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Show SIZZLING WTESSAGE SENT 10 CONGRESS PRE8IDENT ROOSEVELT SCORE3 ' DIG CORPORATIONS' BECAUSE OF1 THEIR ATTITUDE. STANDARD'S METHODS. ARE TORN TO PIECES i Tendency of Oil Concern to over-' I Awe, Crush and Disdain Public," I ;" Proves Warm Theme In Chlef'o 1 , Communication. I TTesfdent rtoosovcH'ii HlzallnR 'in- H sage, to conKreee ankcd the enactment 1 ' nf ii' fair employera' liability luw. more I power for the Interstate Commerce I Cotumleelon. ami tho executive attain 8 culled to the attention of tile Inw- I mnkur bin campaign iiRulnnt the "spn- 1 daily privileged rich." ltuBurdlnfr the I oinpfoyerK' llalillity act, recently do- Q olnred uncoimi.utinnnl hy thu eupreme court, the president enld: "A regards ti"" employers' liability law, I advocate t Immediate reetmct-mont. reetmct-mont. limiting ItH scope no thnt It shall nppiv only to the cIiiks of cubbs as to -which the court snye It can conitltu-tlonally conitltu-tlonally apply, but strejifUhenlnK lt provisions within thin ncope. Interstate employment belli thus covered by hii ndctiuato national, law, tho field nf In-' In-' traetate employment will he left to tho action of the Bevcral Htotcs. With this clear definition of responsibility tho ntnli'H will undoubtedly Klvo to tho performance of their duty within tholr Held thn consideration the Importance of the subject demands. "I nlso very urgently ndvise that a comprehensive com-prehensive act be passed providing for compensation by the government to all employes Injured in the Rovcrnment wervlce. Under tho present law an Injured In-jured workman In the employment of .tho government has no remedy, and the entire burden of tho accident falls , nn the helpless man, his wife, and his young children. , This, Is an outraRe. It Is a matter of humiliation to the nn-tlon nn-tlon that- there, should not bo on our statute books provision to meet and partially ntone for cruel misfortune -when it comes upon a man through no . fault of Ids own while faithfully serving serv-ing the public" Assails Injunction Abuse, Abuse of thp uso of the Injunction In labor cases provided another theme for the executive. He declared there Is some need for action rcRardlnR the rtRhts and wronRS of labor from blacklisting black-listing to boycotting. Continuing, he said: "As regards Injunctions, I can do little lit-tle but repeat what 1 have said in my last message to congress, Even though It were possible. I should consider it most unwise to abolish the use of the process of Injunction. It Is necessary In order that tho courts may maintain their own dignity and In-order that j they may In effective mr.nner check J disorder and violence. ThOJudge who uses it cautlbusly and conservatively. I but who, when tho need nrlsCVnUses it I ' fearlessly, confers tho fcreateslsjeer- I vice upon our people, nnd his preemi nent useiJlness ns n publlo servant should be heartily recognized. Tlut there is no riuestlun In my mind that It has sometimes been used heedlessly ... nnd unjustly, nnd thnt some of th?,ln- . - Junctions Issued Inflict grave nnd ',0c- ' cnslonally Irreparablo wrong upqn ' those enjoined." W That tho Santa Fc railroad proslient had guilty knowledge of rebating is an . . assertion which tho executive jTrmcla , with effect. In his message Jie In- closed letters of correspondence, which t ho declared point to tho truth of hlu - statements. Ills words In this con nection nrc: I "In enclose herewith a statement is sued by tint chief of the bureau of cor-' i pornttons In answer to certain state- ' ments (w)itch I also enclose), made by . nnd on behnf of thn agents of the 1 Standard Oil Corporation and a letter i of the nttorney-genernl containing nn ' answer to certain statements, nlso In- ' rinsed, made hy the president of the i , Huntu Ke Railway Company. Tho j Mtandnrd Oil Corporation .and tho rnll- way company hnvo both been found -KUllty by the courts of criminal nils-v nils-v .conduct; both have been sentenced to j pay heavy fines; nnd encli has Issued nnd published hrondenst theso state- I ments, asserting their Innocence and 5 denouncing as Improper the notion of J -f . the courts and Juries In convicting them J ".