Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-12

be damaging to the other man, it will
 be even more damaging to himself. Of course, l am now speaking of prosper. ity that comes under normal and prop. CT conditions.
 All Interests Closely lntertwined.
 Tn our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense ma jority of cases the straight dealing man who by ingenuity and industry benefits himself must also benefit oth- CTS. The man of great productive ca- pacity who gets rich through guiding the labor of hundreds of thousands of other men does so, as a rule, by enab- ling their labor to produce more than it would without his guidance. and both he and they share in the benefit. so that even if the share be unequal it must never be forgotten that they too are really benefited by his success.
 "A vital factor in the success of any enterprise is the guiding intelligence of the man at the top, and there is need in the interest of all of us to en- courage rather than to discourage the activity of the exceptional men who guide average men so that their labor may result in increased production of the kind which is demanded at the time. Normally we help the wage worker. we help the man of small means, by making conditions such that the man of exceptional business abil- fly receives an exceptional reward for that ability
 Energy Often Used Against Common
 Good.
 But while insisting with all empha- sis upon this, it is also true that expe- rience has shown that when there is no governmental restraint or supervis- sion, some of the exceptional men use their energies. not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common good; and that by so doing they not only wrong smaller and less able men-whether wage workers or small producers and force other men of excep- -ional abilities themselves to do what s wrong under penalty of falling be- hind in the keen race for success There is need of legislation to strive 70 meet such abuses. At one time or n one place this legislation may take he form of factory laws and employ srs' liability laws. Under other condi- ions it may take the form of dealing with the franchises which derive their 'alue from the grant of the representa- ives of the people. T. may be aimed IL the manifold abuses. far reaching D their effects, which spring from ov- Or it may be neces- iary to meet such conditions as those with which I am now dealing and to strive to procure proper supervision and regulation by the national govern nent of all great corporations engaged n interstate commerce or doing an in- .erstate business.
 There are good people who are afraid of each type of legislation; and much the same kind of argument that Is now advanced against the effort to big corporations has been again and again advanced against the effort to secure proper employers lia- Dility laws or proper factory laws with reference to women and children; much the same kind of argument was advanced but five years ago against the franchise tax law enacted in the state while l was governor.
 of course there is always the dan ger of abuse if legislation of this type is approached in a hysteTical or senti- mental spirit, or, above all, if it is ap- preached in a spirit of envy and hatred toward men of wealth.
 We must not try to go too fast, un- der penalty of finding that we may be going in the wrong direction; and in any event, we ought always to pro- ceed by evolution and not by revolu- ton. The laws must be conceived and executed in a spirit of sanity and just oh r-1 for the rights of the big man as for the rights of the little man-treating big men and little men exactly alike.
 Our ideal must be the effort to combine all proper freedom for indi- vidual effort with some guarantee that the effort is not exercised in contra vention of the eternal and immutable principles of justice"