The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-09
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE READ
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5,-+ legislation can do a good deal. Pos
tsr savings banks Will make il easy for
I'M, poorest TO keep their savings in alb
s,1l1fp safety. Tbs regulation OF the na-
,inrsI highways must be such that they
sbaI serve all people with equal justice.
CorDorate finances must be supervised so
ss 10 make il far safer than at present
+,r the man of small means to invest his
-,6nev in stocks. There must be prohibit
ION Of child labor diminltion OF woman
iabOr shortening OF hours Of all mechan-
icaI labor. stock watering should be pro-
bibited. and stock gambling so Tar as IS
,.-ssibIe discouraged. There should be a
-r1eressive inheritance tax on large for
.lups Industrial education should be en-
outraged. AS far as possible We should
Ugbtrp the burden of taxation on the
snail man. we should put a premium
lrpon thrift hard work, and business en-
erav. hut these qualities cease 10 be the
main factor in accommodating a fortune
long before that fortune reaches point
,,bera il would be seriously affected by
any inheritance tax such as l propose.
: T. IS eminenCly right that the nation +
: should fix the termstupon which the
= great fortunes are inherited They y
= varrIv do good and they often do y
= 3arm to those who inherit them in y
= their entirety.
Protection for Wageworkers.
THE above is the merest sketch. hardly
even a sketch in outline of the reforms
for which we should work. But there IS
one matter with which the congress should
deal At this session. There should be no
longer any paltering with the question OF
rgking care of the wageworkers who, IN
der our present industrial system become
killed crippled, or worn out as part OF the
regular incidents Of a given business me
majority Of wa geworkers must have their
rights secured for them by state action;
but the national government should legls-
late I'm ACKNOWLEDGING and far-reachlnS
fashion not only for all employees OF the
national government, but Tor all persons
engaged in interstate commerce. TEe Cd
ject sought for could be achieved 70 a
measurable degree. as Tar as those killed
or crippled are concerned, by proper en-
ployers' liability laws. As far as concerns
those who have been worn out. eau your
attention 20 the fact that definite steps
toward providing old-age pensions have
been taken in many OF our private lndus-
tries. These may be indefinitely eXtehdeu
through voluntary association ana con-
t1ibutorv schemes. or through the agency
Of savings banks, as uncer the recent
Massachusetts plan. To strengthen these
nracticaI measures should be our immedi-
ate duty: il is not al present necessary 10
consider the larger and more general gov
crnmental schemes that most European
governments have found themselves
obliged to adopt
Only Lawyers Benefited.
our present system. or rather no sys-
tenn. works dreadful wrong, ana is of ben
eft TO only one class OF DeOple-Ihe law
vers When a workman Is injured what
he needs is not an expensive and doubt
fBI lawsuit but the certainty Of relief
through immediate administrative action.
The number o. accidents which result in
the death or crippling of wageworkers. in
the union at large, is simply appalling; in
a very few years il runs up a total far
in excess of the aggregate of the dead and
wounded in any modern war. No aca-
demic theory about freedom of contract
IN. ICON s.{frtfOual liberty to contract
should be permitted 10 interfere with this
and similar movements Progress in civ
fization has everywhere meant a limita-
ton and regulation of contract. / call
YOUR especial attention to the bulletin of
The bureau Of labor which gives a state
ment of the methods of treating the I'M
employed in European countries. as this is
a subject which in Germany, for instance,