Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-06

power to oversee and secure correct
behavior in the management of all
great corporations engaged in inter-
state business will in similar fashion
render far more stable the present
system by doing away with those
grave abuses which are not only evil
in themselves but are also evil because
they furnish an excuse for agitators
to inflame well-meaning people against
all forms Of property and to commit
the country to schemes Of wild would
be remedy which would work infinitely
more harm than the disease itself.
The government ought not to conduct
the business of the country; but 1t
ought to regulate it SO that it shall be
conducted in the interest of the pub
lie.
Perhaps the best justification of the
course which in the national govern
ment we have been pursuing in the
past few years, and which We intend
steadily and progressively to pursue
in the future, is that it is condemned
with almost equal rancor alike by the
reactionaries-the Bourbons-on one
side, and by the wild apostles of I'M
rest on the other. The reactionary is
| D1GIS.l ~ dl1Sly uSCdtlS6 we nave uSpliV-
ed him Of that portion of his power
which he misuses to the public hurt;
the agitator is angered for various
reasons among others the fact that by
remedying the abuses we have depriv
ed him of the fulcrum of real griev-
ance, which alone renders the lever Of
irrational agitation formidable.
eve have actually accomplished
much. But we have not accomplished
all, nor anything like ALL that we feel
must be accomplished. We shall not
halt; we shall steadily follow the path
we have marked out, executing the
laws we have succeeded in putting up
on the statute books with absolute
impartiality as between man and man,
and unresting in our endeavor to
strengthen and supplement these by
further laws whihc shall enable us in
more efficient and more SUMMARY
fashion to achieve the ends we have
in view.
During the last few years congress
has had to deal with such vitality I'M
portant questions as providing for the
building of the Panama canal inaug-
urating the vast system of national IT.
risation In the states and the Great
Plains and the Rocky Mountains. pro-
viding for a Pacific cable, and SO forth.
Yet in addition to these tasks, some Of
which are of stupendous Importance
congress has taken giant strides along
the path Of government regulation and
! control of corporations; the interstate
1 commerce law has been made effective
i in radical and far-reaching fashion.
rebates have been stopped, pure food
law has been passed, proper supervis-
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vided. and the bureau of corporations
established-a bureau which has al
ready done great good and which can
and should be given a constantly in
creas!ng functional power.
1.-THE work of legislation has been
no more important than the work
done by the department Of justice in
executing the laws, not only against
corporations and individuals who have
broken the antitrust or interstate
commerce law but against those who
Scores of suits civil and criminal, have
been successfully undertaken against
offenders of all kinds-many Of them
against the most formidable and
wealthy combinations in the land; In
some the combinations have been dis
solved. in some heavy fines have been
imposed, in several cases the chief Of
lenders nave De6L imprisoned.
ct behooves us Americans to look
ahead and plan ont the right kind of
a civilization, as that which we intend
to develop from these wonderful new
, conditions of vast industrial growth.
1t must not be. 1t shall not be, the civ
ilization of a mere plutocracy, a bank
: ing-house, all-street-s syndicate civ
ilization; nor yet can there be submits
sion to class hatred, to rancor, brutal
wiz Iof
mean the end Of all civilization. In
creased powers are susceptible Of
abuse as well as use; never before
have the opportunities for selfshness
been SO great, nor the results of sell
f1shness so appalling; for in communi-
ties where everything is organized on
a merely selfish commercial basis, such
selfshness, is unchecked, may trans
form the great forces of the new epoch
, into powers of destruction hitherto I'M
equaled.
1--WE need to check the forces of
| greed. to insure just treatment alike of
| capital and labor. and of the general
public, to prevent any man, rich or
poor, from doing or receiving wrong,
whether this wrong be of cunning or of
, violence. Much can be done by wise
legislation and by resolute enforce
| ment Of the law. But still more must
be done by steady training of the in
!, dividual citizen, in conscience and
character until he grows to abhor cor
ruption and tyranny and brutality and
; to prize Justice and fair dealing.
THE men who are to do the work of
the new epoch much be trained so as
to have a sturdy self-respect. a power
: Of sturdy insistence on their own
} rights, and with it a proud recognition
, Of their duties, a sense of honorable
obligation to their fellows. which will
bind them, as by bands Of steel, to re-
frain in their daily work at home or in
their business from doing aught to any
man which can not be blazoned under
the monday SUM-"
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