Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-06-14
VALUABLE ASSET
Children Are to Become the N =
ton Of the Future
VIEWS OF ROOSEVELT
Legislation Needed For Control of
Great CorporatIons--Wo Have
Burden OF Litigation From Acct
dents Lifted From Laboring Class


Burden OF Litigation From Acct
dents Lifted From Laboring Class
Norfolk. June 11.-BrOught back to
the jamestown exposition by the formal
opening of Buloch hall, the ancestral
home of his mother, at Roswell, Ga,
and reproduced here as the Georgia
state building, President Roosevelt was
for the second time the central figure
of an attractive exposition program.
In his Georgia day address the pres
dent said in part:
During the last quarter of century
this nation has made astounding strides
in material progress, and in no other
section has this progress been more
noteworthy than in the south.
''In the south, as everywhere through
the Union, we need to see good educa-
ton given free to all children, no mat
ter what may be their race or color.
Nor can we wisely permit this educa-
ton to be of a merely literary type.
1.-The factory is a very poor place for
a child; indeed, personally | think the
factory a poor place for woman-cer.
tainly for married woman: or for an
unmarried woman for more than very
few years. In any community organ
lied on really healthy lines the average
woman will have quite enough to dorin
her own home whether she is rich OIL
poor
"The nations most valuable asset Is
the children; for the children are the
nation of the future.
There is increasing need that the
welfare of the children should be effec-
lively safeguarded by governmental ac-
ton; with the provisO, however, that
this action shall be taken with knowl-
edge and in a spirit of robust common
sense.
I'VE need laws for the control of vast
corporations such as were not needed
when the individual fortunes were far
smaller than at present. and when
these fortunes were not combined for
business use. In the same way. we
need TO change our attitude toward la
Dor problems.
/ at is neither just. eXpedient nor hui
name; it is revolving to judgment and
sentiment alike. that the financial bur-
den of accidents occurring because Of
the necessity exigencies of their daily
occupation should be thrust upon those
sufferers who are least able to bear it.
and that such remedy as is theirs
: CHI nnlx oh iDnt ia ~
which now burdens our courts.
when the employer, the agent of the
public, on his own responsibility and for
his own profit, in the business of serving
the public, starts in motion agencies
which create risks for others he should
take all the ordinary and extraordinary
risks involved, and, though the burden
nateIy be assumed, as II ought to be
By the general public.
Congress should adopt legislation
providing limited but definite compen-
sation for accidents TO all workmen
within the scope OF the federal power
Including employees in navy yards ant
arsenals. Similar legislation should
ICllON tut ne Oiu
and inadequate remed- of suit for negIi
gence would then gradually disappear
"Such a policy would mean that will
increased responsibility of the employer
| would come increased care, and acct
dents would be reduced in number
The temporary burden involved vii
not hamper our industries.
4 Ia, -
point out the extreme unwisdom of tn,
railway companies IN fighting the con
stltutiOnality of the national employers
liability law. No law is more EN-
, phatcally needed. and it must be KEEP
, on the statute books in drastic an,
; thorough going form. The railroad
? are prompt to demand the interference
ard to claim the protection of the fed
eral courts in times of riot and disor
der and, in turn, the federal govern
ment should see to it that they are no
permitted successfully to plead tina
they are under the federal law whel
- thereby their own rights can be Pre-
tected. but outside of il when it is IN
voked against them in behalf of tn
rights OF olnelS'
'If it is proper for the federal court
to issue injunctions in behalf of raj
roads, it is proper that railroads shout
be held to strict liability for accident
= Occurring to their employees"
President Roosevelt addressed tn
!" National Editorial association in the al
ternoon. He said that taxation an
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which must be considered carefully an
that our natural resources must be col
served for the people and not go to pr
vate owners, who want it only for prof
, The president favored Inheritance an
;, income taxes, but believed the formt
10 the better system.
T. Electrocuted In Mid Air