(ft nf guilt. Theso statements are Very . elaborate, nrn very ingenious, and nro 6 untruthful In Important particulars. I Tho letter nnd inelnsure from Mr, !' " Ileney sufllclently Illustrate the moths' moth-s' . -jij. -ods of the high officials of tho Santa I Vj Ke nnd show tho utter falslts" of their g ,( '5 plea of Ignorance, the similar plea of f fta the Standurd Oil being1 equally wlth-f wlth-f ',!, ' ut foundation," I ; j'j ' Would See Traffic .sinclatlons. j , Uniformity of rnllrof r tes wos an- i ' other one of the cvutlve's themes , , ' which Is of Interest to the general pub-:; pub-:; -,.' lie and President Honsevolt advised a 'j .,. pool of traflln associations for tho pur-K. pur-K. j poso of conferring on rates. In that t iV connection ho contluned ns follows: 1, ,ij " "I deslra to repeat my recommenda- ' . ,K tlon that railways bn permitted to form - trnlllc associations for the purpose of conferring about nnd agreeing upon , rates, regulations, nnd practices affecting affect-ing Interstnto business In which tho members of tho association nro mu-, mu-, tually Interested. This does not mean thnt they should be given the rl?ht to poid their enrnlngs or their traffic. Tho law requires that rates shall bo so' adjusted as not to discriminate between be-tween Individuals localities, or different differ-ent species of traffic. Ordinarily rates by nil competing lines must be the same. Ah applied to prarttcal conditions, the railway operations of this country oon not be conducted according to law without what Is equivalent to confer-, enoe nnd agreement, The articles u der which such associations npernu should be npproved bv the commission; all their operations should he open to public Inspection; nnd thu rates, regulations, regu-lations, and practices upon which thuy agree should be subject to disapproval by the commission." Then followed n "roaBt" on the "evil rich." The president told of the cam-' pnlen which tho wealthy lawbreakers conducted and set forth remedial logls-lAtlon. logls-lAtlon. Ills statement In that regard follows: "Under no circumstances would wo countenance attacks upon law-abiding property, or do aught but condemn -those who hold up rloh men ns being evil men becauso of tholr riches, On v 'tho contrary, our whole effort Is to In- ' Hist upon conduct, And neither wenlth nor property nor any other class distinction, us being the proper standard by which to JudRe the actions of men. For the honest hon-est mart nf great wealth we have a lionrty regnrd, Just as we have a hearty rcgurd for thu honest politician and lion-" lion-" rst newspaper. Hut part of. the move ment to u-itiold honesty must be a movement move-ment to trown on dishonesty. We attack at-tack only cot pt men of wealth, who llnd In the purchased politician the most clllclent Instrument of corruption and In the purchased newspaper the most efficient effi-cient defender of corruption. Our main , quarrel is not with these agents and repres'ntutlves of the Interests. They derive their chief power from the great " sinister offenders who stand behind them. They are but puppets who move as the strings are pulled. It Is not the puppets, but the strong cunning men ncl the mighty forces working for evil behind and through the puppets, with whom we have n deal. We seek to control con-trol lAW-defylng wealth; In the first place to prevent Its doing dlro evil to the re- Cubllc. and In the next place to avoid to vindictive and dreadful radicalism which, If left uncontrolled, It Is certain In the end to arouse." Dig Corporations Are Hit. Ily easy stages the president drew near to the Standard Oil trouble of a short time nro, und then ho told of alleged methods of the Hockefeller syndlcnto to "overuwe common carriers, crush out every competitor nnd look down Upon tho people with n contempt which the public deserves as long ns It permits such men to net with Impunity." It was ut that point nnd In connection with the Insurance Insur-ance and Chicago & Alton scanduls thnt Mr. Iloosevelt took the henvlest fall out of wealthy corporations which havo been held to account by tls government. Tho message continued; "The keynote of nil these attacks upon the effort to secure honesty in business and In H)1ltlcs Is well expressed In brazen bra-zen protests against nny effort for the moral regeneration of tho business world,, on the ground that it Is unnatural, unwarranted un-warranted nnd Injurious, and that business busi-ness pnnlc Is the ne. ossary penalty for such effort to secure business honesty. Tho morality of such a plea Is precisely ns great ns If made on behnlf of the men caught In a gnmbllng establishment when that gambling ostnbllshmcnt Is rnlded by the police. If such words mean anything they mean that those whose sentiments they represent stand against