THE NESSACE,
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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
<hiel features of t)
De
natierrs
to know
not hy judicial 1
tion, to prevent or nn
form of improper
wrongdoing
The rallwavs
‘be put eon
State Commerce
moved from the
rust law The
thele=ion shoo!
£olng, 50 that
pl 1pervisi
» of soeariti
ing and |
ards rates
should be
fnmuctizat
and arcounts of
one of the mn
recent legis)
rombinalions
"whould expli
ihe railroads
Commission
the combination
published in
Interest of the
kives of the pull
plete power to «
do holr duty by the
antter of course th
alse be exercised 20 as
Injastice ig done to 1?
sharsvholders, th
shippers all have i
be zuarded. 1t
all of them that
speenlation should
that there
isEnnwer of seeari
intellizences ner
orsafal buildine an
agement of raliroad
ample remuneration,
should be allowed to mor
camnecliion with rs yale out of |
Anlemt over-capitalization and
dred stork 1
there mins! f
vestore,
and business men woo freight, |
Gr callons disregard of the rights and
nevds of the emuplos In addition
i
rs
Suai’®
iB
with
both to secure
|]
nd in iausties to the
are the mos*
ors in
oe
only
its
im:
nin
mongly ti
aver
securing enti
whirh tha
and fart)
»
La
b
all
«Ais
+4
¢
"i A
should
make
kin- |
o sefnrmane
be
HnTrer=s
ar :
1 + Xin af {s
Qa ANngiIing of i
fa
«
of tha
Ravi
4
ars, of the employes, and of the ghip- |
Pers should all be guarded as szainst
ane another. To give y ons of them
undne and improper consideration is
to do injustice to the others. Rates
must be made as low as is compatible |
with giving proper returns to all the
“ "
or from the exercise of the necessary
governmental power In a way which
would do injustice and wrong to the
{ Copporations. Both the preacherk of
an unrestricted [ndividualism and the
preachers of an oppression which
{ would deny to able mén of business
{ the just reward of thelr Initiative and
business sagaefty, are advocating pol:
{ icles that would be fraught with the
| Bravest harm to the whole country.
{ It iz to the Interest of all of us that
| there should be a premium put upon
{ individual initiative and individual
: apacity, and an ample reward for
the great directing intelligences alone
competent to manage the great busi-
ness operations of to-day. It is wall
to keep in mind that exactly as the
narchist Is the worst en my of lih-
erty the reactionary tha ‘Worst
enemy of order, so the m who fe.
fend the rights of property have most
to fear from the Ww rongdoers of gr
‘alth, and the men who are
ning popular rigl have
from the damagogues who in t
of popular rights
to oppr honest business |
nest men of wealth: for
either pe of wroneduoar |
invites a violent re |
the wrongdoer nom-
In point of danger to |
4
&
anda 3
n
il
i
ent
Ww cham-
id
fa
ILS
}
i
wonld do!
it
88
+ 3
1 i
ne |
action |
i
"oe
* CAUERD
tu n
lds
tin 1)
ELI
the Nat re is nothir
hand the corrup- |
r, the bribe-tak- |
employs his
his fellow-citizens
and, on the other
pr of class hatred,
Ww ho, from ignor- |
from gness to sacrifice |
3 country to his ambition, persuade
Il meaning but w 1g-headed mon |
try t stroy the instruments |
prosperity mainly |
up of men beware
st the shorteom- |
group Is itself
on the one
tioniat, the
the man
nt to swindle
larg l
nealn
Sta
tha
bribe-glv
who f
A
anhap
5 an $ -
an wiicthe;
I
willl
I
nea ¢
thao
fn
i
rox
0 de
1 our
8. Let ench gr
nd guard as
to which t}
3
liable,
{
i » great corporations makes |
10st effective effort in
al to 1 doctrine
rights thera
gine bell
unrestricted in busi-
just as formerly |
believed in|
unrestricted
ividual to own another |
do not Wy !
welght, how |
effective fight against ade-
itro! and sup
ally of |
i
a the ol
Of course
men who now
individualism
thore wi ro
who
tha
ror 4
ik Hove
I
in
men
at
fr.
livid
wealth
} 2 is chiefly
esnecially
to States’ rights
CaP
in
done
cover of |
It is
frequent to read in the same
a denunciation of predatory |
fo d by special privilege
fiant of both the public welfare i
law of the land, and a denunecia- |
centralization the Central
iment of the power to deal with
ralized
engaged inter.
under
under
not
store
in
organized wealth |
* the policy set forth in such |
i amounts to aben- |
the first half is |
second half The |
the many sound | t
ng reasons, that led to |
in of the National Govern- | ¢
he abrolute need that 1?
several States
interstate and for.
