REAL PROGRESS
UNDER TAFT
Many Progressive Measures
Putin Force
THE WHOLE PEOPLE SERVED
■xpress Companies Compelled to Re
duce Rates, Parcela Post Law En
acted and Other Notable Progres
sive Policies Made Effective by
Taft Without Boasting and Noise.
Dispassionate judges will accord to
the Taft administration the credit of
putting in force more measures of a
positively progressive character than
any other administration since the
civil war. Not only have such meas
ures been numerous, hut they have
been of great and far-reacliing impor
tance. President Taft has labored ln
defatigably to serve the whole people,
bnd by means of his broad experience
and rare Judicial mind and having at
his oommand legal talen of the high
est order he has put his progressive
policies one after another Into valid
and practical legislation. This has
been done without boasting and noise.
Whether vindicated or not at the com
ing election, Mr. Taft's work will
stand as a chapter of achievement as
brilliant as it Ib meritorious.
We wish at this time to invite atten
tion to two specific features of gov
ernmental progress. One consists of
the interstate commerce commission's
Investigation of the express compa
nies, resulting in the recent report or
dering the companies to reduce rates
and institute sweeping reforms in va
rious directions. The other is the en
uctment of the Bourne parcels post
bill, one of the most useful measures
ever putin force In this country under
pny administration. These two re
lorms, taken In connection, will exert
b powerful influence for a reduction
of the cost of living.
Mr. Taft has been in complete sym
pathy with the interstate commerce
commission's inquiry into the express
business, a process consistent in all re
spects with the administration's gen
eral policy of compelling big corpora
tions to square themselves with the
law and the public interest. Some of
the more powerful corporations do not
like that policy, but the public ought
to indorse it. The enactment of a par
cels post law brings to fruition a plan
that found indorsement in the plat
form upon which the president was
elected. Through the action of the
senate the Bourne bill, looking to a
parcels service at the lowest practica
ble rates within a given territory, was
substituted for the house bill with its
flat rate provisions. The measure as
passed probably Is not perfect, nor
should the rates be regarded as per
manent. The plan is experimental In
certain respects. But we believe the
principle of the act is correct. One of
the most important aspects of this
measure is.its bearing on the food sit
uation. It will give consumers and pro
ducers a new medium of direct con
tact. The interstate commerce com
mission's rulings respecting the ex
press companies also make special ac
count of this problem. The express
companies are required to order their
business in such a manner as to give
quicker service and lower rates on
food products.
It is recognized by all economic In
vestigators that one of the greatest
problems related to the cost of living
Is that which has to do with the sys
tem of distribution. Express reforms
and the parcels post will be of great
value in promoting prompter and
cheaper distribution of food products
especially, and at the same time the
scope of these measures Is so compre
hensive as to apply to all classes of
merchandise. Production, too, should
be greatly stimulated by the influence
thus invoked.
We do not say that President Taft
deserves the sole credit for these de
partures, but we cite them as features
of an administration that some persons
would have us believe is nonprogres
sive, when in reality they form a logi
cal part of a great progressive epoch,
which opened with the Inauguration of
Mr. Taft, and which, in the people's
patriotism and good sense, will be con
tinued during four more years of the
same courageous and able leadership.
Is Extract from statement of Nr. jjj
| ? Roosevelt, dated Nor. 8,1904: |! j
5 "On the 4th day of March j|j
i next I shall have served three jjj
and one-half years, and this I;!
; three and one-half years con- jjj
jjj stitutes my first term. The jjj
jl wise custom which llmltt the ijl
!; President to two terms regards jlj
jjj the substance and not the form. |||
ijl Under no circumstances will I ijl
j be a candidate for or accept jjj
another nomination." >
" What Washington would not I
; take, and Grant could not get, I
S io man shall have." I
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL. ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA. AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
Issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the Improve
ment ot the highways of the Com
monwealth.
Section 1., Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In Qeneral Assembly met. That the
following amendment to the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same Is hereby, pro
posed, in accordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof: —
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel Invasion, suppress in
surrection. defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency in rev
enue shall never exceed. In the aggre
grate at any one time, one million of
dollars," be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies of rev
enue, repel Invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, In the aggregate
at any ona time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'mat the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following Is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: —
"Section 7. The General Assembly
•hall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
Impairing of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
oities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
"Changing the names of persons or
places:
"Changing the venue In civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or~school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or Juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence In, any judicial proceeding
or Inquiry before courts, aldermen,
justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for ths
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the effect
of judicial sales of real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties In interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding money* legally
paid Into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending ths chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, mm
elation or individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or Immunity, or to
any corporation, association or indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track,
"Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where the
courts have Jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for." —
BO as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons or
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other State.
