Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-10

I'm effect" declared the Attorney Gen.
eral with great emphasis on the WORD
effect" they involve the question
whether or not the entire industries ,oi
this country may be legally controlled
by one group Of men,.
"It is not to be inferred that 1t Is the
intention of the republican party to put
any check upon the natural and legiti'
either through individual or corporate or
ganization.
But 1t certainly has been its fixed pur-
pose since the enactment OF the sherman
law In 1890 to prevent the pervereson OF
laws of corporate organization through
intercorporatc stockholding to the accom-
plishment OF schemes Of monopoly.
'"It is not essential to American prog
ress 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 COMMONLY,
and no sound principle of economic law
Is offended by striking down all such ar
tificial combinations,
These organizations present the most
obnoxious form where they control sub
jects of such vital importance to the
entire community as the production and
marketing Of coal. and the Department
Of Justice has recently argued and sub
United to the circuit court Of the United
States in Philadelphia proceeding
brought TO break up combination
under which the great anthra cite coal
by an intercorporate organization OF rail-
road and coal mining companies. and the
department has now under preparation
proceeding against a similar combi-
nation affecting bituminous coal, believed
to be equally reprehensibIe in its char
acter and obnoxious in its effect
When he had finished reciting the ad-
ministratiOns campaign against corrup-
ton. the Attorney General said:
"All these represent the determined pol
icy Of the government to attack all spe-
cial privileges and undue preferences.
whether obtained by illegal combinations.
by bribing public officials. by rebates or
Special advantages In transportation, or
by any other method.
Appeal to Party Loyalty.
rs it not time that all those who call
themselves republicans should stop CO.
quoting with the democratic party;
should sink their individual preferences
about the details of legislation ana Join
with republican workers in carrying to
fruition under our great. patient, candid
wise republican President the work Of
years on the lines so carefully and so
wisely laid down in the platform of 1908?
Wise legislation, embodying no sud-
den impulse. but matured views express
ed in party council, is pressed for enact
ment. 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 President in carrying
out the party pledges. or those who,
the bat in the fable, sometimes with one,
sometimes with the other. and in the
end was cast out and scorned by both?
so. gentlemen, In responding to your
toast, The Administration I have en-
deavored briefly to indicate the principles
upon which the President and his ad-
visers have been working, and some OF
the results they have accomplished. l
can say heartily for all my colleagues
that they are a body of very loyal. very
sincere gentlemen. who are striving to
serve the people with a single-minded
devotion. true to republican principles and
loyal to the President, whom one and all
of them enthusiastically love and ad-
mire.'
Judge Speer's Tribute to Lee.
Judge Emory Spesr of Georgia. respond
ing to the toast. ITO the men who sur
rendered and since then have carried the
flag and kept step to the music of the
Union, paid tribute to Gen. Robert r.
Lee. leader of the Confederate forces
which surrendered. and praised in highest
terms the action of Gen. Grant in making
liberal terms for the Confederates at APP
pomattox. He quoted historical data to
show that from the closing days OF the
war to the present time the spirit Of Sec
tionalism has been gradually dying out in
all sections of the country.
After drawing graphic picture of Lee
presenting himself before the Union gen.
erals and the conference preceding the
actual surrender, he described Lees re-
turn to his troops to break the news.
1T has not been permitted to his coun-
trymen to know the emotions in the lofty
soul of the noble figure in gray, as he re-
garded for the last time that army Of tat
tered uniforms and bright muskets which,
in the words of northern historian. op.
posing a constant front to the mighty
concentration of power brought against
1t, vital in all its parts, died only with
its annihilation.'
THAT his military career. brilliant and
unstained from its inception, had ended
he clearly knew. But every act Of his
life. and especially that most critical ana
criticised. demonstrates that of all earth
ly considerations his personal fortunes
were to him the least. He had declared
that duty is the sublimest word in any
language. And it can be made plain to
any impartial mind that this Hottest type
of American Of the southern states cast
his lot with his native state and its sub
sequent allies from, a sincere conviction
of duty, as holy and unselhsh as that Of
any martyr who. posted at the shrine
OF truth, had died In her defense
Lees Statue in the Capitol.
Referring to the antagonism to placing
q statue Of Lee In Statuary Hall in WASH
ington. and declaring that the sincerity
of southern men In their efforts to re-
move all traces Of sectionalism can no
longer be questioned. Judge speer con-
Guided:
Nor can our country afford to de.
-preciate or discredit in any manner the
wariike character or the military honor
OF the American states called southern,
and nothing could be more affrontive to
strong and fearless population who
have i'm the clearest way demonstrated
their devotion to the flag than any au-
thoritative attempt to sully that southern
symbol. the stainless sword Of Lee. 1t
would Obliterate in every such state the
felicitous influence of the personal knowl-
edge of the genial. eourtiy. manly Presi-
dent Lincoln. the tender nereies OF the
gentle Mckinley and all else that has
been done or attempted to cultivate fra
ternity between the states once disor-
dered, diseordant and belligerent."
Gov. Adolph o. Eberhatdt Of Mime
sofa addressed himself to the subject
Of the New North
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