@ power to deal
and
sos nlnél
a8
nothing
ows
for
by the
Son, among
541
it
1
the lt
with
and #3
jeree was sranfed | §
fo the
was
fly
gnd
a
{
¥
2 1 the
ich the Consti-
id
it
fo the concentra.
administration:
3
os a
$1 istribution |
the real
securing to the public |
of nitrate
get
fo
the nrofits
f
the cond
:
it
1 |
We believe that with
ths
0
meentratic inistration
BER
of a more equi
. and at the |
to the
in adn Tir
th the
and
advan of ail
Ms
£38
sarvice
nesded There
by the National
at in
a
¢ of securitios,
and of
There should be a!
chis for all corporations
in public business: includ
he corporations which get power |
rights. There should be |
ional as well as State guardian
{ mines and forests !
There are many matters affecting |
labor and the status of the wage.
rebates
pri ort |
tine ey
pres
from
“a.
aa
water
and proper re- |
Bighest to the lowest,
mast not, for instance, be redused in|
such fashion as to necessitate 4 cot in |
Hitionm of ihe proper
Profits of Tonest shareholders,
Weilsgraph and telephone companies
wnghreed In int
Enters ate Commeres Commission,
that aur people. through thelr repre.
ge to the couniry at large would
come from entire failure on the part
of the public to supervise and control
the actions of the great corporations,
”-
Prominent People.
Rabbi Wise, in his sermon in New
York City, denounced the Emmanuel
movement,
President Castro arrived at Passe
Terre, Guadeloupe; he sald that the
object of his trip to France was to
settle diplomatic questions.
Pr. John H. Wright, professor of
Greek at Harvard University, and
George A. Bartlett, for
many years connected with the Ger-
hv
cussion of the problem in all its us. |
end: |
of |
its
form
administration
and, moreover,
is nearing
under our
i
Nevertheless, there are |
because 1 hope |
e and pore,
A blind and ig-
trial conditions represents not true
conservatism but an incitement to the
wildest radicalism; for wise radical
ism and wise conservatism go hand
8500,000 For Hebrew Charities,
Almost the entire $500,000 estate
of Theophilus Mare, who died at Kast
Orange, N. J., September 20 last, is
left to the United Habrew Charities,
of New York. The will shows only
a few small bequests to relatives and
friends.
Former Ohio Mayor a Suicide,
Former Mayor Adolphus Sebbohm,
of Pomeroy, Ohlo, committed suicide
at a hotel at Gallipolis, Ohio, by
man department at Harvard, dled at
Mass
:
shooting.
in hand, one bent on progress, the
other bent on seeing that no change
is made unless in the right direction.
I belleve in a steady effort, or pers
haps it would be more ncenrite to Bay
in steady efforts (n mang @ifferent
directions, to bring"dbout ® copditien
of affairs under which the men who
work with hand of brain, the lahor-
ers, the superintendents, the men
who produce for the market and the
men who find a market for the arti-
cles produced, shall own a far great-
er share than at present of the wealth
they produce, and be enabled to in-
vest It in the tools and Instruments
by which all work is carried on As
far as possible | hope to see a frank
| recognition of the advantages con-
, ferred by machinery, organization
| and division of labor. ac ompaniec
{ by an effort to briry;s about a larger
share in the ownership by wage-work-
{ er of railway, mill, and factory. In
{ farming, this simply means that we
h to sce the farmer own his own
» We do not wish to see the farms
80 large that they become the proy-
erty of absentee landlords who farm
them by tenants, nor yet go small
that the f 1er becomes like a Fu
Mn peasant Again, the deposit.
rs in our savings banks now number
over one-tenth of our entire populs-
ion. The are pitalists
the savings bar
the workers
to themselve
various industries. The more
increase thelr number, the
ve introduce the principles of co-op
eration into our Industry. E in-
crease in the number of small stock.
Bolder 18 corporations is a good
Ling, for the same reasons: aud
re the employes are the stockhol
result is particularly good
much of this movement mist
outside of ar ing that can be
accomplished by legislation: but leg.
islation can do a good deal Postal
banks will make it easy for
poorest to keep thelr savings in
safety The regulation of
national highways must be such
they shall serve all people with
Justice Corporate finances
be supervised so as to make it
ar safer than at present for the man
i
ary
arn
rop
$ ‘1
% $4» fil wv) s
ail . Wh
loan thelr
that is, In
8 to carry
CR
IAB
through
money to
cases
nore
¥
very
the
ytl
the
5
anliute
1at
Al :
f
E
LO inves
carry on a busin
taken out from under that protection
Which the law throws over property
The demand: sas nade that 1 here
should be trial by jury in contempt
cases, thereby most seriously impais-
ing the amtbority of the courts. Ail
this represented a course of policy
which; 4f carried out, would mean the
enthronement of class privilege in its
crudest and most brutal form, and the
destruction of one of the most CR8en-
tial function of the judiciary in ull
civilized lands. :
The wageworkers, the workingmen,
the laboring men of the country by
the way in which they repudiated the
effort to get them to cast thelr votes
in response to an appeal to clas:
HN im i -
> "
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,
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