tho effort to bring about a moral regeneration of business which will prevent a repetition of tho Insurance, In-surance, banking and street rnllrond scandals In New York; n repetition of the Chicago & Alton .deal; a repetition of tho combination between certain professional pro-fessional politicians, certain professional labor leaders, and certain big llnnnclcrs, from tho disgrace of which Ban Francisco Francis-co has. Just been rescued; a repetition of tho successful effort by tho Standard Oil people to crush out every competitor, to overawe tho common cnrrlerw, nnd to establish a monopoly which treats the public with a rontempl which the public deserves so long us It permits men of such principles and such sentiments to avow and act on them with Impunity. Th- outcry against Btopplng dishonest practices among wrongdoers who happen hap-pen to be wealthy Is precisely similar to the outcry raised against svery effort for clennllness nnd decern y In city government, gov-ernment, because, forsooth. It will 'hurt business." " Tells or Criticising Judges. "Our opponents have recently been bitterly bit-terly criticising the two judge referred to In the accompanying communications from the Standard Oil Company nnd the Santa Fo Railroad for having Imposed heavy lines on theso two corporations: and yet these same critics of theso two Judges exhaust themselves In denouncing denounc-ing tho most respectful and cautious discussion of the official uctlon of a Judge which results in Immunity to wealthy nnd powerful wrongdoers. Most certain ly It behooves us ull to trent with tno utmost respect tho high office of Judge; nnd our Judges, as n whole, are brave nnd upright men. ltespect for the law must go hand In hand with respect for tho Judges; nnd, as n whole. It Is true now as In the past that the Judges Btond In character and service above nil other men among their fellow-servants ot the public. The Judge who does his full duty well stnnds higher, nnd renders n better servlco to tho people, than nny other public servant; he is entitled to greater respect; and if he is n true servant ser-vant of tho people. If ho Is upright, wise nnd fearless, he will unhesitatingly ills, regard even the wishes of the people If they conflict with the eternal principles prin-ciples of Tight as against wrong. He must serve tho people; but ho. roust serve his own conscience first. All honor to such a Judge; nnd all honor can not ho rendered him If It Is rendered equal y to his brethren who fnll Immeasurably below the high Ideals for which he stands. Untruthful criticism Is wicked at all times, and whoever may bo the object; ob-ject; but It is a peculiarly flagrant Iniquity In-iquity when a Judge Is the object. No man should lightly criticise a Judge; no mnn should, even In his own mind, condemn con-demn n Judge unless lie Is sure of the fncts. If a Judge is assailed for standing stand-ing against popular folly, and above a for standing ngnlnst mob vlolenco, nil honorable men should rally Instantly to his support. Nevertheless If he clearly falls to do his duty by tho public In dealing with lawbreaklng corporations, lawbreaklng men of wealth, ho must ex-pect ex-pect to feel the weight of publlo opinion; opin-ion; nnd this 1s but right, for except n extreme cases this Is tho dnly way In which he enn be reached at nil. No servant ser-vant of til" peoplo has a right' to expect to bo free from Just and honest criticism, "An Ethical Movement." "Tho opponents of tho measures wo champion single nut now one nnd now nnolhcr measure for especial attack, and speak ns If the movement In which we are engaged was purely economic. It hns a largo economic side, but It Is fundamentally funda-mentally an ethical movement. It Is not a movement to bo completed In one year, or two years or thrco years: it Is h movement which must, bo, persevered in until tho spirit which lies behind It sinks deep Into the henrt and tho conscience of tho whole people. It Is alwnys important im-portant to chooso tho right means to achieve our purpose, but It Is even more Important to keep this purpose clearly before us: nnd this purpose Is to secure national honesty In btislnesH nnd In politics. We do not subscribe to tho cynical belief that dishonesty and unfair dealing nro essentlnl to business success, nnd nro to bo condoned when tho success Is moderate nnd applauded when the success is grent. Tho methods by which the Standard Oil people and those engaged In tho other combinations of which I have spoken aboyo