Connecticut western news., 1908-04-30
URGES HIS MEASURES
President Sends Another Special
 Message to Congress.
NATIONAL CORPORATION LAW


 Injunctions In Labor Disputes Should
 Be Sparinsly Used-Revision of Tar
 if In Fall - States Cannot Control
 National Commerce,
 Washington, April 29.-The president sent special message to congress urg- ng the passage of his recommenda- hons. The message was in part as fol- lows:
 To the Senate and House of Representa-
 tives:
 In my message to the congress of March 6, 1908, outlined certain measures which | believe the majority of our countrymen desire to have enacted into law at this time. These measures do not represent by any means all that I would like to see done If thought 1t possible, but they do represent what believe can now be done If an earnest effort toward this end S made. ....
 Employers Liability Act.
 Since I wrote this message an employ CTS liability law has been enacted which, 1t is true, comes short of what ought to have been done, but which does repre- sent a real advance Apparently there Is good ground to hope that there will be further legislation providing for recom- pensing all employees who suffer injury while engaged in the public service.
 Following this the president express ed the hope that immediate action on revision of the tariff may be taken by congress next fall and the wish that postal savings banks may be establish ed at that session. The carrying out of the Hepburn law Is advocated.
 Reference to labor union injunctions Is made, and their limitation is strong ly urged. The message says the proc ess of injunction in labor disputes should be sparingly used.,' The mes- sage continues:
 Every farsighted patriot should pro- test first of all against the growth in this country of that evil thing which is called "class consciousness" The demagogue the sinister or foolish Socialist visionary who strives to arouse this feeling Of class consciousness in our working peo- pie does a foul and evil thing, for he is no true American, he is no self respecting citizen of this republic.
 The strengthening of the antitrust law Is demanded upon both moral and eco- homie grounds. Our purpose in strength ening it is to secure more effective con- trol by the national government over the business use of the vast masses of in dividual, and especially of corporate wealth, which at the present time mo- nopolize most of the interstate business of the country, and we believe the con- trol can best be exercised by preventing the growth of abuses rather than mere ly by trying to destroy them when they have already grown. ....+
 Power should unquestionably be lodged somewhere in the executive branch of the government to permit combinations which will further the public interest but 1t must always be remembered that as regards the great and wealthy com binations through which most of the in terstate business of today Is done the bur den of proof should be on them to show that they have right to exist ..- National Incorporation Law.
 The president next expresses the be- lief that ultimately a national incor- poration law will have to be adopted. He says it would further the theory of effective governmental control of corporations which was responsible for the creation of the interstate com merce commission and for the enlarge ment of its powers and for the crea- tion of the bureau of corporations.
 Decisions of the supreme court in Minnesota and North Carolina are cit ed as showing the impossibility of states controlling national commerce.
 The message goes on to say:
 The measures I advocate are in the in- terest both of decent corporations and o1 lawabiding labor unions. They are more over pre-eminently in the interest of the public, for in my judgment the American people have definitely made up their minds that the days of the reign of the great law defying and law evading cor porations are over and that from this time on the mighty organizations of cap ital necessary for the transaction of busi ness under modern conditions, while en couraged so long as they act honestly and in the interest of the general pub lic are to be subjected to careful super vision and regulation of a kind so eff fective as to insure their acting in tht interest of the people as whole.
 A Great Moral Movement.
 But among the many kinds of evil, SO cial, industrial and political which is oul duty as a nation sternly to combat, ther, is none at the, same time more base ant more dangerous than the greed whicl treats the plain and simple rules of hon esty with cynical contempt if they inter fere with making a profit, and as nation we cannot be held guiltless if we con done such action. The man who preache hatred of wealth honestly acquired wh inculcates envy and jealousy and islander ous i'll will toward these of his fellow who by thrift, energy and industry hay become men of means Is a menace to tn community. But his. counterpart in evi is to be found in that particular kind 0 multimillionaire who is almost the leas enviable and is certainly one of the leas admirable of all our citizens, man c whom it has been well said that his fac has grown hard and cruel while his bod has grown soft, whose son is fool an his daughter a foreign princess, who's nominal pleasures are at best those of tasteless and extravagant luxury an whose real delight, whose real life work is the accumulation and use of power i its most sordid and least elevating form In the chaos of an absolutely unrestrict ed commercial individuaism under mod ern conditions this is type that become prominent as inevitably as the maraude baron became prominent in the physice chaos of the dark ages.
 We are striving for legislation to min mize the abuses which give this type it f1ourishing prominence, partly for tn sake of what can be accomplished b the legislation itself and partly becaus the legislation marks our participation great and stern moral movement t bring our ideals and our conduct int