Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-13

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-President Roosevelt's message to Congress re- ceived the attention of the house for two and a half hours today. Its read ing was listened to with marked at tention, and at its conclusion the docu- ment was applauded.
 Preliminary steps were taken toward appropriating the needed emergency funds for the Panama canal, and It will be the business for tomorrow. Should unanimous consent be refused its consideration, a special rule from the committee on rules will be enforc- ed which will put the bill on its pas sage after a limited time for discus sion.
 The House received and ordered re- ferred to one of the regular election committees a protest from the fifth congressional district of Illinois stat ing that Anthony Michalek, who was yesterday sworn in as member or the House from that district, is not cItl- zen of the United States. The protest was presented by Rainey, of that state, who asked consideration of the mat ter by special committee. This point was the only one contested, It oelng suggested by MT. Mann that it was a matter proper for the elections com mittee to consider, and his amendment to this effect was adopted by a yea and nay vote.
 On motion of Goldfogle, of New York. a resolution was read, express ing the sympathy of the Amerlcan people for the distressed Russian Jews' The resolution was ordered printed on the record, and referred to the com mittee on foreign affairs.
 President Roosevelt's message was as follows:
 To the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives:
 The people of this country continue to enjoy great prosperity. OndouDt, odlv there will be ebb and flow Tn sueh nrosneritv. and this ebb and flow VIII be felt more or less by all members o1 inc community, both by the deserving and the undeserving.
 Tn our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely ;ntertwiped that in the immense ma ioritv of cases a straight-deallng man who by his efficiency, by hls hge nuity and industry, benefits himseh must also benefit others. Normally the man of great productive eapaclty who becomes rich by guiding th' labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more thar they eould produce without hls guld ance. and both he and they share II the benefit, which comes also to LIN public at large. If. therefore, the less tortunaU' man is moved by envy ot hls nor fortunate brother to strike at tn condition under which they have ootn though unequal, proposed, the resul will assuredly be that while damag may come to the one struck at, lt WI visit with an even heavier load tn one who strikes the blow. Taken a whole we must all go up or go dow together.
 Corporations.
 Yet, while not merely admitting but insisting upon this, 1t IS also tru that where there is no governments restraint or supervision some or LII exceptional men use their energi' mt in ways that are for the commo qood. but in ways which tell agaln' this common good. The fortune amassed through corporate organlz +;on are now so large, and vest sue mower in those that wield them, as make if A matter of necessity to glN +o the sovereign-that is, to the go ernment. which represents the peep as a wholesome effective power snpervision over their corporate us am in no sense hostile to eorpor lions. This is an age of comblnatlo ard any effort to prevent all comt nation will be not only useless, but tke end vicious, because ot the co ter,pt for law which the failure to e @oree law inevitably produces V should, moreover, recognize Tn cordl 9~d ample fashion the immense go ,fected by corporate agencies Tn country such as ours, and the veal os intellect, energy, and fidelity C voted to their service, and thereto rormally to the service of the publ r. their officers and directors. corporation has come to stay. Ea can do and has done great goo Each should be favored so long as does good. But each should
 sharply checked where it acts agalI law and justice