New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-05
IN SPECIAL MESSAGE JOHN A. LOVELY DEAD
President Urges Necessity Of Ger.
tain Labor Legislation.
Refers to the Bitter and Persistent
Attacks Now Being Made on
the Administration.

Washington, Feb l. - President
Roosevelt has sent a special message
to congress in which he again calls
attention to the abuse of injunctlons
in labor cases and urges remedial leg
islation The president also recon-
mends the re-enactment of the en-
clared unconstitutional, limited in
scope to apply only to interstate com
merce. He refers at length to gam
bling in stocks and futures and urges
that action be taken to prevent at
least the making of large sales OF
what men do not possess and corner
ing the market. In recommending the
Strengthening Of antitrust laws he
calls attention to the bitter and per-
sistent attacks on the administration
now being made by corporations
brought to the bar of justice for viola
ton Of law. On this subject he says,
in part:
The attack by the great, corpora
lions on the administration actions
have been given wide circulation
throughout the country, in the news
papers and otherwise, by those writer's
and speakers who, consciously or un.
consciously, act as the represen tatives
of predatory wealth-of the wealth
accumulated on a giant scale by all
forms of iniquity, ranging from the
| oppression of wage workers to unfair
| and unwholes ONE methods of crushing
| out competition, and to defrauding
| the public by stock jobbing and the
| manipulation of securities. The ad-
| ministration and those who support
| it's views are not only not engaged in
| an assault on property but are siren
! nous uphOlders Of the rights OF prop
| erty The books and pamphlets, the
| controlled newspapers, the speeches
| by public or private men to which I
refer, are usually and especially in
| the interest of the Standard Oil trust
! and Of certain notorious railroad com
! binations, but they also defend other
individuals and corporations of great
wealth that have been guilty of wrong
doing. 1t is only rarely that the men
responsible for the wrongdoing them
! selves speak or write. Normally they
| hire others to do their bidding or find
others who will do it without hire.
Every Honest Measure Opposed.
From the railroad rate law to the
| pure food law every measure for hon
esty in business that has been passed
during the last six years has been OPP
posed by these men on it's passage
and in its administration with every
| resource that bitter and INSCRIPTIONS
| craft could suggest and the command
! of almost unlimited money secure. But
for the last year the attack has been
| made with most bitterness upon the
actual administration of the law, espe-
cially through the department Of jus
| tice, but also through the interstate
commerce commission and the bureau
of corporations. The extraordinary
icy contained in these speeches, edi
torials, articles, advertisements and
pamphlets and the enormous sums OF
money spent in these various ways
! give a fairly accurate measure of the
anger and terror which our public &C
lions have caused the corrupt men
! of vast wealth to feel in the very mar
row of their being.
We act in no vindictive spirit and
we are no respecter of persons. We
seek to stop wrongdoing and we de
sire to punish wrongdoers only SO faI
as it is necessary to achieve this end
We seek to control law defyine
wealth; in the first place to proven
its doing dire evil to the republic ant
in the next place to avoid the vindic
live and dreadful radicalism which, i
left uncontrolled it is certain in the
end to arouse.
The methods by which the STANDARD
Oil people and others have achieved
great fortunes can only be justified b,
the advocacy of a system Of moral
which would also justify every form
of criminality on the part of labo
union and every form of violence, COZ
ruption and fraud, from murder t
. bribery and ballot box stuffing in pol
tics.
ARRANGEMENT CONCLUDED