The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-09-23

faint praise at best, for all its pee
decessors were full of jokers ant
various forms of iniquity, according
to current opinion. i,tt tttit
The principal fault found with the
Wickersham interstate commerce bill
was that 1t legalized pooling. which
was holly denounced as repeating the
antitrust law so far as 1t related to
that practice This provision had been
most forcibly recommended in sever
al messages and speeches by that
most eminent progressive, Theodore
Roosevelt. II was eliminated through
the efforts of the insurgents, who in
serted more stringent provisions to
prevent advances on rates, but the
opposition of the reactionary Senators
could not have been very strongly
approved by the President, for he
signed the bill as amended.
The insurgents wished to tie the
hands of the Postoffice Department
so completely that 1t should have no
discretion I'm regard to the deposit OF
postal savings funds in any but local
banks. Such funds have been gener-
ally deposited in banks of the vicin
ity, whence they were derived, but
the Postmaster-General is wisely
given discretion in this matter Ii Is
not progressive measure to tie
down an official with detailed instruc-
tons. Progress Is more and more to.
wards instrusting certain officer
with certain duties, giving him wide
discretion and holding him strictly
accountable.
Mr.. Cummins assumes that, be-
cause the President opposed an in
come tax provision in the Payne-Al.
drich law, he was opposed to an in.
come tax within the Constitution that
to levy corporation tax, on which
he insisted and which was imposed.
He proved his earnestness in favoring
an income tax by inducing Congress
to submit to the states constitution
al amendment authorizing such a
tax.
The President has been consist
ent advocate of the policy of conser-
walton in the face of stubborn oppo.
sition from its enemies on the one
hand and its theoretical, impractical
friends on the other. He has repeat
eddy recommended leasing the coal
lands and water powers and his diff
ference with the Pinchot faction is
mainly on the question of adherence
to existing law. Mr.. Cummins' indorse-
ment of the appointment of Mr.. Fish
Ell as Secretary of the Interior takes
all the force out of his criticism of
the Presidents conser, alton policy.
How the Canadian reciprocity bill
can have destroyed the chance of a
fair revision of the tariff along Re-
publican lines for years to come" is
impossible to conceive. 1t stands by
TONS, and, II the systematic and
reduction of duties"
Tor which Mr.. Cummins processes
such great anxiety, but which he
aided to obstruct by voting for the
Democratic bills last
session should prove that any duties
liked by the reciprocity agreement
should be changed. they can be chang
ed by new agreement with Canada.
Il Mr.. Cummins' only reason for
linking the reciprocity bill not pro-
sressive is his suspicion that II Is the
'ruit of deal between the press and
he reactionaries, he has poor case
against 1t. Having seen how Mr.. Cum
nins and his associates aided the De-
nocrats in their effort at haphazard
ariff revision, the progressive voters
low rely upon Mr.. Taft for a plan of
'cientific revision based ON ascer.
aimed facts. II the Democrats and in
'urgents prevent it from becoming
aw. the people will then Judge who
re the reactionaries and who the pro-
:ressives on that issue.
The arbitration treaties are regard
ID the world over as decided ad.
'ance in the cause of peace. They are
10 regarded by Senator Root, who Is
N a position to know from having