Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-12-07

moral deterioration in all the children
who have any knowledge of it. and
therefore just so much additional
trouble for the next generation of
Americans.
but let it be justice under the law.
and not the wild and crooked savagery
of a 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 inhame to mad
ness honest men whose lives are hard
and who have not the kind of mental
training which will permit them to APP
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
lean national life" Continuing on this
subject he says:
THE plain people who think-the
mechanics. farmers, merchants. work
ers with head or hand, the men NO
whom American traditions are dear
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 I'M
worthy and sinister agitator on q
platform of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever. such an issue is raised in
this country nothing can be gained by
fiinching from ii, for in such case dem
ocracy is itself on trial, popular self
government under republican forms is
itself on trial The triumph of the
mob is just as evil thing as the tri-
umph of the plutocracy. and to have
escaped one danger aYails nothing
whatever il we sucuumb to the other.
In the end the honest man, whether rich
or poor. who earns his own living and
tries to deal Justly by his fellows, has
and unworthy demagog. promising
much and performing nothing, or else
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
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 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-
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 violent agitator who hounds on
the mob to plumber the rich. There is
nothing to choose between such a re-
dictionary 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
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 a goal the general in
of an eight-hour day, but in
sists that on the Isthmus of Panama the
III frT.,. hat
they are here that the introduction of an
eight-hour day on the canal would be
absurd, and continues, Just about as alb
surd as it is, so far as the isthmus is
where white labor cannot be
to bother as to whether the
work is done by alien black men or alien
yellow men,"
He urges the enactment OF a drastic
child labor law for the District of Co
lumbia and the territories, and federal
of the subject of child and
female 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
should provide the machinery for what
may be called the compulsory investiga-
lion of controversies between employers
and employees when they arise
Control of Corporations.
A considerable portion of the message
-rol of corporations in what he refers TO
he passage at the last session OF the
ate meat inspection and food laws, and
says that all of these have already JuSu-
led their enactment. but recommends
he amendment of the meat inspection
aw so as to put dates on the labels OF
cost of inspection on the packers rather
han on the government Continuing on |
his subject of the control of corporations |
~ the federal government he says;
TT cannot too often be repeated that ex- |
)erience has conclusively shown the i'm |
of securing by the actons Oh
legislatures anything but ineffective |
,haos in the way of dealing with the
,reat corporations which do not operate |
within the limits of any one |
tate In some method, whether by /
rational license law OF in other fashion, |
We must exercise, and that at an carry /
late, far more complete control tnan
L present over these great corpora
ions-a control that will among otner
hings prevent the evils OF excessive /
disqualification, and that will compel /
he disclosures by each big corporation
f its stockholders and of its properties
nd business, whether owned directly or
hru subsidiary or affiliated corporations
his will tend to put a stop to the secur-
ng of inordinate profits by favored
Individuals at the expense whether OF
he general public. the stockholders or
ot so much to prevent consolidation as
UGH, but so to supervise and control II
S to see that it results in no harm TO
he people. The reactionary or ultracon-
ervative apologists for the misuse OF
Yealth assail the effort to secure such
ontrol as a step toward socialism. As
natter of fact ii is these reactionaries
nd ultraconservatives who are them
elves most potent in increasing soeialis-
&c feeling One of the most emclent
iethods of averting the consequences OF
dangerous agitation. which is 80 per
emit. wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cent
{ evil as to which the agitation Is Wen
FUNDED The best way to avert the very
ndesirable move for the governmental
of railways is to secure py
ne goyernment on behalf of the people
5 whole such adequate control and
equation of the great interstate COM
ION ca~-iers will do away with the
wills which give rise to the agitation
gainst them So the proper antidote
the dangerous and wicked agitation
gainst the men of wealth as such is TO
,cure by proper legislation and execu-