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VERNONCOUNTYCENSOR
O. Q. Munson, Publisher.
VIROQUA, • • WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.
In a letter to the bar associations of
the several counties of the fourth cir
cuit Judge Kir wan accepts the call
for renomination.
The State German Kriegerbund. or
German War Veterans’ association,
will assemble at Xeenah in state con
vention June 18 to 20.
Daniel Jorgenson, of New Rich
mond, aged 14 years, while playing
with a small rifle, shot himself in the
abdomen ami is probably fatally in
lured
Duncan Cameron, aged 55 years anu
a resident of Kid Mound, sustained in
juries in logging operations about
eighty miles north of Stanley. He was
crushed between rolling logs.
Slyvanus Stevenowltz, of Sheboy
gan, aged 14 years, fell from a dump
cart in the yards of the Gartori Toy
company and broke his neck He was
playing with some boys when the ac
cident occurred.
M. W. Noe, charged with forging a
check for $11.65, pleaded guilty in the
municipal court at Racine and Judge
William Smiedling sentenced him
lo the state reformatory at Green
Hay for a term or one year.
Little Ruth Miller of Sparta is
branded for life with her own initials.
While playing she fell against a
stove, burning her anu deeply. When
the wound healed It was found that
she was branded with the letters R
M.
Joseph Punka, a barber, was arrest
ed at Racine on complaint of M. H.
Whittaker, of the state board of ex
aminers, charged with operating a
barber shop without the required li
cense. Panka was found guilty am)
fined $lO and costs
John Vangemert, a bricklayer at
Green Bay, lost bis balance while at
work forty leet above the ground anil
in falling landed on his bead and
shoulders. His skull was fractured
and he died in the hospital. He w-as
22 years old and lived at DePere.
Theodore Kostermana, a Racine sa
loon man, was tried in the municipal
court on charge of selling liquor to
Louise Schultz, a minor. He was found
guilty by a jury and a tine of sloo and
costs or three months in jail was Im
posed by Judge Smiedling. An appeal
was tak.-ii to the circuit court.
The Sheboygan Merchants' associa
tion has adopted a black list. It has
been decided to work out a credit sys
tem for mutual protection against
persons who do not pay their debts It
Is to be not only a list of'deadbeats"
and slow paving debtors, but probably
a complete list of patrons throughout
the city, giving their relative stand
ing
ticorge Peterson of Oshkosh and
William Ziek ol Xeeimh, | aroled from
flu* Industrial school ai Waukesha.
er.. arrested, charged with burglary
of two stores at Oshkosh They were
about to take a train for Milwaukee,
"lien- they expected meet a third
paroled boy They were armed with
revolvers.
William t; Collins tin- Richland
Center university freshman who plead
ed guilty to forgery and passing fraud
tdent checks on Madison merchants,
•was sentenced to eighteen months in
the (liven liay reformatory, but sen
tenre was suspended under the new
parole law. bis being the first such
parole in tit,- Madison courts
The (use against the Manitowoc and
Northern Traction company is to be
heard at Oshkosh on a charge o- ven
ue. February The suit 1 . brought
to restrain an advance hi interurhun
rutes on the gtomul that it is a viola
tion of the franchise- which prescribe,
a 1 O-con t fare The city a' -< j secies to
preteni the company from earryin.:
freight and .packages,
DOMESTIC.
The lowa supreme court upheld the
constitutionality of tit.- t’usson re
ntovai law, which provide-! that put.ific
ofßciais nut- he removed tor intoxica
tion.
Kite following an explosion de
stroyed tile building occupied by the
*’• W. Miller (Vail Paper company oi
St. Isoiis, The loss is estimated at
SIOO,OOO.
Orville A. Henrie, a contractor ol
Berwick, Pa., who was badly hurt at
\\ ashiugton while escaping from the
burning Harris hotel, died in the hos
pital from his injuries,
George M. Schaeffer, a young man,
was hanged In the county jail at Al
lentown. Pa., for the murder of ls-o|.
old Krtnanu. an itinerant jewelry sal.--
man of Philadelphia, in November
190$.
