Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-12-15


Of the bureau of labor into the Colorado
mining strike as this Is a strike in which
certain very evil forces, which are more
or legs at work everywhere under the
conditions of modern industrialism, be-
came startlngly prominent.
Corporations.
When we come to deal with great cor
porations the need for the government to
act directly is far greater than in the
case of labor because great corporations
can become such only by engaging in in
terstate commerce, and interstate com
merce Is peculiarly the field of the gen.
eral government. 1t is an absurdity to ex-
pect to eliminate the abuses In great cor
poIations by state action. 1t is difficult to
be patient with an argument that such
matters should be left to the states, be-
cause more than one state pursues the
policy of creating on easy terms corpora
lions 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, de-
st,uctve or demagogic spirit would. in
all probability. mean that nothing what
ever would be accomplished. and, with
absolute certainty. that If anything were
accomplished 1t would be of a harmful
nature The American people need to
continue to show the very qualities that
they have shown-that is. moderation.
good sense, the earnest desire to avoid
doing any damage and yet the quiet de-
termination to proceed, step by step,
without halt and without hurry, in enm-
mating or at least in minimizing what
ever of mischief or of evil there is to in
terstate commerce in the conduct of
great corporations. They are acting in
no spirit of hostility to wealth. either in
dividual 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 only that
| each acts in n spirit of justice and de-
| cency toward his fellows Great corpora
| tons are necessary, and only men of
| great and singular mental power can
manage such corporations successfully.
and such man must have great rewards.
| But these corporations should be man
| aged with due regard to the interest of
| the public as a whole Where this can
| be done under the present laws 1t must
| be done. Where these laws come short
others should be enacted to supplement
| them.
| The bureau Of corporations has made
| careful preliminary investigation of many
important corporations. 1t will make
special report on the beef industry.
Bureau Of Corporations.
| The policy of the bureau is to accom-
| plish the purposes of its creation by CO.
operation. not antagonism; by making
constructive legislation. not destructive
| prosecution. the immediate object OF its
inquiries; by conservative investigation
| of law and fact and by refusal to issue
incomplete and hence necessarily inaccu-
rate reports. Its policy being thus one
OF open inquiry into. and not attack up
on, business, the bureau has been able to
gain not only the confidence. but, better
| still. the cooperation of men engaged in
legitimate business.
The bureau offers to the Congress the
means of getting at the cost of produc-
ton OF our various great staples of COM
merce.
Rebates.
| ABOVE all else, we must strive to keep
| the highways of commerce open to all
on equal terms; and to do this it Is nee
essary to put complete stop to all re-
bates. Whether the shipper or the rail-
road Is to blame makes no difference; the
rebate must be stopped, the abuses of
the private car and private terminal
track and side-trac systems must be
stopped, and 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 re-
ceive any rebate, concession. or Giscrim-
lnation in respect of the transporta ton of
any property in interstate or foreign
commerce 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. While l am of the opinion that
ut present 1t would be undesirable, II 1,
were not impracticable. finally to ciothe
the Interstate Commerce Commission
NN.lN a, sol nNNtt tNxE Gx-
rates. do not believe that. as a fair Sc
curity to shippers, the Commission shoulC
be vested with the power, where a giver
rate has been challenged and after full
hearing found to be unreasonable, to de
eide, subject to judicial review, wha
shall be n reasonable rate to take it.
place: the ruling of the commission I,
take effect Immediately. and to Obtain
unless and until 1t is reversed by tn
court OF review. In my judgment tn
most important legislative act now need
ed as regards the regulation of corpora
, tons Is this act to confer on the Inter
state Commerce Commission the powe
, to revise rates and regulations, the re
vised rate to at once so into effect, an
to stay in effect unless and until tn
court of review reverses It,
: Much space Is here devoted to
: consideration of the problem of tn
proper housing of the poor in GU
great cities, and the Importance of
proper solution of the question shown
4 On this subject the message says
o There should be severe child-labor an
r factory inspection laws. 1t is very desii
It able that married women should not or
= in factories. The prime duty of the ma
+ Is TO work to be the breadwinner: III
l. prime duty OF the woman is to be IL
d mother, the housewife. All questions ,
II tariff and finance sink into utter insil
n nhcance when compared with the II,
e mendous, the vital Importance OF tryir
e to shape conditions so that these tw
|, duties of the man and of the woman ca
y I've fulfilled under reasonably favorab
L. circumstances. Ii race does not hay
" plenty OF children, or II the children
Is not grow up or II when they grow I
g they are unhealthy In body and stunt,
3 or vicious in mind. then that race Is d,
III cadent and no heaping up of wealth. I
lie lplendor OF momentary material prospe
Is icy, can avail In any degree as Offsets
l. Agriculture.
~ The Department OF Agriculture HI
grown into an educational institute,
with a faculty OF two thousand specia