Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-05

as pracuCaDle actually prOVidlng TOT lne
use of that stream for every other pur-
pose.
"Plans for navigation and power should
provide with special care for sites and
terminals not only for the immediate
present but also for the future. 1t is
because of my conviction in these mat
ters that / am here. The inland water
ways commission has task broader than
the consideration of waterways alone.
There Is an intimate relation between our
streams and the development and con-
servation of all the other great perma-
nent sources of wealth.
"It is not possible rightly to consider
the one without the other. NO study OF
the problem of the waterways could hope
to be successful which failed to consider
also the remaining factors In the great
problem of conserving all our resources.
Accordingly have asked the waterways
commission to take account of the orderly
development and conservation, not alone
of the waters, but Salso of the SOIL the
forests. the mines and all the other nat
ural resources of our country
Against Partisanship
"And, oh, my friends and fellow Ameri-
cans, 1 most earnestly hope all our people
will remember that in the fundamental
questions most deeply affecting the life
of the nation there can be no proper
division on party lines. Matters of such
grave moment should be dealt with along
the lines of consistent and well thought
out policy without regard to any change
of administration or of party at Wash
ington.
"Such questions as the upbuilding and
of the United States navy
the completion of the Panama canal in.
with the plans now being
carried out, and the Improvement OF the
Mississippi river are not party questiorsi
l am striving to accomplish what L can
in such matters as these because tne
welfare of the nation imperiously de-
the action that am taking. 1t is
action in the interest, of all the people,
and the need for it will be as great long
after | have passed out of public life as
1t is now.
s'Before closing let me say word upon
the subject of the regulation of the rail-
ways by congress under the interstate
commerce clause of the constitution. In
my Judgment the old days of happy-go-
lucky indifference on the part of the
public TO the conduct OF the corpora
tions have passed. The American people
has made up it's mind that the condi-
lions of modern industrialism are such
as imperatively to demand supervision
IN the interest of the people as whole
over these great corporations.
Some Corporations Bad
Most emphatically we should do run
Justice to them. but in return we snoulo
exact justice from them to the pubic.
some of them have become so habituated
10 disregarding everything but their own
wishes and interests that the effort to es- /
tablish a proper supervision over them
has aroused on their part curiously un-
antagonism. Their spokes-
men do not seem to be aware that IN |
what we have been trying to do we nave
not been improperly radical; using the
word in it's right sense, we nave peeh
in a policy which must pe permanent -
our democratic institutions are to endure;
while. as a matter of course, we must
also keey, ever in mind that 1t is exactly
as Injurious to true democracy to lnfiict,
as tarnely to suffer, wrong. we can no
more tolerate injustice to the raliroaus
than Injustice by them; one course is as
immoral and as fundamentally miscnleV-
ous and injurious to. the people as 'he
other. 49,
s'In the matter of supervision of tne
great railway corporations we are acung
as All civilized governments have already
acted or are on the point OF acting. Inc
unrestricted issue of railway securities
without any supervision, and under cir
which often result IN tne
grayest scandal, should not be permitted,
and only by governmental action can II
be prevented.
Railways Abroad
.sIt is already thus prevented In Eng
land and Germany, for instance. IN Eng
land the first royal commission OF ran
wavs. of which that great parliamentary
and noprlar leader, William Ewart Glad
stone. was chairman, set forth as funoa-
mental sthe very principles wnlcn hele
have at last been enacted into law VI
which, as firmly believe, VIII speeuiiS
be enacted. ,., .A,.
"Of course. in any movement like this
in which we are now engaged, IN any
movement loking to the regulatlon OF
vast corporate wealth engaged In inter.
state business, and to the cutting out OF
ali abuses connected therewith, tnere Will
at times be suffering in which, un1or-
tunately, many innocent people VIII De
involved. But such suffering of the inno-
cent is unavoidable IN every srea' iho'e
ment of life.
"I am exceedingly sorry for these inno-
cent people but it is not possible, pe:
cause of them, to refuse to proceed
against the men who have yictimizeo
them.
This is a government OF law, "a"
which applies to great and small alike
/ am sorry indeed when it happens that
big men who do wrong have involved
smaller men with no bad. intentions 10
such an extent that they suffer when we
force the undoing of the wrong. But we
cannot hold our hands for such consid-
Grafton. The responsibility for the suf-
ferins of those innocent outsiders lies,
not with us who put stop to the wrong
and punish the wrongdoers, but with
these wrongdoers who mislead their VIC
tins.
.In conclusion, friends, let me impress
upon YOU one thing Good laws can do
much good; indeed, they are often indis-
pensabIe. There is urgent need that we
should have honest and efficient legisla-
ton and honest and efficient action by
those whose province it is to put the leg
islation into effect. But there is Infinitely
more need of high individual average
of character
1.-THE only permanent way to help any
man is to help him to help himself. TO
teach him permanently to depend on any
thing save his own powers is to do him
harm and not good. Let no man per-
suade you that laws by themselves, no
matter how necessary and beneficial, will