Klrt> caused linma*:* estimated at
$400,000, at ijtneaster. Pa. it started
with nn explosion, presumably of gun
powder, in the hardware store ot
Reilly Bros. * Raul) The Grand
Army loses a flue collection of relies
The abolishment of seventeen out ot
eighteen pension agencies in the conn
try is recommended to the house to
the appropriations committee in the
report on the pension bill The only
agency will be located at Washington
Harold Vanderbilt of Xoy. York
condemned b> the tribunal of th
Seine, I'rant. . pa.v ?,S damages
to a harness m:tl:-r who was knocked
down and in >,t Mr Vnndo Si|<‘-
automobile n ar Valet,.-', in Pebrn," ,
1907.
A sheriff's p< - : I’oodhonnds
searched the county for Sylvester
Bearden. 25. who killed G otye Walk
er and his daughter Ini", and fatally
wounded two of the Walker children
Walker objected to his dnughtei
marrying Bearden. __
Albert I.eeson. a New York 0- ntra!
brakenian, shot and fatally wounded
Oladys Cbargo, a stenographer, on the
streets of Watertown. N Y.j_ thcr,
turned the weapon on himself, falling
dead beside her. Leeson, it is stated,
had been jilted by the girl.
Mrs. Anan Soltz, 46 years old, the
mother of eight children, and Abraham
Glassman of Baton Rouge, La., are
under arrest in Brooklyn awaiting the
arrival of a warrant from Memphis.
Tenn., charging them with larceny ot
s3,3<>o from the woman's husband. Da
vid Soltz in the Tennessee city.
Robert H. Duck, president of the
La Porte, Ind., manufacturing con
cern bearing his name, was killed
while crossing the Lake Shore rail
way tracks by a west-bound passenger
train. He was 77 years old. and it is
believed his deafness prevented his
hearing the train.
The Chinese Tong war which al
ready has resulted iu many mysteri
ous murders in Boston and San Fran
cisco. and other cities, netted another
victim in New York. The dead body- of
Choy Wing was found in the rear of
his Brooklyn laundry with his throat
cut from ear to ear, and with a bul
let iu his head.
Howard Little, the sextuple mur
derer of Buchanan county, Va., was
electrocuted for his crimes when his
legpite of thirty days granted by Gov
ernor Swanson ended 1 . Willie Blake, a
negro, who criminally assaulted an
aged white woman in Portsmouth,
was executed ten minutes after Little
was pronounced dead.
Fighting in the dark with a man
whom he believed to lie a burglar, S.
T Iso aid, of Clrovoton. Tex stabbed
the man to death with u butcher knife,
learning later that he hail slain Carle
ton fvwinney, one of his best friends
Swinney, during a temporary fit of in
sanity, had broken from his attendants
and entered Lockard's home.
James Hall of Wisconsin, the marine
who falseiy confessed lie murdered
Anna Schumacher In the cemetery at
Rochester, N. Y„ may be taken to the
prison ship at Portsmouth, N. H., to
serve the unexpired portion of his
sentence for enlistment under false
pretenses. It is probable he will be
tried on a charge of practicing anew
fraud on the navy.
Two prominent contractors were In
dicted at Cincinnati by the grand jury
as the initial step In an inquiry which
involves millions of dollars and In
cludes In its scope city contractors for
tin- last eight years T. F. MeClude and
•I. A. Eberharilt, the indicted men, are
charged with entering into a con
spiracy in restraint of trade in connec
tion with Hie obtaining of reeenf pav
ing contract?.
After calling her guardian on the
telephone and telling him of her 11l-
tention# France# Kloerckey, aged 22
ars, committed suicide In Fhiladei
phia by shooting through the heart.
Six year# ago her father, Colonel E.
F Kloerckey, a veteran of the civil
war, in which he commanded a Miss
ouri regiment, killed his wife and
himself, it was the anniversary of this
tragedy and the girl seemed much de
pressed all day,
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Three carloads of Shetland ponies
have been put on the Sumnieht farm
in the town of Bovina near Shiocton.
Tiie work of double tracking the
Milwaukee road between West Salem
am! Camp Douglas has been begun.
The curve west of Bangor w ill he elim
inated.
The franchise granted the I.a
Crosse and Winona Interurban com
pany by the Li Crosse council has
been accepted by the company. It
grants the new interurban company a
fifty-year r-glit to operate an interur
bnn line.