have achieved great fortunes can only bo Justified Jus-tified by the advocacy of a system of morality which would also Justify every torm of criminality on the part of a labor union, nnd every form of violence, corruption, and fraud, from murder to brlbcrv nnd ballot-box stuffing In politics. poli-tics. We on. trying to secure equality of opportunity for all; and the strugg o for honesty Is the same whether It Is made on behnlf of one set of men or of another. In the Interest of thp small settlers nnd landowners, and against the embittered opposition of wealthy owners of huge wandering Hocks of sheep, or of corporations desiring to rob tho people of coal and timber, wo strive to put an end to the theft of publlo Innd In the west. When wo do this, and protest ngnlnst the action of nil men. whether in public life or In private life, ho either take part In or refuse to try to stop such theft, we are really engnged In the same policy ns when we endeavor o put n stop to rebates or to prevent the upgrowth of uncontrolled monopolies. Oiir effort Is simply to enforce the principles prin-ciples of cummon honesty and common sense. It would Indeed bo II for the country should thcro bo nny halt In our work." . ... State Government Must Aid, nitl-.' the stute or notional government gov-ernment must undertake the regula- '.jn. of which tho president spoke, and the executive asked the ecrtnmoii-wealths ecrtnmoii-wealths Uo Bliare the responsibility of curbing those corporations, which are accused Of ovll-dolng. , "Of course In any event both tho national and state governments must each do Its par', sold President- Roosevelt's message, and' ench enn .do a certuln amount that the other cannot do, while the only rilly satisfactory results must be obtained by the representatives of the national and stat governments working heartily together within their rspectivo spheres, nut In my Judgment Judg-ment thorough-going, and 'satisfactory control can In the end only bo obtained by the action of- the national government, govern-ment, for almost all the corporations of enormous wealth that Ih, tho corporations corpo-rations which it Is especially desirable to control aro ngnged In Interstate commerce, and rive their power and their ImpnrtHiice not from that portion of their business which Is Intrastate, but from the Interstate business. It Is not easVMlwnystodeclde Just where the line of demarcation between the two kinds of business falls. This linn must ultimately ulti-mately bo drawn by the federal courts. Much of the effort to secure adequate control of tho great corporations corpora-tions hy state notion has been wise and cffeqtlve, but much of It has been neither; for when the efTort Is made to accomplish by the action of the state what con only ne accomplished by tho action of the n"on the result can only be dlsappolntir-nt and In the end the, hw will probably be declared unconstitutional. uncon-stitutional. So likewise In the national nrenn. we who believe in tho measures herein advocated are hampered nnd not aided by the extremists wio advocate advo-cate action so violent that It would either be useless or else would cause more mischief than It would remedy. Points to the Future. "The laws must In the future be administered ad-ministered as they aro now being administered, ad-ministered, so that the department of Justice may ceutlnue to be. what It nof Is. In very fact tho department of Justice, Jus-tice, where so far . our ability pei-mlts pei-mlts Justice Is meted out with nn even hand to great and small, rich and pom, weak and strong. Moreover, there should bo no delay In supplementing tho laws now on the statute books by the-ennetment the-ennetment of further legislation as outlined In tho message I sent to tho congress on Its assembling. Under the existing laws much, very much, has been actunlly accomplished during tho-past tho-past six years, and it has been shown by actual experience that they can be enforced ngatnst tho wealthiest corporation cor-poration and the richest and most powerful pow-erful manager or manipulator of that, corporation, os rigorously and fenrless-ly fenrless-ly as against tho humblest offender. Above all. they havo been enforced against the very wrongdoers nnd agents of wrongdoers who have for so many years gone scot-free nnd flouted tho laws with impunity, against great law-defying corporations corpora-tions of Immense wenlth. which, until within tho last half dozen years hnv treated themselves nnd havo expected others