The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-05

=, terblind us to the underlying fact
that there is this sharing, and that the
benefit N in some degree to each
man concerned Normally the wage
worker, the man of small means, and
the average consumer, as well 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 legislation to help the general pros
perity; but no such help of a perma-
nently beneficial character can be Civ
en- to the less able and less fortunate
save as the results of a policy which
shall inure to the advantage of all in
dustriOus and efficient people who
act decently; and this is only anoth-
err way of saying han any benefit
which comes to the less able and less
fortunate must of necessity come ev-
en- more to the more able and more
fortunate. If, therefore, the less for
tunate man is moved by envy of his
more fortunate brother to strike 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, it will visit with ar ven heavier
load the one who strikes the blow.
Taken as a whole we must all so up
or down together.
Corporations.
Yet, while not merely admitting,
but insisting upon this, it is also true
that where there is no governmental
restraint or supervision some of the
exceptional men use heir energies
not in ways that are for the common
good, but in ways which tell against
this common good. The fortunes
q m Good fhrOI1oh Rnrnnrofn OrOanizo-
ton are now so large. and vest such
power in those that WELD them, as to
make it a matter of necessity to give
to the soverign-that is, to the Gov
eminent, which represents the people
as a wholesome effective power of
supervision over he'll corporate use.
In order to insure a healthy social
and industrial life, every big corpora
ton should be held responsible by,
and be accountable to, some sover-
eign strong enough to control it's con-
duct. | am in no sense-hostile to cor
p~orations. This is an g of combi-
nations, and any effort to prevent all
combination will be not only useless,
but in the end vicious, because of the
contempt for law which the failure
to enforce law inevitably produces.
WE should, moreover, recognize in
cordial and ample fashion h i'm
mense good effected by corporate
agencies in a country such as ours,
and the wealth of intellect, energy,
and fidelity devoted to their service,
and therefore normally to the service
of the public, by their officers and di-
| rectors. The corporation has come to
stay, just as the trade union has come
to stay. Each can do and has lone
great good. each should be favored
so long as it does good. But each
| should be sharply checked where it
| acts against law and justice.
So long as the finances of the Ma
ton are kept upon an honest basis
no other question of internal economy
with which the Congress has power
/ to deal begins to approach in impor-
lance the matter of e~ndeavoring to
/ secure proper Industrial conditions
under which the Northumberland es-
| pecially the great corporations-do-
ing an interstate business are to act.
: The makers Of our National Constitu-