The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-07

gree Of fidelity that the employer ner-
forms, his, and in this way you van
strike an even BALANCE between each
- -H.sorce,nneat Of the = *1.s,w. F' H.:
=, 1t IL q wholesome thing to: see that
there ls an effort on the part Of those
high in authority to bring before The
bar OF Justice those .flnanciers who have
violated the law. tits common id6a
ana ne ne l9 ~ is IN, made tor the poor
Nothing could be farther from the
ruth. Il at times 1t. seems to-be other
wise IT is because the Officers swere
81 ehs aaw issef snd a 19e ne au
sspecter Of persons; and Dives shouid
hay have no. privileges that Lazarus has
Much has been said, and more has
been written about the fne 'tn1oaed
upon Standard Oil by Judge zIandis,s but
latter all itzis not the !hne So much tflat
IS Is encouraging: as 1t is the TACT that
~ nes vii nt nave salutary effect IN busi-
the courts as we'll, It is a practical
demonstration that the Eoverninent Il
supreme. that the three: co-ord fnata
iDranches OF the government are work
trust in all the world is as a Common
citizen before the bar of Justice. The
necessary and natural result of b
prosecution. of that kind has whole
eS o .Anuo"ce Ill HooIalng pubic SEN.
t!ment, and, gives us all, a greater re
spect for the law and more confidence
IN the government: 1t has only been
within: the last few Years that there
trusts and combinations. The Sherman
a anti lay was practically a dead
letter until after the election of Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Then came the Ellzins'
law and prior to each was the, inter-
state commerce commission act. Which
mad been emaculated by the supreme
court 50 that it was Ineffective. But
since the present president has been
IN ONCE there has been an honest effort
cials to control and regulate. these
great agrgegations Of power to the
end. that evil practices may, be elimin-
ated: So true, is this. that hardly a
nouncing that some trust or combin-
alton has been mulcted-sin damaees
1t Is thought that there ought, still
s De more :drastie, laws pessed On those
be- if the people honestly want them .
It >is for the laboring men Of this coun-
try to see to it that members Of con-
:gress and Of the legislatures are sound
TO- ., the core on the great questions
!, The legfslatures,:- the congress, and
the courts are the vital forces with
which the common people have to deal.
~: ~ Socialism. r:z5:t = y. - :.
"a, IAC ,O1> SOCldllSUl, ana
the individual right to property, there
Is an frreconctfab1e~c conflict: r =.
Those misguided. -misused, eand mig
ludged people are more to be pitied
than condemned. Coming to this coun-
prejudiced> 2 gainst all: forms of gov
eminent which Is the natural result ;of
they are in no At frame Of. mind to
assume the :d,1tfes-an resi- personalities
Iof' citizenship under the Stars and
Stripes Of q free republic, and to teach
the american peoples new system Of
We DO not go to the shores of the
Baitic or the Black Sea, to study the
institutions Of men. and learn the les
sons Of government. but rather. we turn
to the constitution Of our country, and
there learn the iesson~that was written
by our forefathers;:w which they learned
out Of the storm and stress Of battle,
and find, out Of the experience OF more
than 800 years on this continent, that
the right Of the individual II above the
right of property, and that while it
may seem that we -have-been subjected
to. unwise laws and ,to~4bad rulers