The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13

pleted. The exchange from the previous
plans is the result of an extended popu-
lar agitation in favor of such a plan.
Following the panic of 1907 the govern
ment revenues fell off and the expendi-
lures continued as before, leaving a
ceiicit for the years 1907. 1908 and 1909.
There was, however, no deficit in the
whole administration of Mr.. Roosevelt,
when the expenses are compared with the
revenues. Indeed, it will be found that
uI'.er the operation of the Dingley bill
which covers most of his administration
ana the first six months of the present
administration, the surplus on the whole
was about $3.50, 100000 At the beginning
Of this administratio however it was
perfectly evident that with expenses in
cfeasing and revenues decreasing there
would be continuous deficit, and this the
republican party, with its majority, in
creased and the responsibility placed upon
il has proposed to meet by reducing ex-
.1enditures and increasing revenues
II have already shown what the in
crease in revenues has been. The present
administration in its estimates for the
yaor ending June 80, 1911, cut them some
49-odd million dollars below the actual
appropriations of the year before and
now it is proposed to appoint Joint COM
tors and members appointed by the execu-
tive who shall examine the organization
of the various departments and bureaus
and by the elimination of duplication, the
consolidation of bureaus and the increase
in efficiency OF the individual civil servant
sho. decrease the regular permanent cost
OF governmental operation.
Attitude Toward yrusfs
with respect to trusts, the republican
PARTY spoke as follows in its platform:
The republican party passed the
s. crrnan antitrust low over democratic
opposition and enforced it after demo-
cratic derelction. 1t has been a whole
ZONE instrument for good In tho hands
of wise and fearless administration
But experience has shown that its ef-
fectiveness can be strengthened and it's
real objects better attained by such
amendments as will give to the federal
government greater supervision and con-
troll over and secure greater publicity in
the mane cement of that class of cor
poratons engaged in Interstate commerce
having pawer and opportunity to effect
nonopolies.
Since this plank was adopted prose
cufions OF the tobacco trust and the
Standard Oil trust, begun In the last ad-
minjstration, have gone on and have re-
suited in DEGREES in the court of appeals
are now pending on appeal in the supreme
court of the United States. The decree in
each case tears apart the congeries of
subordinate corporations which united by
hoiing companies make up the trust in
each case and enjoin individuals from
further maintenance of the Illegal
combination of such corporations to carry
on the business for which 1t was or
enized
at has been said that the republican
Iarty made a promise SO to amend the
law as to arneliorate and soften the APP
plicatlon of the trust law in it's interdic-
ton upon business as conducted by the
greatest corporations, but | find nothing
In the platform TO justify such a construc-
ton. The principle of the antitrust law
Is that those engaged in modern business,
especially of manufacture and transporta-
ton. shall pursue the policy with respect
to their competitors of live and let live,'
and that they shall not use the bigness of
their concerns to brighten exclusive pa
tronege from customers and the elimina-
ton OF smaller concerns from competition
and thus control output and fix prices.
"The Attorney General has prepared a