The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-10

has been responsible in the year 1884.
When stepping into office. President Wilson
assured the country that he was going to restore
competition throughout all the nations breadth.
He averred that trusts may be unscrambled and
reduced to their competing units. He went into
office on that platform and now after desperate
attempt to break the shipping trust into pieces,
his own committees have been obliged to report
the thing to be absolute impossibiity.
Nearly three-fourths of the line tonnage
operating in the American coastwise and Great
Lakes trade is owned and controlled by railway
and shipping consultations, trusts operating In
restraint of trade. This offers fine an example
for President Wilson to try his trust busting
powers on as can be found. His congressional
committees have presented him with fourteen
volumes of statistics
But what has President Wilson done? He has
definitely abandoned any definite attempt at I'M
scrambling. He has even jumped over to the
Bull Moose side of the fence in demanding strin-
gent regulations of this trust. which same may
have been very wise thing to do but which is
an open violation of his own announced prin-
ciples. Sooner or later he will have to face this
failure an Acknowledgement of the failure of
his own platform.
The future is also going to demand an ex-
PLANTATION for the raids which the Democratic ad-
ministration has already made on the Civil Serv-
ice, that bulwark against official graft and in
competency which was built up at such cost. In
placing deputy revenue collectors outside the
classified list and in permitting his state depart
ment to make its diplomatic appointments re-
CARELESS Of all precedence in the service, he has
openly and distinctly violated the civil service
principle and done the best he could to restore the
ma TO If Of vol EoIr
which nearly drove Cleveland, Harrison and Nc
Kinley mad
Under the guise of comforting self-govern-
ment upon its peoples, the Philippine Islands have
been betrayed into the hands of it's landlord class
Just because Secretary Bryan has always been
a staunch advocate of Democracy and just be-
cause his ideal is that all people should govern
themselves, whatever type of people they may be,
the administration has placed the balance of gov
ernng power in the hands of the PHILIPPINE ma
tives and, inasmuch only the landlord class is
capable of reading writing, that class is going
to dominate the Islands. Instead of forwarding
the cause of Democracy in that territory, Pres-
dent Wilson and his colleagues have thrown an
almost insuperable obstacle across it's path.
The Wilson leaders during the past year and
in the last campaign, have religiously avoided
any reference to the moss-covered doctrine Of
state rights. They seem tacitly to assume that
! this old principle of division was to be held in
allegiance but in allegiance it would not remain.
It's cloven hoof shown in the manner in which
the administration handled the California-Japan-
csc question.
| Although this case was one in which the ma
! TONS honor at stake and interests concern
ed, the President merely had his Secretary of
State ride out to California, give them some
lfatherly advice and leave them to work out the
whole question themselves.
! President Wilson's Mexican policy has from
| the first been almost unanimously condemned
and now he himself has tacitly admitted his err
ror is shown in the case of Peru. In Peru as
| in Mexico, dictator shot and killed his enemies
and climbed through blood into the seat of pow
But in spite of this, in spite of the fact that
President Wilson declared he would recognize
no ruler who thus went into office, the admins
tration has given regular recognition to that de
facto government in Peru. The Mexican situa-
ton and the Peruvian situation are exactly an
alagous and yet the administrations Peruvian
policy flatly contradicts it's Mexican policy.