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JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS STATES DEMO
CRATIC POSITION.
The words of Hon. John Sharp Wil
liams, minority leader in the national
house of representative?, in defining
Democracy's attitude towards impor
tant measures before that body contain
so much genuine Democracy that we
give our editorial space up to them .this
week, that any of our readers who have
not heretofore may read them. The
speech was delivered in congress last
week, following a message from the
president calling for the enactment of
numerous laws.
Mr. Williams opened his statement
by saying: "Some things in the pres
ident's recent message are so immedi
ately important to the interests of the
entire country as to pass the bounds of
partisanship and to make it excusable,
if not necessary, for me to say some
thing concerning them with the view of
assuring the President himself and
reasonably inclined Republican mem
bers of the House and the country of
the support and endorsement, or the
opposition # of the Democratic minority.
In so far as the things urged by the
President are good things I would like
the country to know that all he has to
do is to deliver 20 or 25 Republican
House votes in favor of them. These,
conjoined with the solid Democratic
votes, will put them through."
Mr. Williams notes the following
measures as ones which will "command
virtually the solid Democratic vote I
within constitutional limits."
To compel publication of campaign
contributions.
Prohibition of child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Territories.
An employer's liability law, drawn
to conform to the recent decision of the
Supreme Court.
Federal liability to government em
ployes. A law to prohibit the issuance i
of injunctions without notice to the
party enjoined.
Removal of the tariff on wood pulp
and printing paper. Imposition of a
Federal charge for every water power
right granted on a navigable stream.
Those principles ana measures urged
by the President with which Mr. Wil
linma, minnrit-v Reader, takes issu.i
Enumerated as follows:
The penalizing of the boycott.
The right of the attorney general to
nominate receivers when a common
carrier is thrown into the hands of a
receiver. ,
The modification of the Shearman
anti-trust law so as to permit within
limitation the maintenance of trusts
and the making of trade agreements
between combinations of capital.
The appointment of a commission to
prepare data for a revision of the tariff.
Mr. Williams frankly states that he
does not know whether a majority of
the minority favors the creation of a
permanent waterways commission.
Referring to the President's declara
tion that child labor ought to be prohib
ited throughout the nation and his
recommendation that "at least a model
child labor bill should be passed for the
District of Columbia," Mr. Williams
says:
"Child labor ought to be prohibited
throughout the nation, but the States
ara sole authorities having constitu
tional power to prohibit it. If those
who could protect the children on the
land, and through them the generations
to come would waste less of their time
in the useless agitation for invalid and
unconstitutional Federal legislation and
would devote more of their time in the
several States, it would do better for
all. But the President is right in say
ing that we can act for the District of
Columbia, and for the Territories as
well, and that we ought to do it."
Commending the President for his
recommendation for "the immediate
re-enactment of an employer's liability
law," Mr. Williams says: "There is
no excuse for the delay on the part of
Republican members of the House
judiciary committee to report an em
ployer's liability law. Their delay at
least arouses, if it does not justify, a
suspicion that they are having a lot of
useless hearings simply for the purpose
of using that bill as a buffer to prevent
the serious consideration of other bills
before the committee. For example,
the Clayton bill to put an end to tempo
rary restraining orders of courts inva
lidating State laws, and the various
bills there pending to recognize the
pofice powers of the States in dealing
with alcoholic stimulants when intro
4aced into prohibition territory. I
have given notice in the House that no
lagislation shall be enacted by unani
mmOß consent until an employer's liabil
ity bill is at least reported for the con
operation of the House."
Jtespecting pending bills to prevent
COOPER'S FOLLOWERS GIVE
REASON FOR THEIR BELIEF
With a theory that human health is
dependent on the stomach and with a
medicine which he says proves this
theory, L. T. Cooper, a comparatively
younr: man, has built-up an immense
following during the past year.
Cooper has visited most of the lead
ing cities of the country, and in each
city has aroused a storm of discussion
about his beliefs and his medicines.
Wherever he has gone, people have
called upon him by tens of thousands,
and his preparation has sold in im
mense quantities.
The sale of this medicine has now
spread over the entire country, and is
growing enormously each day. In view
of this, the following statements from
two of the great number of followers
which he now has, are of general in
terest.
Mrs. Agnes Viggenhouser, of 942 St.
Louis Avenue, Chicago, has the follow
ing to say on the subject of the Cooper
preparations: "For more than ten
years I was broken down in health. I
could not sleep and I was very ner
vous. Gradually I began to lose my
memory, until I could not remember
things from one day to another. I had
severe pains and cramps In my body,
and I would at times see dark spots
before my eyes. >. I was unable to do
any work whatever, as my strength
was failing. I had iio appetite, nor
could I take any medicine.
"I had about given up hope of ever
being well again when I read of Mr.
