THE NESSACE, i w———— Mashington, D.C asEaze ‘was read ‘before ‘both opening of Congress as follows: To the Senate and House of Repro- eertatives ; The financial siandinz tion at the pri t tim smd the financial manage Nation's interest Quring the last sev the most results, ONY Curre perfect, Pt is stiy to he hoped tha Cnrreney rill be good It is, in part, of the Na- of t ment he noyears has shown and t the 4 i sysian 3 ia hundred nenditures tuetion ninsty raordina ral, tiiio a. ns on ¢ 3 zs have en a reducti right tate co fhe Nati nu eyxereise and effertiven Justiies from. a great corporations Ampevrtant fac ¥ believe that tn atterapt t Gian= ns is 4 trust law, b enfarced Qun?ly, and : most as much hard’ ® advocate unwise port to o tions. there shal whic) ations which vablic. but ive to some Cavernme supervision " 868. Wis explielily hd 3 patriotism and Americanism. whole country has cause to feel pride | in this attitude of sturdy indepond | ence, in this uncompromising insist- | Zeng, as good Americans, without re gard to fancied-—and improper interests. Such an attitude ig an ject lesson in yd entire nation. But the extreme reactionaries j pereons who blind themselves { {hie 3 thie a i breakdown is in dealing with | the. new relations that arse from the mutualism, dence of our time Fivery sew social relation begets a new tyne doing — of 8In, to yse an joned word-—and many vears a elapse befgre spele ig able to | this sin Into erime whieh can 1 fectively punished at law the llfetime of tha alive the gocial rel changed far more preceding two centu mensge growth of business done by asso extreme strain and pre ern life, have produce: So “The chief # # we Ji sv 1 ( tA O:6-Tal way jr of 14 : older men 1 I VIL hav at ie among the not only by some ACAge di ¢ flicienes | have , Are hi ithe courts on : also think seriou a movement i who laboring ly as this portends shown thems 1% 04 men, shou to what As judges have to check the dishonest nc tivity of the very rich man who works iniguity by the 1d management of corporations, have shown themselves alert Justice to the wageworker. and pathetic with the needs of the of our people, so that the dws the tenement the man practices a dangerous trade, th who is crushed by exces hour labor, feel that their needs are under good by the courts these judges the real bulwark of the urts; th judges, the judges of the the President-elect, to ' In houses Bive 0nre gtamnp who gone wrong, but fearle iso {1 ing to strict account corporations work iniquity, and far sighted in ingthattheworkingman gets his: of small means t hig money in stocks be prohibition of | child labor, diminution of w yman | labor, shortening of hours of all me-| chanical | stock watering should be prohibited, and stock gambling 50 | discouraged There | progressive inheritance fortunes. Industrial ed. ucation be encouraged Ag far as possiblé we should lighten the burden of taxation on the small man. t § T 1 abor: Py as possible i be a large should should tax on Ki and business energy, but factors in accumulating a fortune | $ : he serfously uf. | any inheritance tax such as | It is eminently right that ¥ They rarely do good and they of- | to those who fnherit hem in their entirety i he President then devotes a ehap- | for wagewc He gays there should be no pal- with the question of taking! those who become erippled eo in industrial stem. | yer smnlaveare’ te | roper employers i | i er to "e . $i. protection ering of out our gy BE labil uri 3 He toward that ' 1 attention to the i : i . hav industries ou on- | pen. any © t ry 3 ivate resident devotes much space i the First he | pay judges pod of »el tours for our a enirad ad that for CRrnge 3 ethod should be ¢ mw vigod i i the ‘ the which against gmall 3d | riminala whom it Is mos These long delays in 1 lars a perat 8h wilh ong aE d in administs and ith peculiar severity of ery now obiain . of Justice, 0 » > means, ar avor only t dealri He unish IRAs: decisions of cases make ir a crying evil, and be devised Much ay iz due to ii to techniealitd to i final aggregate d 1 Se he a of ed ral ard del paid intole or ia his #a res «fy yd ov In some noted recent cases ti wwer-regard for technicalities has ulted In a striking denial of justice WItLOG re. At the last election certain lerdera judi | of the country, an sitack | ed in such terms as to include | upright, honest and broad- | judges, no leas than those of | ary ¥ It was the kind of Stuck essful attempt to reform abuses of | the judiciary, because it gave the | eagerly desired opportunity to ahift! their ground into a championahip of judges who were unjustly as. sailed Last year, before the House Committee on the Jadiciary, these iabor leaders formulated thelr demands, specifying the bill that con. tained them, refusing all compromise, stating they wished the principle of that bill or nothing. They insisted on a provision that in a labor dispute no injunction should issue except to protect a property right, and specifi- cally provided that the right to carry as a property right, and in a second provision their bill made legal in a la. bor dispute any act or agreement by or between {wo or more persons that would not have been unlawful if done by a single person. in other words, this bill legalized blacklisting and boycotting in every form, legalizing, for instance, those forms of the sec. ondary boycott which the anthracite coal strike commission s0 unreserve edly condemned; while the rigut (o News Notes From Mexico, Metico's mall matter in the first half of 1908 was 90,000,000 pleces, against %8,000,000 in the first half of 1807. : Mexico buys Amoriean mining, electrical, pumping, power and agri- eultnral machinery to the tune of $17,600,000 gold yearly. Mexico buys chiefly, in order as named, from the United States, Gore many, Great Britain, France, Bpain, are the men of all others to we owe it that the appeal for violent and mistaken legislation fallen on deaf ears, that the agltatd for its passage proved to be withon substantial bagis The jeoparded primarily by the : thege Federal show Inability or unwi put & stop to the wrongdoi: rich men under modern industris conditions, and inability or unwilt ness to give relief fo men of small means or wageworkers who are crushed down by these modern indus. trial conditions; who, In other words fall understand i apply the needed rem new wrongs produced by the new and highly com. plex social and industrial civilization which has grown up in the last h a courts ai and State to and for the alf There are decisions by ons courts which have gly ntal