Gilpin observer., 1908-02-06

Justice may continue TO be. what It now
r. in very fact the department Of JUS
mits e justice justice is is meted met d out @ with THAN any eWen
hand to great and small. rich and poor,
weak and strong. Moreover. there
laws now. on the statute books by the
enactment Of further Hesitation as
on It's It's SEM Gnder ID
existing laws much. very much. has
been actually accomplished during the
by actual experience that they can be
enforced against the wealthiest cor
poration and the richest and most pow
erful manager or manipulator of that
corporation, as vigorously and fearless
ly as against the humblest offender.
against the s very wronsdoers i'iaad and
agents of wrongdoers who have for
outsa so many tbs years laws gone nd
against great law-defying corpora
tions of Immense wealth. which. until
within the last half dozen years have
treated themselves and have expected
others to treat them as being beyond
and above all possible check from law.
1t is especially necessary to secure to
the representatives of the national gov
ernment fun power to deal with the
state comerce. and above all. with the
great interstate common carriers. Our
people should clearly reeognize that
course of conduct to be followed in
dealing with these great corporations.
these difficulties must be faced. and one
of three courses followed. The first
course is to abandon all effort to over
see and control their actions in the in
terest of the general public and to per-
init return to the utter lack of con-
troll which would obtain II they were
one moment believe that our people
would tolerate this position. The ex-
trh2Tdlnary tria,Te h growth OF modern indus a. s
ed to deal with totally different condi-
deal with the new conditions. These
new conditions make it necessary to
shackIe cunning as sin in the past we ,..ae have
and corporate fortunes the vast COM
binations of capital, which have marked
tenn, create new conditions. and neces-
state change from the old attitude
of the state and the nation toward the
rules regulating the acquisition and
untrammeled business use of prop
erty. in order both that property may
the same time those who hold it may
be prevented from wrongdoing.
Talks Of Financial Stress.
I'VE have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
tirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own; and every one must
| feel the keenest sympathy for the
| large body of honest business men. of
| honest investors of honest wagework-
| ers. who suffer because involved in
crash for which they are in no way
| a natural tendency on the part of many
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
| tion for this feeling. There is no ma
tion SO absolutely sure of ultimate sue
| cess as ours. OF course we shall sue
ceed. ours is a nation of masterful
| energy, with continent for its domain
and 1t feels within its veins the thrill
which comes to those who know that
| they possess the future. We are not
cast down by the fear Of failure. We
| timate triumph. The wrongs that ex-
| ist are to be corrected: but they in no
way justify doubt as to the final out
| prosperity of the future. or of the lofty
spiritual life which is to be built upon
misdeeds done in the. present must be
| permitted to shroud from our eyes the
glorious future of the nation; but be-
| cause of this very fact 1t behooves us
| never to swerve from our resolute pur-
pose to cut out wrongdoing and uphold
| what is right. I do not for a moment
believe that the actions of this admin
istration have brought on business dis
tress; SO far as this is due to local and
| not world wide causes and to the ac-
tions of any particular individuals, IL
is due to the Speculative folly and fla
wealth. who seek to shield themselves
| from the effects of their own wrong
doing by ascribing its results to the
actions of those who have sought to
put a stop to the wrongdoing. But II
| II were true that to cut out rottenness
from the body polite meant a mo-
seeming prosperity. I should not for
one moment hesitate to put the knife
| to the corruption. On behalf of all
our people. on behalf no less of the
| honest man of means than of the hon
| est man who earns each days liveli-
| hood by the days sweat of his brow it
Is necessary to insist upon honesty in
business and in politics 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 striving for the right
| in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln" said
| the president in conclusion.