The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-24

ence of all jEstifiable controversies be-
tween nations to an International court
of Justice.
Opposed to Monopoly.
The Republican party is opposed tC
special privilege and to monopoly. 1t
placed upon the statute book the inter
state act of 1887, and the i'm
portant amendments thereto, and the
antitrust act of 1890, and it has CON
sistently and successfully enforced the
provision of these laws.
The epublican party will take no
backward step to permit the re-estab-
lishment in any degree of conditions
which were intolerable. Experience
makes it plain that the business of the
country may be carried on without
fear or without disturbance, and at the
same time without resort to practice
which are abhorrent to the common
sense of Justice.
me Republican party favorS the en-
actment of legislation supplementary
to the existing antitrust act which
VIII define as criminal offenses those
specific acts that uniformly mark at
temptS to restrain and to monopolize
trade to the end that those who hon
estly intend 10 obey the law may have
a guide for their action and that those
VINO aim to violate the law may the
more surely be punished. The same
certainty should be given to the law
prohibiting combinations and monop-
OlieS that characterize other provisions
of commercial law, in order that no
tunity may be restricted by monopoly
or combination; that business success
honorably achieved may not be con
verted into crime, and that the right
of every man t. acquire commodities,
and particularly necessaries of life, in
an pen market, infuenc by the
manipulation of trust or combination,
may be preserved.
In the enforcement and administra-
ton of federal laws governing inter-
state and enterprise, i'm
pressed with a public use engaged
therein, there is much that may be
sion, thus placing in the hands of an
administrative board many of the
functions now necessarily exercised
by the courts. This will promote
promptness in the administration of
the law and avoid delays and techni-
calities incident to court procedure.
Stands by Protective Tariff.
We reaff1rm our belief in a protec-
tive tariff. The Republican tariff
policy has been of the greatest benefit
to the country, developing our re-
sources, diversifying our industries and
protecting our against com
petition with cheaper labor abroad,
thus establishing for our wage
the American standard of living. The
protective tariff is so woven into the
ldDI1C vi OuE 1IlOQSlI d liz dSI1Cu4-
tural life that to substitute for it a
tariff for revenue only would destroy
many industries and throw millions of
our people out of employment. The
products of the farm and of the mine
should receive the same measure of
protection as other products of Amer
lean labor.
We hold that the import duties
should be high enough, while yielding
a sufficient revenue, to protect Ameri-
can industries and wages Some of the
existing import duties are too high and
should be reduced. REIMBURSEMENT
should be made from time to time to
conform to changing conditions and
to reduce excessive rates, but without
injury to any American industry. To
accomplish this, correct information is
indispensable. This information can
best be obtained by an expert commits
sion, as the large volume of useful
facts contained in the recent reports
of the tariff board has demonstrated.
The pronounced feature of modern
industrial life is it's enormous di-
versiication. To apply tariff terms
justly to these changing conditions re-