The franchise granted the La
Crosse and Winona Interurban com
pany by the council some time age.
has been accepted by the company
It grants the new interurban company
a fifty year right to operate an inter
urban line.
Until, tip Icgisluuu-o ’cc- adopted
some- definite polko as to grunt lug
water power franchises aiel taxing
sill !, 1)1 111" ; t ie.-. t,l : S ;>, \\ i
sin Bov. 11 company which held in an
nun! meeting ut Madison will not pro
err,: V,!,h iitc wo.-,I of developing the
wiit r power at Prairie du Sac
Governor Davidson reappointed th-:
number# of the Wisconsin grain amt
warehouse commission. Cornier May n
W it. Crumpton of Superior was given
the tlire,, year t m, Janies Kernan of
Mhnlot, V Ithe two year term, anil
11 A. Johnson of Superior, represent
in. the state of New York, the one
year term. The headquarters of the
commission are at Superior.
A razor manufactory In Madison is
turning out 400 razor blades a week.
Tho American Society of Equity
will build and operate elevators for
buying, selling and storing all kinds ot
grains, seeds, produce, hay. straw,
coal, wood, lumber, etc., at Hilbert,
Chilton. New Holstein, Danilas, Sher
wood and Forest Junction.
from the Italian government Presi
dent Cortlundt Field Bishop of the
Aero i lub of America received a re
quest to ship to Italy a cargo of Amer
ican spruce to be used in the construc
tion or aeroplanes for the Italian
army. Several Italian woods have been
tried ror aeroplane building, the com
munication said, but none is equal to
America spruce for strength and dur
ability.
PURELY PERSONAL.
H iii- Ifasniussi n of Superior has
le cri appointed an aide-,le amp on the
s ‘ at > (>l the grand sire of the P.vtri
ar.hs Militant of the world. He is the
!:i ,'i ‘hid Follow o WLconisn to lie
honor, and ami th, conn ol Superior.
Mi official in .1. grata received at
' V’a-him del ie-. • . ; .p o .~t, „ ~.v
rm.o.n:,! d.di.ußi.-s between the Pnn
. ’ Ive-Tig'iosi with c-r husband. It
; II- - -• -n ai'.ncuue and i Home that
Mbs pimr-os who was Mrs Marla
Reed of Washil , ; ion. -eeV„-
■ separation.
Annotate nn nt was made nth ot
. the el. - tion ; ttbliv’. ~f the \*. -
York Sun of Kb hard V O.dehan
•unuigei of tiie Sou - Maslnngton bn
renu, to succeed the late Wililam L.
1-affair Ouleliati vv,is recently- hottore"
with the election as vice president o:
' the Gridiron i iub.
The state department has reeoivec
information that former President
Castro of Venezuela has arrived at the
Canary islands. This government has
an imolted contract with President
Gomez-oi Venezuela to keep Castro out
of South America. President Zelaya ol
Nicaragua is on the way to Brussels.
Wisconsin Badgers now living in
Los Angeles, Cal., and vicinity held a
picnic there. There are 24.000 former
Wisconsin residents in and near Los
Angeles and Joseph D Bradford,
formerly of Fond du Lac, is president
of the Wisconsin club, under whose
auspices the picnic was held. Hun
dredr ,-f former Badgers attended.
Receiving congratulations not only
from friends throughout the state,
but from many from far, far away
points including not a few from the
national capital, former Governor and
Mrs. W. D. Hoard celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage
in their home circle. They have three
children, nine grandchildren and three
greatgrandchildren
FOREIGN.
King Gustave’s progress toward re
covery from the operation for appen
dicitis continues. His strength is welt
maintained.
A liquor monopoly for the exclusive
manufacture of spirits in Sweden was
organized with a capital approximating
$4,000,000
Rostad, Herz and Coquelin all ridi
cule the claim of Samuel Eberiv Gross
of Chicago that Gross is *he real au
thor of Chanticleer.
Fouriner’s News Agency in Paris,
declared that 150 persons perished in
the sinking of the steamer General
Chanzy. Of this number seventy were
members of the crew.
