Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-28
PRESIDENT ASKS
FOR LEGISLATION
HOUSE UNABLE TO RECEIVE
MESSAGE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE DENoUNCES
GREEDY RICH
Scores Type of Mutl-M IIionaires
Whose Sons Are Fools and
Whose Daughters Are
Prlnoesses
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about two of the measures 1 have
recommended: The measure to do away
with abuse of the power of injune-
tion and the measure or group of
measures to strengthen and render
both more efficient and more wise the
control by the national government
over sthe great corporations doing an
interstate business.
First as to the power of injunction
and of punishment for contempt In
contempt cases, save where immediate
action is imperative, trial should be
before another judge.
'As regards injunction, some such
legislation as have previously
recommended should be enacted There
are those who fail to realize the ex-
treme bitterness caused among large
bodies of worthy citizens by the use
that has been repeatedly made of the
power of the injunction In labor dis
putes. Those in whose judgment we
have most right to trust, are of opin-
ion that while most of the complaint
against the injunction is unwarranted,
yet that it is unquestionably true that
in a number of cases this power has
been used to the gave injury of the
rights of the laboring man.
II ask that 1t be limited In some such
way as that / have already pointed
out in my previous messages, for the
very reason that I do not wish to see
an embittered effort made to destroy
it, 1t is unwise stubbornly to refuse
to provide against repetition of the
abuses which have caused the present
unrest In a democracy like ours, 1t
is idle to expect permanently to thwart
the determination of the great body
of our citizens.
TT may be and often is the duty of
court. legislature or an executive
to resist and defy gust of popular
passion, and most certainly no public
servant whatever may be the conse-
quence to himself, should yield to what
he thinks is wrong. But in a question
which is emphatically one of public
policy. the policy which the public de-
mands is sure to be adopted in the
end and persistent refusal to grant
to a large portion of our people what
is right is only too apt in the~end to
result in causing so much Irritation
that when the right is obtained 1t Is
obtained in a movement so ill-consid-
cred and violent as to be accompanied
by much that is wrong.
Use Injunction sparlngly
'The process of injunction in labor
troubles as we'll as where state laws
are involved should be used sparingly
and only when there is the clearest
sary to the efficient performance of
the duty of the court in behalf of the
nation that Ii Is in the highest degree
to be regretted that 1t should be liable
to reckless use; for this reckless use
tends to make honest men to desire to
so hamper it's execution as to destroy
its usefulness.
EVERY farsighted patriot should pro-
test first of all against the growth in
this country of that evil thing which is
called class consciousness The dema-
gogue the sinister or socialist vision
airy who strives to arouse this feeling
of class consciousness in our working
people does a foul and evil thing, for he
is no true American; he is no self-re-
specting citizen of this republic; he
forfeits his right to stand with manly
self reliance on a footing of entire
equality with all other citizens, who
bows to envy and greed, who erects
this doctrine of class hatred into a
shibboleth, who substitutes loyalty to
the eternal and immutable principles
of Righteousness which bid us treat
each man on his worth as man with
out regard to his wealth or his pow
ertyV *
''But evil though the influence of this
demagogue and visionary IL, it is no
worse in its consequence than the in
fluence exercised by the man of great
wealth, of the man Of power and posi-
tion in the industrial world, who by
his lack of sympathy with and lack
of understanding Of still more by an
exhibition of uncompromising hostility
to the millions of our working people,
tends to unite them against their fell
low Americans who are better off in
this worlds goods.
Down with Demagogue
at is bad thing to teach our work
ing people that men of means who have
the largest proportion of the substan-
tiaI comforts of life are necessarily
greedy. grasping and cold-hearted, and
that they unjustly demand and appro-
pirate more than their share of the
substance of the many. Stern con-
demnation should be visited upon DEM
agogue and visionary who teach this
untruth, and even sterner upon those
capitalists who are in truth grasping
and greedy and brutally disregardful
of the rights of others and who by
their actions teach the dreadful lesson
far more effectively than any mere
preacher of unrest.
"A class grievance left too long
without remedy breeds class con-
scfousness,' and therefore class resent
ment, the strengthening of the anti
trust law Is demanded upon both moral
eiiu ScOHoLhc grounds. our purpose
in strengthening it is to secure more
effective control by the national gov
ernment over the business use of the
vast masses of individual and espe-
cially Of corporate wealth, which at
the present time mopolizes most of the
interstate business of the country: and
we believe the control can best be ex-
ercised by preventing the growth Of
abuses rather than merely by trying to
destroy them when they have already
grown.
"In the higher sense of the word this
movement for thorough control of the
business use of this great wealth is
conservative. We are trying to steer
a safe middle course, which alone can
save us from plutocratic class goY-
ernment on the one hand or social
istic class government on the other
either of which would be fraught with
disaster to our free institutions. state
and national.
I'VE are trying to avoid alike the
evils which would flow from govern
ment ownership of the public utilities,
by which interstate commerce is chief