The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-04-30
PRODS CONGRESS
IN new MESSAGE
PRESIDENT AGAIN ASKS PASSAGE
OF SEVERAL LAWS.
DOCUMENT is NOT READ
Chief Executive Urges Injunction and
National Incorporation Legislation
--Raps Girls Who Marry
Foreign Nobiemen.

Washington, Apr. 2S.-Conditions in
both the senate and the house were
such that the special message of the
president, further outlining his views
as to legislation, which was sent 10
congress Monday received but scant
attention. ;,
The message arrived late in the day
and the house was so tied up under its
new rules that il could not officially
receive the message, while the senate
was in the midst of the consideration
of the naval appropriation bill under
the ten-minute rule when the docu-
ment reached that body Unlike the
house, the senate permitted the for
NAL presentation of the message, but
by the time the naval bill had been
disposed OF the hour was SO late and
the attendance so small that no at
tempt was made to read the docu-
ment
The message in part: 80. rN
In my message 10 the congress of
March %. 1908, / outlined certain
measures which | believe the majori-
~ Of our countrymen desire to have
enacted into Law at this time These
measures 90 not represent by any
means all that / would like to see
done II thought it possible, but they
do represent what | believe can now
be done If an earnest effort toward
this end is made
Asks Injunction Legislation.
First, as to the power Of injunction
and OF punishment for contempt. lIn
contempt cases, save where immediate
action is imperative, the trial should
be before another Judge AS regards
injunctions, some such legislation as
that have previously recommended
should be enacted. They are blind
who fail to realize the extreme bitter
ness caused among large bodies of
worthy citizens by the use that has
been repeatedly made Of the power of
Injunction in labor disputes. Those in
whose judgment we have most right to
trust are OF the opinion that while
much Of the complaint against the use
Of the Injunction is unwarranted. yet
that 1t is unquestionably true that in
a number Of cases this power has been
useds5hpbe grave injury of the rights
iaBerin '-filisGti ,ssfk that hat ii ii be-
limited in some such way as that
have already pointed out in my preyi-
GUS messages, for the very reason that
/ do not wish to see an embittered eff
fort made to destroy It
Decrles overuse Of injunction.
But in a question which is en-
phatically one of public policy, the
policy which the public demands is
sure in the end to be adopted; and
persistent refusal to grant to large
portion of our people what is right is
only too apt in the end to result in
causing such irritation that when the
right is obtained it is obtained in the
course of a movement so i'll considered
and violent as to be accompanied by
much that is wrong. The process of
Injunction In labor disputes, as well
as where state laws are involved,
should be used sparingly, and only
when there is the clearest necessity
for it; but IT is one so necessary to
the efficient performance of duty by
the court on behalf Of the nation that
it is in the highest degree to be re-
GREETED that 1t should be liable to reck-
less use: for this reckless use tends
to make honest men desire so to ham
per its execution as to destroy its use
fulness. ..
Would Strengthen Trust Law.
The strengthening of the antitrust
law is demanded upon both moral and
economic grounds. Our purpose in
strengthening 1t is to secure more effec-
tive control of the national government
over the business use OF the vast
masses of individual, and especially
of corporate, wealth, which at the pres.
ent time monopolize most of the in.
terstate business of the country; and
we believe the control can best be
exercised by preventing the growth of
abuses, rather than merely by trying
to destroy them when they have al
ready grown. In the highest sense OF
the word this movement for thorough
control of the business use of this
great wealth is conservative. We are
trying TO steer safe middle course.
which alone can save us from a pluto.
cratic class government on the one
hand or socialistic class govern
ment on the other. either OF which
would be fraught with disaster to our
free institutions, state and national;
We are trying to avoid alike the evils |
which would flow from government
ownership of the public utilities by
which Interstate commerce is chiefly
carried on. and the evils which flow
from the riot and chaos OF unresIrict- |
OF indiyidnalism. There is grave
danger to our free institutions in the
corrupting influence exercised by
great wealth suddenly concentrated !
in the hands of the few. We should In |
sane manner try to remedy this dan
ger, IN spite of the sullen opposition |
OF these few very powerful men. and
with the full purpose TO protect them
in all their rights at the very time
that we require them TO deal right. |
fully with others.
Need National incorporation.
No Judicial tribunal has the knowl
edge o. experience 10 deterInine In the