Niclialos Tschakovsky and Father
ine Hreshkoyskaya, who are charged
with iteing members of the revolution
ary organization will be placed on
trial in St. Petersburg on March 8.
It was announced at Christiana that
former President Theodore Roose
velt would arrive there on May 2, and
on that day deliver his promised ad
dress before the Nobel peace prize
committee.
IJeutenant K. H. Shackleton, the
south pole explorer, will sail from
liondoti for the United States on
March 19, and, after a lecture tour,
wtll tuake an extended hunting trip in
northern Alaska.
A large bomb ingeniously concealed
within the brick wall of the residence
of a leather manufacturer, exploded
at Graulhet, France shaking the house
shattering the windows and breaking
statuary and pictures within. No one
was injured. The outrage Is attributed
to strikers.
Carew Martin, the art critic, was
committed for trial in the old Bailey
court, Lvndon, bail being fixed at
$ 10,04*0. Martin is charged by the
Royal Society of British Artists with
misappropriation of funds of the or
ganization of which he has been sec
retary since 1898.
Delayed messages have arrived at
Madrid, telling of a disastrous fire in
Liria, a town of 10,000, eighteen miles
northwest of Valencia, resulting from
the Shrove Tuesday celebration. The
flames started from a bonfire and
destroyed half the houses In the town.
Five bodies have already been re
covered from the ruins and as many
more are still missing.
Duke Ernst Guenther of Schleswig-
Holstein, brother of Empress Augusta
Victoria, has begun another legal ac
tion to establish his right to rank as
a member of a ruling house. One
Prussian administrative court recently
denied the duke the rank sought, lull
he lias decided to appeal to the higher
administrative court
Eighty persons were killed by the
eruption of Voicatio Poas, according to
reports received at Port Union, which
say fir eruption, the worst in the his
lory of the mountain, has ceased. The j
deaths were caused by stones shot i
*
out ot tee oi-atiT. Scientists see in the j
erup.ion a forecast of severe earth- i
quakos in Central America .mil the!
Panama - anal zone. Warnings are be- j
ing s-nt to Washington urging thej
strengthening of the canal work in j
the most vulnerable places.
OBITUARY.
Count vim Tettenbai h. the German
atulm.-.sadcr to Spain, is dead.
Isaac Galb.-ich, a pioneer merchant
i>i lowa, and the first lumber ilealei
of the west liver town, is dead. Hi
nas 90 years of age and wealthy.
Harry C. Clines, a well known young
business man.of Madison, employed
by the Gicholt Machine company, died
of pneumonia after a week’s illness.
Colonel \V, I>. Snow, aged 78 years,
soldier, author and hymn writer, died
at Hackensack, N. J. He was the son
of Josiah Snow, founder of the De
troit Tribune, anu was for a time as
sociate editor of that groer. Colonel
Snow during the civil war served on
the staff of General Powell Clayton
General Steele. He was best known as
a writer of Fnitarlay hymns.
Captain Alexander Sharp, president
of the navy inspection board, and re
cently commander of the battleship
Virginia, died in Washington of ty
phoid fever. He was born in White
Haven. Mo., in 1855. Captain Sharp
was commander of one of the Amer
ican vessels during the famous battle
on July Ixoß. Otherwise known as
the battle of Santiago, which resulted
ui the destruction of Cerverna’s
fleet. When Theodore Roosevelt was
assistant secretary of the navy. Cap
tain Sharp, ihen a lieutenant com
mantle; was bis naval aide.
SIOO Reward, SIOO.
Tt* r.f th!, paper wfit t>* p!tas4
to : jra t int tln'i-1- u at !e*st on* -.lOed
li.trusc tiot s re* has be, a aiffc to ,-ur*
In a!I Its • mid tbat is catarrh. ltal|-
Cat era Cure ij t!i only posafve now
h-wj ’0 th- nu-il: at tmtrrr.itv. Cvarrh
N'Uir n cor.-ti:ct:.'aal di-ci-c. require* ■
; co-ii t’tutioo*! treatment. Unirs Cacirrh
Cure is taken internailr, actios iLrectly
upon the Meed ar. t SB l ' -.no surfaces of tba
•Idem. thereby destroying the fouaJatloa
of ti e discs so. and givto* the patient l
etrec-Tth y budding up the constitution nnd
*'*|- 'a* nature In doing Its work Tba
prop ietors have so touch faith In Its cura
tive power* that they offer Or.e Hundred
! lK>;:srs tor any case that It falls to cur*,
bend for list of testimonials.