to trent them as being beyond and above nil possible check from law. It Is especially necessary to secure to " the representatives of tho national government gov-ernment full power to deal with tho great corporations engaged In Interstate Inter-state comerce. nnd nbovo nil, with the great Interstate common carriers. Our peoplo should clearly recognlr.o that while thcro nro difficulties in nny course of conduct to be followed In denting with these grent corporations, those dililcultles must be faced, nnd ono of three courses followed. Tho first coifrse is to abandon all effort to oversee over-see nnd control their actions in the Interest In-terest of the general public and to permit per-mit n return to tho utter lack ot control con-trol which would obtain It they wero left to tho common law. I do not for one moment believe that our people would tolerate this position. The extraordinary ex-traordinary growth of modern Industrialism Indus-trialism hns rendered the common law, which grew up under and was adapted adapt-ed to deal with totally different conditions, condi-tions, In ninny respects Inulequoto to deal with the new condtt ns. Theso new conditions make It noi-essury to shackle cunning us In the past we hnve idinekled force. The vast Individual and corpornto fortunes, tho vast combinations com-binations of cnplt.il. which have marked the development ot our Industrial system, sys-tem, create new conditions, and necessitate neces-sitate R change from tho old nttltudo of the state and the nntlon townrd the rules regulating tho acquisition ,nnd untranuncled business uso of property, prop-erty, In order both that property may ho adequately protected, nnd that at the same tlinn those, who hold It may bo prevented from wrongdoing. Talks of Financial Stress. "We havo Jut pased through two months of acuto llnanclnl stress. At any such time It Is a sad fact that entirely en-tirely Innocent people Buffer from no fault of their own; and every one must feel the keenest sympathy for the large body of honest business men. of honest Investors, of honest wngework-ers, wngework-ers, who suffer because Involved In n crash for which they aro In no way responsible. At such ft tlmo there Is a nntural tendenoy on the part of many men to feel gloomy nnd frightened nt tho outlook; but thero is no Justification Justifica-tion for this feeling. There Is no" nation na-tion so absolutely sura of ulttmato success suc-cess as ours, Ot course we shall succeed. suc-ceed. Ours Is a nation of masterful energy, with a continent for its domnln. nnd it feels wlthlri Us veins the thrill which come to those who know thnt they possess the future. We are not enst down by the fonr of failure. We nrn upheld by tho confident hope of ultimata ul-timata triumph. Tho wrongs that exist ex-ist are to bo corrected; but they In no wny Justify doubt as to the final Outcome Out-come doubt os to the grent material prosperity of the future, or of the lofty spiritual ltfo which Is to he built upon that prosperity us a foundation. No misdeeds done In tho present must bo permitted to shroud from our eyes tho glorious future of the1 nntlon: but he-cause he-cause of tills very fact It behooves us never to swerve from our resolute purpose pur-pose to cut out wrongdoing and uphold what Is right. I do not for a moment believe that the actions of this administration admin-istration havo brought nn business distress; dis-tress; so far as this Is duo to local nnd not world-wide causes, and to tho actions ac-tions of nny particular Individuals, it is due to the speculative folly and flagrant fla-grant dishonesty of a few men of great wealth, who seek to shield themselves from tho effects of their own wrongdoing wrong-doing by ascribing Its results to the nctlons of thosa who have sought to rut n stop to tho wrongdoing. Hut If t wore true that to cut out rottenness from tho body politic meant a momentary mo-mentary check to nn unhealthy seeming prosperity, I should not for one moment hesitate to put the knife to the corruption. On behalf of all our people, on behalf no less of tho honest mnn of means than of thn honest hon-est man who earns each day's livelihood liveli-hood by the day's sweat of his brow, It is necessary to Insist upon honesty In business and In politics nllke, in nil walks of life, In big things nnd In little things; upon Just and fulr dealing as between man nnd mnn. Those who demand this nro striving for the right In tho spirit of Abraham Lincoln," said tho president In conclusion. |