East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-06

washington, Dec. 6.-Ten minutes
before noon the assistant secretary to
the president, Mr.. Barenes, accompa-
MED by Assistant Secretary Forster
and Executive Clerk Young, left the
White House in carriages bearing two
handsomely printed parchment copies
of the presidents message to read to
the senate and house. Copies for the
members of the two houses were
carted to the capitol Immediately
afterwards
The Message.
The presidents message in full is
as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
The nation continues to enjoy note
worthy prosperity. Such prosperity
is of course primarily due to the high
individual average of our citizenship,
taken together withour great natural
resources: but an important factor
therein is the working of our long
continued governmental policies. The
people have emphatically expressed
their approval of the principles under
lying these policies, and their desire
that these principles be kept substan-
TALLY unchanged, although of course
applied in a progressive spirit to meet
changing conditions.
Against Extravaganza.
The enlargement of scope Of the
furg1tions of the national government
required by our development as ma
| ton involves, of course, increase of
expense; and the period of prosperity
( through which the country is passing
I justifies expenditures for permanent
I improvements far greater than would
/ be wise in hard times. Battleships
and forts, public buildings and i'm
proved waterways are investments
which should be made when we have
/ the money: but abundant revenues
and a large surplus always invite ex-
travagance. and constant care should
be taken to guard against unneces-
sary increase of the ordinary expenses
of the government The cost of doing
( government business should be regu-
lated with the same security as the
cost of doing a. private business.
Capital and Labor.
Z In the vast and complicated mech
( anism of our modern civilized life the
4 dominant note is the note of indus
rrialism: and the relations of capital
I and labor. and especially of organized
capital and organized labor. to each
other and to the public at large come
second i'm importance only to the m
Innate questions Of family life. our
peculiar form of government. with It's
sbarp division of authority between
7l,,- nation and the several states, has
been on the whole far more adVah-
{ tageous to our development than a
more strongly centralized government
But IL is undoubtedly responsible toi
much of the difficulty of meeting with
adequate legislation the new problems
presented by the total change in IN
dustrial conditions on this continent
during the last half century. In actu-
al practice it has proved exceedingly
difficult and in many cases impossi-
BILE. to get unanimity of wise action
arnong the various states on these SUBJ
iects. From the very nature OF the
case this is especially true OF the laws
affecting the employment of capital
in huge masses.
With regard to labor the problem
I is no less important. but il is simpler
AS long as the states retain the pri-
mary control of the police power the
circumstances must be altogether ex-
treme which require interference by
the federal authorities, whether in the
way OF safeguarding the rights OF Ia
1 bor or in the way Of seeing that wrong
is not done by unruly persons who
shield themselves behind the name oi
! labor.
/ II there is resistance to the federal
courts interference with the mails, or
interstate commerce, or molestation oi
federal property or IL the state auth-
critics in some crisis which they are
unable to face call for help. then the
federal government may interfere Dut
though such interference may De
caused by a condition of things arising
out Of trouble connected with some
question of labor, the interference
itself simply takes the form of restor-
ing order without regard to the ques-
tions which have caused the breach
of order-for to keep order is pr
mary duty and in time of DISORDER
and violence all other questions SINK
into abeyance until order has been re-
stored.
IN the District of Columbia ana IN
the territories the federal law covers
the entire field Of government ou,
the labor question is only acute I'D
populous centers Of commerce manu-
! factures, or mining. Nevertheless