Connecticut western news., 1906-12-06
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

idW pEOHlDlIlHg COTpOTdllOHS ITOIu contributing to campaign funds. He also urges the passage of the measure conferring upon the government the right of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law. Continuing, the president says:
 I cannot too strongly urge the pas sage of the bill in question. A failure to pass it will result in seriously ham, pering the government in its effort to obtain justice, especially against wealthy individuals or corporations who do wrong. and may also prevent the government from obtaining justice for wageworkers who are not them selves able effectively to contest a case where the judgment of an inferior court has been against them. The importance of enacting into law the particular bill In question Is further increased by the fact that the gov ernment has TOW definitely begun a | policy of resorting to the criminal law | in those trust and interstate commerce cases where such a course offers req sonable chance of success.
 Proper Use of Injunctions.
 In my last message I suggested the enactment of a law in connection with the issuance of injunctions, attention having been sharply drawn to the mat ter by the demand that the right of applying injunctions in labor cases should be wholly abolished. It Is at least doubtful whether a law abolish ing altogether the use of injunctions in such cases would stand the test of the courts. Moreover. I believe it would be wrong altogether to prohibit the use of injunctions.
 Against Lynehina. I call your attention and the atten- ton of the nation to the prevalence of crime among us and, above all, to the epidemic of lynching and mob violence that springs up now in one part of our country, now in another. A great many white men are lynched, but the crime Is peculiarly frequent in respect to black men, The greatest existing cause of lynching is the perpetration, espe cially by black men, of the hideous crime of rape. the most abominable in all the category of crimes, even worse than murder.
 Lawlessness grows by what 1t feeds upon, and when mobs begin to lynch for rape they speedily extend the sphere of their operations.
 In my judgment, the crime of rape should always be punished with death. i, +ln with intent to commit rape should be made q capital crime, at least in the discretion of the court, and provision should be made by which the punish ment may follow immediately upon the heels of the offense.
 |. "Preaohers of Mere Discomfort"
 In dealing with both labor and capi- tai, with the questions affecting both corporations and trades unions, there is one matter more important to re- member than aught else, and that is the infinite harm done by preachers of mere discontent There must be a stern refusal to be misled into follow ing either that base creature who ap- peals and panders to the lowest in stincts and passions In order to arouse one set of Americans against their fel. lows or that other creature, equally base, but no baser, who in a spirit of greed or to accumulate or add to an already huge fortune seeks to exploit his fellow Americans with callous dis. regard to their welfare of soul and body.
 Employees Hours.
 So far as 1t is In our power it should be our aim steadily to reduce the mum. Der of hours of labor, with as q goal the general introduction of an eight hour day. There are industries in which it is not possible that the hours of labor should be reduced, just as there are communities not far enough | advanced for such a movement to be for their good. On the isthmus of Panama, for instance, the conditions are in every way so different from what they are here that an eight hou day would be absurd, just as 1t is ab- surd, so far as the isthmus is con- cerned, where white labor cannot be employed. to bother as to whether the necessary work is done by alien black men or by alien yellow men. Let me again urge that the congress provide for a thorough investigation ot the conditions of child labor and of the labor of women in the United States. 1 The horrors incident to the employ ment of young children in factories or at work anywhere are a blot on our civilization.
 l In spite of all precautions exercised 1 by employees there are unavoidable accidents and even deaths involved in nearly every line of business connect ed with the mechanic arts. It is n great social injustice to compel the em- | ployee, or. rather, the family of the killed or disabled victim, to bear the entire burden of such an inevitable sac- | rifice
 Capital and Labor Disputes.
 Many of these strikes and lockouts would not have occurred had the pdr- j ties to the dispute been required to a.,- pear before an unprejudiced body rep resenting the nation and, face to fb ce