The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-07

Following is the text of President
 Roosevelt's message read before con s gress yesterday:
 To the Senate and House of Repre- s sentatives:
 The Nation continues to enjoy note- l worthy prosperity. Such prosperity is
 of course primarily due to the high individual average of our citzenship,
 taken together with our great natural
 resources; but an important factor ] therein is the working of our long
 continued governmental policies. The
 people have emphatically expressed 2 their approval of the principles under lying these policies, and their desire
 that these principles be kept substanti-
 ally unchanged, although of course ap- x piled in 8 progressive spirit to meet changing conditions.
 Caution Against Extravagance.
 The enlargemeint of scope of the Functions of National Government re- quired by our development as a nation involves, of course, increase of expense; and the period of prosperity through I which the country is passing justifies expenditures for permanet improve ments far greater than would be wise : in hard times Battleships and forts, public buildings, and improved water ways are investments which should be made when we have the money; but abundant revenues and large surplus ] always invite extravaganza, and con- stant care should be taken to guard
 against unnecessary increase of the or E dinary expenses of government. The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same
 rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business
 Capital and Labor.
 Tn the vast and complicated mechar- ism of our modern civilized life the dominant note is the note of indus trialism; and the relations of capital and labor, and especially of organized capital and organized labor, to each other and to the public at large come second in importance only to the inti- mate questions of family life. Our peculiar form of government, with it's sharp division of authority between the Nation and the several States, has 
 vatangeous to our development than a
 more strongly centralized government.
 But it is undoubtedly responsible for
 much of the difficulty of meeting with adequate legislation the new prob lems presented by the total change in industrial conditions on this continent during the last half century. In actual practice it
 has proved exceedingly difficult, and in many cases impossible, to get nnan-
 Unity of wise action among the various States on these subjects. From the very nature of the case this is especial
 ly true of the laws affecting the en-
 ployment of capital in huge masses.
 With regard to labor the problem is no less important, but it is simpler. As long as the States retain the primary
 control of the police power the circum- stances must be altogether extreme which require interference by the Federal authorities, whether in the sway of safeguarding the rights of labor
 or in the way of seeing that wrong is not done by unruly persons who shield themselves behind the name of labor If there is resistance to the Federal
 courts, interference with the mails, or interstate commerce, or molestation of
 Federal property, or if the State
 authorities in some crisis which they
 are unable to face call for help, then
 the Federal Government may interfere; but though such interference may be
 caused by a condition of things arising
 out of trouble connected with some
 question of labor, the interference itself simply takes the form of restoring order without regard to the questions
 which have caused the breach of order
 flor to keep order is a primary duty and in a time of disorder and violence all other questions sink into abeyance
 until order has been restored. In the
 district of Columbia and in the Terri
 tories the Federal law covers the entire
 field of government; but the labor
 question is only acute in populous
 centers of commerce, manufactures, or
 mining. Nevertheless, both in the
 enactment and in the enforcement of
 law the Federal Government within its
 restricted sphere should set an example
 to the State governments, especially in
 q matter so vital as this affecting labor.
 I believe that under modern industrial
 conditions it is often necessary, and
 even where not necessary it is yet wise,
 that there should be organization of
 labor in order better to secure the
 rights of the individual wage-worker.
 All encouragement should be given to
 any such organization, So long as 1t is
 conducted with due and decent re-