The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-12

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health energy and experience to make a capable rep
resentative of this in the United States con-
gress.
POLITICAL PRINCIPLES
He favors the immediate cooperation bv the
United States government with the states in estab-
fishing and maintaining system Of national high
ways, which shall bear mail parcel posts and inter
state commerce from the ports into and between the
states and interior counties. He is the author of the
first published statement in Florida arguing in favor
of the constitutional right of the general government
to aid in this work
He favors the platform and policy of the Demo
cratic party in Immediately revising the tariff down
ward, and especially does he endorse the farmers
free list and the schedules being advocated by
the Democratic maj rty in the national congress- in
Guiding the removal of the duty from sugar and from
those manufactured articles which can be made here
shipped to foreign countries, stand the foreign
reghtS, and be sold abroad for less than the domes
tic price. The Democratic party is committed TO a
reasonable tariff levied for the purposes of raising the
governments revenues but there are certainly Incl
dental benefits which flow to people even from
tariff for revenue only; and he favors fair disribu
ton of these reciprocal benefits so that manufactur-
ing may be done as proftably in Florida in Massa-
chusetts.
He favors capable and vigorous enforcement OF
the antitrust laws and demonstrated his position
upon this question in the representation of the gov
eminent in the successful prosecution of what was
perhaps the leading case under the Sherman anti
trust act. Since the decision of the supreme court
OF the United States in the Standard Oil and Amer
lean Tobacco government cases, defining the re-
straint prohibited by the act undue" or "un-
reasonable restraint the public and the press of the
unite in the statement that the Sherman antitrust
law needs amendment further legislative defni-
ton While this is true, he has been the only one in
the public prints to point out the specific amend
ments required, which these: First the striking
out of the present punishment prescribed by the act
which is merely as for mSdemeanor and substitute
therefor punishment by imprisonment up to ten
years in the pententiary; second, an amendment to
the several provisions the which SHALL in terms
provide that the undue" and "unreas onable" re-
straints prohibited by that act are those restraints
which accomplish the destruction of competition
and the establishment of monopoles by means
which violate other laws which violate settled
principles of business morals, and which in them
selves fagranty dishonest.
He favors progressive and aggressive policy
and party, but is opposed to ilconsidered, expert
mental legislation which is revolutionary and ncap-
able of being harmonized with established form
of national and state government
He believes that it is the public duty of every
citizen register and vote and to take only an
interest in the selection of officers who shall decide
what the law is and of officers who shall execute the
laws but special interest in the selection of those
men who participate in the making of the law itself
He maintains that great caution should be exercised
in law making and particularly in the exercise of the
governments right to tax.
He favors the administration of those national
health laws like the national quarantine act by de-
partment of the government having at its head
cabinet officer with final authority and jurisdiction
coordinate with other departments of the national
government.
He favors the Inauguration of an active move
ment to save the millions of money invested in ma
chinery digging the Panama Canal and utilizing
ship canal the pennsular of Florida
He has demonstrated that this is change which
must ultimately be made IN the map of the world and
which, upon the completion of the Panama Canal,
would save approximately one-thrd of the commerce
of the world haul of eight hundred miles and enable
it to avoid passing through the marine graveyard
which lies to the south of the peninsula of Florida.
He favors the administration Of our, national
laws applied to Florida by Floridians whose view
points and training in harmony with our local
conditions.
He favors the absolute disqualification from par
ticpating in Democratic primaries of those candi-
dates who base their claim to membership in the ma
tiona congress upon abuse and defamation of their