The Washington herald., 1910-01-02

Former United States Senator William
f. Chandler. of New Hampshire. friend
snd adviser of ex-President Roosevelt.
holds that the Taft administration has
nos yet taken a backward step. He says
the Presidents stand for national tax
on incomes of corporations and for the
income tax stamps him as the national
leader OF radical reform Republicans
against the malefactors of great wealth
who have been corrupting society.
Mr.. Chambers views and opinions, es-
peciaIly in UNFOLDING the course OF the
administration. are interesting and signifi-
cant In view of the fact that he was init
mate with the former occupant OF the
White House, and whose voice was felt
in the shaping OF some Of the Roosevelt
policies.
In La Follette's Magazine the former
New Hampshire Senator discusses the
administration under the head Of Re
publican Reform Retrograding Not Yet
Much" He significantly remarks that
the Sherman antitrust law will not be
DESTROYED, and the President has repudi-
sted any EFFORT looking to that end.
Mr.. Chambers article. in part follows:
Republicans Stiu True 10 Reform.
TT is refreshing TO those Republicans
who hope and believe that their party
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in political power at the North and in
the nation. to realize that no step back
ward has yet been taken by the new
administration. When President Taft
on the 18th OF last June announced %
that he recommended national tax on
the income OF all corporations, thus sub
3eeting them TO national supervision, and
(2) that ne favored taking the vexed
question Of the eonstitutionality OF an
income tax out from the province OF the
Supreme Court by a constitutional
amendment giving Congress unqualified
power 10 impose such tax, he gladdened
the hearts OF all earnest and sensible
Republicans, and offered himself as the
natural leader Of the radical reform Re
publlcans, against the malefactOrs Of
great wealth who had been cOrrupting
society and politics through their unlaw-
ful corporation monOpOlies.
IF he is by unwiSe and egotistic nS-
pubHcans rejected as such leader. the
injury done TO the cause Of radical re-
form will be their grievous fault. and q
misfortune TO him and the country,
1T should also be a cause Of great re-
joicing to Republicans and Democrats
alike that the bargain made on March II
1903. for the destruction Of the Sher.
man antitrust law is not 10 be carried
out, but is repudiated by President Taft
Attorney General WickeTsham, and AS
sistant Attorney General Wade II. Ellis
the craftsman OF the Republican nationa
platform of 1908
THAT such q bargain was made is a,
plain as almost any historic fact
Effort TO Destroy Sherman Act.
Mr.. Chandler quotes a Washington dis
patch TO the New York World under date
OF March T. 1908. as follows:
washington, March 12-As the result
Of White House conference that ex
tended into the early hours OF this morn,
ing, President Roosevelt was at work to
day on the final draft Of a bin 10 TAX,
the place OF the Sherman antitrust law
last nights conference was arranged
by Seth Low, Of the Civic Federation
Others present were Secretary Root, Sec
Rotary Garfield, Attorney General Bona
parte, Herbert Knox Smith. commits
sioner OF corporations: Francis L. Stet
son. OF New York. counsel for J. Pier
pont Morgan; Victor Morawetz, genera
solicitor Of the Santa Fe. and Samue
Gompers. head OF the American Fedora
ton OF Labor.
TT Is the understanding that II thi
bill is passed. all pending prosecutions. o
trusts will be stopped and the slat
VIII be given an opportunity to adjus
themselves to the new law.
''On March q Representative Hepburn
introduced the repeating bill. II. r 1919
On March 25 President Roosevelt sent
special message TO Congress advocating
the bill, saying: This antitrust law wa
a most unwisely drawn statute
drawn up in such sweeping form as L
become either ineffective or else mis-
chievous. Combinations are abso
lutely necessary the only effec
tive way OF meeting actual bushes
needs 1T is misohievous and unwhole
some TO keep upon the statute books un
modified a law like the antitrust law
The time has come when It I
imperative 70 modify it.
ION April l, Senator Warren intro
duced the bin in the Senate. S. CA
Senator Foraker also introduced a bill
No. 6SSL, authorizing reasonable cor
tracts in restraint OF trade. Hearing
upon the bills were had in the Senat
before the judiciary Committee, and til
following information appears therefor
lpage 9S):
StetsOn Drew Bill.
"Seth Low, Z. II. Gary, ". A. Clarl
August Belmont, Francis Lynde Ste
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