Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-12-14

In this emphatic fashion is capital
and labor treated: Whenever either
corporation. labor union, or individual
disregards the law or acts in a spirit Of
arbitrary and tyrannous interference
with the rights of others, whether cor
porations or individuals, then where
the federal government has jurisdie-
ton, il will sec TO it that the miscOn-
duct is stopped. paying not the slight
est heed to the position or power Of
the corporation, the union or the indi-
vidual. but only to one vital fact-that
| is. the question whether or not the
conduct of the individual or aggregate
of individuals is in accordance with
the law of the land. Every man must
! be guaranteed his liberty and his right
to do as he likes with his property or
his labor, so long as he does not in
/ fringe the rights of Others"
The President notes that receipts
and expenditures about balance Ca good
condition. and that the integrity of
our currency is beyond question; re-
commends that the congress direct
| the secretary of the navy, the post
master general, and the secretary Of
commerce from the senate and house
Iresentation from the senate and house
as congress may designate, to serve as
commission for the purpose of inves-
| tigating and reporting to congress at
its next session what legislation is de-
sirable or necessary for the develop
ment of the American merchant ma
rine and American commerce.; urges
better immigration and naturalization
laws; advises a continuance OF the APP
preparation for antitrust and postal
prosecutions, and wants bribery made
an extradictable offense.
There can be no crime more seri-
GUS than bribery" he declares. Other
offenses violate one law while corrup-
ton strikes at the foundation of all
law. Under our form of government
all authority is vested in the people
and by them delegated to those who
represent them in official capacity.
There can be no offense heavier than
that of him in whom such a sacred
trust has been reposed, who sells it
for his own gain and enrichment; and
no less heavy is the offense of the
bIibe giver. He is worse than the
thief, for the thief robs the individual.
while the corrupt official plumbers an
entire city or state. He is as wicked
as the murdurer, for the murdurer
may only take one life against the law,
while the corrupt official and the man
who corrupts the official alike aim at
the assassination of the commonwealth
itself. Government of the people, by
the people, for the people will perish
from the face of the earth if bribery is
tolerated. The givers and takers OF
brides stand on an evil pre-eminence
of infamy."
Qualification is expressed over the
Alaskan boundary award; friendly re-
lations with Turkey are noted; bet
ter trade treaty with China chronicled,
and increased pay for rural carriers is
asked. The extension of the rural free
delivery system must be continued,
for reasons of sound public policy,
declares the President. mo govern
mental movement of recent years has
resulted in greater immediate benefit
to the people of the country districts.
Rural free delivery, taken in connec-
ton with the telephone, the bicycle,
and the trolly, accomplishes much to-
wards lessening the isolation of farm
life and making it brighter and more
attractive. In the immediate past the
lack of just such facilities as these
has driven many of the more active
and restless young men and women
from the farms to the cities; for they
rebelled at lonlieness and lack Of
mental companionship. 1t is I'M
healthy and undesirable for the cities
to grow at the expense of the country;
and rural free delivery is not only a
good thing in itself, but is good be-
cause it is one of the causes which
check this unwholesome tendency to-
wards the urban concentration of our
population at the expense of the coun-
try districts. II is for the same reason
that we sympathize with and approve
of the policy of building good roads.
The movement for good roads is one
fraught with the greatest benefit to
the country districts"
A friendly word is spoken for the
st. Louis and Portland expositions;
better laws for Alaska urged; congress
is asked to cultivate the Filipinos by
, tariff arrangements and it is declared
! that mo one people ever benefited
another people more than we have
benefited the Filipinos by taking pos
session of the islands" We are told
that a special commission is to report
what changes in organization, laws,
regulations, and practice affecting the
public laws are needed to effect the
largest practicable disposition of the
I public lands to actual settlers who
will build permanent homes upon
them, and to secure in permanence
the fullest and most effective use of
the resources of the public lands.
The President says the work of re-
clamation of the arid lands of the west
is nrogressing STEADILY and satiSfact-