Morris tribune., 1904-12-10
POINTS FROM THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

POINTS FROM THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
President Rossevelts message to Congress
u.s. as usual, an interesting state paper full OF
much valuable information and suggestive
ideas. 1t is worthy of perusal in it's entirity
but for those who will not have the opportunity
of reading it in full, submit the following
excerpts giving the gist of what the president
says on the various public questions
LABOR UNIONS
But when any labor union seeks improper
ends, or seeks to achieve proper ends by I'M
proper means, all good citizens and more es-
pecially all honorable public servants must
oppose the wrongdoing resoutely as they
would oppose the wrongdoing of any great cor
poraton.
RAILROAD CASUALTIES.
The passage of a law requiring the adoption
of block-signal system has been proposed to
the congress. l earnestly concur in that r.
commentator, and would also point out to the
congress the urgent need of Legislation in the
interest of the public safety limiting the hours
of labor for railroad employees in train service
upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce,
and providing that only trained and experienced
persons be employed i'll positions of RESPONSE
biity connected with the operation of trains
TRUSTS.
Great corporations necessary, and only
of great and singular mental power can
manage such corporations successfully; such
men must have great rewards But these
corporations should be managed with due re-
gard to the interest of the public whole.
Where this can be done under the present laws
it must be done. Where these laws come short
others should be enacted to supplement them.
RAILROAD REBATES AND RATES,
Above all else, must strive to keep the
highways of commerce open to all on equal
terms; and to do this it is necessary to put a
a complete stop to all rebates. Whether the
shipper or the railroad is to blame makes no
difference; the rebate must be stopped, the
abuses of the private and private terminal
track and side-track systems must be stopped,
ard the legislation of the fifty-eighth congress
which declares it to be unlawful for any person
or corporation to offer, grant, give, solicit,
accept, or receive any rebate concession, Or
di discrimination in respect of the transportation
of any property in interstate foreign m
merce whereby such property shall by any
device whatever be transported at less rate
than that named in the tariffs published by
the carrier must be enforced.
Tie government must in increasing de-
gree supervise and regulate the workings of
the railways engaged in interstate commerce, |
and such increased supervision is the only |
alternative to an increase of the present evils |
or the one hand or still radical policy |
OF the other. In my judgment the most i'm |
pc tant Legislative act needed regards
the regulation of corporations is this act to
confer on the interstate commerce commission
the power to revise rates and regulations, the
revised rate to at once 60 into effect, and tt:
stay in effect unless and until the court of
appeal reverses it,
FOREST RESERVE.
The forest reserve policy can be successful
on1v when it has the full support of the peop
Of the west, 1t can not safely, and should not
in any case, be imposed upon them against
their will But neither accept the
If whose Or1V interest the |