tariff
law, which he said were "a purely sell
fish scramble for government aid fur.
thered by every form Of misrepresen.
tation and misinfOrmation." Congress
would never again be in the position
of being compelled to legislate on the
tariff. on the advice furnished by in.
terested ones in aid of their own con.
tentions.
The presidents special messages
Mr.. Wickersham added, had recon-
mended amendments to the interstate
commerce law, federal incorporation
postal savings banks, uniform safety
appliances on railroad trains, changes
TO make the employers liability act
more easy to enforce, intelligent con
servation laws, Teadjustment of mail
rates and revision of the customs laws
The president had placed before con
gress for enactment into law, he de
clared, all those measures which the
republican party had pledged itself &c
adopt, and If congress should adjourn
without enacting them, then upon con
ETess and not the president, rested the