| Show RESPONSIBILITIES Of CITIZENSHIP Secy Root Says One Ono of Its Is Plain Plainest Plainest est cst Duties is That of Hopefulness PEOPLE ARE GROWING BETTER Combinations I louis III In rain I of Trade Ami nil lu I u Kill Illi I Competition I t Include I Labor la as liS Well chi as us Capital New Now Haven Conn May 11 21 Secy of State Slate Elihu Hoot taking as ns his hula specific topic Tho The Outlook delivered the tho hue fourth and last III In tho series of ut Dodge lectures nt at n t Yale Vale tonight on The He of or Secy Tuft lu fl who was wits hero lucre for tor the Yale corporation meeting was an nn Intel led spectator Mr lr hoot Huot said sa Id In hi the hi Hold of or popular govern goern government ment I 1 nm nun convinced that one onu of the flue plainest duties of citizenship H is hopeful hopefulness ness nes and that hint Is III weakness Tho Thu objectionable ble railroad practices clI which mire lire now to su u widely fluid Justly condemned and which furnish SQ sr Si ter tile n a I source of ut political lon are not new rie they lire are old which formerly passed sut i hence lenec Tho Tito railroad rebates which jio 1110 now hOW foi bidden by b law for rill great tire arc being Indicted and convicted nun aio merely u a form of ut discriminatory rates miCa which once pre lire prevailed I without objection It I t wai waa by hy giving special rOles rates that railroad com coin companies Induced people to build factories fluid and packing houses amid elevators elevator and a u great variety of If other business hll along the lines of or their voids raids that was the tho way vay 11 they thc built up their business In iii u recent years however the thuc people of or the thc country hove have COniC come to an mi aPIN of ot the thu Idea lda thin that t these theae great pub puh public lie lic cannot canoot give specIal rates nile nileta to ta sonic men without doing Injustice to ID others nail tutu that the common tight light L ot of the thue People demands equality of ot facility and of ot cost COlt of transportation tI the thu o lire arc a vii bound bounth to 10 t o furnIsh a lid condemns privileges to in one as against thu other othel The let le lesson on lII of ot ull util thlu till Is la that the tho prosecutions and conviction for fop violations of the thc law are ere not evidence thoU that we fire are growing worse hut but evidence that we are grow growing rn lag ing bettor better that our Jur government Is lut UI ap applying plying a 0 higher standard of Justice In Inthe the th control of ur public utilities The Thc same Mime Is true truo or of the management of corporations and the tI m ot of to which intention has hils ben called sharply by b the testimony before the tho Interstate commerce commission on te uc I c garding the tho organization of or Chicago o it Alton AHon railroad Thirty or 40 10 years cara ago when the management of or the Erie I railroad and amid the hO Atlantic Grout Western cud and the Union pacific railroad attracted much attention the things done lone by b corporation managers were so 10 much touch w rsc that the Chicago Alton Iton affair would not have any nn no tin notice ice tice ut 11 t all Thus The railroad was wasa a II common typo type of or Silica then th n 1 u higher standard IK is n Herl t tIng Ing Itself It Is perfectly cafe nafe to that the standard of probity proult and fidel fidelity ity It among the thc corporation managers ot of thin tho country Is higher now than thun Il It has luas hn eor eer been boon The which the Uio depart departments ments menta of the thc Interior Justice have been against the land In Itu the tho west have hae awakened li hi Indignation among 3 III on tho ho defendants und and their because the he wron vu j BO jO Inveterate that hut they hid haul conIc come cometo to 0 took lOok upon tipoti It as ns a ut right When hell the of if the tho law and ef cr effected the tho novel Idea illCo that U It I L was as dis dia dishonest honest to ta the government of or Its Hi Hiland land lIml Illegally lI as to deprive an Individual ual uni of or his lili land hand Illegally It seemed 1 a 1 cruel ciuci InjustIce Thero ro was Ial simply o n i little advance of at tho the moral standard which cave anve Ie the life to laws that hUll hail been dead before The Tue facilities tics of or transportatIon lion and communication which Ich enable modern business to spread over Or a 1 great its of territory have ho made It for trusts anil combinations I bits to bo he made for the tho of or driving tt lilt competitors CO JU pet restricting rest rI ci I ng pm 1 Ii itt Ion and I easing pi lees On Oh tile the other othel hand labor organizations designed f fr r ho I Jui jus Just t I purpose of or securing fair treatment as ns to 10 employment l wales Mid and hours and onI l conditions of ot ain aro al un on their theil pun pan endeavoring to put up UI tho prices ic strict production and drive thrive out nun compe competition by stringent nt rules which prohibit any ally all member from front moro Hum a specified amount of work WOI each day da un uti under der lieI penalty of expulsion and amid which prohibit the tue employment of or any one on not nota a n member of the union under penalty of ut strike All hi 11 ot or there things are aia but Incidents of ut the process of adjustment In the hue di dl division vision damn of oC the new nei Our pointer government is IS dealing with them assid assiduously by hy h awakened a clued I opinion opi ii too n gradually nt i Hwi iu I i 1 to tile the ne nci nIl I There Is occasional ir u x Dut It is temporal y nl rt d when It Is II otti II to tt approach tin lilt vise t or f r df i 1 iSi Si math ye tic tui It IL I t Is iv nt p u u cal i I Iund und and it nd by I tie s tto jui mci It of If the lie people 1 The lite of nr o rom corn fierce and labor lallor mt tat thai at I In itt the th lust last do n years Thu th the p gf ur In the tutu labor organizations of at the States bus hns il from flout US JO to tn about S per er cent In the thc of or if au IC In sti RUI t tinn it wo we must ii i ii St the HIP t tie mil millions millions u I I lions of f Immigrants who have count WillI to 10 Hi tue The lIe vast mutes mUSK of OUI out im come cOllie from countries in Iii which t I h I 1 18 1 but Iut Ii ut I little II I I i Pu I it I euh t ra I ning ur ci ii mont among the lie people und a lid th have had 1151 to hi li In to II mind and situ harue lar ter Ie for far self t |
