Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-06

| Congress, discussed almost every phas
of national activity. 1t consists OF IL
900 words or forty pages of printe
| matter. The introduction is very brie
| 1t merely calls attention to the contir
ued prosperity primarily due to tn
high individual average of the Nation
citizenship and the unlimited resour'
es of the Nation, an important facto
being also the working of the presen
governmental policies.
The President right in the stal
touches upon matters of vital impor
ance to the Republic. He caution
against extravaganza and then re
views the relations of capital and labor
He says: when any labor union seek
improper ends, or seeks to achievt
ends by improper means, all good citi
zens and more especially all honorable
public servants must oppose the wrong
doing as resolutely as they would op
pose the wrongdoing of any great cor
poration Of course any violence, bru
tality, or corruption, should not for one
moment be tolerated. Wage-workers
have an entire right to organize and
by all peaceful and honorable means
to endeavor to persuade their fellows
to join with them in organizations
They have legal right, which, accord
ing to circumstances, may or may not
be a moral right, to refuse to work in
company with men who decline to joir
their organizations. They have under
no circumstances the right to commit
violence upon those, whether capital
lists or wage-workers, who refuse tc
support their organizations, or who
side with those with whom they are al
odds; for mob rule is intolerable in any
for :"
There is no objection to employees
of the Government forming or belong
ing to unions; but the Government car
neither discriminate for nor discrimin
against non-union men who are in its
employment, or who seek to be en-
ployed under it. Moreover, it is very
grave improperly for government en-
ployes to band themselves together
for the purpose of extorting improper
ly high salaries from the Government.
The President speaks in favor OF a
stringent employers liability law. He
advocates the awarding of medals for
deeds of conspicuous heroism in priv
ate as we'll as in public life. He dis.
cusses at length the "ever increasing
casualty list upon our railroads" as a
matter of grave concern" The work
of the bureau of labor is praised and
then he devotes several pages to
Corporations and Trusts.
He says: "To try to deal with them
in an Incorporate, destructive, or dem
agogic spirit would, in all probability,
mean that nothing whatever would be
accomplished and, with absolute GER
tainty that if anything were &C.
complished it you'd be of harmful
nature. The American people need to
continue to show the very qualities
that they have shown-that is, moder-
alton, good sense, the earnest desire
to avoid doing any damage, and yet the
quiet determination to proceed, step
by step, without halt and without hur-
ry, in eliminating or at least in mini
MIXING whatever of mischief or of evil
there is to interstate commerce in the
conduct of great corporations. They
are acting in no spirit of hostility to
wealth, either individual or corporate
They are not against the rich man any
more than against the poor man. On
the contrary, they are friendly alike
toward rich man and toward poor man,
provided that each acts in spirit of
justice and decency towards his fel-
lows. Great corporations are neces'
sary, and only men of great and singu-
lar mental power can manage such
corporations successfully, and such
men must have great rewards. But
these corporations should be managed
with due regard to the interest of the
public as a whole. Where this can be
done under the present laws it must
be done. Where these laws come short
others should be enacted to supple.
ment them"
The bureau of corporations is doing
good work toward giving activities and
inner workings of great corporations
and the President expects good results
therefrOm.
Interstate Commerce.
In speaking of railroads, the mes
sage emphasizes that 1T is necessary
to put a complete stop to all rebates
49, The abuses of the private car and
private terminal tracks systems must
be stopped" The President says that
the most important legislative act now
needed as regards the regulation Of