Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-12-07

OF labor, with as q goal the general In
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 alb
surd as 1t is, so far as the isthmus is
employed to bother as to whether the
work is done by allen black men or alien
yellow men,
Investigation of Disputes.
He urges the enactment OF a drastic
lumbia and the territories, and federal
investigation of the subject of child and
female labor throughout the country.
appointed to 're investiFate 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 investiga-
tion of controversies between employers
referring to the fact that d bill has al
ready been introduced to this end he
says; NM,nv ., ,no,s ..r,vs. and ,octopts
would not have occurred had the parties
to the dispute been required to appear
before an unprejudiced body representing
the nation and, face to face. state the
reasons for their contention. In most
Instances the dispute would doubtless be
by each of the others rights, aggravated
by an unwillingness of either party to ac-
cept as true the statements Of the other
as to the justice or injustice OF the mat
ters in dispute. The exercise of 1u-
deai spirit BY body
seh ss the
sion, on Cancellation and arbitration
would tend to create an atmosphere of
tending parties; and the giving each side
case in the presence of the other would
prevent many disputes from developing
into serious strikes or lockouts, and in
other cases, would enable the commits
sion to persuade the opposing parties to
''In this age OF great corporate and la
Dor combinations. neither employers nor
tb 81 sh9Sd fS be ae nspaY o a
pute, regardless of the righteousness Of
their respective claims. The proposed
recognition OF the fact that in. many
| strikes the public has itself an interest
| which cannot wisely be disresarded; an
| ience. for the question OF just and
| proper public policy must also be con-
| sidered. In all legiolation OF this kind
| Ii is well to advance cautiously, testing
| each step by the actual results; the step
| proposed can surely be safely taken. for
the decisions of the commission would
not bind the parties in legal fashion, and
| yet would give a chance for public opin-
ion to exert its full force for the right"
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 the
| rate, meat inspection and food laws. and
| says that all of these have already 1usti-
fed their enactment, but recommends i0SnaofloS
| 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-
perience has conclusivey shown the i'm
possibility of securing by the actions of
nearly half hundred different state
chaos n 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 control that will among other
things prevent the evils of excessive
the disclosures by each big corporation
of its stockholders and of its properties
and business, whether owned ra arrectiy tio,'n oi
This will tend TO put stop to the secur:
ing of inordinate profits by favorec
individuals at the expense whether ol
the general public, the stockholders. OF
the wageworkers. Our effort should be
not SO much to prevent consoldation az
such, but so to supervise and control II
as to see that IL results in no harm u
the people. The reactionary or ultracon,
servative apologists for the misuse o.
control as a step toward socialism. AS q
matter of fact 1t is these reactionariet
selves most potent in increasing soeials
tic feeling. One of the most efhcien,
methods of averting the consequences OF
a dangerous agitation. which Is 80 pei
cent wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cent
of evil as TO which the agitation is wei
founded, The best way to avert the ts very
l H. Ia for hn
ownership of railways is to secure by
the government on behalf of the people
as a whole such adequate control ane
regulation OF the great interstate com
mon carriers as will do away with th'
evils which give rise to the agitation
to the dangerous and wicked agitation
against the men of wealth as such Is Z
secure by proper legislation and eSecu
abuses which actually do obtain in con
nection with the business use OF wealti
under our present system-or rather da ~
quate control at all. Some persons speal
as II the exercise of such governmenta
snTGl xSnd SS wa ahd ths d%arf
would be a vcritabie calamity, to fail t
Individual capacity and effort upon tn
energy. character and foresight whie
IL is so important to encourage in tn
individual. But as a matter of fact tn
deadening and degrading effect of pur
socialism. and especially OF its extrem
form communism. and the destruction Q
Individual character which they woui
bring about, are in part achieved by Tn
wholly unregulated composition whlc
| results in q single individual or corpoI
alton rising at the expense of all other
until his or its rise effectually checks a
Competition and reduces former compet
, tors to a position of utter inferiority an
, | subordination.
I'm enactns and enforcing such leg!!..
| laton as this congress already has to II
. credit, we are working on a cohereE
plan, with tho. steady eendeayor to occur
the moderate men. the plain men VIII
, do not wish anything hysterical
dangerous. but who do intend to des
in resoute commonsense fashion wit
l the real and great evils OF the proser
system. The reactionaries and the viz
: lent extremists show symptoms of tolr
, ing hands against us; Both assert &c g
TO ,goyerpment ownership .d. Of railroad haro9,
9 on such an issue they think the peop
: would stnnd with them, while the @ e,
= | and agitation than TO achieve solid u