Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
Clements Declares It Would
Stop Commerce Violations.
SOUTHERN SOCIETY GUEST
Speaker Clark and Representative
Underwood Also Make Addresses.
TARIFF MAKING IS SCORED
Chairman of Ways and Means Com
mlttee Severe on Republicans.
Future of South Praised.

! NEW YORK. December 16-More than
300 members and guests Of the New YORK
Southern Society listened to speeches de-
livered at their annual banquet tonight
| by Champ Clark, Speaker of the House
of Representatives: Oscar w. Underwood,
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee of the House, and Judson c.
Clements. chairman of the interstate
commerce commission.
| Judge Clements urged publicity as an
| effective means for regulating violations
| of the interstate commerce laws
! Mr.. Underwood spoke on the tariff and
reiterated many of his we'll known argu-
ments condemning the republican theory
of tariff making.
| Speaker Clark confined his remarks to
| the progress of the south and predicted
| that it would some day be the most thick
ly settled portion of the United States.
| Seated at the guest table were the presi-
dents of most of the southern state So
| ceties of New York city, Gov. William
Hodges Mann of Virginia and many
| prominent New Workers not affiliated with
| the society.
| Against Refuge for Corporations.
There ought to be no city of refuge
| to which a corporation engaged in serv-
| fee for concealment of that which it does
through officials and agents. said Mr..
| Clements He vigorously urged publicity
as lone Of the most effective means Of
eliminating fraudulent and indefensible
practices resulting in determinations and
| other violations Of the act to regulate
commerce.
The address dealt with the Moral Re-
suits of Modern Transportation and
Transmission Facilities"
He pointed out that all transportation
and transmission agencies were suscepti-
BILE of abuse and could be perverted to
the accomplishment of great injustice
and wrong Necessity, therefore, for
control and regulation was abundantly
apparent. He felt that public regua-
tons for the prevention of unjust dis
ordinations and unreasonable charges
should be administered as to permit
and encourage the proper development of
the agencies in order that they might
adequately render to the public the serv-
ice to which they are devoted.
THE railroads." said Judge Clements,
have demonstrated how, when free from
regulation, 1t is within their power by
discrimination either to kill or make
alive
Condemns Republican Tariff.
Representative Underwood condemned
the republican theory of tariff adjust
ment
THE kaleidoscope of political issues must
and will continually change with the
changing conditions of our republic. he
said There is one question that was
| with us in the beginning and will be in
| the end, and that is the most effective,
| efficient and fair way of equalizing the
| burdens of taxation are levied by the na-
! tional government.
THE republican party has maintained
| the doctrine that taxes should not only
! be levied for revenue" said he. but also
i TO protect the home manufacturer from
, foreign competitions OF necessity pro-
lection from competition carrying with it
: a guarantee of profits.
THE democratic marty favors the
! policy of raising its taxes at the cIiS-
toms house by n tariff that is levied for
revenue only. which clearly excludes the
idea of protecting the manufacturer ;
profits. Some men assert that the pro-
lection of reasonable profits to the home
manufacturer should be commended in
stead of being condemned, but in my
judgment the protection of any profit
must Of necessity have a tendency to
destroy competition and create monopoly,
| whether the profit protected is reason
able or unreasonable.
Great Future for South.
Speaker Clark predicted the south on,
| day would be the most thickly settled
! portion of the United States, and tina
, the greatest growth of the country iii
| all desirable ways would be southwark
Hitherto the most rapid growth OF the
! country has been in the NORTH ..e said
II does not require the powers of tn.
greatest of the major prophets to pre-
Dict accurately that while all portions o.
the country will grow for centuries, th'
| greatest growth in all desirable ways will
| be in the south, for the all-suffiCient rea
| son that there is more room for growth.
NO region ever was so lavishly dover
| ed by nature. Her physical resources
scarcely touched as yet, are practically
| ineXhauStible. The most sparsely popu-
lated portion of our country, it will one
day be the most thckly settled. The least
wealthy portion per capita, she bids fail
ultimately to be among the wealthiest.
! THE stream of immigration south
! ward, which has been rapidly increasing
/ in the last decade Will become as great
! as that which has poured into the west
during the last half century. For in
stance, during the last five years there
has been as much immigration from
| Iowa into NJ issouri, the northernmosi OF
the southern states, from the east -