The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-21
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 do our work today as they did their work In the yesterdays that have van ished The problems shift from gem eration to generation, but the spirit m which they must be approached, IT they ever the same. The Puritan tanned the wilderness, and built up free government on the stump-dotted clear- ings amid the primeval forest. Ills descendants must try to share the life of our complex industrial civilization by new devices. by new methods. so us to achieve in the end the same re- suits of justice and fair dealing to. merely for the sake of innovation. yet he did not hesitate to adopt anything new that would save his purpose. When he planted his commonwealths on this rugged coast he faced wholly new conditions and he had to devise new methods of meeting them. So we of today face wholly new conditions in our social and industrial life. We scheme for grappling with them mere iy because 1t is new and untried;. but we can not afford to shrink from grappling with then. because they can only be srappled with by some new
 The Puritan was no Laodicean. nc 1aissez -fafre theorist When he saw conduct which was in violation of his
 
 of God. as he understood then--ne at- tempted to regulate such conduct with instant, unquestioning promptness and effectiveness. If there was no other of right, then he smote down the trans &ressor with the iron of his wrath. NThe spirit of the Puritan was spirit which never shrank from regulation of conduct if such regulation was neces- sary for the public veal; and this IS the spirit which we must show today whenever it Is necessary.
 Laws That Are Needed.
 The utterly changed conditions of our national life necessitates changes in cer- tain of our laws, of our governmental methods. Our Federal system of gov- ernment is based upon the theory of leaving to each community, to each State. the control over those things which affect only it's own members and which the people of the locality them selves can best grapple with. while providing for national regulation in those matters which necessarily af- fect the nation as a whole. It seems to me that such questions ss national sovereignty and States rights need to be treated not emprricaIiy or acadeb1- ically. but from the standpoint of the interests of the people as whole. Na- tional sovereignty is to be upheld in so far as it means the sovereignty of the people; and States rights are to be upheld in so far as they mean the peo- ple's rights. Especially is this true in dealing with the relations of the peo- pie as q whole to the great corpora lions which are the distinguishing fea- lure of modern business conditions.
 Experience has shown that 1t is nec- essary to exercise far more efficient control than at present over the bus mess use of those vast fortunes. chief ly corporate which are used Gas un- der modern conditions they almost .in- variably arel fin interstate business. When the Constitution was created none of the conditions of modern bus fness existed. They are wholly new and we must create new agencies to deal effectively with them There Is no objection in the minds Of this peo- pie to any mans earning any amount { of money if he does 1t honestly and fairly,-ff he gets 1t as the result of spe- cial skill and enterprise, as a reward of ample service actually rendered. But there Is a growing determination that no man shall amass a great for tune by special privilege, by chicanery and wrong doing. so far as it is in the power of legislation to prevent; and not have business use that Is antiso- ciai. Most large corporations do a business that is not confined to any one State. Experience has shown that the effort to control these corporations by mere State action can not produce wholesome resultA In most cases such effofe fails to correct the real abuses of which the corporation is or maybe guilty; while in other cases the effort is apt to cause either hardship to the corporation itself. or else hardship to neighboring States, which have not tried to grapple with the problem in