The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-02-08


both the people and the public utilities
The line Of demarcation between federal
and state authority can and should be
speedily settled by the federal courts.
The fact that the national government
has c~.tTed TO exercise the lthority
conferred upon IL by the ir.erstate COM
merce clause Of the Constitution has
made the states FESTIVE under what they
deem corporate abuses, and In some
cases has probably stimulated them 10
90 too far in the attempt 20 correct
these abuses. with the result that all
measures which they passed. good or
bad, have been held up by the federal
courts. The necessary equitable and
uniform regulation can not be obtained
by the separate action of the states,
but only by the affirmative action OF
the national government"
This is an appeal by high state
Judge, alarmed, as good citizens should
DO alarmed, by conflicts over the mat
ter OF jurisdiction, and by the radical
action advocated by honest people
smarting from sense of injury re-
ceived from corporations; which injury
the federal courts forbid the states TO
try 70 remedy, while the federal gov
eminent nevertheless refrains from IT,
self taking adequate measures 20 pro.
vide n remedy. IL can not too strongly
be insisted that the defenders and apol-
ogists OF the great corporations, who
have sought in the past and still seek
10 prevent adequate action by the fed
eral government 10 control these great
corporations, are not only proving false
to the people, but are laying up a day
of wrath for the great corporations
themselves. The nation will not toler.
ate an utter lack OF control over very
wealthy men Of enormous power in the
industrial, and therefore in the social,
lives of all our people, some Of whom
have shown themselves cynically and
brutality indifferent 60 the interests OF
tho people; and IL the Congress does not
act, with goodtempered and sensible
but resolute thoroughness, in cutting out
the evils and in providing an effective
supervision, tho result is certain 10 DO
action on the part Of the separate states,
sometimes wise, sometimes ill-judged
and extreme, sometimes unjust and
damaging Co the railroad and other cor
porations, more often ineffective from
every standpoint, because the federal
courts declare il unconstitutional.
No Thought Of Retreat
az do not for a moment believe that
the actions oi this administration have
brought ON business distress; so far as
this Il due 70 local and not worldwide
causes, and 20 the actions Of any par
ticaiar individuals, il Is due 90 the
speculative folly and fragrant dishonesty
Of few men of great wealth, who seek
10 shield themselves from the effects Of
their own wrongdoing by ascribing its
results 20 the actions OF those who have
sought 60 put n stop 20 the wrongdoing.
But IL il were true that to cut out rot
tonness from the body polite meant a
momentary check 70 an unhealthy seem
ing prosperity, | should not for one mo-
ment hesitate to put the knife 20 the
corruption. On behalf OF all our people,
on behalf no less OF the honest man Of
means than Of the honest man who earns
each days livelihood by that day.
sweat Of his brow, IL is necessary TO
insist upon honesty in business and pol
tics alike, in all walks Of life in big
things and in little things; upon just
and fair dealing as between man and
man. Those who demand this are striv-
ing for the right in the spirit 81 Abra
ham Lincoln, when he said;
90 'Fondly do we hope, fervently do we
pray, that this mighty scourge may
speedily pass away. Yet. If God wills
that IL continue until all the wealth
piled by the bondsmen's two hundred
and fifty years Of unrequited toll shall
be sunk, and until every drop Of blood
drawn with the lash shall be paid by
another drawn with the sword, as was
said three thousand years ago, so still
IL must be said "The judgments Of the
Lord are true and righteous altogether. =
" with malice toward none; with
charity for MI; with frmness In the
right, rs God gives us 10 see tho right
let as strive on 70 finish the work we
are in.
''In the work we 81 this generation
are "a. there IA, thanks be 20 the Al.
mighty. no danger Of hloodshod and no
use FOR the sword. but there is grave
need Of those storm qualities shown alike
hy the mon Of ne North and the men
Of the South III the dark days when each
valiaItly battlcd for The right as 10 was
given each IS See tho right Their
spirit should be our spirit, az we strive
o. bring nearer thc day when greed
and triclcry aud cunning shall BIO
trampltd under feet by those who fight
FOR The righteousness that exalteth a
nation.
"THEoDoRE ROOSEVELT"
Horses and Music.
Resimental horses have been the
subjects OF musical tests. and nearly
Ell enjoyed the experience. only very
small percentage OF the animals re
manning Indifferent 20 sweet harmo-
niles. while equally few showed active
dislike. The great majority were
soothed. insplrited or excited by music.
Most OF the horses. like the war char
gers one may suppose them 90 be. en-.
joyed the buglc above any other instru.
ment and nelghed calamity when II was
sounded. but thoroughbreds and colts
generally were found 20 prefer the
shrill treble OF the fife. which reused
them 10 great and sometimes unman-