The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-16

to put any check upon the natural
and legitimate development Of busi-
ness enterprise either through indi-
vidual or corporate organizations"
But it certainly has been fixed
purpose since the enactment of the
Sherman law in 1890 to prevent the
perversion of laws of coporate or
ganization through inter corporate
stockholdings to the accomplishment
Of schemes Of monopoly.
1T is not essential to American
progress 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
commodity and no sound principle Of
economic law is offered by striking
down all such artificial combinations. ."
'"These organizations present the
most obnoxious form when they con-
troll subjects of such vital importance
to the entire community as the pro-
duction and marketing of coal; and
the department of justice has recently
argued and submitted to the Circuit
Court of the United States in Phil
adelphia; a proceeding brought to
break up a combination under which
the great anthartic coal production of
Pennsylvania is controlled by an in
ter corporate organization of railroad
and coal mining companies and the
department has now under prepara-
ton proceeding against a similar
combination affecting bituminous
coal. believed to be equally reprehen-
sible in its character and obnoxious
in it's effects.
When he had finished reciting the
Administrations campaign against
corruption the Attorney General
said:
"An these represent the determin-
ed policy of the Government to at
tack all special privileges and undue
preferences, whether obtained by
illegal combinations, by bribing pub
lie officials, by rebates or special ad-
vantages in transportation or by any
other method.
rs 1t not true that all those who
call themselves Republicans should
stop coquetting with the Democratic
party; should sink their individual
preferences about the details Of legis-
lation and join with Republican work.
ers in carrying to fruition under our
great, patient, candid, wise Republi-
can 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 no
sudden impulse, but matured views
expressed in party council, is press
ed 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
President in carrying out the party
pledges, or those who true to no party
principle hovered like 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, 1.-THE Administration"
have endeavored briefly to indicate
the principles upon which the Presi-
dent and his advisors have been work.
ing and some Of the results they have
accomplished. I can say heartily for
all my colleagues that they are a
body Of very loyal, very sincere gen.
tlemen, who are striving to serve the
people with single minded devotion,
true to Republican principles and
loyal to the President, whom one and
all Of them enthusiastically love and
admire"