The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-12-08

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ed, can not be held to account. Dem
ocracy is in peril wherever the admin
istration of political power is scatter
ed among variety of men who work
in secret, whose very names are un-
known to the common people. 1t is not
authority from the people, who exer-
cises it in sight of the people, and who
| is from time to time compelled to give
an account of its exercise to the peo-
pie.
Labor.
(The President draws the attention
of the Congress to the status of the
| wage worker, whether by mis- hands or
his brain, and makes an earnest plea
| for such a condition of affairs that the
worker, if a mechanic shall own mis-
tools, if a farmer, his land, and for
frank division of the advantages con-
ferred by labor. Also plea is made
for the establishment of postal saw,
ings banks.)
Corporate finances must be supervis
ed so as to make it far safer than at
present for the man of small means
to invest mis- money in stocks. There
must be prohibition of child labor, di-
minution of woman labor shortening
of hours of all mechanical labor; stock
watering should be prohibited and
stock gambling so far as possible~dis-
couraged. There should be progress
i've enheritance tax on large fortunes.
Industrial education should be encour-
aged AS far as possible we should
tighten the burden of taxation on the
small man. We should put premium
upon thrift, hard work, and business
energy; but these qualities cease to
be the main factors in accommodating
a fortune long before that fortune
reaches a point where it would be ser
iously affected by any Inheritance tax
such as l propose. 1t is eminently
right that the Nation should fix the
terms upon which the great fortunes
are inherited. They rarely do good
and they often do harm to those who
inherit them in their entirety.
Protection for Wageworkers.
But there is one matter with which
the Congress should deal at this ses--
sion. There should no longer be any
paltering with the question of taking
care of the wageworkers, who, under
our present industrial system, be-
come killed, crippled, or worn out as
part of the regular incideQts of Civ
en- business. The majority of wage
ed for them by State action; but the
National Government should legis-
late in thoroughgoing and farreach-
ing fashion not only for all employees
|of the National Government, but for
all persons engaged in interstate COM
be achieved to a measurable degree,
as far as those killed or crippled are
concerned by proper employers liza
bility laws.
also renew my recommendation
that the principle of the eight hour
day should as rapidly and as far as
practicable be extended TO the entire
work being carried on by the Govern
ment; the present law should be a
mended to embrace contracts on those
public works which the present word
ing of the act seems to-exclude.
The Courts.
most earnestly urge upon the Con-
gress the duty of increasing the tot
o1lxr IN docuofo ca1a,ioS now 0iuon to
our Judges. On the whole there is no
body of public servants who do as val
liable work, nor whose moneyed re-
ward is so inadequate compared to
their work. Beginning with the Su-
preme Court the Judges should have
their salaries doubled. =
1t is earnestly to be desired that
j some method should be devised for
doing away with the long delays which
now obtain in the administration of
justice, and which operate with pecu1-
liar severity against persons of small
means, and favor only the very Grim
inals whom it is most desirable to
punish These long delays in the fin
al decisions of cases make in the ag-
gregate a crying evil; and remedy
should be devised.
At the last election certain leaders
of organized labor made violent and
lsweeping attack upon the entire judie-
i iary of the country, an attack couch
ed in such terms as to include the
Imost upright, honest and broad-mind.
ed judges. no less than those of mar
!rower mind and more restricted out
look 1t was the kind of attack admit
lably fitted to prevent any successful
lattempt to reform abuses of the jndic