The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-08-31
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FIRM
TO END CORPORATION ABUSE
His Speech at ProvincetoWn Indicates
There Will Be No Counternaroh
In Campaign to Punish
Wrongdoers.

Provincetown. - President Roose
welt delivered an address her,
Tuesday at the celebration II
esmmemorataion Of the first landin.
OF the pilgrims on the American con
tiHent- After he had paid loft,
tribute to the forefathers, Mr.. Roose
welt turned to the question of check
Ing corporation abuses and made 1
evident that there is to be no coun
ter march In the governments at
tempt to punish wrongdoers. no mat
ter what their personal and ffnancia
station in life.
There was reiteration in the chic
executives address, however, of the
determination OF the authorities thai
no legitimate business interests are
to suffer and that the only ones who
have cause to fear are the breakers OF
the law.
Innocent VIII Not Suffer.
In its main points, while firm in
the purposes expressed on other coca
sions, the presidents speech was re.
assuring to those who have feared
that in the general scheme of Mr..
Roosevelt's policies the innocent might
be involved with the guilty.
Mr.. Roosevelt gave his direct sane
ton to national incorporation law
for concerns doing an interstate bust
ness, saying that 1t Is his belief that
such corporations can be controlled
by the federal government under the
interstate commerce clause, and, II
necessary, under the post roads clause
of the constitution.
An earnest word was spoken for
legislation which will conserve the
rights and interests of wage-earners
employed by corporations engaged in
interstate commerce. Mr.. Roosevelt
said that II the law enacted last win
Ter limiting the hours of work of rail-
way employees was not strong enough
Il must be strengthened.
Fer strens Employers Liability Law.
Declaration was made that a more
iar-rezrhing and thorough-going en-
p]o!ers' liability Law must be passed.
The rres.tea, said: 1T is monstrous
thai -z1 O. q woman Who in Grip
Pied II an iD61st-J, e.en as the re-
suit q taking what are the necessary
TsEEs Of tie occrps-5ca- should be re-
CURED 10 Dear The whole burden of
tie fssk BT making the employer
Liable The lust VIII b. distributed NJ
t--rsktssT among al he t4-eSc!aries
q the BUSINESS"
Tuprhing Lts Eszissr ~ raceiysrships
icr Tnstf Thai are xUSltr o. wrong
ouiBg M Etr@srelt SAID Ina. the de-
sire 10 dv ss-lerasrx elective" and
lnzt nvreere-. wtsI We thug take
Ec-1oD aExlDsi the wealth. which works
inieuitr VI. are acting IL The interest
Of eTerT rsa u property WHO acts de-
Gently and tajr tF his fellows, and
We are strengthening the hands Of
thcpe wbo Propose tezriss.iy 10 de.
fend property zgsiaEt all unjust at.
tscks.
Disaster in socisi.stic Psnscea.
Concerning indiylduzIism and so
cialism the president said: 1T will
be high. disastrous IL we permit our.
selves u be misled by the pleas OF
those who see In an unrestricted indi.
viduahsm the all-suficient panacea for
social evils; but 1t will be even more
disastrous to adopt the opposite pana.
cea of any socialistic system which
would destroy all individualism, which
would root out the fiber Of our whole
citizenship"
An echo Of his recent undesirable
citizen procurement is to be found
in this passage from Mr.. Rooseyelt's
speech: There is unfortunately
certain number Of our fellow country.
men who seem to accept the view that
unless a man can be proved guilty of
some particular crime he shall be
counted good citizen, no matter how
Infamous the life he has led, no mat
ter how pernicious his doctrines or
his practices. This is the view
announced from time to time with
clamorous insistence. now by a group
OF predatory capitalists, now by
group OF sinister anarchistic leaders
and agitators"
Supervise Railways Like Banks.
In touching upon the railroads the
president declares: The national
government should exercise over them
supervision and control similar to
that which Is now exercised over ma.
tional banks. We can do this only
by proceeding farther along the line
marked out by recent national legis.
lation."
Concerning the matter of national
control a. II might conflict with the
rights OF the states Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
IT seems to me that such dues-
tons as national sovereignty and
states rights need be treated not EN-.