Al.lress F J CHENEY CO.. Toledo, a
S.iJ ay all DruMlnt*. Tie.
taka Hail'a Family dills for constipation.
PRESIDENT’S ANSWER TO
WALL STREET’S PROTEST
Business Methods Must Con
form to Law or Submit
to Change.
Declares Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Measure Best Ever
Enacted.
Says Republican Party Has or
Will Redeem Platform
Pledges.
New York, Feb. 13.—"1f enforce
ment of the law is not consistent with
the present method of conducting
business, then the methods must be
changed to conform to the law," was
President Taft’s nuswer to Wail
street’s cry of "panic.” It was made
to a cheering audience of hundreds or
prominent republicans last nigbt at
the annual Lincoln day dinner at the
republican club in this city, at the
Waldorf Astoria. Governor Hughes
shared honors with the president.
Mr. Taft discussed the platform
pledges and how they should be kept.
At the conclusion of his detailed ar
gument as to how the republican par
ty is redeeming its pledges, he
reached the utterances awaited with
greatest interest, when he declarea
that administration is not “foolishly
running amuck to destroy values and
confidence for the pleasure of doing
so.”
The president exhorted republicans
to take courage from their opponent's
demoralized condition.
The Platform Pledges.
Mr. Taft safd:
"The birthday of the tuan whose
memory we celebrate is an appropri
ate occasion for renewing our expres
sions of respeu and affection tor tne
republican party, and our pledges to
keep the part it plays in tne country s
history as high and useful as it was
during the administration of the mar
tyred president. The trials he had to
undergo as president, the political
storms which the party had to weatn
er during the civil war, the divisions
in the party itself between the radi
cal and anti-slavery element and
those who were most conservtatve in
observing constitutional limitations,
dwarf and minimize the trials througn
which the party Is now passing, and
restore a sense of proportion to those
who allow- themselves to he daunted
and discourage,,, insthe face of less or
popular confidence thought to he in
dicated by the tone of the press.
"In what respect has the republican
party failed in its conduct of the gov
ernment and the enactment of laws
to perform its duty? It was returned
to power a year ago last November,
by a very large majority, after a
campaign in which it made certain
promises In its platform. Those prom
ises it has substantially complied
with, or is about to perform within
the present session of congress.'
The Tariff Promise.
Taking up the promises of the last
republican platform seriatim, Mr.
Taft quoted the tariff piank, wbicn
declared unequivocally- for revision
by a spuUai session of congress Im
medinfily following his inauguration
>, pjViluent and reasserting tr.e pro
tective Principle, favoring the estab
ment of maximum and minimum rates,
and adding that the republican pol
icy is to preserve, - without excessive
duties, that security against foreign
coin petition to which the American
manufacturers, farmers and producers
are emiried and also to maintain tne
high standard of living of the Ameri
can wage earners, the most direct
beneficiaries of the protective sys
tem.
Said the president, "We did revise
the tariff. It is impossible to revise
the tariff without awakening an ac
tive participation in the formation ot
the schedules of those producers
whose business may be effected by
the change. Nothing was expressly
said in the platform that it was to be
a downward revision. The impllea
tioo was that it would be generally
downward, however, and was fairty
given by the fact that those who up
held the protective system defended
It by the claim that after an industry
has been esf_' 'ished by shutting out
foreign comb tion. domestic compe
tition will lcd to the reduction ot
prices so as to make the original hign
tariff iinneeessarv
Says Revision Was Downward.
"In the new tariff there are 634
decreases. 220 increases and 1.130
items unchanged, but this did not
represent a fair proportion In most
of the reductions and increases, t>o
cause the duties were decreased on
jars having a consumption value
■? v r' $3 000,1)00,000, while tm
! increases were on articles having a
consumption value of less than ji.-
'■■•u.ei v.soo. Of the increases, the
cot.- mption value of those affected
which are of luxuries, to wit. silks
wines liquors, perfumeries, pomades
and like articles, amounted to nearly
while the increases on
articles of luxury affected but about
f.IOO.bOd.OdP, as against decreases on
about $3,000,000,000 ot consumption.
