The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-06

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those within the classified service. The
letter carriers, both municipal and ru-
raj. are as a whole an excellent body
of public servants. They should be
amply paid. But their payment must
be obtained by arguing their claims
fairly and honorably before the con-
gress, and not by banding together for
the defeat of those congressman VINO
refuse to give promises which they
can mot in conscience give. The ad-
ministration has already taken steps
to prevent and punish abuses of this
nature; but it will be wise for the
congress to supplement this action by
legislation.
Bureau of Labor.
Much can be done by the govern
ment in labor matters merely by CIV
ing publicity to certain conditions.
The bureau of labor has done excellent
work of this kind in many different d.
rections. shall shortly lay before you
in a special message, the full report of
the investigation of the bureau of la
Dor into the Colorado mining strike, as
this is a strike in which certain very
evil forces, which are more or less at
work everywhere under the conditions
of modern industrialism, become
startlingly prominent.
Corporations.
When we come to deal with great
corporations the need for the govern
Inent to act directly is far greater
than in the case of labor, because great
corporations can become such only by
engaging in interstate commerce, and
interstate commerce is peculiarly the
field Of the general government. 1t is
an absurdity to expect to eliminate the
abuses in great corporations by state
action. 1t is difficult to be patient with
an argument that such matters should
be left to the states, because more than
one state pursues the policy of creating
on easy terms corporations which are
never operated within that state at
all, but in other states whose laws
they ignore. The national government
alone can deal adequately with these
great corporations To try to deal with
them in an Incorporate, destructive,
or demagogic spirit wouiu, in all prob
"oiAty, lAdI IlOluLuS WHATEVER
would be accomplished, and, with alb
solute certainty that if anything We're
accomplished it would be of harmful
nature. The American people need to
continue to show the very qualities
that they have shown-that Is, mode
ration, good sense, the earnest desire
to avoid doing any damage. ana We,
the quiet determination to proceed
step by step, without halt and without
hurry, in eliminating or at least in
minimizing whatever Of mischief or OF
evil there is to interstate commerce n
the conduct Of great corporations
They are acting In no spirit of hos
iility to wealth, either individual OF
corporate. They are not against the
rich man any more than against the
poor man. On the contrary, they ayi
friendly alike toward rich man anJ
poor man, provided only that each acts
in spirit of justice and decency to-
ward his fellows. Great corporation.
are necessary, and only men of grea
and singular mental power can man.
age such corporations successfully
and such men must have great re-
wards But these corporations SHOULD
be managed with due regard to the in
terest of the public as whole Wher,
this can be done under the presen
laws it must be done Where thes
laws come short others should be en-
acted to supplement them
Yet We must never forget the deter
mining factor in every kind of work
of head or hand, must be the man.
own good sense, courage and kindli
ness. More important than any legisla
ton is the gradual growth of a feelin
of responsibility and forbearanc
among capitalists and wage worker
alike; feeling of respect on the par
OF each man for the rights of others
d feeling of broad community of int
rest, not merely of capitalists anon
themselves, and of waee-workor
among themselves, but of canitalist
ana wage-workers in their relations +
each other, and of both in their rela
uons to their fellows who with Their
make up the body polite. There ar
many captains of industry. many laho
leaders, who realize this.
Bureau of Corporations.
ne bureau of corporations Ia
MADE careful preliminary investig.
tlon OF many important corporation,
1t will make a special ranort on ~
neef industry
Inc policy of the bureau is to az
eoIhpllsh the purposes of it's create
Wy corporation, not antagonism. h