Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-21

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 In the last six years we have shown that there is no individual and no cor poration so powerful that he or il stands above the possibility of punish ment under the law. Our aim is to try to do something effective. Having this in view, the Department of Jus tico has recently taken steps to see il it is not possible, in certain contingen cies and for certain purposes, to put the trusts that are guilty of wrong doing in the hands of receivers. The purpose of the administration is tc stamp out the evil; that we shall seek to find the most effective device for this purpose; and that we shall then use it whether the device can b found in ex, isting law or must be supplied by legis lation. Moreover when we thus take action against the wealth which works iniquity, we are acting in the interest of every man of property who acts de ccntly and fairly by his fellows; and i've are strengthening the hands of those who propose fearessly to defend property against all unjust attacks.
 Rights of Wageworkers
 l very earnestly hope that the legis lation which deals with the regulation of corporations engaged in interstate business will also deal with rights and interests of the wageworkers employed by those corporations. Action was talk en by the Congress last year limiting the number of hours that railway em. ployees should be employed. The law is good one; but if in practice il proves necessary to strengthen it, if must be strengthened. We have now secured national employers liability law; but ultimately a more far-reaching and thorough going law must be passed It is monstrous that a man or woman who is crippled in an industry even as the result of taking what aer the nee essary risks of tn occupation, should be required to bear the whole burden of the loss. That burden should be dis. tributed and not placed solely upon the weakest individual, the one least able to carry it. By making the em- ployer liable, the loss will ultimately be distributed among all the benefciaries of the business.
 l also hope that there will be legis lation increasing the power of the Nat ional Government to deal with certain matters concerning the health of our people everywhere; the Federal author ities, for instance, should join with all the staet authorities in warning against the dreadful seourge tuberculosis. Your own state government, here in Massa. ehusetts, deserves high praise for the action it has taken in these public health matters during the last few years; and in this, as in some other mat ters, l hope to see the national govern. ment stand abreast of the foremost state governments.
 Must Have Good Citizenship
 l have spoken of but one or two laws which, in my judgment, it is advisable to enact as part of the general scheme for making the interference of the national government more effective in securing justice and fair dealing as between man and man here in the United States. Let me add, however. that while it is necessary to have legis- lation 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 as must be his own individ- ual character. It is a necessary thing to have good laws, good institutions; but the most necessary of all things is to have high quality of individual citizenship. This does not mean that we can afford to neglect legislation. 1t will be highly disastrous if we per init ourselves to be misled by the pleas of those who see in an unrestricted individualism the all-suflieient panacea for social evils; but it will be even more disastrous to adopt the opposite papaeea of any socialistic system which would destroy all individualism, which would root out the fiber of our whole citizenship. In any great movement, such as that in which we are engaged, 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 professed friends of liberty who champion license arc 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 corrup- tion and tyranny in the name of order.
 Justice for All
 So it is with this movement for secur- ing justice toward all men, and equality of opportunity so far as it can be se- cured by governmental action. The rich man who with hard arrogance de- clines to consider the rights and the needs of those who are less well off, and the poor man who excites or indulges in envy and hatred of those who are better off, arc alike alien to the spirit of our national life. Each of them should to appreciate the baseness and degradation of his point of view, as evil in the one case as in the other. There exists no more sordid and unlovely type of social development than a plu- tocracy, for there is q peculiar unwhole- someness in social and governmental held up as the greatest good. The ma tcrialism of such view, whether it finds its expression in the life of a man who accumulates vast fortune in ways that are repugnant to every instinct of generosity and of fair deal ing, or whether it finds it's expression in the vapidly useless and selfindulgent life of the inheritor of that fortune. is contemptible in the eyes of all men capable of thrill of lofty feeling. Where the power of the law can be wisely used to prevent or to minimize the acquisition or business employment of such wealth and to make it pay by income or inheritance tax its proper