The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-10


careful investigation of facts for futur,
revision OF the tariff. He read a rcso
luton Endorsing the commission, re
Gently passed by the board OF Director
OF tho National Tariff Commission As
Eoointion.
The Presidents special messages, Mr.
Wiekcrshnm added. nhd recommended
amendments TO the Interstate commerce
laws readJustment OF mai rates and
tngs banks, uniform safety appliances
on railroad trains, changes to make
the employers LIABILITY act moro easy
to enforce, Intelligent conservation
laws, readjustmcne OF mail rates and
revision OF the customs laws. The
President had placed before Congress
for enactment into law, he declared,
all those measures which the Repub.
lican party had pledged itself to adopt,
aud If Congress should adjourn without
enacting them. then upon Congress, and
not the President, rested the respon-
sibili.y for the breach OF faith.
Convinced of success.
But Mr.. Wickersham expressed the
conviction that the Presidents pro-
gram would go through.
Il am firmly persuaded that these
measures will not fail" he said, land
that despite the efforts Of individuals
to magnify their own particular mpor-
tance at the expense of party loyalty
aud party honor. the Republican major
tx- IN will ba
party pledges and give TO the country
the benefit of that legislation the
party has promised and which the
President has so clearly and so force
fully outlined"
Mr.. Wickersham referred to the
prosecution of sugar frauds in New
York, pointing to ty-eight convic-
tions and only one acquittal by jury,
as we'll as the collection of more than
three and a half million dollars in
back duties by the government.
The Standard Oil and Tobacco cases
In the Supreme Court of the United
States he referred to particularly.
however. and declared they constituted
the most comprehensive attempt ever
made by the government to deal with
the question of monopoly.
Great Issue Involved.
General, with great emphasis on the
word effect they involve the ques
ton whether or not the entire indus
tries of this country may be legally
controlled by one group of men.
ut is not to, be inferred that It Is
the intention OF the Republican party
TO put any check upon the natural and
Legitimate. development of business en-
terprise either through individual or
corporate organization.
"But 1t certainly has been Its fixed
purpose since the enactment of the
Sherman law in 1890 to prevent the
tzation through intercorporate stock
holdings to the accomplishment of
schemes of monopoly.
''1t Is not essential to American pro-
Ercss or American prosperity that one
group OF men shall control the entire
business of the United states In oil.
in sugar. or iron or any other COM
modify, and no sound principle OF eco
ron,ic law is offended by striking
down all such artificial combinations"
When he had finished reciting the
ADMINISTRATIONS campaign against cor
ruption the Attorney General said:
''All these represent tho determined
policy OF the government to attack
all special privileges and undue prefer
ences. whether obtained by illegal
combinations. by bribinE public Off
Gals. by rebates or special advantages
In transportation. or by any other
method.
Plea for Harmony.
''1t is now time that all those who
call themselves Republicans should
stop coauctting with the Democratic
party; should sink their individual
preferences about the details of legls- /
lation and Join with Republican work |
ers In carrying TO fruition under our
great, patient. candid, wise Republican
President the work OF clinching the
reforms OF the last eight years on the
lines so carefully and SO wisely laid
down in the platform of 1908.
Wise legislation. embodying mo
sudden impulse, but matured views
expressed in party council. is pressed
for enactment When the account is
cast and the people weigh them In the
balance at the last election, who will
find most favor? They who stood
shoulder to- shoulder with the Pres
1dent In carrying out the party
pledges, or those who. true to no party
principle, lowered like the bat in the
fable, sometimes with one sometimes
with the other and in the end was
cast ont and scoTned Ny both"
r. 4. :"
Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, dis
-USSed the 1iInl,- Inn Of