The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-28
Special Message to Congress
Discusses Federal In
functions and Their
Abuse.
USE INJUNCTION
BUT SPARINGLY
Would Strengthen Anti
Trust Law. Encourages
Labor Uuions and Delivers
Scathing Anattemas
Against Greedy Million
aires.
sv Associates Press.

BY Associates Press
Washington, April 27.-Conditions
in both the senate ana the house
were such that the special message
of President Roosevelt further out
lining his views as to necessary leg
islation, which was sent to congress
today. received but scan attention.
The message arrived late in the
day and the house was so tied IN
under it's new rules that it could not
officially receive the message, while
the Senate was in the midst of the
consideration OF the appropriation
bill under the ten minutes rule when
the document reached that body.
Unlike the house, the senate per-
mitted the formal presentation of the
message, but only the first few
lines had been pronounced by the
clerk when the reading vast post
poned and an adjournment taken.
The message in part is as follows:
FEDERAL tNJUNCTiONS.
There seems. however. much doubt
about two of the measures j have
recommended: the measure 10 do
away with abuse of the power Of in
junction and the measure or group
of measures to strengthen and rem
der both more efficient and more
wise the control by the national gov
eminent over the great corporations
doing an interstate business.
First, as TO the power of injunction
and of punishment for contempt. In
contempt cases, save where immedi-
ate action is imperative, trial should
be before another judge. As regards
iniuuctions. some such legislation as
that i have previously recommended
should iIe enacted = y -2sfs-- blind
who fail to realize the extreme bitter
ness caused among large bodies OF
worthy citizens by the uses that has
been repeatedly made of the power
Of the injunction in labor disputes.
Those in whose Judgment we have
most right to trust are of the opinion
that while most of the complaints
against the use of the Injunction is
Tnwarranted, Yet that it is unques-
tionably true thar in number OF
cases. this power has been used to
the grave injury of the rights OF Ia
boring men. | ask that it be limited
in some such way as that l have al
ready pointed out in my previous
messages, for the very reason that |
do not wish to see an embiJtered eff
! fort made 10 destroy it. In a
democracy like ours. it IS idle TO eX-
! pect permanently to thwart the de-
| termination of the great body of our
citizens.
USE INJUNCTION SPARINGLY.
1t may be. and often is. the highest
| duty of a court, a legislature or an
executive to resist and defy a gust
of popular passion; and most GER
| tainly no public servant, whatever
may he the consequences to himself
| should WELD to what ne thinks wrong.
! But in a question which is emphati-
! cally one of public policy, the poIio-
which the public demands is sure in
! the end to be adopted; and a perSiS-
| tent refusal to grant to a large pOT-
| ton 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. il is obtained in a
movement so II considered and VIC
| lent as to be accompanied by mucn
| that is wrong.
The process of injunction in labor
/ troubles as well as where state laws
are involved. should be used Sparing-
| " and only when there is the cleareSt
necessity for il. but it is one SO neces-
sarv TO the efficient performance OF
| the duty OF the court on behalf OF
| the nation that il is in the highest
| degree to be regretted that 1t should
I be liable 10 reckless use. for this
! reckless use tends to make honest
men desire so 10 hamper its eXecu-
| ton as TO destroy lis usefulness.
GLASS CONSCIOUSNESS.
Every far-sighted patriot should
| protest first of all against the growth
! in this country of that evil thing
| which is called class consciousness.
! The demagogue. or socialist visionary
who strives 10 arouse this feeling OF
| class consciousness in our working
| people does a foul and evil thing
! for he is no true American. he is nc
| self-respecting citizen OF this repub
! lie He forfeits his right 10 stand
with manly self-reliance on a footing
/ of entire equality with all other citi
! zens the born to envy and greed
who erects the doctrine OF class ha
/ tired into a shibboleth. who substi
! tutes LOYALTY 10 men Of d particular
! status whether rich or poor. for 10y
/ aItv to those eternal and immuta b lie
PRINCIPLES and righteousness which
bid us treat each man OF his worth
as man. without regard 10 his
wealth or his poverty But evil
/ though the influence of these dema
gogues and Missionaries is, il is nc
worse in its consequences than the
( Influences exercised by the man o.
great wealth or the man OF power AND
> position in the industrial world who
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