The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10


complex business of government without
perpetual turmoil and commotiOn, but
none the less efficiently and adequately,
is far less attractive to spectacular i'm
aglnatiOn and can only be done by men
who are content to endure misreprese n
tatiOn and misinterpretatiOn of their acts.
and to look to the future, rather than to
the present, for vindication OF their
deeds.
Much Accomplished.
THE administration of President Taft
has been in office little more than a
year. That it has accomplished much in
that time is abundantly attested by the
volume of criticism and by the increas-
ing vehemenee of attacks upon it.
Mr. Wickersham then went on to re-
view the Presidents acts, his recon-
mendations to Congress and his efforts
to secure legislation promised in the
Republican platform. The corporation
tax, he said, was a practical application
of the provisions of the party pledge,
which declared for strengthening the
law against trusts that its real objects
might be better obtained 1t was per-
fectly legitimate and effective system
of taxation, he said, by which federal
supervision over business of corpora
lions could be established and the
knowledge obtained would be a long
step toward that supervisory control
OF corporations which might prevent
further abuses of power
People who had for years been
elamoring for greater publicity in the
affairs of corporations and for gov
eminent supervision became highly in
dignant when they found that their own
particular corporations were required
to make returns as well as their neigh
bOrs. What they wanted was pub
lefty for others-and not for them
selves" he exclaimed.
The Tariff Board.
In speaking of the tariff board, the
attorney general declared that by its
operations and with the aid of the in
formation furnished through the cor
poration tax amendment the country
would be spared a repetition of the
scenes in the framing of the last tariff
law, which. he said. were "a purely
selfish scramble for government aid,
furthered by every form of misrepre-
sentatiOn and misinfOrmatiOn" Con-
gFess would never again be in the posi-
ton of being compelled to legislate on
the tariff, on the advice furnished by
interested ones in aid of their own
contentious.
The Presidents special messages, Mr.
Wlckersham added, had recommended
amendments to the interstate commerce
law, federal interpretations, postal saw
lngs banks, uniform safety appliances
on railroad trains, changes to make the
employers liability act more easy to
enforce, intelligent conservation laws
of the customs laws. The President had
placed before Congress for enactment
into law, he declared, all those measures
which the Republican party had pledged
itself to adopt, and if Congress should
adjourn without enacting them, then
upon Congress and not the President
rested the responsibility for the breach
of faith.
Measures Will Not Fail.
But Mr.. Wickersham expressed the
conviction that the Presidents program
would so through.
I am firmly persuaded that these
measures viii not fail" he said, "and
that despite the efforts of individuals
10 magnify their own particular impOr-
lance at the expense of party loyalty
and party honor, the Republican ma
Jority in Congress will make good the
party pledges and give to the country
the benefit of that legislation the party
has promised and which the President
lined"
Economies of the expense of conduct
ING the government, the speaker dis |
cussed eXhaustiVely. For the first time |
In the history of the country, he said. |
4 comprehensive budget had been pre-
pared dealing with estimated expendf- |
lures and the means Of raising money
to defray them. The fiscal year end |
Rg IN June, 1911, would see saving |
Of more than s94,000.000 over 1910 and |
25,0OO,OOO less than the appropriations |
for the latter year
There has never been such a re1uc- |
ton in the history of the government" |
ne said, nor is there any record of any |
effort by any other administration TO |
reduce estimates similar to that made |
by department heads this year"
The work of the departments he re- |
viewed, saying the navy had suffered |
from frequent change of secretaries: |
changes in legislation for the |
department. of the interior he endorsed: |
the census work in the department of |
commerce and labor he sketched briefly /
and then touched on the work of the |
department. of Justice.
Prosecution of Trusts.
Mr.. Wickersham referred to the
prosecution of sugar frauds in New
Ork, pointing TO fOrty-eight convic- |
lions and only one acquittal by a Jury /
rs well as the collection of more than
-hree and half millions in back duties /
by the government.
The Standard oil and tobacco casas
n the supreme court of the United |
states, he referred to particularly. how
ever, and declared they constituted the
most comprehensive attempt ever made |
BY the government to deal with the
question of monopoly.
In effect" declared the attorney
general, with great emphasis on the |
word effect" they involve the ques-
ion whether or not the entire indus
ries of this country may be legally con
rolled by one group of men.
1T is not TO be inferred that it is the
Intention of the Republican party to put
my check upon the natural and legiti-
nate development of business enterprise
ither through individual or corporate or
But it certainly has been its fixed
purpose since the enactment of the Sher-
nan law in 1890 to prevent the perversion
4 laws of corporate organization through !
stockhOldings to the ac-
of schemes of MONOPOLY
1T is not essential to American pro
-ress or American prosperity that one
Toup of men shall control the entire
BUSINESS of the United States in oil, in
ugar or iron or any other commodity.
nd no sound principle of economic law
5 offended by striking down all such
rtificial combinations
Administration Policy.
When he had finished reciting the adj
campaign against corrup-
ion. the attorney general said:
"All these represent the determined pol
cy of the government to attack all spe-
ial privileges and undue preferences,
7hether obtained by illegal combinations,
y bribing public officials by rebates or
peciai advantages in transportation, or
" any other method.
"Is it not time that all those who call
themselves Reuublicans should StQn CO.