The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-28

vision and control ever the sccountins systems of the railroads. vailure to provide means which will Jnabis the commission to examine the books of the railways would amount to an attack on the law at its most vital point, and would benefit as nothing else could nenent. r. those railways which are. cor rugIy or inccmpetently managed.
 Forest reserves should be esta biish- ga tnroughout the Appalachian Noun tsln region wherever 1t can be shown snnt snnn.a,,yn sney will have a direct and real improvement of navIgable rivers.
 Fnere seems, however. much doubt aoout two of the measures have rec with abuse of the power of injunction ana the measure ar measures to strengthen and render both more effi cient and more wise the control by the corporations doing an Interstate busi- ness.
 First. as to the power of injunction and of punishment for contempt. Tn action is imperative, trial should be before another judge. As regards sin- functions. some such legislation as that | have previously recommended should ne enacted, They are blind who walt to realize the extreme bitterness caused among large bodies of worthy citizens by the usa that has been repeatedly made of the power of injunction In dis
 
 most right to trust, are of opinion that while most complaints against the use or injunction Is unwarranted. yet It is unquestlonably true thar In number Of cases. this power has been used to grave Injury of the rights of laboring men.
 T ask that it be limited in such way prevous fop tSe vepy epy reaso m S that do not wish to see an embittered effort made to destroy 1t.
 Tn democracy like ours it is idle to expect permanently to thwart the determination of the great body of our citizens. It may be, and often is the highest duty of court. a legislature or an executive to defy a gust of popular passion; and most certainly no public servant whatever may be the consequences to himself should yield to what he thinks wrong. But in a question which Is emphatlcaiiy one of pure policy. the policy which the public demaidsis Is sure in the end to be adopt ed; and a persistent refusal to grant 10 large portion of our people what is right is only too apt In the end to re- when the right Is obtained 1t is ob- tained In a movement so ill-considered as to be accompanied by much that Is wrong. The process of injunction in labor troubles as well as where State laws are involved, should be used spar ingly and only when there Is the clear est necessity for 1t. but 1t Is one so necessary to the efficient performance of the duty of court on behalf of the nation, that 1t Is in the highest degree to be regretted that 1t should be liable to reckless use for this reck- less use tends to make honest men de- sire so to hamper It's execution as to destroy it's usefulness.
 Deplores Class Consciousness.
 Every far-slghted patriot should In this country of that evil thing which Is called class consciousness.' The demagogue' or socialist visionary. who strives to arouse this feeling of class does a foul and evil thing; for he is spectins citizen of the rspuSiIc. He forfeits his right to stand with manly equality with all other Citizens who bows to envy and greed, who erects the doctrine of class hatred into a shlbbo- leth, who substitutes loyalty to men of poor, for loyalty to those eternal and immutable principles and righteous ness which bid us treat each man, of his worth as a. man without regard to his wealth or his poverty.
 ''But evil though the influence of these derlagogues and visionsries is. 1t is no worse in It's consequences than the influence exercised by the man of position In the industrial world who by his lack of sympathy with and lack of understand of. stlll more by any ex- hibition of uncompromising hostility to the millions of our working people. tends to unite them against their fel- low Americans who are better off in this worlds goods It is. a bad thing to teach our working people that men of means that men who have the iarg- est proportion of the substantial com forts of life unjustly demand and ap- propriate more than their share of the substance of the many. Stern condem- nation should he visited upon the dem agosue and visionary who teaches an untruth and even sterner upon those capitalists who are in truth graspIng and greedy and disregardful of the rights of others, and who by their ac- tions teach the dreadful lesson far more effectively than any mere preacher of unrest.
 A class grievance. left too long and without remedy. breeds class conscious ness. and. therefore. class resentement.
 The Antitrust Law.
 The strength ening of the antitrust law Is demanded on both moral and economic grounds. Our purpose. in strengthening tt is to serve more ef- fective control by the National Gov erhment over the business of the vast masses of individuals. and especially of corporate wealth. which. at the pres