1 repeat, this was downward revision:
not dou award with reference to
silks, liquors, and high priced cot
tons. but downward with respecj to
nearly all other articles except woo.'-
! ent. which were not affected at all.
Certainly it was not promised that
the rates on luxuries would be re
duced. The revenues were failing
off, there a deficit was promised, and
it was essential that -he revenues oe
increased. It wa., no violation .-t
the promise to increase revenues by
| increasing the tax on luxuries, pro
i vided there was a downward revis
ion of all other articles. The one sub
stantial defect in compliance with the
platform’s promise was the failure to
reduce woolens. Does that defect so
color the action of the republican
party as to ma*.e it a breach of faltn
leading to its condemnation? I don’t
think so. Parties are like men. Re
visions are the work of men—they
are not perfect. The change which
this tariff effected was a marked
change downward in tbe rates of du
ties and a recognition by the party
that the time has come e-hen instead
of increasing duties they must be de
creased, when the party should rec
ognize that the proper measure or
protection is a difference in cost ot
production here and abroad, includ
ing a fair profit to the manufacturer.
There was a dispute as to what that
difference is. and whether it was
recognized in the change of all du
ties downward. Particularly was this
the case on paper materials and pa
per itself. The reduction cm print pa
per was from $6 to $3.75.
The Paper Tariff.
"A difference of opinion on whether
the new duty co rectly measured the
difference in eo.>t of the production
of print paper abroad and here invit
ed the attention of the newspaper
proprietors, who associated together,
like other interests, for the purpose or
securing a reduction of the tariff
The failure to make a larger reduc
tion showed Itself editorially in a
great number of newspapers. The
amount of misrepresentation to wbicn
the tariff bill, as a downward revision
bill, was subjected never has been ex
ceeded in this country. It will take
several years to show the country ex
actly what the legislation and its er
fect are. It is too early to institute
the fairest comparisons between the
Pa.vne-Aldrich bill and the bill whicn
preceded it. but figures are at hand
from which one may make a reason
able inference whether it is revision
downward and as to its capacity for
producing revenue.
“During the first six months of the
operation of the Payne law the aver
age duty paid on all dutiable imports
was 21.09 percent ail valorem. The
average rate on ail imports the same
six months for the four preceding
years under the Dingley law was
24.03. This shows a reduction in th®
Payne law of 2.94 percent of the
goods’ value, or a reduction below the
previous tariff rates of 12 percent.
But this is not all. Under the Payne
law 51.6 percent of the gross Imports
the last six months have been entered
iree: under the four years preceding
for the same six months the free list
amounted to 45.46 percent; so there
is not only a reduction of duty on du
tiable Imports of 12 percent, but also
an enlargement of about the same per
centage of the free list.
A Revenue Produce.-.
‘For the production of revenue the
Payne law is even more of an im
provement. During the six months it
las been in force, customs receipts
have amounted to $166,002,856. Under
tho Wilson-Gorman tariff the semi-;
annual average was $83,117,625. Un-j
dor tho Dingley tariff the semi-annual j
average was $130,265,81b The month-j
!y average of the Payne tariff has j
been a hundred percent greater than !
that of the Wilson tariff and twenty,!
ix percent greater than under the !
Diugley tariff. Even considering pop- j
illation, the increase in receipts ha?
been marked. Under the Wilson tariff
the average annual customs receipts
per capita was $2.38: under the Ding
ley tariff $3.21 and under the Payne
tariff $3.71.
“For six months of the Payne tariff
the expenditures exceeded the receipts
front both customs and internal reve
nue only $8,884,051, with no collection
yet from the corporation tax. For a
corresponding period last year the ex
penditures exceeded the receipts over
forty million. This indicates that un
der the present customs law the def
icit will be promptly wiped out.
“I therefore venture to repeat the
former remark that the present cus
toms law is the best ever passed, and
is significant in indicating the policy
of the republican party to change
from Increasing duties to a reduction
and effect an Increase in revenues at
the same tune.
