Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
LEADERS
DENOUNCE 5. P.
Continued from Pses one,

wealth of the people of the United
States per inhabitant is $40, while the
annual profits of the transportation and
industrial monopoies now amounts to
S25 on an average to each person. The
railroad and other trusts are absorbing
more than the earnings of the whole
people and are now taking the homes.
There can be no honest regulation
of railroad or other rates until the gov
ernment and not the companies makes
the rates.
"The country is tired of the device Of
giving the carrier power to fix and ad-
vance rates and then starting an impo-
tent and endless scheme of litigation to
undo the wrong.
'The interstate commerce commission
should have full power to supervise,
control and fix all interstate commerce
rates. A commerce court should be es-
tablished to have exclusive jurisdiction
of all cases arising under the laws re-
lating to interstate commerce. [ urged
the establishment of such a court in q
brochure published in 1902, and again
in 1903. I believe that the bread which
I then cast upon the water viii return
after many days.
Combination of Roads
at is a matter Of common knowledge
throughout the country that railway
rates are made by a combination of all
the roads, controlled as to rates as a
single system. There is no competition
between them. They also control the
coastwise vessels and most OF the water
front upon the harbOrs. The only COM
petition they meet or fear is foreign
water commerce in foreign ships. For
eign goods coming here must pay a GUS
toms duty, so that the higher the tariff
is made the higher are the transcon-
tinental railway rates.
'phe Democratic party has properly
demanded in the past, and demands
now, that to meet government expenses
there should be a graduated income tax
and also tax upon estates; also
corporation tax.
what is meant, then, by those who
demand tariff for revenue only, when
with the same breath they demand that
the revenue, or much of it, shall be
raised by other methods of taxation?
Under these circumstances the country
understands that this party slogan
amounts to a demand for practically
free trade and a return to European
standards of wages and living, which
is equivalent to a demand that our
manufacturing shall be done by for
eigners and our own people put out of
these employments.
"As an illustration: The tariff upon
citrus fruit of cent pound was put
there by California's great Democratic
senator, Stephen M. White. Without
that tariff we could not compete with
Italy. The citrus fruit industry today
in consequence Of that tariff yields
California $4000O,O00 a year; yet no one
even pretends that the tariff on oranges
is for revenue only. because there is
practically no government revenue
from the tariff on oranges.
"The country is longing to see the
criminal laws enforced against the
great and powerful criminals and not
against the weaklings alone, and con-
demning administrative policy which
shields the great criminals while prose-
cutting the weak.
"When a great trust is prosecuted
and ordered dissolved, we want no
more imperative DEGREES entered such
as that in the Northern Securities case,
which in effect continued the trust in
existence and only prohibited the
Northern Securities company from
controlling the trust. We want no
more DEGREES which attack the shadow
and protect the substance of the wrong.
IT would summarize my views upon
these questions as follows:
Il. No railway or telegraph rates