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

general public. Every considerable
labor difficulty in which interstate
commerce is involved should be inves
tigated by the Government and the
facts officially reported to ~the public.
THE question of securing a healthy
s~elf-respecting, and mutually sympa-
thetic attitude as between employer
and employee, capitalist and wage
worker, is a difficult one. All phases
of the labor problem prove difficult
when approached. But the underly-
ing principles, the root principles, in
accordance with which the problem
must be solved are entirely simple.
We can get justice and right dealing
only if we put as Of paramount impor
lance the principle of treating a man
On his worth as a man rather than
with reference to his social position,
his occupation, or the class to which
he belongs. There are selfish and
brutal men in all ranks of life. If
they are capitalists their selfshness
n brutality may take the form of
hard Indifference to suffering, greedy
disregard of every moral restraint
which interferes with the accumula-
ton OF wealth, and cold blOOded eX.
nloitation of the weak; or, if they are
laborers, he form Of ~laziness, of sui
len envy of the more fortunate, and
IF willingness to perform. deeds of
~furderous violence. Such conduct is
just as reprehensible in one case as
in the other, and all honest and far
seeing men should join in warning
| against it it becomes mani
fest. Individual capitalist ald indi-
vidual wage worker, corporation n
union are alike entitled to the protee-
ton of the law, and must alike obey
the law. Moreover, in addition to
ronrn 0hn]innon To tho IoW naah man
if he be really a good citizen, must
show broad sympathy for his neigh
Dor and genuine desire to look at any
question. arising between them from
the standpoint of that neighbor no
less than from his own; and to this
end it is essential that capitalist and
wage-worker should consult freely
one with the other, should strive to
bring closer the day when both shall
ana not enemies. To approach the
question which inevitably arises be-
tween them solely from the stand
point which treats each side in the
mass as the enemy of the side
in the mass is both wicked and fool
ish. In the past the most direful
the influences which have
brought about the downfall of repub-
lies has ever been the growth of the
o. oPAitSJ t4O wv Vi IhS oPAAA
which tends to make a man subordi-
nate the welfare of the public as a
whole to the welfare of the particu-
lar class to which he belongs, the sub
stitution Of loyalty to class for loyal
ty to the nation. This inevitably
brings about a tendency to treat each
nan not on his merits as an 1nu1Vld-
nal but on his position as belonging
to a certain cas- Ia the community.
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public it will ultimately prove fatal
to US, as in the past it has proved ia
tai to-every community in which it
has become dominant. Unless we
to keep a quick and lively
sense OF the great fundamental truth
tha our concern is with the individ-
worth of the individual man, this
can not permanently
hold the place which it has achieved
among the nations.
Insurance.
The great insurance al
ford striking examples OF corpora
tons whose business has extended
so far beyond the jurisdiction OF the
States which created them as to pre-
,lude strict enforcement OF supervis-
Ion and regulation by the parent
States. In my last annual message
ended IA the Congress care
'1lly consider whether the power of
he Bureau OF Corporations can not