The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-06
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE First Place Given to Railroad Rate Legislation and Power is Asked for Commission
 Right of Appeal. REBATES IN EVERY FORM MUST BE STOPPED Also Recommends That Private Gar Companies and Industrial Roads be Placed Under Supervision and Suggests System of Elk animation of Railway Accounts Like That Now Conducted in the Case
 of fNational Banks-Federal
 Supervision of Insur-
 ance-Panama
 Canal.

The full text of the presidents mes sage to congress yesterday follows:
 To the Senate and House of Repre-
 sentatives:
 The people of this country continue to enjoy great prosperity. Undoubtedly there will be ebb and flow in such pros pertty. and this ebb and flow will be felt more or less by all members of the community, both by the deserving and the undeserving. Against the wrath of the Lord the wisdom of man cannot prevail; in times of flood or drought human ingenuity can but partiallyy re- pair the disaster. A general failure of crops would hurt all of us. Again, if the folly of man mars the general we'll being, then those who are innocent of the folly will have to pay part of the penalty incurred by those who are guilty of the folly. A panic brought on by the speculative folly of part of the business community would hurt the whole business community. But such stoppage of welfare. though in might be severe, would not be lasting. In the long run the one vital factor in the permanent prosperity of the country is the high individual character of the average American worker, the average American citizen, no matter whether his work be mental or manual whether he be farmer or wage-worker, business man or professional man.
 In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely interwined that in the immense ma- jority of cases straight-dealing man who, by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself must al- so benefit others. Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so Dy enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large. The super ficial fact that the sharing may be un- equal must never blind us to the under lying fact that there is this sharing, and that the benefit comes In some degree to each man concerned. Normally the wage-worker, the man of small means, and the average consumer, as we'll as the average producer, are all alike helped by making conditions such that the man of exceptional business ability receives an exceptional reward for his ability. Something can be done by leg islation to help the general prosperity; but no such help of a permanently ben- eficial character can be given to the Jess able and less fortunate, save as the results of policy which shall inure to the advantage of all industrious and efficient people who act decently; and this is only another way of saying that any benefit which comes to the less able and less fortunate must of neces- sity come even more to the more able and more fortunate. If, therefore the less fortunate man is moved by envy of his more fortunate brother to strike at the conditions under which they have both, though unequally, prospered, the result will assuredly be that while damage may come to the one struck at, 1t will visit with an even heavier load the one who strikes the blow. Taken as whole, we must all go up or down together.
 Corporations.
 Yet. while not merely admitting, but insisting upon this, it is also true that where there is no governmental re- straint or supervision some of the ex- ceptional men use their energies not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common good. The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a mat ter of necessity to give to the sovereign that is, to the Government, which represents the people as whole some effective power of supervision ov- CT their corporate use. In order to in- sure healthy social and industrial life
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