Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-20
SPEAKS FOR WAGE EARNBRs.'

tacks. No Individual, no corporation
obcying the law has anything TO fear
from this administration"
SPEAKS FOR WAGE FARMERS"
II very earnestly hope that the legisla-
tion which deals with the regulation of
corporations engaged In interstate busi-
ness viii also deal with the rights and
interests of the wageworkers employed
by those corporations. Action was taken
by the Congress last year limiting the
number OF hours that railway employees
should be employed. The law Is n good
one but If in practise It proves necessary
70 strengthen II, 1t must be strengthened.
We have now secured a national employ
ers' liability law; but ultimately n more
farreaching and thorough-going law must
be passed. 1t is monstrous that man or
woman who is crippled In an industry
even as the result OF taking what are
the necessary risks of the occupation
should be required to bear the whole
be distributed and not placed solely
Upon the weakest Individual, the one
least able to carry II. BY making the
be distributed among all the bene-
ficiaries of the business.
NATIONAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN.
81 also hope that there will be legis-
lation increasing the power OF the ma
tional government to deal with certain
matters concerning the health OF our
people everywhere; the Federal authori-
Ties, for instance should join with all
the state authorities in warning against
the dreadful scourge of Tuberculosis.
Your own state government here In
Massachusetts. deserves high praise for
the action 1t has taken in these public
health matters during the last few
years; aud in this. as in some other mat
ters, / hope to see the national govern
ment stand abreast of the foremost state
governments.
LAWS AND CITIZENSHIP.
"T have snnl.an of but ono mr. two laws
which, in my judgment, IL is advisable
TO enact as part OF the general scheme
for making the interference OF the ma
tlonal government. more effective in Sc
curing Justice and fair dealing as be-
tween man and man here In the United
States. Let me add, however. that While
IL is necessary to have legislation when
conditions arise where we can only cope
with evils through the joint action OF all
of us, yet that we can never AFFORD TO
forget that in the last analysis the all
important factor for each OF us must be
his own individual character II is q
necessary thing to have good laws, good
all things is to have a high quality or
individual citizenship. This does not
mean that we can AFFORD to neglect leg
lslaHon. 1t will be highly disastrous II
we permit ourselves to be misled by
the pleas of those who see In an unre-
stricted individualism the all-sufticient
even more disastrous to adopt the oppo-
site panacea OF any socialstic system
which would destroy all indlvldualism.
which would root out the fber OF our
ment. such as that In which we are en-
gagged, nothing is more necessary than
sanity, than the refusal to be led into
extremes by the advocates of the ultra
course on either side. Those protested
friends OF liberty who champion license
are the worst foes Of liberty and tend
by the reaction their violence causes to
throw the government back into the
hands OF the men who champion cor
ruption and tyranny In the name of or
der. So 1t is with this movement for Sc
curing justice toward all men. and equal
ity of opportunity so far as II can be
secured by governmental action.
UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS.
1.-THE rich man who with hard AFRO
gance declines to consider the rights
and the needs OF those who are less well
INDUCES in envy ana hatred of those
who are better off. are. alike alien TO
the spirit OF our national life. Each OF
them should learn TO appreciate the base
as evil in the one case as In the other
PLUTocRAcY uNLovELY.
There exists no more sordid and un-
lovely type of social development than
u plutocracy, for there Is a peculiar I'M
wholesomeness in social and govern
mental ideal where wealth by and Of |
itself is held up as the greatest good. |
The materialism Of such view. whether |
1t finds it's expression in the life OF a man |
who accumulates n vast fortune In ways !
that are repugnant TO every instinct of |
and Of fair dealing. or whcth- |
er 1t finds It's expression in the vapldly |
useless and self-lndulgent life OF the |
lnheritor OF that fortune, Is Contempt |
BILE In the eyes of all men capable OF a |
thrill OF lofty feeling. Where the power |
Of the law can be wisely used to prevent |
or to minimize tn acquisition or bust |
ness employment OF such wealth and |
to make II pay by Income or Inheritance |
tax Its proper share Of the burden Of
] would INVOKE that power
without moments hesitation.
RAPS SOCIALIST NONSENSE
''But while We can accomplish some
thing by legislation, legislation can new
or be more than a part, and often no
more than a small part. In the general
scheme Of moral progress; and crude or
gindlctlve legislation may at any umo |
bring such progress TO Il halt Certain
socialstic leaders propose 10 rcdistrlbute
the worlds goods by refusing 10 thrift
and energy and industry their proper
sullon envy. Such legislation wpuld |
merely, In tho words OF the president
II Columbia university, wreck the 4
worlds efficiency for the purpose Of re-
the worlds discomfort We
should all OF lis work heart and soul
'or the real and permanent bctterment
which win lift our democratic civiliza-
illness, Such botterment cln come only
~ the slow. steady growth Of tho spirit
which metes II generous, but not n SEN
justice 10 each man on his
merits as a man. and which recognizes
he fact that the highest and deepest