Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-07
until a public investigation for the
benefit of the public has been lnsti-


benefit of the public has been insti-
tuted.
To Safeguard Society.
at is based upon the very different
principle" he continued, that the
concentrated action of powerful bod
les of men shall not be permitted to
stop the industrial processes of the
nation, at any rate before the nation
shall have had an opportunity to &C.
quaint itself with the merits of the
case between employee and employer,
time to form it's opinion upon an i'm
partial statement of the merits, and
opportunity to consider all practi-
cable means of Cancellation or arbi-
tration. I 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 it un-
less it be arbitrarily and unjustly
done. It can and should be done with
full and scrupulous regard for the
interests and liberties of all con-
cerned as well 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
I 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
Ill Jll0 Illllu VI LllOSO WIN ul6Oo ~.
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-
STABILITY of giving freer hand in
the matter of combined and concert
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 it's
prosecution; it is deemed to be doubt
full whether they could be created up
O nan adequate scale under our pres
emit laws. We should clear away all
legal obstacles and create a basis
of undoubted law for it which will
give freedom without permitting I'M
regulated license. The thing must be
done now, because the opportunity is
here and may escape us if we hest
tate or delay.
The argument for the proposed
amendments of the organic law of
Porto Rico is brief and conclusive.
The present laws governing the isl
and and regulating the rights and
privileges of it's people are not just
We have created expectations Of
extended privilege which we have not
satisfied There is uneasiness among
the people of the island and even a
suspicious doubt with regard to our
intentions concerning them which the