Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-07
2 MtSSAut
CHIEF EXECUTIVE POINTS OUT
THE NEED OF SUPERVISION
4 OF CORPORATIONS
! URGES ECONOMY
DOES NOT RELIEVE THAT THERE
rs A WIDESPREAD DEMAND (,
FOR REVENUE CHANGE
INSURANCE PROBLEM
NEED OF CONSIDERING SOME
POSSIBLE NATIONAL So
LUTON OF IT
MONROE DOCTRINE
NOT SHOULDER CHIP
But 1t Involves Responsibilities to the
World Which This Country May
Not Shrink With Immunity
N Labor Needs Consideration
and Some Assistance
MONROE DOCTRINE
NOT SHOULDER CHIP
rBy Associated press.l
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Presi-

Itdx WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Presi-
Went Roosevelt today sent the follow
ailg message to congress:
MI The people of this country continue to
fsn 1y g great prosperity. Undoubtedly
more or less by all members of the com
Immunity, both by the deserving and the
qndeservins; Against the wrath of the
in times of flood or drought human In
genuity can but partially repair the dis
r aster. A general failure of crops would
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 PAN
Of part of the business community would
hurt the whole business community. But
such stoppage of welfare. though It
n In the long run the one vital factor In
4 the permanent prosperity of the country
glis the high Individual character of the
4 his work be mental or manual, wheth-
er ne be farmer or wage,worker, bust
In our Industrial and social system the
interests Of all men are so closely in
s,tertwined that in the immense majority
ss efficiency, by his Ingenuity and in
III Slstry benefits himself must also bene-
sySE others. Normally the man of great
oductive capacity who becomes rich
lily guiding the labor of many other men
SO by enabling them to produce
III jore than they could produce without
S4sys guidance, and both he and asthey
Nare in the benefit, which comes. also
ESM8 the public at large. The superficial
ISRSSt that the sharing may be unequal
ysHIast never blind us to the underlying
SaSSa:t that there is this sharing, and that
" Xhss benefit comes in some degree to each
ssEhan concerned. Normally the wage
Il worker, the man of small means, and
I The average consumer, as we'll as the
J RYerage 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 legislation
!Sto help the general prosperity; but no
lESpeh help Of a permanently beneficial
ESASd less fortunate, save as the results
IA ntage of all Industrious and efficient
SSS other way Of saying that any benefit
SssssS.slich comes to the less able and less
III Srtunate must of necessity come even
faRsgAore to the able and more fortunate
e&E therefore, the less fortunate man is
4sAss,ved by envy of his more fortunate
A3sspther to strike, at the conditions I'M
EYe which they have BOTH though I'M
FsMH EuaIly, prospered, the result will as
$redly be that while damage may come
SE,R the one struck at, 1t will visit with
even heavier load the one who strikes
ESEhe blow. Taken as whole we must all
$50 UP or go down together,