Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-20
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FAVORS
NATIONAL CORPORATION LAW
In His Speech Provncetown He Says Legislation
is Inadequate to Control Great Corporations.
Would Deal With Interests of Wage
makers and Make the Liability
Act More Effective

Ivelop. Let us see TO II that we do
not lose what is more important
still; that we do not lose the Puri-
tan's iron sense of duty, his un-
bending unflinching will to do tho
right as II was given him to see the
right IL is a good thing that life
should gain in sweetness but only
provided that IL does not lose In
strength. Ease and rest and pleas-
ure are good things, hut only If
they come as the reward OF work
well done, OF a good fight wcll won.
of strong effort resolutely made and
crowned by high achievement. rhs
life of mere pleasure. OF mere effort
less ease, Is as ignoble for nation
as for an individual. Tho man ie
but poor father who teaches his
sons that ease and pleasure should
he their chief objects lr 'Ife the
woman who is a mere petted TOW.
incapable of serious purpose. shrink
ing from effort and dur. Is more
Mt'able than the veriest ovorworkcd
druge.
T. @ Puritan owed his extraordi-
nnry -lccess in suhtuiLg pils con
iin"ni an making 1t The foundation
i-r % social life OF ordesed liberty
primarily 10 the fact that he com
Dined in a very remarkable degree
both the power of individual ,nlfia
tive, of individual selfheip. aud th,.
power OF acting i'm combination with
his fellows: and that furthermore
he joined 30 a high fear that shrewd
common sense which saves 4 man
from the besetting sins of The vision
airy and the doctrinaire. He was
stout hearted and hard headed He
had lofty purposes, but he had prac-
tical good sense. too He could hold
his own in the rough workday world
without clamorous insistence upon
being helped by others. and yet hc
could combine with others when
ever IT became necessary to do a
job which could not be as well done
by any one nam Individually.
Tho puritan tanned the wilderness.
and built mp free government on
the stump-dottei clearings amid the
primeyal forest His descendants
must try TO hapc the life OF our
complex industrial civilization by
nov devices by new methods. 80 as
TO achieve In the end the same re-
suits OF justice and fair dealing
toward all. so we OF
today face wholly new conditions I'm
our social and Industrial life. We
should certainly not adopt any new
scheme for graphing with them
merely because 30 is new and un-
tried; but we can not afford TO
shrink from graphing with them be.
cause they can only be grappled with
by some new scheme.
The Puritan was no Laodicean. no
laissez-faire theorist when ne saw
conduct which was IN violation OF
his rights of the rights Of man.
the rights Of God as he understood
them he attempted TO regulate
such conduct with instant. unques-
tionlng prompiness and effective
ness
The utterly changed conditions o'
our national life necessitate changes
in certain Of our laws, Of our gov
ernmental methods Our federal
system Of government Is based upon
the theory of leaving to each com
munity. 10 each state. the contro
over those things which affect only
IT'S own members and which the peo
lple Of the locality themselves car
/ best erapple with. while providinl
for national regulation I'm those mat
| ters which necessarily affect the ma
|tion as a whole n seems 10 me thai
such quesfi1ns as national sover
eighty and stato'e rights need 20 b,
treated not cmpirIcally or academic
ally. but from tho standpoint Of th,
interest Of the people ass whole
National sovereignty ie 90 be uphel.
\ in go far as 81 means the sOverei gn
/ ty Of The people used for the rea
and ultimate good of the people. an.
states rights are to DE upheld in 81,
far as they mean The peoples rights
Especially ie This true I'm deaIln,
with the relations of the people al
q whole 20 the great corporation
which are the Distinguishing featur
Of modern business conditions
Experience has shown that 70 O.
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