Little Falls herald., 1908-02-07
IN SPfc|A MESSAGE
President Urges Necessity Of Ger.
tain Labor Legislation.
FOR ENFORCING THE LAWS
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 injnnctions
inalabor9cases and urges: remedial leg
islat1on. . The president also recon-
unendss the re-enactmente Of the en-
ployers' liability act, recently 2 de.
clared1 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
tion of, law. On this subject he says.
in part:
The attack by the great corpora
tions, on the administrators actions
have been given a wide circulation
throughout the country, in the news
papers and otherwise, by those writer's
and speakers who,,. consciously or TN
consciously, act as the representative
Of predatory wealth LOT the wealth
accumulated on''a giant scale by ill
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 fjobbing and sthe
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 tho rights, OF: prop
erty.; The: books and pamphlets, the
controlled newspapers, the; speeches
by public or private men to, which,
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. It 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 op.
posed by these men on it's passage
and in its administration with every
resource that bitter and unscrupulous
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
violence of the assaults upon our pol
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.
tions 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 far
as 1t is'necessary to achieve this end.
We seek to control law defying
wealth: in the first place to prevent
its doing dire evil to. the republic and
in the next place to avoid the vindic-
tive and dreadful radicalism which. If
left uncontrolled it is certain in the
end to arouse. - ;-,] .'' '.5'j-S.2
The methods BY which the Standard
OH people ind others have achiely1ed
great fortunes can only be Justified by
the advocacy ofaA systVta of morals
which would ,.alst0 Justify every form
Of criminality ony the pdrt OF q labor
,ldibn shd every ,foirm of 'tioisffee. corr
ruptf6n and frAdd,; ltrtIp,m. murder TO
bribery and ballet BOX 1jtu6fng In polil |
tics. .':G1 PIE
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