The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-11
PUTS IN A BUSY DAY
EN- by Atlantic and Savannah, and four
silver comparts. one zach from Brans.
wick. Athens, Augusta and Albany.


/, silver comparts. one tach from Brgns.
wick. Athens, Augusta and Albany,
Tho Presidents Address. i
President Rosevelts address at the
Georgia State Building was In part
as follows:
We have inherited and developed 4
superbly selfrellant individualism In
this country. most earnestly hope
that 1t will not be lost that 1t will
lnsver be exchanged for a deadening
socialism. The only permanently ben
eficial way in which to help anyone
lis to help him TO help himself: If either
private charity. or governmental ac-
ton, or any form of social expression
destroys the individuals power OF
self help the gravest possible wrong
| Is really done to the individual.
Nevertheless, as the conditions OF life
grow more complex, 1t is not possible
to trust our welfare only to the un.
bridled individual initiative of each
unit Of our population working as that
unit will. We need laws for the care
of our children which were not needed
when this country was in its infancy
We need laws fer the control of vast
corporations such as wire moi needed
when the individual fortunes were far
smaller than at present, and when
these fortunes were not combined for
business use. In the same way W.
need to change our attitude toward
labor problems from what that atti
tude was in the days when the great
bulk OF our people lived in the coun-
try with no more complex labor rela. |
tions than is implied in the connec-
tion between the farmer and the hired |
help.
For example, the great increase In |
mechanical and manufacturing opera |
lions means a corresponding Increase |
In the number of accidents TO the |
wage-workers employed therein, these |
including both preventable and in
evitable accidents. To the ordinary
wage-worker's family such a calamity /
means grim hardship. AS the work
is done for the employer and there-
fore ultimately for the public. it Is !,
a bitter injustice that it should be
the wage-worker himself and his wife
and children who bear the whole pen
atty. Legislation should be had. alike
from the nation and from the states,
not only to guard against the needless
of these accidents but
to relieve the financial suffering due Ia
them. Last winter Congress passer a 4
law which marked a
long stride in the right direction But
here should be additional legislation
o secure pecuniary compensation to
xorkmen suffering from accidents%
and when they are killed, to their
At present both in the
sphere covered by national legislation
and in the sphere covered by statel
legislation, the law in too many cases
leaves the financial burden of indus \,
rial accidents 10 be borne by the In I
ured workmen and their families: | t
nd workman who suffers from an | |
ccident either has no cass at all for d
edress or else must undertake a
nit for damages against his employer. S
he present practice is based on the d
lew announced nearly seventy years S
go that principles of justice and h
God sense demand that workman O
hall take upon himself all he ordl. '
airy risks of his occupation" In my a
lew, principles of justice and good G
ense demand the very reverse Of Isl
his view, which experience has prov
d TO be unsound and productive of
'ide spread suffering. 1t Is neither
ist. expedient, nor humane. 1t is re-
olting to judgment and sentiment -
like, that the financial burden of ac-
dents occurring because of the -
lcessary exigencies of their daily oc. =,
lpatlon should be thrust upon those y
Ifferers who are least able to bear at
and that such remedy as is theirs a.
lould only be obtained by litigation I,
hich now burdens our courts. oI
AS matter of fact there is no 90
'und economic reason for distinct
on between accidents caused by neg.
gence and those which are unavold-
lie. an dthe law should be such that ST
a payment of those accidents viii III
,come automatic instead of being a II
alter for a lawsuit Workmen should c.
ceive a certain definite and limited dc
for all accidents in in al
stry irrespective of neglig nee. re
hen the employer. the agent OF the Ic
bic, on his own responsibility and
r his own profit. in the business Of
rving the public. Starts in motion
encies which Greats risks for 9TH si'
5. he should take all the ordinary wi
d extraordinary risks involved: and pr
Dugh the burden will at the mo- ma
ent be his. it will ultimately be as as
med. as 1t ought to be. by the & ner- ssl
public. Only in this way can the PIE
ock Of the accident be diffused. for
will be transferred from employer
consumer. for whose benefit all
lustries are CARR d on. From
cry standpoint the change would be the
benefit. The community at large bre
Iuld share the burden as well as VIII
benefits Of industry. Employers mil