Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

opportunity to consider all practi
tration. | can see nothing in that |
proposition but the justifiable safe |
guarding by society of the necessary |
processes of its very life. There is |
nothing arbitrary or unjust in II un-
less 1t be arbitrarily and unjustly |
done. 1t can and should be done with
a full and scrupulous regard for the
interests and liberties of all con-
cerned as we'll as for the permanent
interests Of society itself"
Three other Matters.
Three matters of capital import
ance await the action of the senate
which have already been acted upon
by the house of representatives. The
bill which seeks to extend greater
freedom of combination to those en-
gagged in promoting the foreign com.
merce of the country than is now
thought by some to be legal under
the terms of the laws against mo-
nopoly; the bill amending the present
organic law of Porto Rico, and the
bill proposing a more thorough and
systematic regulation of the expen-
diture of money in elections, com
monty called the corrupt practices
act.
need not offer my advice that
these measures be enacted into law.
The urgency lies in the manifest cir
cumstances which render their adop-
ton at this time not only opportune
but necessary. Even delay would Sc
riously jeopardize the interests of
the country and of the government.
Immediate passage of the bill to
regulate the expenditure of money in
elections may seem to be less neces-
sary than the immediate enactment
, of the other measures to which ! re-
fer, because at least two years will
elapse before another election in
which federal offices are to be filled;
but it would greatly relieve the pub
lie mind if this important matter
were dealt with while the circum-
stances and the dangers to the pub
lie morals of the present method of
obtaining and spending campaign
funds stand clear under recent OBJ
servation and the methods of expend-
iture can be frankly studied in the
light of present experience; and a
delay would have the further very
serious disadvantage of postponing
action until another election was at
hand and some special object con.
nected with it might be thought to be
in the mind of those who urged it.
Action can be taken now with facts
= for guidance and without suspicion of
partizan purpose.
Help Export Trade.
shall not argue at length the de-
t STABILITY of giving a freer hand in
} the matter of combined and concert
J ed effort to those who shall under
: take the essential enterprise of build
ing up our export trade. That en-
terprise will presently, will immedi
ately assume, has indeed already as
sumed, a magnitude, unprecedented
in our experience. We have not the
. necessary instrumentalities for its
prosecution; ii is deemed to be doubt
full whether they could be created up
nan adequate scale under our pres
: ent laws. We should clear away al
legal obstacles and create a basis
of undoubted law for it which viii
3 give freedom without permitting un
regulated license. The thing must b'
d done now, because the opportunity /.
+ here and may escape us if we hest
tate or delay.
= The argument for the proposed
: amendments of the organic law o
Porto Rico is brief and conclusive
J. The present laws governing the isl
and and regulating the rights ant
+ privileges of its people are not just.
We have created expectations o
! extended privilege which we have no
) satisfied. There is uneasiness amoni
= the people of the island and even
l. suspicious doubt with regard to on
intentions concerning them which tn
+ adoption of the pending measure will
l. happily remove. We do not doub
e what we wish to do in any essentia
l. particular. We ought to do it a
u once.
e At the last session of the congress
/ a bill was passed by the senate whic
& provides for the promotion of voca
y tional and industrial education whic
e is of vital Importance to the Who'll
r country because it concerns ma
o ter, too long neglected, upon whic
q the thorough industrial preparatio
l. of the country for the critical year
D. of economic development immediate
q ly ahead of us in very large measur
depends. May / not urge it's earl
and favorable consideration by tn
~ house of representatives and its earl
G. enactment into law? 1t contains plan
~ which affect all interests and a
e parts of the country and l am sur
N that there is no legislation now pen,
= ing before the congress whose pa
o sage the country awaits with nor
q thoughtful approval or greater imp
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