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THE RULE OF REASON.
That the "Rule of Reason" Invented
by the U. S. Supreme Court, amounts
to the rule of the whims and fancies
and selfish Interests of courts instead
of the supremacy of law, is indicated
in a report of the Interstate Commerce
v_ommuuee, wmcn points out tne dangers
of "uncontrolled and unguided
judicial discretion," and makes emphatic
demand for amendments to the
Sherman law to remove from the courts
the power to determine what are
"reasonable" restraints of trade. The
report is the result of the committee's
long investigation into the operation of
the anti-trust law. The committee
recommends new laws to define exactly
what combinations are unlawful, so
that both the business interests and the
courts will have a standard upon which
to proceed. It recommends a Federal
interstate corporation commission, -with
power to supervise corporations and
agreements and take over the work of
dissolving illegal corporations, such as
the Standard Oil Company or the
American Tobacco Company. Commenting
upon the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Standard Oil case,,
in which the "rule of reason" was called
in, the report, written by Senator
Cummins, says: "The committee has
full confidence in the integrity, intelligence
anrt natriotinm of fhn Snnrama
Court of United States, but is unwilling
to repose in that court, or any
other court, the vast undefined powers
which it must exercise in the administration
of the statutes under the rule
which it has promulgated. It substitutes
the court in the place of Congress,
for whenever the rule is invoked the
court does not administer the law, but
makes the law. if it continues in force,
the Federal courts will, so far as restraint
of trade is concerned, make a
common law for the United States just
as the English courts have made a common
law for England. The people of
this country will not permit the courts
to declare a policy for them with respect
to this subject. Hf we do not
promptly exercise our legislative power
the courts will suffer immeasurable injury
in the loss of that respect and
confidence so essential to their useful
ness. It is Inconceivable that in a
country that is governed by a wTitten
constitution and statute law, that the
courts can be permitted to test each
restraint of trade by the economic
standard which the individual members
of the court may happen to approve."
THE TUB7RCUL0SIS CURE.
Surgeon-General Blue, of the public
health service, has arranged for tests
in the government's hygienic laboratory
at Washington of the Friedman
vaccine for niilmnnoi-v
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which has been delivered to Dr. Milton
H. Foster, of the service In New York
by Dr. Frledmann. Surgeon-General
Bhie said tbat when the vaccine was received
in Washington it would first be
subjected to rigid laboratory tests ami
to tests npon animals and culture
media. If these are satisfactory, the
vaccine will be sent to the public heaJth
oorviL-e panuanum at Fort Stanton. N.
M? for actual testa upon sufferers from
pulmonary tuberculosis. Dr. Frledmann,
who comes to this country at
the Invitation of Charles E. Finlay, a
New York banker, who hopes the physician
will be able to cure his son-inlaw
of the disease, declared that his
remedy was not a secret and that be
purposed to make known "to all the
world" the method by which It was
, created, and the manner In which it
was administered. It consisted of
bacilli taken from a turtle Into which
THE PRESBYTER1
<f Currer,
tuberculosis bacilli from a human being
had 'been injected, he explained.
"I hnvo been workinc unon the cure
for four years, and in the last two and
a half years I have treated from 2,500
to 3,000 patients," ho asserted. "How
many I have absolutely cured I cannot
estimate, but their num/ber has run into
the hundreds. The remedy cures all
forms of tuberculosis except such cases
as are quite hopeless?that is, on the
point of death. The process is a slow
one, but the first effects are to be seen
two or three weeks after Inoculation.
The time when an absolute cure can be
said to be effected is a matter of
months.
WILSON' WON'T PLAY.
President-elect Wilson has declined
membership in the exclusive Chevy
Chase Club of Washington, to which
former President Roosevelt, President
Taft. practically every member of the
diplomatic corpb, and most of the
high ofhcials of the government belong.
Some time ago the board of governors
asked "Mr. Wilson to become au
honorary member, which would have
given him the club privileges inimedi
ately although it usually takes two
years after a mennber is proposed before
his application is approved. 'Mr. Wilson
declined the invitation, stating that
he expected to give up all his time in
Washington to public business. Applications
are many and the membership
is limited. President Taft, many
justices of the supreme court, senators,
members of the house and ranking nillitary
and naval officers have made the
goir course ana tennis courts their
playgrounds.
AMERICANS.
Americans are drinking more
whiskey, smoking more cigars and
cigarettes and chewing more tobacco
than ever before in history, according
to latest tax revenue returns to Royal
E. Cabell, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. From July to February the
nation has consumed 94,000,000 gallons
or wnisKcy, an increase or 5,000,000 gallons
over the corresponding period the
previous year; 8,500,000,000 cigarettes,
and Increase of 2,250,000,000: 4,500,000,000
cigars, an Increase of 250,000,000,
and 250,000,000 pounds of smoking
and chewing tobacco, an Increase ol
12,000,000 pounds. In addition, drinkers
of beer are resuming their stride. During
the fiscal year, 1012, the consumption
of fceer fell off materially, but foi
the first seven months of the current
fiscal year the people of the United
States have drunk 38,364,000 barrels, an
increase of 1,850,000 over last year
Drinkers, smokers and chewers thus
are enriching the Federal government
Internal revenue taxes from July 1 tc
date are $12,500,000 greater than anj
previous record for a similar period. *
TTTE TOKTO FIRE.
