The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-11

AZ far ~ pos.ibis hs hopes 20 see q
frank reccsnition Of the advantages
and division Of labor, accompanied BY
an effort to bring about q larger share
IN the ownership by wage.Worker Of
railway. mill and factory.
The regulation Of the national high
ways must be such that they shall
Corporate anances must be supervised
30, as to make It far safer than, At
present for the man Of small means to
invest his money. In stocks. There
must be prohibition Of child labor:
stock watering should be prohibited.
and. and stock gambling SO Tar as possible
gressive inheritance tax on large for
tunes. Industrial education should be
encouraged. AS far as possible we
should tighten the burden Of taxation
on the small man. We should put q
premium on thrift, hard work and
business energy. It is eminently right
upon which the great fortunes are In
herited: They. rarely do good and
they often do harm to those who in
herit them In their entirety. The
above Is the merest sketch, hardly even
a sketch in outline, Of the reforms for
WHASA w SAOulo work. but tueTe -
one matter with which congress should
deal at this session. There should no
longer be any paltering with the ques-
ton OF taking care Of the wage-work-
ers who. under our present industrial
system, become killed. crippled or worn
out as part Of the regular incidents Of
a given business. The majority Of
secured for them by state action: but
the national government should legis-
late In thoroughgoing and far-reach-
ing fashion not only for all employees
OF the national government, but for all
persons engaged in interstate COM
merce. The object sought for could
be achieved to measurable degree, as
Tar as those killed or crippled are con-
cerned, by proper employers liability
laws. AS far as concerns those who
nave been worn out, definite steps
toward providing old-age pensions
nave been taken in many of our pri-
vate industries To strengthen these
mediate duty When a workman is
injured what he needs Is not an ex-
pensive and doubtful lawsuit, but the
certainty of relief through immediate
administrative action.
The law passed at the last session of
congress granting compensation to GER
tain classes Of employees of the gov
eminent should be extended to include
all employees Of the government and
should be made more liberal in its
terms. Congress should without further
delay pass a model employers liability
law for the district of Columbia.
The president recommends that the
principle of the eight-hour day should
as rapidly and as far as practicable he
extended to the entire work being car
ried on by the government.
The president urges upon congress
the duty of increasing the salaries now
given our judges. Beginning
Courts. with the supreme court, he
says, the judges should have
their salaries doubled.
1t is earnestly to be desired that
some method should be devised for
doing away with the long delays which
now obtain in the administration of
justice. and which operate with pc
small means, and favor only the very
criminals whom it is most desirable
to punish. These long delays in the
final decisions of cases make in the
aggregate a crying evil: and remedy
should be devised.
Our judicial system is sound and eff
fective at core, and it remains, and
must be maintained, as the safeguard
of those principles of liberty and
justice which stand at the foundation
Of American institutions. The presi-
dent thinks there is ground for the
belief that substantial injustice is
often suffered by employees in conse-.
quence of the custom of the courts is
suing temporary injunctions without
notice to them, and Furnishing for con-
tempt of court in instances where. as
knowledge of any proceedings. There
is widespread feeling that this sys-
tenn often works great injustice to
wageWorkers when their efforts to
better their working condition result
in industrial disputes. A temporary
injunction procured ex parte may as
a matter of fact have all the effect of
permanent injunction in causing
disaster to the wageworker's side in
such dispute. Organized labor is
chatting under the unjust restraint
which comes from repeated resort to
this plan of procedure. Its discomfort
has been unwisely expressed, and
often improperly expressed, but there
is a sound basis for it, and the order
ly and law-abiding people of a COM
munity would be in far stronger
position for upholding the courts if the
undoubtedly existing abuses could be
provided against.
Such proposals as advocated by
some Of the extreme labor leaders
contain the vital error of being class
legislation of the most offensive kind.
and even If enacted into law would
rightly be declared unconstitutional.
The power of injunction is a great
equitable remedy, which should on no
account be destroyed. But safeguards
should be erected against Its abuse
. Provision should be made that no in
junction or restraining order issue
otherwise than on notice, except where
irreparable injury would otherwise
: result; and in such case a hearing
on the merits of the order should be
had within short fixed period, and.
if not then continued after hearing it
should forthwith lapse. Decisions
should be rendered Immediately, and
the chance Of delay minimized in
every way.
II there is any one duty which more
than another we owe 1t to our chill
i dren and our children's
Forests. children to perform at once
, it is to save the forests of
this country, for they constitute the
first and most important element in
the conservation of the natural re-
sources Of the country. Thanks to our
!, own recklessness in the use of our
:; splendid forests, we have already
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