The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26

consider, and pass upon the questions
in controversy in connection with the
strike in the anthracite regions OF
Pennsylvania and in the causes out of
which the controversy arose., in their
report, findings, and award exprest
the belief that the State and FEEDER
al governments should provide the
machinery for what may be called
the compulsory investigation of con-
%troyersies between employers and
employees when they arise"
This expression Of belief is deserv-
ing of the favorable consideration
of the Congress and the enactment
of it's provisions into law. A bill
has already been introduced to this
| end.
The message, after stating that all
remaining coal lands have been with
drawn from sale urges that their
ownership and control remain with
the Government.
The present Congress, observes the
| President, has taken long strides in
the direction of securing proper SUI
pervision and control of the National
| Government over corporations en-
| gagged in interstate business-and
the enormous majority Of corpora
| lions of any size are engaged in inter-
state business The passage Of the
railway rate bill, and only to g less
degree the passage of the pure food
bill, and the provision for increasing
and rendering more effective nation
al control yer the beef-packtng in
dustry, mark an important advance
in the proper direction. In the short
session it will perhaps be difficult to
do much further along this line; and
| it may be best to wait until the laws
have been in operation for a number
| of months before endeavoring to in
| crease their scope.
On the subject of agriculture the
message says, in part:
The only other persons whose well
fare is as vital to the welfare of the
whole country as is the welfare of
the wageworkers are the tillers Of the
| soil, the farmers. There must be open
to farmers the chance for technical
| and scientific training, not theoreti-
cal merely but Of the most severely
practical type. Organization has be-
come necessary in the business
world and it has accomplished much
for good in the world of labor. 1t
is no less necessary for farmers. Such
a movement as the grange movement
is good In itself and is capable of a
well-nigh infinite further extension
for good so long as 1t is kept to its
own legitimate business. The bene-
fits to be derived by the association
of farmers for mutual advantage are
partly economic and partly sociolog-
ical.
The President states that in his
Judgment the whole question Of mar
riage and divorce should be relegated
to the authority Of the National Con-
gress. At present the wide difference
in the laws of the different States on
this subject result in scandals and
abuses; and surely there Is nothing
so vitality essential to the welfare of
the nation, nothing around which the
nation should so bend itself to throw
every safeguard, as the home life of
the average citizen. The change
would be good from every standpoint.
In particular it would be good be;
cause it would confer on the Congress
the power at once to deal radically
and efficiently with polygamy; and
this should be done whether or not
marriage and divorce are dealt with.
There are regions in u land, and
classes Of our population, where the
birth rate has sunk below the death
rate. Surely it should need NO dem
onstration to show that wilful steril-
ity Is, from the standpoint Of the
nation, from the standpoint Of the
the penalty Is national death, race
death; a sin for which there Is no
atonement; a sin which Is the more
dreadful exactly in proportion as the
men and women thereof r in other
respects, in character, and bodily and
mental powers, those whom for the
sake Of the State it would be well
to see the fathers and mothers Of
many healthy children, we'll brought
up in homes made happy by their
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