The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-29
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO
RIFLE


teal affairs of the United States have
been dominated by what is known as
the Eastern States. They embrace /
New England, New York, Pennsylvan-
ia and New Jersey. All the money /
power is gathered there, and money /
controls everything. Laws are made IN I
its interests, and the entire policy of
the government is dictated by it, be- |
cause the money power puts up the cash
that maintains the party it puts in con-
troll.
The West consented to Eastern con-
troll because it was necessary to keep
the Republicans in power, and the
West was given some crumbs of public
bounty. AS for the South, it did not
count. Tt hung onto the tail of the
East because it was supposed to have
some business friends there, but in
public affairs the South had practi-
cally no voice.
Affairs went on in this way until
Theodore Roosevelt, who cared moth
ing either for party or for laws, pretty
nearly broke up the Republican party,
and when his successor played direct
Iy into the hands of the East the West
was not only bitterly disappointed, but
became seriously hostile to Eastern
control and so a movement started to
oppose the East and transpose the scep-
ire of power to the middle West which
is the Mississippi valley, and this
movement invites the cooperation of
the South
The movement has become so for
midable that the political managers in
the Eastern states are growing uneasy
and even are filed with alarm The
Middle West, aided by the South, can
control the country, unless the vast
Eastern capital can save the situa-
ton, and this is what the West de
mands, as set forth In an article in
the Worlds Work for May. 1t is as
follows:
First-They want it to protect the
remaining resources pf the nation as
yet under government control from
spoliation by placing them under a
cabinet officer or officers, who are not
| merely honest, but of whose integrity
and efficiency there is not the shadow
of a doubt-men whose affiliations
| have not heretofore been with rhe
| spoilers. Anything shert of this will
| invoke the wrath of an already out
ragged and indignant people.
| Second-Let the interstate commerce
law severely alone for the present The
recent decision of the supreme court
/ IF the United States by limiting ap
| peals from its decisions to matters Of
| jurisdiction and constitutionality, has
at last put teeth in the commission
For more than twenty years the Mid
| die west has iabored to put the reg
ulation of the railroads into the hands
| If the representatives of the whole PEG
pie, who seek the public welfare, in
stead of allowing the regulation to re
main in the hands of a constantly de
creasing heads OF systems, who seei
purely private gain
4 To create a court of commerce com
posed of circuit judges, for the mos
!, part trained to look upon questions
From the corporation standpoint, an,
require them to pass upon the decis
ions of experts, is like asking a raw In,
! migrant from couthern Europe 10 pas
Judgment on the methods of conduct
+ ing a Western farm. To take the pro
secution of an appeal from decisio
of the Interstate Commerce commissio
F out of the hands of an attorney VIII
has handled the case and therefore ur
derstands it into the hands of an al
torney of the Department of Justic
who knows and really can know moth
ing about it, is like putting the mar
), agemenr of great newspaper into tn
hands of a cub reporter. To enact tn
] Wickersham bill into law. as til
president proposes, is to put back raj
road reform tenyears and to provok
the wrath of evedy man who has ca
load Of live stock or grain to ship t
market. The law needs amendment
but no satisfactory amendmenr Is nos
sible under tAis administration.
i Fhird-Let the sherman anti-trus
8 law alone until the supreme court al
!, ddes Wat X really means. Ii ma
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