Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-13

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justice may continue 60 he. what Il now
Us, In very fact the department of JUS
ttce, where so far as our ability per-
mttS justice is metcd out with an even
hand To great and small rich and poor,
weak and strong. Moreover. there
should be no delay in experimenting the
laws now on the statute books by the
ENACTMENT Of further legislation as
outlined in the message | sent to the
congress on its assembling. Under tho
been actually accomplished during the
past six years and IL has been shown
bN actual experience that they can be
enforced against the wcalthiest cor
poratton and the richest and most pow
erlul manager or manipulation of that
corporation, as vigorously and fearless
~ as against the humblest offender.
AboNc all, they have been enforced
against the very wrouCdoers and
agents of wrongdoers who have for
so SO many years gone seot-free and
against great law defying corpora
lions of immense wealth. which, until
within the last. half dozen years have
treated themselves and have expected
others TO treat them as being beyond
and above all possible check from law
~ is especially necessary to secure to
the representatives of the national gov
ernmcnt fun power to deal with the
great corporations engaged I'm inter-
state comercc, and above all with the
great Interstate common carriers Our
people should clearly recognize that
while there are dimculties in any
course of conduct to be followed in
these difficulties must he faced, and one
of three courses followed. The first
course is to abandon all effort to over
see and control their actions in the in
terest of the general public and to per-
init return to the utter lack of con-
troll which would obtain IL they were
lett to the common law do not for
one moment believe that our people
would tolerate this position. The eX-
traordinary growth of modern indus
trialism has rendered the common law.
which grew UP under and was adapt
ed to deal with totally different condi-
uonS, IN many respects inadequate to
deal with the new conditions. These
new conditions make it necessary to
shackle cunning as in the past we have
shaclled force. The vast Individual
and corporate fortunes, the vast COM
binations of capital. which have marked
the development of our industrial sys-
TEN, create new conditions, and neCcs-
state change from the old attitude
of the state and the nation toward the
rules regulating the acquisition and
untrammeled business use of prop
erty, in order both that. property may
the same time those who hold it may
be prevented from wrongdolng.
Talks of Financial Stress.
1--WE have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time it is a sad fact that en-
tirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own and every one must
feel the keenest sympathy for the
large body of honest business men, of
honest investors of honest wageworlS
ers, who suffer because involved in n
crash for which they are in no way
responsible. At such n time there is
natural tendency on the part of many
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
the outlook; but there is no justifica-
ton for this feeling. There is no ma
ton so absolutely sure of ultimate sue
a \ y1,N1l
coed. ours is a nation of mastcrful
energy with a continent for it's domain,
and IT feels within it's veins the thrill
which comes to those who know that
they possess the future. We are not
cast down by the fear of failure. We
are upheld by the confident hope of Ill
innate triumph. The wrongs that eX-
list are to be corrected; but they in no
way justify doubt as to the final out
come doubt as to the great material
prosperity of the future, or of the lofty
spiritual life which is to be built upon
that prosperity as a foundation. No
misdeeds done in the present must be
permitted to ShrOud from our eyes the
glorious future of the nation; but be-
cause of this very fact it behooves us
never to swcrve from our resolute pur-
pose to cut out wrongdoing and uphold
what is right. do not for a moment
believe that the actions of this admin
istration have brought on business dis
tress; so far as this is due to local and
not worldwide causes, and to the ac-
tons of any particular individuals, it
is due to the speculative folly and ia
grant dishonesty of n few men of great
wealth, who seek to shield themselves
from the effects of their own wrong
doing by ascribinE its results to the
actions of those who have sought to
put stop to the wrongdoing. But If
IT We're true that to cut out rottenness
from the body polite meant n mo-
mentary check to an unhealthy
seeming prosperity, I should not for
one moment hesitate to put the knife
to the corruption. On behalf of all
our people, on behalf no less of the
honest man of means than of the hon
est man who earns each days liveli-
hood by the days sweat of his brow, it
is necessary to insist upon honesty in
business and in politics alike, in all
walks of life, in big things and in little
things; upon just and fair dealing as
between man and man. Those who
demand this are striving for the right
In the spirit of Abraham. Lincoln" said
the president in conclusion.