Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-06

Every iynching. means Just SO much
moral deterioration in ali the children
t Tsq haye 9 5nst x ~ mass OF add IL %nd
trouble for the next generation OF
"Let Justice be both sure and swift:
but let II be Justice under the law,
and not the wild and crooked savagery
Of q mob.
Capital and Labor.
On the subject Of capital and labor
the president takes the agitators OF class
hatred to task and says ito preach
t hatred sssh to 70 'h %isi Tisa ana m%n' ,n III se't O. mad:
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
preciate the danger in the doctrines
preached il to commit a crime against
the body polite and to be false to every
i Mar'" sat Gi q 'iife a"' c .oadif'Gh OF on Mfa tsIs
subject he says:
"fhe plain people who %think-the
ers with head or hand. the men to
whom American traditions are dear,
who love. their country and try to act
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government Is to elect an un-
p TStfny "n Of v] i'a e ana asi'A' Sypo Sr a
Whenever such an Issue Is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
ninchinE from It, for IN such case dem
government under republican forms is
Itself On trial. The triumph Of the
mob is Just as evil a thing as the tri-
escaped one danger avails nothing
whatever II we sucuumb to the other.
In the end the homes man, whether rich
or poor, who earns his own living and
tries to deal justly by his fellows, has
as much to fear from the insinccre
and Unworthy n demaEog; promising
performing nothing, but evil, who
would set on the mob to plumber the
rich, as from the crafty corruptionist,
who. for his own ends, would permit
the common people to be exploited by
the very wealthy. II we ever let this
government fall into the hands OF men
show ourselves false to Americas past.
Moreover, the demagog and corrup-
ZIONIST often work hand in hand. There
are at this moment wealthy reaction
aries OF such obtuse morality that they
regard the public servant who prose-
cutcs them when they violate the law,
proper share of the public burdens. AZ
being even more Objectionable than
the violent agitatnr who hounds on
the mob to plumber the rich. There is
nothing to choose between such n re-
dictionary and such an aRitator; funda-
mentally they are alike in their selfish
disregard Of the rights Of others; and
1t is natural that they should join in
opposition to any movement of which
the aim is fearlcssly to do exact and
even justice to ALL"
Railroad Employees Hours.
He asks for the passing of the bill lin
iting the number of hours of
employment Of railroad employees, ana
classes the measure as n very moderate
one. He says the aim of all should he
to steadily reduce the number OF hours
PRODUCTION of an eight-hour day, but in
sists that on the Isthmus of Panama the
conditions are so different from what
they are here that the Introduction Of an
day on the canal would be
ana continues. Just about as alb
surd as II Is, so far as the isthmus is
concerned. where white labor cannot be
work Is done by alien black men or alien
lie urges the enactment or a drastic
child labor law for the District of Co
lumbia and the territories, and u federal
investigation of the subject of child and
He reviews the work of the commission
appointed to investigate labor conditions
in the coal fields of Pennsylvania in 1902,
and refers to the wish of the commission
that the state and federal governments
should provide the machinery for what
may be called the compulsory invcstiga-
ton OF controversies between employers
and employees when they arise
Control of Corporations.
A. considerable portion of the message
Is devoted to the subject of federal con
troll of corporations in what he refers to
the passage at the last session of tho
rate, meat inspection and food laws, and
says that all of these have already JUST
fed their enactment, but recommends
the amendment of the meat inspection
law so as to put dates on the labels of
meat products, and also to place the
cost of inspection on the packers rather
than on the government, Continuing on
this subject Of the control Of corporations
by the federal government he says:
'It cannot too often IA. renputpI that py-
periencc has conclusively shown the i'm
possibility OF securing by the actions of
legislatures anything but ineffective
chaos in the way Of dealing with the
great corporations which do not operate
exclusively within the limits of any one
national license law or In other fashion,
we must exercise. and that at an, early
at present over these great corpora
tions-a coatrol that viii among other
things prevent the evils of excessive
decentralization. and that will compel
the disclosures by each big corporation
of its stockholders and of Us properties
and business, whether owned directly or
This Will tend to put Il stop to the secur,,
ing of inordinate profits by favored
Individuals at the expense whether of
the general public. the Stockholders. or
the wagewOrkers. Our effort should DE
not so. much to prevent consolidation as
such, but 80 to supervise and control 1t
as to see that it results In no harm to
the people. The rcactionary or ultracon-
sentative apologists for the misuse OF
wealth assail the effort to SECURE such
control as a step toward socialism. AS a
matter of fact II IL these reactionaries
and ultracOnservatives who are them
selves most potent In increasing socialis-
tic feeling. One of the most efficient
methods OF averting the consequences of
"A dangerous agitation, which Is so per
cent. wrong. Is to remedy the 20 per cent;
Of evil as to which the agitation In well
founded. The hest way to avert the very
undesirable move for the governmental
ownership OF railways Is to secure by
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