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits or schopl districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession:
Regulating the practice or jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence in, any judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lic schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited In the special enact
ment:
Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures. or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, town, township school
district, village, or other civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or Individual any special or
exclusive privilege or Immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,
proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (if the
Senate concur), That the following la
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth articlo
thereof: —
Section 2. —Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All judges elected by the electors of
the State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for Judges of the courts
Cor the several judicial districts, and
tor county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday of No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
Bx a different day, two-thirds of all
the members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held In an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 8. All judges elected by
th* electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for Judges of
the ooarts (or the several judicial dla
ttka «4 tor eounty, dtj, wt,
ough, and township officers, for regu
lar terms of service, uuau m.
the municipal election day; namely, the
Tuesday next following the tirst Mon
day of November in each odd-uuixiber
ed year, but Jhe General Assembly
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such electio 10 biiu I be held in
an odd-numbered > car: Provided fur
ther, That all juut;es for the courts
of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end m an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the tirst Alonday of
January in the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof: —
Section 2. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu
tions of purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subjects of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and institutions of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Be It resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof: —
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide tor the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or of
this amendment, if the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same la constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, Bhall have been sufficient to
pay interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or If the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec
tive properties, and shall impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties Bhall Issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also Issue obligations to provide for
the Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
Bhall have been completed and in op
eration for a period of one year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said Interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
of one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may Incur indebt
edness in excess of seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, if said Increase of
Indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, In such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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HE TURNS TO TRUSTS.
Woodrow Wilson Evades Discussion
of the Tariff Question.
It Is the trust issue, we are now told
by Woodrow Wilson, that is para
mount in the campaign. Last week it
was the tariff. What it will be next
week has not yet been indicated.
In his speech of acceptance Gover
nor Wilson emphasized the fact that a
platform was not a program. Those
were words of wisdom. A program is
something to be followed with some
degree of fidelity. A platform, in the
lexicon of the Democratic candidate,
is a flexible thing, not to be taken too
seriously, but to be bent and altered
to meet the demands of the moment.
A nice, adaptable platform is good
enough for him.
In all fairness and in all decency,
however, Dr. Wilson should not be
permitted to evade a discussion of the
issue he brought forward as the im
portant one eurly in his campaign. His
campaign manager refused a chal
lenge for a joint debate between Re
publican and Democratic speakers on
the tariff, and the candidate might
disclaim v personal responsibility for
that, but certainly Dr. Wilson cannot
avoid responsibility for his own
words and his own arguments. The
fact that he found his audiences to
tally out of sympathy with his free
trade views should not still his tongue
if he has the courage of his convic
tions and honestly believes the doc
trine which he preached. If he be a
true leader of the anti-protectionists
lie will justify his beliefs and opin
ions.
So far from doing this, however, he
has elected to evade, precisely as his
managers evade, adequate discussion
of the subject which means so much
to every individual in the land. First
assailing protection and making state
ments that demonstrated his lack of
knowledge of the facts, he shifted
from that position to one where he was
trying to calm the fears of the indus
trial and commercial elements in the
population aroused by his initial ut
terances. Out of all his more or less
vague talk on the subject only one
thing emerges clearly and distinctly
—fiat is, that he and his party pro
pose c purely politic<o revision of the
tariff, with all the disaster, distress
and disturbance that such a revision
entails. Scientific revision on accur
ate information is rejected by him
and his party. Political revision is
Just what the people do not want, but
bot!i candidate and party are commit
ted to it; hence, their desire to get
away from the issue.
By all means let the trusts be dis
cussed, too, but not in terms of gen
eralities, such as* Governor Wilson in
dulged in before the Democratic s*ate
convention at-Trenton last Tuesday.
And while discussing it Governor Wil
son might explain why it was that the
Democratic house curtailed the trust
investigating work of the department
of justice by granting only two-thirds
of the sum needed to carry on the la
bors mapped out.
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