Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-12-05

can fake part In tho torture ~ n hui
man being without having his own
moral nature permanently lowered.
Every iynching means Just So much
moral deterioration in all the children
who have any. knowledge of Il. and
trouble for the next generation of
LET justice be both sure and swift;
and not the wild and crooked sayagery
of a mob
81 Capital and Labor
on the subject of capital and labor
the president takes the agitators OF class
hatred to task and says 'to preach
hatred . the rich man. as such.
to seelS to mislend 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 an
preclate the danger IN the doctrines mes
the body polite aud to be false to every
worthy principle and tradition OF Amer
lean national life" Continuing on this
''The plain people who tiinls--the
mechanics, farmers. merchants work
whom American traditions are lear,
who love their country and try to act
decently by their neighbors, owe il to
themselves to remember that the most
damaging blow that can be given pop
ular government * to elect an UNI
worthy and sinister ngitator on a
platform Of violence and hypocrisy.
Whenever such an issue Is raised In
this country nothing can be gained by
ninching from 1t. 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 a thing as the tri-
umph OF the plutocracy and to have
escaped one danger avails 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
as much to fear from the insincere
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 very wealthy II we ever let this
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 eorrup-
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
the violent agitator who hounds on
the mob to plumber the rich There is
nothing to choose between such 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
the aim is fearlessly to do exact and
even justice to ALL"
Railroad Employees Hours.
He asks for the passing OF the bill lin
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
PRODUCTION of an elght-hour day but IN
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 ap-
surd as 1t Is. 80 far as the isthmus Is
concerned, whore white labor cannot be
employed, to bother as TO whether the
work is done by alien black men or alien
= He urges the enactment OF drastic
child labor law for the District OF Go,
lumbia and tho territories. and a federal
Investigation OF the subject of child AND
female labor. throughout the country
He reviews the work of the comnission
| appointed to Investigate labor conditions
In the coal fields of Pennsylvania. IN lsOz
and refers to the wish of the commission
that the state and federal governments
/ should provide the machinery for wha
may be called the compulsory investiga,
tion of controversies between employers
and employees when they arise
Control Of Corporations.
A considerable portion of the message
| Is devoted to the subject of federal con
| troll of corporations in what ne refers .
rate. meat inspection and food laws, ant
says that all of these have already JUST
fed their enactment, but recommend
the amendment of the meat Inspector
law SO as to put dates on the labels o
| meat products, and also to place tn
cost of inspection on the packers rathe
| than on the government; Conunupg OF
| this subject of the control of corporation
| by the federal government he says;
| ''It cannot too often be repeated that ex
perenee has conclusively shown the I'm
| possibility OF securing by the actions
| nearly half q hundred different stat
legislatures anything but inenectix, y,
great corporations which do not operat
exclusively within the limits Of any on
state. In some method, whether py
we must exercise. and that at an earl
date, far more complete control ina
at present over these. great corpora
things prevent the evils of excessiv
overcapitalizatlon. and that Will compt
the disclosures by each big corporate
j and business, whether owned directly Q
thru subsidiary or affiliated corporations
This will tend to put. stop to the secui
individuais at the expense whether {
the general public, the Stockholders, 2
the Wageworkers. Our EFFORT snoulo !
not SO much to prevent consolidation, q
such, but SO to supervise and control
as to see that it results in no harm |
the people. The reactionary or ultracoI
sentative apologlsts for the misuse
wealth assall the effort to secure sue
control as a step toward socialism AS
matter OF fact II is these reacuonisTis
and ultraconseryatives who are then
selves most potent in increasing socialil
tic feeling. One Of the most efncieI
methods OF averting the consequences {
a dangerous agitation, which Is 80 p'
cent wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cen
OF evil as to which the agitation IS we
founded The best way to avert the vei
undesirable move for the government
ownership OF railways Is to secure
the government on behalf OF the peop
a. q whole such adequate control AZ
regulation of the great Interstate con
mon CASTERS as WIN do away with =
evils which give rise 10 the agl.taaSu n
against them. So the proper antdo
10 the dangerous and wicked aFltauS
against the men OF wealth as such Is
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