Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-10-11

spurgatory to the hell Of the antitrust
law.
can not find that the trade COM
mission has SO far judicially passed
upon any case involving unfair meth
DDS OF competition in commerce, or
that it has, by it's action in any case
put stop to unfair methods of COM
petition or granted substantial relief.
II can find no information bearing
directly on this matter in the first
annual report of the commission Of
June 80, 10 Is. On the Goth day of
August, last, 4 addressed and mailed
to the commission a letter asking
for further information as to its work
This information has not vet been
furnished.
Child Labor Law.
Another matter of legislation for.
which the Democracy will claim great.
credit is the so-called child-labor act.
In reference to this, it can be said
that there are only some three or
four states in the Union that did not
have on their statute books suitable.
and adequate child-labor laws, and in
these few states, where the laws were
imperfect and deficient, l have no
doubt but what they would in due
time have enacted the necessary laws
1t is a very serious question, to my
mind, whether this law is eonsti-
tutional, or if constitutional whether
it will afford the remedy sought.
voted for it with the utmost reluc-
lance, and to some extent because I
was anxious to have the supreme
court pass upon this important ques-
ton for if such legislation is valid,
the limits to which the interstate
commerce clause Of the constitution
can be applied are we'll nigh bound.
less.
The Shipping Law.
The next matter of Democratic leg
islation, to which I will call your
attention, is the so-called shipping
law passed at the last session of
congress. 1t provides for the pur-
chase, leasing, and operation of ships
by the federal government at an
expense of $5O,O00,OOO, exclusive of
salaries, to be obtained from the sale
of so-called Panama bonds. This leg
islation, the administration claims,
was urgently needed because of the
scarcity Of ocean shipping and the
high rates prevailing in consequence
of the war. tits a novel scheme, and
puts the government in direct com
petition with private enterprise and
private effort, and will tend to en-
barrass and retard the growth Of our
ocean shipping, now on the high road
to healthy expansion and growth. But
waving all this, pointed out in
the debate in the senate on this bill
that it was utterly impossible for the
government to procure any ships
within the next two or three years.
Panama Canal Bonds.
In providing for the building of the
Panama canal, authority was granted
for the issuance of bonds to secure
funds for that purpose. The cost Of
| the canal to date has been approx
mately 1915, 100000. The administra
ton Of the Republican party was sc
businesslike, prudent and economical
that all but $13O,0OO,0O0 Of the cost
Of the canal was paid out Of the cur
rent revenues of the government
Only $3.50, 100000 in bonds were is
sued. And now the Democratic party
| in their skirmishing around for rev
enue to meet their extravagant ap
preparations, has resorted to the
Panama bonds for the purpose o.
buying and operating ships, and FOL
the purpose Of constructing a nitrate
plant for the manufacture Of some
d power and lot of fertilizers. The
Panama bonds were in their origin
devoted to a specific and a sacred
purpose, and now $70,000,0O0 Of these
bonds are to be devoted to two
! schemes of state socialism, the like
lof which could only spring from the
womb Of a Democracy intoxicated By
the power temporarily placed in theil
hands.
Philippine Islands.
AS an incident Of the war Will
Spain we acquired the Philippine is
lands. The people of these island.
for more than three hundred year:
languished under the despotic tyran
ny of Spain. Spain had during al
those years failed to develop tn,
people or the resources Of the islands
She had failed to provide for theil
education and had utterly failed Il
give them a decent government. Sucl
3Ia government as they had was not !,
lgovernment Of law, but q goveEnmen
OF the army and Of the monks. w,
found these poor people In mos
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