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The Commoner VOLUME 8, NUMBER is 12 Senator Pcnroso of Pennsylvania 1b very sick. The democratic stato convention ior Arizona has been called to meet at Tucson, May 28. David S. Rose has boon nominated .is the democratic candidate for mayor of Milwaukee. The town of Chilapa, Mexico, was reported to have been destroyed by an earthquake March 2G. Mr. Bryan addressed 5,000 people nnder the auspices of the general assembly of Virginia March 25. Governor Broward of Florida has appointed Hall Milton, to succeed the late W. J. Bryan as senator from Florida. At Hanna, Wyo., two explosions of coal gas in mine thirteen of the Union Pacific Coal company, result ed in the death of a large number of men. The death list is thought to exceed seventy. Spencer Compton Cavindl3h, the olghth Duke of Devonshire, is dead at tho age cf seventy-live years. Tho governor of Vermont has ap pointed John W. Stewart to succeed tho late Redfield Proctor, as United States senator. In Union Square, Now York, an explosion of a bomb thrown by an archists resulted in the death of two men and tho serious wounding of fourteen others. B. W. Stevens, diplomatic repre sentative to Korea, was shot at San Francisco by a Korean and later died. The Korean claimed that Mr. Stevens w-9,s an "enemy to the Korean government." The democratic state committee of Colorado in session at Denver March 24 adopted a resolution endorsing Mr. Bryan tor the presidential nom ination. Glenwood Springs was chosen as the place for the state con vention and June 15 the date. Lawrence o. Murray, present as distant secretary of commerce and labor, has boon appointed comp troller of tho currency to succeed William B. RIdgley. At Telluride, Colo., an unknown person gained access to the residence of Burkley Wells, manager of the Smuggler Union mine, and planted dynamite under his bed. The explo sion wrecked the house, but General Wells escaped with slight injuries. Mr. Roosovolt has issued an order oxcluding from tho United States mall "La Questione Socials" a paper published at Patorson, N. J. It is hjLrgedjtliat.this publication advo cates murder. Tho Seventh Ohio .district demo cratic congressional convention in structed its delegates to the Denver convention to vote for Mr. Bryan for president, and endorsed Judson Harmon of Cincinnati as democratic candidate for governor. Tho republican state convention for Illinois met at Springfield March 26 and endorsed Speaker Cannon as tho republican nominee for the pres idency. Delegates at large are Sen ator Cullom, Senator Hopkins, Gov ernor Deneen and Mayor Busse of Chicago. in effect that when a federal court determines to place a common car rier or other public utility concern under tho control of a receivership, tho attorney general should have the right to nominate at least one of the receivers; or else in some other way the interests of the stockholders should be consulted, so that tho man agement may not be wholly rede livered to the man or men the failure of whose policy may have necessitat ed the creation of the receivership. Receiverships should be used, not to operate roads, but as speedily as pos sible to pay their debts and return them to the proper owners. In addition to the reasons I have already urged on your attention, it has now become important that there should be an amendment of the anti trust law, because of the uncertainty as to how this law affects combina tions among labor men and farmers, if the combination has any tendency to restrict interstate commerce. All of these combinations, if and while existing for and engaged in the pro motion of innocent and proper pur poses, should be recognized as legal. As I have repeatedly pointed out, this anti-trust law was a most un wisely drawn statute. It was per haps inevitable that in feeling after the right remedy the first attempts to provide such should be crude; and it was absolutely imperative that some legislation should be passed to control, in the interest of the public, the business use of the enormous aggregations of corporate wealth that are so marked a feature of the modern industrial world. But the present anti-trust law, in its construction and working, has ex emplified only too well the kind of legislation which, under the guise of being thoroughgoing, is drawn up in such sweeping form as to become either ineffective or else mischievous. In the modern industrial world combinations are absolutely neces sary. It is mischievous and un wholesome to heap upon the statute books, unmodified, a law, like the The Eighth district republican convention in Michigan met at Sag inaw March 24. It took the place of the Snap convention held last Octo ber, which chose two Cannon men, Tho March 24 convention selected the same delegates as chosen by the Snap convention and recommended Cannon as the presidential candidate. anti-trust law, which, while in prac tice only partially effective against vicious combinations, has neverthe less ia theory been construed so sweepingly as to prohibit every com bination for tho transaction of mod ern business. It has now become uncertain how far tho law may involve all labor organizations and farmers' organiza tions, as well as business organiza tions, in conflict with the law. A bill has been presented in the con gress to remedy this situation. Somo such measure as this bill is needed in the interest of all engaged in in dustries which are essential to the country's .well being. The sugges tions I have to offer are tentative. The substantiative part of the anti trust law should remain as at pres ent; that is, every contract in re straint of trade or commerce among the several states or with foreign na tions should continue to be declared illegal; provided, however, that some proper governmental authority (such as the commissioner of corporations acting under the secretary of com merce and labor) be allowed to pass on any such contracts. Probably the best method of providing for this would be to enact that any contract, subject to the prohibition contained in the anti-trust law, into which it was desired to enter, might be filed with the bureau of corporations or other appropriate, executive body. This would provide publicity. With in, say, sixty days of the filing which period could be extended by order of the department whenever for any reason it did not give the de partment sufficient time for a thor ough examination the executive de partment having power might forbid the contract, which would then be come subject to the provisions of the anti-trust law, if at all in re straint of trade. If no such prohibition was Issued, the contract- would then only be liable to attack on the ground that it constituted an unreasonable re- ( Continued on Page 14) President's Special Message On March 25 President Roosevelt sent to congress a special message as follows: To tho Senate and House of Rep resentatives: I call your attention to certain measures as to which I think there should bo action by con gress before tho close of the present session. t Child labor should bo prohibited throughout tho nation. At least a model child labor bill should be passed for tho District of Columbia. I renew my recommendation for tho Immediate re-enactment of an employers' liability law, drawn to conform to tho recent decision of the supreme court. In addition to a liability law pro tecting the employes of common car riers, tho government should show its good faith by enacting a further law giving compensation to its own employes for Injury or death In curred In its service. It is a re proach to us as a nation that in both federal and stato legislation we have afforded less protection to public and private employes than any other in dustrial country of the world. I also urge that action be taken along the line of the recommenda tions I liaVG nlrnnrfv moIn . ing injunctions in labor disputes. No temporary order should be issued by aQy court without notice and the petition for a permanent injunction should be heard within a reasonable :ime":say' not to exceed a week or thereabouts. I again call attention to the urgent need of amending the interstate commerce law, and especially the anti-trust law along the lines indi cated in my last message. The in terstate commerce law should be amended so as to give railroads the right to i'ake traffic agreements sub ject to approval by the interstate commerce commission. The commis sion should also be given the power to make public and to pass upon the ssuanco of all securities hereafter Issued by railroads doing an inter state commerce business. A law should be passed providing You in-door people women or men Cascarets are f or you. They do what exercise does what out door life and coarse foods do for the bowels. Your food, when digested, is sucked into the blood through myriads ot ducts in the bowels. When the bowels are clogged, the refuse is stopped. It decays. 'Decay generates poisons. Then those myriad ducts suck the poisons into the blood. More than hal the ills that we suffer come in just that way. The remedy is to clean out the bowels. Not in a harsh way not with salts, castor oil or cathartics, out in a gentle and natural way with Cascarets. But this way is better yet : T L ' ait lil1 tJl.e boweIs 'o clogged. 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