The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

man being without having his own moral nature permanently lowered. Every lynching means just so much moral deterioration in all the children who have any knowledge of it, and therefore just so much additional trouble for the next generation of
 Let justice be both sure and swift; but let it be justice under the law. and not the wild and crooked savagery of 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 hatred to- the rich man, as such, to seek to mislead and inflame to mad ness honest men whose lives are hard and who have not the kind of mental training which will permit them to ap- preciate the danger in the doctrines preached is to commit a crime against the body polite and to be false to every worthy principle and tradition of Amer ican national life." Continuing on this subject he says
 "The plain people who think-the mechanics, farmers, merchants, work CTS with head or hand. the men to who love their country and try to act decently by their neighbors. owe it to themselves to remember that the most damaging blow that can be given pop ular government is to elect an un- worthy and sinister agitator on a platform of violence and hypocrisy. Whenever such an issue is raised in this country nothing can be gained by f1inching from it. for in such case dem ocracy is itself on trial. popular self government under republican forms Is mob is just as evil thing as the tri- umph of the plutocracy. and to have escaped one danger avails nothing whatever if we sucuumb to the other. In the, end the honest man, n,whether rich or poor. who earns his own living and tries to, deal justly by his fellows, has Y, and unworthy demagog. promising much and performing nothing. or else performing nothing but evil, who would set on the mob to plunder the rich, as from the crafty corruptionist, who, for his own ends, would permit the common people to be exploited by government fall into the hands of men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to Americas past. Moreover, the demagog and acorrup- tionist 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- cutes them when they violate the law, or who seeks to. make them bear their proper share of the public burdens. as being even more objectionable than the mob to :plunder the rich. There Is nothing to choose between such a re- actionary and such -an agitator; funda- mentally they are alike in their selfish disregard of the rights of others; and it is natural that they should join in opposition to any movement of which the aim is fearlessly to do exact and even justice to all"
 Railroad Employees Hours.
 He asks for the passing of the bill linn iting the number of hours of employment of railroad employees, and classes the measure as very moderate one. He says the aim of all should be to steadily reduce the number of hours of labor, with as goal the general in- troductlon of an eight-hour day, but fn- sists that on the 1sthmus of Panama the conditions are so different from what they are here that the introduction of an elght-hour day on the canal would be absurd, and continues, just about as ab- surd as it is, so far as the isthmus is concerned, where white labor cannot be employed, to bother as to whether the yellow men,"
 He urges the enactment of drastic chl}d labor law for the. District of Co., investigation of the subject of child and fema-s labor throughout the country. 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 may be called the compulsory investiga- ton of controversies between employers and employss when they arise."
 Control of Corporations.
 A considerable portion of the message is devoted to the subject of federal con trol of corporations in what he refers to the passage at the last session of the rate, meat inspection and food laws, and says that all of these have already justi- fled their enactment. but recommends 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 be repeated that ex- possibility of securing by the actions of nearly half a hundred different state legislatures anything but ineffective great corporations which do not operate exclusively within the limits of any one state. In some method, whether by a we must exercise, and that at an early date, a far more complete control than at present over these great corpora tions-a control that will among other things prevent the evils of excessive overcapitalization, and that will compel the disclosures by each big corporation and business, whether owned directly or thru subsidiary or affiliated corporations. This will tend to put stop to the secur. individuals at the expense whether of the general public, the stockholders; or the wageworkers Our. effort should be not so much to prevent consolidation as such but so to supervise and control it as to see that it results in no harm to the people. The reactionary or ultracon- servatiye apologists for the misuse of wealth assail the effort to secure such control as a step toward socialism. As matter of fact 1t is 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 80 per cent. wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cent of evil as to which the agitation is well founded. The best way to avert the very undesirable move for the governmental ownership of railways is to secure by the government on behalf of the people as a whole such adequate control and regulation of the great interstate com raor, e:iers will do away with the