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JANUARY 0, 1905
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Federal licenses for corporations do
ing interstate business is the plan rec-
omeuded by Secretary Garfield, of the
department of commerce, as the best
available method for curing existing
ovils. The avidity with which Thomas
W. Lawson's articles are devoured by
the public shows how deep-seated is
the popular distrust of the intentions,
methods and honesty of those captains
of finance who have .amassed great
fortunes. Secretary Garfield thinks
that the opportunity for Buch opera
tions in Wall street, or before the
courts, or in various legislatures, as
described by Mr. Lawson, is to bo
found in the chaotic conditions of our
corporation laws as they are today.
The "state" syatem of chartering cor
porations makes possible the practice
of great corporations ol moving their
legal residence from state to state for
special privileges, paying therefor the
annual taxes levied by the state which
issues the charter. This has resulted
in the anomalous state of the corpora
tion law which represents the needs of
special interests and not the require
ments for the guidance and protection
of a whole people. These incoherent
and divergent principles might all bo
harmonized, in Secretary Garfield's
opinion, if the United States govern
ment would reauire every corporation
engaged in interstate commerce to take
out a federal license. This could be
done under the clause' in the constitu
tion which directly empowers congress
with the right of regulating commerce
between the states. So far the exercise
of this right has been largely negative.
True, the custom of the interstate com
merce commission was an affirmative
and far-reaching action. Its power,
however, has been much weakened by
restrictive legislation and adverse ju
dicial constructions. There is no doubt
in Secretary Garfield's mind as to the
efficiency of the federal license system,
if carried ouf along the recommended
lines.
The first fruits of such a plan would
be the publicity given and information
acquired by means of which some sys
tematic legislation could be prepared
for the governing of corporations en
gaged in interstate commerce. Pub
licity of proper facts would help the
creation of an enlightened public
opinion that would go far towards ad
justing many difficulties that exist at
present.
After discussing the various methods
of accomplishing this end, Secretary
Garfield advises a federal license, as
such a course would Btill leave, the
chartering, taxing and local control of
the corporations in the hands of the
states.
Information necessary to the de
partment in charge of this work can
be obtained by making the granting of
the proposed license dependent on the
compliance of the corporations with
the requirements in this respect. It
is suggested that all private informa
tion received thrmicTi mirb Hrmrnn-a Vio
kept scrupulously secret, In order that
the legitimate workings, organization
or advantages of one corporation may
not become the property of another,
other recommendations of a similar
nature are made for the protection of
those taking out a .federal license.
In summing up the proposed policy
FITS
Those awful, agonizing dangerous fits are
me result of on aggravated condition of nervous
utility. Dr. Miles' Nervine has made many
remarkable cures by restoring health and
strength to the nervous system. Sold by drug
Gists under a guarantee that the flrst bottle will
benefit or your money returne-i
of this department, Secretary Garfield
says:
"In brief, the policy of the bureau
in the accomplishment, of thn ntimne
of it3 creation is to co-operate with,
not antagonize, the DU3lness world;
the immediate object of its inquiries is
the suggestion of constructive legisla
tion, not the institution of criminal
prosecution. It purposes, through ex
haustive investigations of law and
fact, to secure conservative action and
to avoid ill-considered attack upon cor
porations charged with unfair or dis
honest practices. Legitimate business
law-respecting persons and corpo
rationshave nothing to fear from the
proposed exercise of this great govern
mental power of inquiry."
Secretary Garfield esneciallv emnho.-
sizes ins desire to prevent any in
creased centralization of power at
Washington in the matter of control
of private and public corporations. In
its essential characteristics the plan
embodies the proposals for the regulat
ing corporations which Mr. W. J. Bryan
made some time ago. It is likely, there
fore, that it will have a good deal or
strength from the democratic side of
the house. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
A New Deal In Politics
There is going to be some extremely
interesting politics in this country in
the next four years. Each wing of the
democratic party has had its turn now,
and each has proved that it can not
succeed without the other. In 189G and
1900 the radicals tried to win without
the conservatives, and failed. In 1901
the conservatives have failed to win
without the radicals. What next?
American political history has shown
that when a dominant party has de
stroyed all effective organized oppo
sition there is likely to be a general
shuffle and a new deal. S'o it was after
1820, when Monroe's almost unanimous
second election was followed by the
break-up of the too-successful Jeffer
sonian party and a contest among four
republican candidates at the next elec
tion. It was so" after 1852, when Pierce's
overpowering triumph led to the disap
pearance of the whigs and the creation
of the new republican party. The Gree
ley rout of 1872 brought a revulsion of
feeling that gave new life to the par
alyzed democracy.
Today the signs of political readjust
ment are in the air. They are not con
fined to any one party they cover the
whole field of politics. Bryan and
Cleveland were not more incongruous
as members of the same party in 1892
than LaFollette and Spooner are in
1904. There is a great body of repub
licans who really belong on the demo
cratic 'side, and a smaller, but still
large, number of democrats who ought
to.be republicans. Party names o
longer correspond to real things. An
English visitor who was recently writ
ing a profound essay on American poli
tics for one of his home reviews turned
helplessly to an American friend and
asked: "What ia the difference between
the republican and democratic par
ties?" The informant could not tell,
and the article had to go into print
without that important information.
There is good reason to believe that
observers of the campaign of 1908 will
not be confronted by any such dif
ficulty. Saturday Evening Post
served to bo revolving somothing In
her mind for quito a quarter of an
hour, and Just as hor mother was
about to ask her what alio was think
ing about, tho littlo girl said:
vl0t MCr' Is your grand mother dead?"
Yes," answered tho now tnoroughly
perplexed mother.
"Well, Is sho in heaven?" limn nrn.
pounded tho youthful Knnirnt. nfrnr
knowledge.
I nopo so," said tho inothor.
"Well l am afld not," replied tho
little one. "for I never saw a ninhim
of an old angel."
And with an expression on her littlo
face that showed sho had solved an
other knotty question, tho child re
turned to her play. Philadelphia Press.
Comparative Statistics
Representative Gooch of Kentucky,
according to tho Philadelphia Public
Ledger, says that several years ago a
young lawyer was admitted to tho bar
in hia state, and one of his first cases
was where the right of property to a
lot of hogs was Involved. It wns a
case of replevin, and tho blundering
lawyer addressed the jury in this way
"There were just twenty-four hogs in
that drove, gentlemen of tho jury
just twenty-four, gentlemen exactly
twico as many as there arc in that
jury box."
Tho case was decided against the
young lawyer's client.
Color and Temperament
Certain sounds awaken equivalent1.
moous in a nearer, certain colors quell
a given temper of mind, and certain
odors have an unexpected assoclatlonal
value, inducing alien and unlooked
for trains of thought. Faintly wo
grasp that wo live in subtle but strong
relations to all the phenomena of na
ture. Consciously or unconsciously,
wherever wo look we are searching for
tho color particularly our own, or se
lecting from tho incommensurable
thud of tho universe that sound which
la in tune with our own mental make
up. But the colors we choose to keep
about us, or instinctively note in our
wanderings, disclose more definitely
than any of tho other choices of inborn
temperament.
Color and sensibility aro closely al
lied, and one inattentive to clashing
combinations Is likely to be also a lit
tle blunt to the finer moral and intel
lectual distinctions, a little impervious
to the more delicate ta3tes and acuter
pains. Harper's Weekly. ,
No Old Angel
She is too young to understand
much about the "life hereafter," but
old enough to think she has grasped
that problem thoroughly. For this rea
son she talks often and much about
hflfivfin. The other day she was 6b-
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