“The maximum and minimum claus
es have furnished the executive a pow
er to secure additional concessions in
respect to Impositions on our foreign
trade; has done justice by giving the
Philippines free trede with the United
States, and provided for securing im
partial evidence for accurately deter
mining the difference between the i-.G
of production abroad and here. Taken
us a whole, the party substantially
complied with its tariff promises ana
set itself strongly toward fixing lower
tariffs."
Postal Savings Banks
Quoting the postal saving, bank
plank of the platform, Mr, Taft said:
"The great difficulty in the pending
bill seems to have been to secure a
proper provision for the management
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and investment of the money deposit
ed. Amendments have been offered
in the senate for the purpose of hav
ing such money distributed througD
the locality where deposited, in banks,
state and national, and so deposited
i as to make it Impossible for the trus-
I tees of the fund to withdraw the
money for investment in any other
I form. I regard such amendments as
1 likely to defeat the law. First, be
cause it takes away that teature
which assures the law's constitutional
ity. We have now about $700,000,000
two percent bonds with respect to
which we owe a duty to the owners
to see that those bonds are taken
care of without reduction below the
par value thereof, because they were
forced upon the national banks at this
low rate in order that the banks
might have a basis of circulation. This
implied obligation of the government,
postal savings bank funds would
easily enable it to meet. Secondly it
the funds are arbitrarily deposited in
all banks, state and national, without
national supervision over the state
banks and a panic were to come, it is
difficult to see how the government
could meet its obligations to the pos
tal savings bank depository, because
with every state bank suspending
payment the funds of postal savings
banks would be beyond the control of
the government and we would have a
financial disaster greater than any
panic we have heretofore met."
Interstate Commerce Law.
Mr. Taft quoted the platform’s de
clarations for the enforcement of the
statutes against railroad rebates ano
discriminations and in favor of amend
ing the interstate commerce law so
as to make traffic agreements subject
to the commission’s approval, and pre
venting an over-issue of stocks and
bonds. Mr. Taft said:
“A bill to carry out these declara
tions was introduced in both house®,
with every hope of enactment. The
measure goes beyond the platform in
empowering the commission to regu
late rates and facilitates the ease of
supervision so as to secure to the
railroads compliance with the rights
of the public and the shipper."
Concerning the platfornrc sugges
tion to prevent the issuance of in
junctions by the federal courts with
out notice, Mr. Taft said:
“A bill to carry out exactly this
promise was introduced in both houses.
It does not go as far as Mr. Gompers
and the federation of labor demand,
but as far as the republican conven
tion was willing to let it go. It re
quires that no injunction shall be is
sued without full notice of hearing,
unless to prevent Irreparable injury."
The Conservation Problem.
Concerning the platform’s sugges
ment of conservation and waterways
improvement movements, the president
said:
“Measures for the conservation of
the public domain, re-classification of
lands, authorizing the executive to dis
pose of the coal phosphate oil and
mineral lands and waterpower sites in
such a way as to prevent monopolies
or combinations, has been introduced,
and doubtless will be enacted. The
rivers and harbors bill was framed
with the view of complying with the
conservation plank. It plans for the
improvement of the Ohio river as a
project to be carried out in a certain
number of years and treated the pro
jects for the Missouri and Mississippi
similarly. By continuing contracts
these projects will go on until com
pleted. ' r nis change is the result of
popular agitation in favor of such a
system.
“At the beginning of this administra
tion it was evident that with expenses
increasing and revenues decreasing
there would be a continuous deficit , j
This the republican majority in con-1
„ress proposes to meet by reducing’
expenditures and increasing revenues. |
The administration estimates for the;
coming fiscal year were $40,600,000 be-'
low the actual appropriations the’
year before and it Is proposed to ap
point a joint commission to examine j
the organization of the various de-.
part meat bureaus and decrease the!
regular permanent cost of government-j
al operation."
Cost of Monopolies.
In respect to the platform declara
tions for a greater supervision and!
control over and greater publicity ini
the management of monopolies, Mr. j
Taft said:
"Prosecutions of the tobacco anilj
Standard Oil trusts resulted in de
crees in the courts, and appeals now
are pending to the supreme court.
The decrees in ea.-h case tear apart
subordinate corporations which make
up a trust and eajoin individuals from
further maintenance of 3uch illegal
combination.
