The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-10-05
:THE DAILY CHIEFTAIN
THE INHERENT DIFFERENCE.

THE INHERENT DIFFERENCE.
prosident Rooseyots speech at Harrisburg yesterday
showed the inherent difference between Rebublicansm
and Democracy, Republicanism insisting upon broad
construction fthe constitution Democracy upon strict
construction And because Of this difference in inter-
pretaton Repubcansm If its bestmen are sent to con-
cress can hope to deal in something like an adequate
manner with the great corporations and monopoies,
while Democracy hating, timd, still clinging to the
old Jefersonan ideal Of state rights never can hope
70 do anything in spite of the demagogc promises made
SO freely by its orators
But the presidents words on this subject are worth
quoting
I we interpret the constitution in narrow instead Of
broad fashion If we forsake the principles Of Washing
ton, Marshall Wilson, and Hamilton we as people
win render ourselves impotent to deal with any abuses
whcn may be committed by the men who have accumu-
lated the enormous fortunes Of today and who these
fortunes il still vaster corporate form in business
nActua experience has shown that the states are
wholly poweress to deal with the subect and any action
or decision that deprve the nation Of the to deal
with IT, simply results in leaving the corporations abso
lutely free to without any effective supervision
whatever; and such course fraught with untold dan
ger TO the future Of whole system Of government
and. indeed, to our whole civilization.
uAi honest men must abhor and reprobate any effort
to excite hostility to Of wealth such We should
do all We can to encourage thrift and business energy
to put premium upon the conduct q the man who
honestly earns his livelihood and than his liyel
hood and who honestly the money be has earned
But il is our clear duty in the interest Of the peo
pie that there adequate supervision and control over
the business Use Of the swollen fortunes Of today and
aso wisely to determine the conditions upon which these
fortunes are to be transmitted and the percentage that
they shall pay the government whose protecting arm
alone enables them to exist Only the nation can do this
work To relegate it to the state is farce and is smp
" another way of saying that it shall be done at all
'sUnder a wise aud farseeing Interpretation Of the
interstate commerce clause Of the constitution main
tain that the national should have complete
power Co deal with all Of this wealth which in any
way goes into the commerce between the states-and
practically all of it that employed in the great cor
porations does thus go in The national legislators
should most scrupulously avoid any demagogc egisla
ton about the business of this wealth. and should
realize that it would be better to have legislation at
all than legislation couched either in vndictive spirit
Of hatred toward of wealth else drawn with the
recklessness of impractcable visionaries. But, on
the other hand it shall and must ultimately be under
stood that the United States government behalf of
the people Of the United States has and to exercise
the power of supervision and control over the business
use OF wealth-n the first place Over all the work of the
common carriers of the nation and in the next place
over the work of all the great corporations which d
recty or indirectly any interstate business whatever
-and this includes almost all OF the corporations.
"During the last few years the national government
has taken very long strides the direction of exercising
and securing this adequate control the great
porations
ITO exercise constantly increasing and constantly