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121 North Main St.
the issuing of injunctions without prior
opportunity for the enjoined party to
be heard, the minority leader says:
"Of course, I take it that nobody will
understand the President or me to
mean tjiat there should be any limit
upon temporary restraining orders
when intended to prevent the immedi
ate destruction of property, life or limb.
When I say properity I do not mean
judicially construed "property rights."
One of the most vigorous portions of
Mr. Williams' statement regards the
boycott. A.fter quoting the President's
declaration that "nothing should be
done to legalize a blacklist or boycott
that would be illegal at common law,"
Mr. VI illiams says: It is a sad com
mentary upon this utterance of his that
while the Federal courts have held that
a boycott is a combination in restraint
of trade and therefore illegal, they
have virtually upheld the employer in
his assertion of a right to blacklist;
because one Federal court went so far
as to say that because the employer
had a right to discharge without giving
any notice at all, therefore he had a
right to discharge because the dis
charged man was a member oca labor
union. It is a poor rule that does not
work both ways. Another decision of
a Federal court —the decision by Judge
Gould —has gone so for as to say that
a labor man's newspaper should not
publish the name of a firm under the
heading 'we don't patronize.' A man
has a right to patronize or not to patro
nize anybody, according to his own
sweet will, and he therefore has the
right to publish those whom he does
not patronize."
The President's recommendation of a
law to place wood pulp on the free list,
"with a corresponding reduction upon
paper made from wood pulp, when they
come from any country that does not
put an export duty upon them," meets
with Mr. Williams' approval, "except
that it does not go quite far enough.
Not only ought wood pulp to be placed
upon the free list,,' he says, "but print
paper ought to be placed there also.
The publishers will not be very much
benefitted by tha placing of wood pulp
upon the free list if there be only a
slight reduction of the duty upon print
prpers."
"There are other things in the Presi
dent's message," says Mr. Williams,
"which one might naturally expect,
considering his education in the line of
Hamiltonism, and his tendencies toward
Federalism, cannot meet with Demo
cratic approval. One is his idea that
the Attorney General, representing the
government, should have the right to
nominate receivers when a common
carrier is thrown into the hands of a
receiver. That right ought to rest in a
court—not in the executive."
"The President's utterances concern*
The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, April 2, 1908.
Cooper's remedies. I decided to 'giro
them a trial, and I began to feel better
at once. After taking the medicine for
two weeks I can say that I am a new
woman. I can eat with enjoyment, the
pains in my body have left me, and I
am stronger than I have been for
years.
"I cannot say enough for Mr.
Cooper's remedies. They are wonder*
ful, for they have done everything
claimed for them in my case."
Another statement by Mr. W. B.
Stewart, 109 W. Madison St.,
is as follows: "I have had stomach
trouble for years, and anyone who is
afflicted this way knows what an awful
distressed feeling it causes. Many a
time I have felt that I would give most
any price to be cured. It was by ac
cident that I heard of this man
Cooper's remedies. I immediately
made up my mind to buy a treatment
of him. I used it for about two weeks,
and It is impossible to tell how much
good it has done me. I feel altogether
different. I have more life and energy
than I have had for years. This med
icine certainly does stimulate and
strengthen the whole system. Tired
feeling and weak condition of the
stomach has entirely passed away. I
feel well again." -
We sell Cooper's celebrated medi
cines which have made this wonderful
record in all parts of the country;*
—May & Go rham.
ing anti-trust law are an indication of
his inability to see that which will ap
pear plain to a Democcratic mind, to
wit: That anything approximating a
private monoply is
endurable in a free govern
attempt and that of others f «assify
trusts as good trusts and bad trusts is
abhorrent. There can be no such thing
as a good trust. There may some times
be a good trust magnate who uses his
powers benevolently, but the power is
too much fraught with danger to be
vested in a few men. We ought simply
to provide that organization of labor
arid of workingmen for the purpose of
securing shorter hours of labor or
higher pay or more equitable treatment,
shall not be construed to fall within the
inhibition of any existing law.
"The President's idea of letting the
substance part of the anti-trust laws re
main as it is, but giving to some branch
of the executive government authority
determine when a trust is a good trust
and when it is a bad one —in effect 'to
license one and to restrain another —is
so very vicious in its ultimate effects if
adopted, that it would seem that no
friend of a well ordered government
could stand for it.
"As to the Presidents proposition
for tariff revision by consideration at
the hands of a commission composed of
members of the House and Senate and
so-called 'experts,' it is both cumber
some and useless. The very best pos
sible tariff commission is a commission
consisting of the representatives of the
people selected by the people in the
interest of the people. Even that body
has too many men selected by private
interests in the interest of private
interests. If the Republican party
cannot furnish a ways and means com
mittee with sufficient intelligence to
revise the tarriff, then it will surrender
the reins of power to us of the minority
and let us see whether we can or not "
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uring the past two months, due in part
to special rates made for February and
March, the management has decided
to continue the present low prices
through March and during the month of
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block from depot former residence of
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