“It has been said that the republican
party promised to amend the law so
as to ameliorate the application of the
anti-trust law in interdiction upon the
greatest corporations I find nothing
in the platform to justify such a con
struction. The principle of the anti
trust law is the policy of ‘live and let
live,’ and that the corporations shall
not use the bigness of their concerns
to frighten patronage from the cus
tomers of smaller concerns, and thus
control the output and fix prices
"The attorney general prepared a
bill, which i think, offers a means for
lawful Interstate business under a
federal charter which, while subject
ing the concern to the closest scrutiny,
will save it from the harassment of
state authorities. I believe this bill I
constitutional and believe it wou!
furnish a solution of present difficult-!
ies. but as it was not specifically do
in red for in the republican platform.:
I don’t fire! justified in asking for Sts i
adoption as a party measure. 1 have
brought It forward as a suggestion for;
meeting the difficulties likely to be
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I presented iu the prosecution of sus
< pected illegal trusts as a means by
j which they can take their places
l among those engaged in legitimate
business.
Political Prospects.
‘There are signs which many con
strue as an indication that the repub
lican majority in the present congress
will change to a democratic majority
in the next. This is based chiefly on
republican dissensions and attacks by
many newspapers having republican
tendencies upon party and its
leaders. am glad to say that there
seems a clear party matority in both
houses in favor of the passage of the
legislation I have indicated and a re
demption of the party pledges. It
would seem as if the difference over
the house rules and the personnel of
leadership might well be solved with
in the party. They have been so
acute as to produce what is called an
insurrection. lam hopeful as we ap
proach the lines of battle that a set
tlement of these internal questions
will be effected without a breach
which will prevent tbe presenting of
an unbroken front to the enemy.
“General Grant said when he went
into a battle he had a great deal of
fear, but overcame that feeling by re
membering how much more afraid his
opponent was. We should not forget
the factional strife of our ancient ene
my. If the democratic party were
solid, a cohesive opposition, following
the economic views they hold, the
situation would be far more discourag
ing. The republican party for seven
teen years has discharged the respon
sibilities of government with wonder
ful success.
‘Mr. Roosevelt aroused the country
to the danger of having all authority
controlled in corporate interest. He
aroused the people to the point of
protecting themselves and the public
interest against the aggressions of
corporate greed and left public opin
ion in an apt condition to bring about
the reform needed to make his poli
cies permanent.
The Aftermath.
"But as the inevitable aftermath of
such agitation we find a condition of
hysteria on the part of certain 'ndi
viduals and in others a manifestation
of hypocrisy in blind denunciation of
all wealth and the impeachment of
the motives of men of highest char
acter by demagogic appeals to the
imagination of an aroused people.
The tendency is to resent the at ach
ment to party and toward the asser
tion of individual opinion at the ex
pense of party discipline.
“I am far from saying that the re
publican party is perfect. But with
the various divisions of the party sub
jected to a cross fire of its own news
papers and factions, any halt or fail
ure ot those in authority to putlish or
condemn corrupt methods will be
properly visited upon the party itself.
“AVe will be called upon to respond
;to the charge in the next campaign
uhat the tariff raised prices. We
| must not be blind to the weight of
| such argument in a campaign. The
reason for the rue in the cost of the
necessities is easily traced to the in
crease in our measure of values, and
possibly, in some cases, to combina
tions in restraint of trade, but the
question must be argued and met.
"The administration has been at
tacked on the ground that its policy
tends to create a panic in Wall street.
AH i have to say upon that is that
nobody responsible for a government
like ours would destroy values and
confidence for the pleasure of doing
so. Nobody has a motive as strong
as the administration in power to cul
tivate and strengthen business confi
dence and prosperity. But it does
rest with the national government to
enforce the law. If enforcement of
the law is not consistent with the
present method of business, it does
not speak well for the present meth
ods of business. They must be
changed to conform to the law. The
republican party did not promise to
authorize monopoly nor the suppres
sion of competition and control of
prices. Those who expected such a
change cannot visit the responsibility
of their mistake or. innocent persons.
The government at Washington can
be counted on to enforce the law in
b way best calculated to prevent the
destruction of public confidence in
business, but that it must enforce the
law gees without saying.”