The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05
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publ,o suffered directly end iasn inoBt Bnt pprnhoh,y as great additional ioss. Std the money loss, great as is .m,,SSerinei not measure hr the 9Iyes eHgs and children of snspr sProyss york hs1tooTpped the effect Of the sss,,agers strike or ,1, or tue i'm the busine.ss oI cost fnefl of products and the snconvenience and loss to the pnxnnts
 Many of. these t,,rred ssr,Ked had had the par ttos to fhe dispute been rsuulfeH SS sr,,aar before an unprejuolce1 DoIS t fepresenting the nation ,dr anai Stheir E con. tent;a, in most instances the disputs would doubtless be found to pc cue e4t9 Se n n1isund erstanding by eacn oI tne .'tSi- ovI- ;ngndss srn rlsnssf of either party to accept as true the statements of the otner % ss to inc pustice of injustice oI tne s ! nias s,.- ters in1disputs. m, Ss,sS,nnfterested Snfer body ranyeaentine the federal government such aa would be provided by com com. mission on conciiiattionn td nn aan aanfnmosphere os friendiiness and concihauon pts,sns contending parties; and the v,nr .ra. each side an equal opp4rtun,rrSSs pp nrSsence @ of the other would prevent many olspun.. 3pin.,. from developing Into serious sas,Sc or lockouts. and. in other cases: mouns ,hs
 
 opposing parties to come to terms
 In thfs age of great corporate ra ana labor combinations. neither eHlp.oye, e,. nor employees should be left completely at the mercy of the stronger party so a dispute. regardless of the righteous ness of their respective claims. me proposed measure would be Tn the .pnas HIS of securing recognition or the Iact .i.Se a1S an inTerest which can not wisely be hisregarded; an interest not mereiy y.,s,, o general convenience, for the quesslun. of just and a,gsesS gsopSsf Pn0iil ail iesislation of this kind it Is well to adV1nc .In ctnai tiously, testing each step py tne ',rai,, a0r results the s.sS sssp RToptGseo pte decisions e of the commission would not plna thS s,,pps,id ps,iId ties in legal fashion, and yet wyuto to give q chance tSrs for pnpiS tn sxepf ft it's fuii A0Foe , W,tSSrnwsI Of Coal Lands.
 It Is not wise that the nation ,ds snou have temporarily withdrawn troIl ses- ins tIement aii the lands which the geolog- ical survey has indiGa,tIeetd ,Ietv as acsontaining coal. The question, however, can pc properly settled only by legislatlsoIh, which in my judgment should provI1e psn,,e for the withdrawal of these lands from sale or from entry, save in certain ss- pecia1 circumstances. The oWnSrSntg would then remain in the unlseo t tempt to work them, but permit them 10 be worked by private indlvlduals under a royalty system, the govern ment keeping so fef sSe So Sonts0s exeesvs M price
 was charged consumers. It woulo, ol course. be as necessary to supervlse the rates charged by the e9nlHlOn conn as the rates charged by those wno InihS to 4an ta, and the supervision must extend to the conduct of the common carriers ,so so competitor at the expense or anotheT. The withdrawal of these coal lanos would constitute a policy GnaIagoums m Withdrawing the forest lands from of- dinary settlement. The coal, like the forests, should be treated as the prop sboyn,d sbty 2i be s under conditions which would inure to the benefit of the pup lie as a whole
 The present Congress has taken long strides in the direction Of securlnf proper supervision and control Dy the nationaal g9yeT,nmgsntt ,ngsratats Hssr bSsnsssMand the enormous majority of corporations of any stzessare engaged in ln{eIstate business The passage iass Ha 'He dsgree tbe passage of the pure food Dill, ana tne provision for increasing and renderlnE more effective national eonsrot liy oEeI i,s,. portant advance in the proper alfee7 lion. Tn the short session 1t will per- haps be difficult to do much furlheI along this line; and 1t may pc pest s.,oI.o Io wait until the laws have been in oper- j ation for a number of months betoFt endeavoring to increase their scope, because only operation will show With exactpess their merits and thelr snort comings and thus give opportunity to define what further remealai IeglSla- fIon fs needed. Yet in my judgment IL xy5iI in the end be advisable in con nection with the packing house ln- sneetion law to provided for putting date on the label and TOT cha[IsIns Iis inc cost of inspection to the packers Ali these laws have already Justified their enactment. The interstate com
 merce law, for instance, has rather amusingly falsified the predlcuons
 both of those who asserted that aI,ss ~ who asserted that 1t did not go tal enough and would accomplish nothing. During the last five months the rafI- roads have shown increased earnings and some of them unusual dividends, while during the same period tue mere taking effect of the law has produced an Unprecedented. a hitherto unheard of number of voluntary reductions Tn freights and fares by the railroads
 since the founding of the commission fbare has never been a time of equal length in which anything like so many redIlced tariffs have been put Into ef- feet, On August 27, for instance, two days before the new law went into et- avaf i've thousand separate tariffs which represented reductions from pre- If must not be supposed. however, that with the passage of these laws # will be possible to stop progress along inc line of increasing the pow CT of the national government over