Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-05-07
PRESIDENT IN
URGENT APPEAL
FOR LEGISLATION
Roosevelt Sends Another Mes.
sage to Rouse Present
Congress to Activity.
OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE
Stronger Antitrust Law and Resula.
ton Of Labor and Capital Relations
Are Greatly Needed-civie
Conscience Firmer.

Are TREATY. Neeoeo-OtvSe
Conscience Firmer.
Washington, April 28.-The president
has sent another special message to
congress-. strongly urging the passage
of measures which he has from time to
time recommended. He lays special
emphasis on the Importance of legisla-
ton to do away with abuse of the pow
er Of injunction. amendments to the
antitrust law n a bill strengthen
ing the Hepburn rate law. The mes
sage is an appeal TO the public con-
science as we'll as to the whose
policy Is to do nothing. The message
follows:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
In my message to the congress of March
Is. 1908. l outlined certain measures which
l believe the majority of our country
this time. These measures do not rep
resent by n means all that 1 would like
to see done If / thought it possible, but
they do represent what believe can now
be done If an earnest effort toward this
end is made.
Since +! wrote this message an employ
ers' liability law has been enacted which,
It is true. comes short Of what ought to
have been done. but which does represent
q real advance. Apparently there is good
ground to hope that there will be further
legislation providing for recompensing all
employees who suffer injury while engaged
In the public service: tina there will be a
cnlld-iabor law enacted for the District
sion will be continued with sufficient
financial uppor to increase the effective
ness or Its preparatory work: that steps
VIII be taken to provide for such investi-
CATION into tariff conditions, by the ap-
propriate committee of the House of Rep
resentatives and by government experts
N the executive service, as will secure
the full information necessary for imme-
diate action in revising the tariff at the
hands of the congress elected next fall:
and finally. that financial legislation will
ures for meeting n trouble that may
arise i'm the next year or two, and for a
commission of experts who shall thor
1ughly Investigate the whole matter. both
here and in the great commercial coun-
tr.es abroad. so as to be able to recon-
mend legislation which will put our finan-
cial system on an efficient and perma-
nent basis. It is much to be wished that
one feature of the %inancial legislation of
this session should be the establishment
OF postal saving banks. Ample appropria-
state commission to carry out
the very important feature of the Hep
supervision and control over the count
Ing. Systems of the railways. Failure to
provide means which will enable the COM
mission to examine the books of the rail-
NNSo $50 AAAOSAs " ObA oSs0Sh VII SliC
law at Its most vital point, and would
benefit. as nothing else could benefit.
those railways which are corruptly or In
competently managed. Forest reserves
should be established throughout the APP
paiachian mountain region wherever it
can be shown that they will nave II di-
walton and improvement of navigable
rivers.
Two Measures.
There seems. however. much doubt
about two of the measures l nave recom-
mended: the measure to do away with
abuse of the power of injunction and the
measur or group of measures to strength
en- ana DIRE ren aSe both more efficient and
eminent over the great corporations doing
an interstate business.
First, as to the power of injunction and
of punishment for contempt. In contempt
cases. save where immediate action is inn
perative. the trial should be before an
other Judge. AS regards injunc-
be enacted: They are blind who
fail to realize the extreme bitterness
caused among large bodies OF worthy citi-
made of the power of injunction in labor
disputes. Those in whose Judgment W.
have most right to trust are Of the opinion
the use of the injunction is unwarranted
yet that 1t is unquestionably true that
IN n number Of cases this power has
s 1SSn USED of la to fns men. inj ask t If th !,
be limited in some such way as that j
have already pointed out in my previous
MESSAGES for the very reason that I dc
to destroy 1t. 1t is unwise stubbornly ia
refuse to provide against a repetition OF
the abuses which have caused the present
idle to expect permanently to thwart the
determination OF the great body of oul
citizens. It may be and often is the
hI0hnat daNfV NJ a mn a Hl0rv1r1n A,,a1 -,
an executive. to resist n defy a gus,
OF popular passion: and most certainly
no public servant. whatever nay De the
consequences to himself. should yield te
what he thinks wrong. But in a Ques.
ton which is emphatically one of public
policy, the policy which the public de.
n a persistent refusal to grant to .
large portion of our people what is RICH,
IA only too apt In the end to result ir
is obtained 1t is obtained in the cours.
OF q movement so i'll considered and VIC
lent as to be accompanied by much tina
labor disputes, as well as where stat,
laws are involved, should be used spar
ingly. and only when there is the clear
est necessity for It; but It is one So
duty by the court on behalf of the nation
that It IL In the highest degree to bt
regretted that 1t should be liable to reck
less use; for this reckless use tends t.
make honest men desire so to hamper it
execution - to destroy its usefulness.
"ctass Consciousness"
Every far-sighted patriot should protes
Qrst Of all against the growth in thi,
country Of hat evil thing which is called
"class CONSEQUENCES The demagogue
who strivessto arouse this feeling Of clas
consciousness n our working people. doe
2 foul and evil thing; for he is no tru'
Of this republic. he forfeits ali right I,
stand With manly self-reliance on q foot
Ing of entire equality with all other citi
erects the doctrine Of class hatred Int,