rageworkers This decisions th omen Aare. "guaranteed vi. been exceed. the rights of is true of all that men and Constitution to fg ovenpatd undesirable or hours. or to certain detrimae to ‘A ide the Hiherty ™ at dee by their enn mn or to work an f imi work | thaoep n per umber « DE ™ fore can nol recover dams maimed in that be ford 0 aeeun ¥ 7% ides | or to Of dden ire dee number of hours carry wl on eonditions ich be think, under ture 10 tinhes ¢ §¢ ¢ 5 4 s Buss # antial often suffered by em of joven the custom of courts infnocti and enurt ing temporary ne wi to them contempt of knowledge of any proceedings labor there widespread feeling that this sve! often their when efforts to A disputes injunction in eausing dis- the wageworkers' gide in dispute Organized labor is under the unjust restraint permanent aster (o such a this plan of procedure. Itz discontent has been unwisely expressed, and of- is a sound basis for it. and the orderly and law abiding people of a commu- tion for upholding the courts if the unidonbtadly existing abuses could be provided against The power of injunction is a great equitable remedy, which should on no account be destroyed. But safeguards should be erected against its abuse. For many of the shoricomings of justice in our country our people as a whole are themselves to blame, and the judges and juries merely bear their share together with the public as a whole, It is discreditable to us ee a people that there should be diffi- culty in convicting murderers, or in bringing to justice men who as pub- lle servants have been guilty of cor. ruption, or who have profited by the corruption of public servants, The result is equally unfortunate, whether due to hair-splitting technicalities in the interpretation of law by judges, to eontimentality and class conscious. ness on the part of juries, or to hys- teria and sensationalism in the daily press, For much of this fallure of justice no responsibility whatever lles on rich men as such. We who make up the mass of the people can not shift the responsibility from our own shoulders. ut there is an important part of the failure which has specially to do with inability to hold to proper account men of wealth who behave badly. $10,000 Fine For Taking Rebates, Judge Khnappen in the United States District Court, Grand Rapids, Mich, fined the Stearns Balt and Lumber Company, of Radington, $10,000 for accepting rebates m the Pere Marquette on shipments from Ludington to Toledo. Germany A Submarine, The German Admiralty has deter. mined to go into the submarine branch of naval construction heavily Belgium, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Hindustan. % with a type that is the result of three + years’ experiments at Kiel, sintures that our | i i 3 : § § i i ared amended gestion whot nftery Our great « i y “% n gtera of fab ern pe rogah 8 nd uit ost lawyers naires they i ean flaws in these aby passage, but they of secret agent of ® Lherts advice rig to he desrid 1 no other nati wicld au Tr fouris Yd TF 11 that is necess a whole shou this power with the far sighted dom already shown by the who scan the future while thes Let not with w EE act hi them exer hone the present ent Dower bravely, but the needs only gr the and fixed purposes of th th they may do and work equity, so that they protect all persons and vet break down privilege, which is the foe of right al may barriers in their ri the ter to the subileet of foresta, declaring that if there is one duty which more than another we owe {0 our and our ehildren’s children, it to i= they constitute the first and most Im. portant element in the conservation of our natural resources The Message then turns to inland waterways and maintains that action for their improvement should begin forthwith, It is also urged that all our National parks adjacent to Na- tional forests be placed under the con- trol of the forest service of the Agri- enltural Department. [I am happy to gay, continues Mr. Roosevelt, that 1 have been able to get aside in various parts of the country small, well chosen tracts of ground to serve as sanctuaries and nurseries for wild creatures. The Message announces that the use in the arts and industries of de- natured alcohol Is making falr progress and the law making It pos- sible is entitled to further support from the Congress. According to the President, the pure food legislation has already worked a benefit diffienit to overestimate. In the paragraph on the Indian service the Message tells how it has been completely removed Women In the Day's News, Miss Ruth H. Northrop, of Nor. wich, Conn., has won the scholarship offered by the Norwich Art Students’ Association, Members of Dr. Parkhurst's con- gregation in New York City approved the doctor's objections to “Merry Widow" hats in church. A men's league for women suff. rage has been formed in Holland, and the Lutheran Church in that country bas given women a vote la all church affairs, Er Gi DOLILICAL i i phere ol Fround el WOT H responsibiv bp CRIB VE iO repress orporal mo igh I bel be made as whele: b tion made hs ave thn » gms 3 1a be a reser to those § whi ts on 8 y OUr RCD AR 8 ut there must regard ranks to okel and Just entered we do not now excellent olis. t iz absurd not midshipms enh- 0 years in as at detr ervice. Is first eciass. in an already because benefit from Annpap to graduate the gigns; to Keep them for to such an anomalous position present the law requires mental to them and to the the academy itself, every man should be required in tura to serve as petily officer and officer; his ability to discharge his duties as such should be a prerequisite to his going into the line, and his success in com- manding should largely determine his standing at graduation. The Board ol Visitors should be appointed in January, and each member should be required to give at least six days service, only from one to three days’ to be performed during June week, which 4s the least desirable time for the board 10 be at Annapolis so far as benefiting the navy by their obssrvas tions is concerned. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, our ii As & The Field of Labor. The building trades unions of 8yd- ney, Australia, are taking steps to federate. : The report of the Amalgamated So. clety of Carpenters and Joiners shows a total membership of 65,310. « The Luxemburg Government Is treating incorrigible wvagabonds to bread and water for the first four days of their impriscnment, and to the lowest scale of ordinary diet twice a week afterward, The prisons ago sald to be emptying fast, -