The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-01
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feeling to the attacks that he says are
being made on him through newspa-
pers and public speakers controlled by
the Standard Oil trust and other combi-
nations and. says the keynote of these
attacks upon his efforts to secure hon
esty in business and politics Is that
they are unnatural and unwarranted,
and business panic is the penalty.
The morality of such plea, he says,
is precisely as great as If made on be-
half of the men caught in gambling
establishment raided by the police and
means that no effort should be made to
prevent a repetition of the insurance,
banking and railroad scandals in New
York. the Chicago and Alton deal. the
successful effort by the Standard Oil
people TO crush out every competitor
and TO establish monopoly which
treats the public with contempt 1t
deserves so long as il permits men of
such principles to avow and act on
them with impunity.
The business which is hurt by the
movement for honesty, the president
says, is the kind which in the long run
1t pays the country to have hurt; the
kind which has tended TO make the
name "high finance" term of scan
dial to which all honest American men
of business should join in putting an
end
Referring to the financial situation,
the president says there is natural
tendency to feel gloomy and frightened
at the outlook, but he declares there Is
no justification for such feeling. as
there is no nation so absolutely SURF
of success as ours, and we must GER
tainly succeed.
He advocates the immediate re-opact
ment of the employers liability law.
limiting its scope to interstate employ
ment to conform to the ruling of the
supreme court; urges legislation pro-
| viding for compensation by the govern
ment and employers generally to all
employees for injuries, calls attention
| to the need of some action in conpec-
! ton with the abuse of injunctions IN
! labor cases by the courts and warns
men of property that they cannot af-
ford to trust to anything but the spirit
| of justice and fair play.
Mr.. Roosevelt assails stock gambling
and the "cornering' of she market ard
thinks the government might stop it by
forbidding the use of the mails and
| wires
| Comments on the presidents mes
sage were numerous and varied. The
moment its reading was finished Sen
ator JEFF Davis jumped up and moved
that 10000 copies be ordered printed
ut once.
Its the best Democratic doctrine
have ever heard from Republican
Sources" he said. The motion was
promptly carried. Senator La Toilette
(Wis.) said:
1T is the strongest statement of the
has ever put forward. In matter and
in manner, In substance and in the
form of expression it is the greatest
paper of the administration. II con
tains the material out of which the
next Republican platform must be
written"
Senator Beveridge Qnd) said. ut Is
the great fighting message"
Violent applause from the Demo
cratic side marked every telling poin
of President Roosevelt's message dur
ing the reading in the house of repre-
sentatives.
The message was deemed one of thu
most remarkable that have yet emanat
ed from the White House as the prcsi
dent takes up the cudgel against thos'
who charged him with responsibility,
for the October panic and makes {
stronger assault than ever upon preda
tory wealth.
The climax came when the readin.
was concluded. Without regard t.
| party the HtlIlutIS luUulA dpplhuutu
cheered. thumped their desks and CAV,
other evidences of their approval of thu
document. After momentary silence
} the applause broke out again, severa
members, including many Democrats
, rising from their seats and clappiD:
their hands. The message then, oil
motion of Mr., Payne (N. W. was re
. ferred to the committee on the STATE
| Of the Union.
: 1t is known positively that there wal
strong opposition in the cabinet to put
l ting out such a message at this time
1t was based on various grounds, som,
1 of them involving the fear of the in
t furious effects on business and others
/. it is said, being political.
Don't forget that tonight will be tn
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