The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-08

The following are verbatim extracts | of all the important features Of the
 message:
 CAPITAL AND LABOR.
 The consistent policy of the national government, so far as it has the power,
 is to hold in check the interruptions
 man, whether employer or employe, but to refuse to weaken individual initiative or to hamper or cramp the industrial ! development of the country. We rec ognize that this is an era of federation and combination, in which great capi-
 talistic corporations and labor unions
 have become factors of tremendous im- portance in all industrial centers. Hearty recognition is given the far
 reaching, beneficent work which has
 been accomplished through both cor
 porations and unions, and the line as
 between different corporations, as be- tween different unions, is drawn as it is between different individuals-that is, it
 is drawn on conduct-the effect being to
 treat both organized capital and organ
 ized labor alike, asking nothing save that the interest of each shall be
 brought into harmony with the interest
 of the general public, and that the con- duct of each shall conform to the fun damental rules of obedience to law. of individual freedom and of justice and
 fair dealing toward all.
 Whenever either corporation, labor
 union or individual disregards the law
 or acts in spirit of arbitrary and tyrannous interference with the rights
 of others, whether corporations or indi- viduals, then where the federal gov
 ernment has Jurisdiction it will see to 1t that the misconduct is stopped, pay ing not the slightest heed to the posi-
 tion or power of the corporation, the
 union or the individual, but only to one
 vital fact-that is, the question wheth-
 CT or not the conduct of the individual
 or aggregate of individuals is in ac-
 cordance with the law of the land.
 Every man must be guaranteed his lib-
 erty and his right to do as he likes with
 his property or his labor so long as he
 does not infringe the rights of others.
 No man is above the law, and no man
 is below it, nor do we ask any mans
 permission when we require him to
 obey it. Obedience to the law is de-
 manded as a right, not asked as fa-
 vor. <......,
 We have cause as nation to be
 thankful for the steps that have been
 so successfully taken to put these prin-
 ciples into effect The progress has
 been by evolution, not by revolution.
 Nothing radical has been done; the &C.,
 ton has been both moderate and reso-
 lute; therefore the work will stand.
 There shall be no backward step If
 in the working of the laws 1t proves desirable that they shall at any point
 be expanded or amplified, the amend
 ment can be made as it's desirability is
 shown. Meanwhile they are being ad-
 ministered with judgment, but with
 insistence upon obedience to them, and their need has been emphasized in sig nal fashion by the events of the past year. ..,-. Es....
 PUNISHMENT OF PUBLIC CoRRUP- { s.t..~. ,a TON. ss@
 The exposure and punishment of pub lie corruption is an honor to a nation, not disgrace. The shame lies in tol- eration, not in correction. No city or state still less the nation, can be in jured by the enforcement of law. As long as public plunderers wwhen detect- ed can find a haven of refuge in any foreign land and avoid punishment, just so long encouragement is, given them to continue their practices. If we fail to do all that in us lies to stamp out corruption we cannot escape our share of responsibility for the guilt. The first requisite of successful self-gov- ernment is unf1inclling enforcement of T., IL ,.k Af tion. s- .:.
 {. ALASKAN BAUNDARY.
 For several years past the rapid de- velopment of Alaska and the establish- ment of growing American interests in regions heretofore unsurveyed and i'm perfectly known brought into promi- hence the urgent necessity of a practical demarcation of the boundaries between the Jurisdiction of the United States and Great Britain. Although the treaty of 1925 between Great Britain and Russia, the provisions of which were copied in the treaty of 1867, whereby Russia con- veyed Alaska to the United States was positive as to the control, first by Rus- sia and later by the United States, of a strip of territory along the continental mainland from the western shore of Portland canal to Mount St. Elias, fol- lowing and surrounding the indenta- tions of the coast and including the isl- ands to the westward, it's description of the landward margin of the strip was resting on the supposed ex- istence of a continuous ridge or range of mountains skirting the coast, as fig- ured in the charts of the early naviga- tors It had at no time been possible for either party in interest to lay down, under the authority of the treaty, line so obviously exact according to it's pro- visions as to command the assent of the other. For nearly three-fourths of a century the absence of tangible local interests demanding the exercise of pos tive jurisdiction on either side of the | border left the question dormant. In 1878 questions of revenue administra- 1 ton on the Stil1ine river led to the es- :ablishment of provisional demarca- | jon, crossing the channel between two l nigh peaks on either side about twenty | tour miles above the river mouth. In | 1890 similar questions growing out of 1 he extraordinary development of min- ng interests in the region about the i lead of Lynn canal brought about a i r,,nH1to Iyix,ordi lx, ,pt,;ob