As the Tesult of a fire in Tokyo, a
chief city of Japan, more than 15,00(
people are homeless. The fire swepl
through one or the most populous por
tlons of the city. A high wind fanner
the flames and they spread rapidly fronr
street to street destroying 3.200 build
Ings. The loss Is estimated at severa
million yen. Among the building!
burned were several churches, Includ
Ing the Baptist Tabernacle, and a num
her of educational institutions, Includ
Ing the School of Foreign languages
i roop* -were canea out to assist th<
firemen, T>ut they -were almost helplesi
aralnst the "wind-driven flames, Mani
of the homeless are being sheltered It
the public parks.
AN OF THE 80UTB
it Events
SOME KRITISJI OPINION.
The assassination of Francis (Madero
and Jose Pino Suarez, deposed President
and Vice-President of Mexico, evidently
by the authority of Provisional
President Iluerta and Felix Diaz, In
command of the government troops, has
shocked the civilized world. The British
press has given free expression to
its sentiments, as witness the following:
The Daily Chronicle declares that
Madero was done tlo death by President
Huerta and asks what the United States
will do. It thinks that any middle
course, such as financial or military
propping up of one or the other among
the Mexican leaders by the United
States and the creation of a Bort of
Mexican-Cuba could only be achieved
by a combination of luck and adroit
diplomacy while an enormous army
"will be needed to conquer Mexico. The
editorial concluded: "Nobody can envv
the United States her task, in an
tproaching which she deserves from
Europe no ungrudging measure of
moral support." The Dally News says:
"Madero has been murdered and tbe
United States Government is expressing
the world's indignation at the treachery
which ibrought the Huerta AdminIstrntion
Infn nfflrA nnfl th*? miHiloaa
ness -with which they are exercising
their probably brief tenure of power."
The Daily >Mall says the United States
has commanded that Madero should not
be executed without trial and that a
great neighboring State is not lightly
to be mocked. The morning newspapers
denounce the killing of Francisco i\fadero
and Pino Suarez as senseless and
barbarous. The Standard in an editorial
stigmatizes it as an "indefensible
crime, imposing a load of Infamy on
President Huerta's Administration.
MEXICAN TREACHERY.
, Insight into the treachery and savagery
of the men now in power in the
Republic of Mexico is afforded by a
special to the Times-Dispatch from
Mexico City. The following details
are given: The ten days' artillery
battle In Mexico City, with its tremendous
loss of life, was a prearranged
combat. The outcome was never in
doubt. The battle was necessary only
that the traitorous ambitions of one
. man might be satisfied. There was no
. thnnirht fnr its terrihl** rnnapnnpn^ps
More than 33,000 lives were stamped
out and 11,000 persons wounded needlessly.
That those ten bloody days of
shrieking shell and death came as the
overwhelming climax of a dTama of
amazing treachery in "which General
Huerta, In secret league with Fells
Diaz, ofTered up his chief, Francisco I.
Madero, as the sacrifice, first became
known to-day. On the authority of one
of the principal revolutionary leaders,
p whose name obviously cannot be told,
all during the battle General Huerta
and General Diaz were in complete accord,
as were the Federal soldiers in
and out of the arsenal. Huerta, In com
l pllance -with carefully considered plans,
) never sent regular troops against Diaz,
t but ordered Into the thickest of the fray
- the Irregular forces, whose loyalty to
! Madero was unquestioned. In this way
) Huerta was able to play the war game
- successfully, and at the same time conI
venlently dispose of the only troops
? upon which *Madoro could depend. They
- were rushed Into Impossible charges
- that Diaz might kill them and thus
- weaken Madero. The statements of
this revolutionary leader are borne out
s by the hospital statistics, -which show
i that proportionately fourteen volunt
teers and rurales were killed during
j the fighting to every one Federal
soldier killed. This conspiracy wai
[March 5, 1913
batched by Huerta, and Diaz last year
when Huerta was In command of a
campaign against Orozco. However,
Huerta kept delaying the final coup and
the younger element of his officers
forced the issue without his knowledgo.
When Huerta was informed that the
time had come to strike he was about
to Join the impatient officers, but loyal
irregulars sent by Aladero surrounded
him. Thereafter -Madero kept Huerta
by his side, rendering desertion impossible.
General Ruiblo Navarette,
iMadero's artillery commander, was also
in thf> rnmrnlrncv Thin nfflnor aofnallr
purposely dlsadjusted the sights on the
guns of the loyal artillery in order
that the fire supposedly directed into
the Diaz ranks and at the arsenal
should not be accurate. This misdirected
artillery fire seems to account
for the hundreds of shells that went
flying off at tangents from the enemy's
position, wrecking public buildings and
homes and killing scores of persons
outside the danger zone.
I believe the Bible and quote it. It
tells you that "if a man say he loveth
God and hateth his brother, he's a liar."
You must teach your people that the
relation between man and man is the
first test of the relation between God
and man.?W. J. Bryan.
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