Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-06

justice may continue to be, wha it now
is. in very fact the department of JUS
tice. where so far as our ability per-
mits justice is meted out with an even
weak and strong. Moreover, there
should be no del y in experimenting the
laws now on I'll statute books by the
enactment of lrther legislation as
outlined in the message l sent to the
congress on it's assembling. Under the
existing laws much. very much, has
past six years and it has been shown
by actual e' oerience that they can be
enforced agi inst the wealthiest cor
poration and the richest and most pow
erful manager or manipulation of that
corporation, as vigorously and fearless
ly as against the humblest offender:
against the very wrongdoers and
agents of wrongdoers who have for
outad ao many ths years gone and
against great 1aw-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.
the representatives of the national gov
ernment full power to deal with the
great corporations engaged in inter-
state comtrce. and above ALL with the
great interstate common carriers. Our
people should clearly recognize that
while there are difficulties in any
course OF conduct TO ne IOllONfCu IN
dealing. with these great corpo etions,
these difficuiNies must be faced. nd one
of three courses followed. The fl ,t
course is to bandon all effort tc ov r.
see and contro. their actions in the IN
terest of the genera public and to per
nit a return to the utter .ack of cor
troll which would obtain If they we {
left to the common law. I do not for
one moment believe that our people
would toilette this position. The eX-
traordinary growth of modeS , INDUS
trialism has rendered the comman law,
which grew up under and was adapt
ed to deal with totally different condi-
deal with the new conditions These
new conditions make it necessary to
shackle cunning as in the past We have
shackled force. The vast individual
and corporate fortunes, the vast COM
binations of capital. which have,marked
the development of our industrial sys-
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 wroagdoing.
Talks of Financial Stress.
eve have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time it Is a sad fact that en-
tirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own; and every one must
Ietl tne keeneSt sympathy IOT lHe
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
responsible. At such a time there is
a natural tendency on the part of many
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
tion for this feeling. There is no ma
ton so absolutely sure of ultimate sue
cess cess as ours. OF course we shall sue;
energy with continent for its domain
and it 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
are upheld by the confident hope of ul-
innate triumph. The wrongs that ex-
list are to be corrected but they in no
way justify doubt as to the final out
come, doubt as to the great material
prosperity of the future. or of the lofty
spiritual life which is to be built upon
that prosperity. as foundation. No
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 it behooves us
never to swerve from our resolute pur-
pose to cut out wrongdoing and uphold
believe that the actions of this admin
istration have brought on business dis
tress; so far as this is due to local and
not worldwide causes, and to the ac-
tions of any particular individuals. it
is due to the speculative folly and fla
grant dishonesty of a few men of great
NShi'i VIM Steh " SHielu themselves
from the effects of their own wrong
doing by ascribing it's results to the
actions of those who have sought to
put stop to the wrongdoing. But If
1t were true that to cut out rottenness
from the body polite meant mo-
mentary check to an unhealthy
seeming prosperity, 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.