The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-09
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PREsiDENT AGAIN Asks PASSAGE
or sEvERAL LAWS.
SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE
Chief Executive Urges Injunction and
National incorporation Legislation
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Washington.-Condi In both the
senate and the house were such that
the special message Of the president,
further outlining his views as to leg
islation, which was sent to congress
Monday received but scant attention.
The message arrived late In the day
and the house was SO tied up under its
new rules that 1t could not officially
receive the message, while the senate
was In the midst OF the consideration
of the naval appropriation bill under
the ten-minutes rule when the docu.
ment reached that body. Unlike the
house, the senate permitted the for
NAL presentation of the message, but
by the time the naval bill had been
disposed of the hour was so late and
the attendance SO small that no at
tempt was made to read the docu-
ment.
The message in part:
In my message to the congress OF
March 25, 1908. l outlined certain
measures which believe the MAORI
ty of our countrymen desire to have
enacted into law at this time. These
measures do not represent by any
means all that I would like to see
done IL 1 thought 1t possible, but they
do represent what believe can now
be done II an earnest effort toward
this end is made.
Asks Injunction Legislation.
First, as to the power of injunction
and Of punishment for contempt. In
contempt cases, save where immediate
action is imperative, the trial should
be before another Judge. AS regards
injunctions, some such legislation as
that I have previously recommended
should be enacted. They are blind
who fail to realize the extreme bitter
ness caused among large bodies Of
worthy citizens by the use that has
been repeatedly made Of the power Of
Injunction in labor disputes. Those in
whose judgment we have most right to
trust are of the opinion that while
much Of the complaint against the use
Of the Injunction is unwarranted, yet
that It is unquestionably true that In
q number Of cases this power has been
used to the grave injury Of the rights
of laboring men. I ask that 1t be
limited in SOME such way as that !
have already pointed out in my preyi-
GUS messages. for the very reason that
I do not wish to see an embittered e.
fort made to destroy 1t. It Is unwise
stubbornly to refuse to provide against
q repetition Of the abuses which have
caused the present unrest. In q de-
mocracy like ours 1t is idle to expect
permanently to thwart the determine
ton Of the great body Of our citizens
It may be and often is the highest
duty Of court, legislature, or an
executive, to resist and defy a gust
of popular passion; and most certainly
no public servant, whatever may be
the consequences to himself, should
yield to what Ne thinks wrong.
Decries overuse Of Injunction.
But in a question which is EN-
phatically one Of public policy, the
policy which the public demands i.
sure In the end to be adopted; and 9
persistent refusal to grant to a large
portion Of our people what is right IL
only too apt In the end to result II
causing such Irritation that when the
right is obtained 1t is obtained in the
course of movement SO i'll considered
and violent as to be accompanied BY
much that Is wrong. The process o.
injunction in labor disputes, as wei
as where state laws are involved
should be used sparingly, and onl!
when there Is the clearest necessit!
for It; but 1t is one so necessary Il
the efficient performance of duty b!
the court on behalf of the nation tina
1t is in the highest degree to be re
GREETED that It should be liable to reck
less use; for this reckless use tends
to make honest men desire 80 to ham
per its execution as to destroy its use
fulness.
II Would Strengthen Trust Law.
The strengthening OF the anti-trus
law is demanded upon both moral ant
economic grounds. Our purpose II
strengthening 1t Is to secure more ef
fective control of the national govern
ment over the business use Of the vas
masses Of individual. and especial,
of corporate. wealth. which at the pres
ent time monopolize most Of the in
terstate business Of the country; ant
we believe the control can best b.
exercised by preventing the growth o
abuses. rather than merely by trying
to destroy them when they have al
ready grown. In the highest sense O.
the word this movement for thorough
control Of the business use Pf thiI
great wealth Is conservative. We arr
trying to steer a safe middle course
which alone can save US from pluto
cratic class government on the ont
hand. or socialistic class govern
ment on the other. either Of which