The Forrest City times., 1908-02-07
FORREST ARK AFTERNOON, FEBRU AIRY T. 19o,

ton. of which the president spoke. and the executive asked the common wealths to share the responsibility of eurhlnC those corporations. which are accused or evli-doing "of course fin any event both the national and state governments must each do it's part !" said President RoOsevclts message. and each can do a certain amount that the other cannot do. while the only really satisfactory results must be obtained by the representatives of the national and state governments working heartily together within their respective spheres. But in my iudg ment thorough going and satisfactory control can in the end only he obtained ny the acton of the national govern ment. for almost all the corporations of enormous wealth-that is the corpo- fations which it is especially desirable to contrel-are engaged in Interstate commerce, and derive their power and their importance not from that portion 9f thetr business which Is tntrastate but from the interstate business IL Is not easy always to decide just where the line or demareation between the two kinds or business falls. This line must ufti- mattly be drawn by the federal courts. Much of the effort to secure adequate control of the great corpora uons by state action has been wise ana ana effective. hut much of t has been neither, Tor when the effort Is made to accomplish by the action of the state what can only be accomplished by inc aetl9n ,t 3f of the nation the result can only De alSappointment, and in the end the laW Will probably be declared uneon- sslutlohai So likewise in the national arena. we who believe in the measures herein advocated are hampered and not aided by the extremists who advo- eaIe action so violent that it would sIlher be useless or else would cause ''o'e Hischlef than 1t would remedy.
 Points to the Future.
 The laws must in the future be ad- miiniistered m as they are now being ad- mn. HiniH.iistered so that the department of justice may continue to be what it now IS m very fact the department of jus 1I?e, Where so far as our ability per hhiins h justice IS meted out with an even nanu @ 10 great and small rich and poor weak and strong Moreover. there should be no delay in supplementinr the ansst iass now on the statute books by the enactment of further legislation as outlined in the message I sent to the congress on its assembling, Under the bAnn law much. very much. has past SIX years. and 1t has been shown oy actual experience that they can be enforced against the wealthiest cor pofatloh and the richest and most DOW ellul manager or manipulator of that corporation s vigorously and fearless 4 as against the humblest offender against the very wrongdoers and agents of wrongdoers who have for 9ontnd nShy years gone scotfree and against great law -defying corpors
 iohs or immense wealth which until mltnih h the last half dozen years have treated themselves and have expected otielS To treat them as being beyond dta aeeVe all possible check from law iS IS especially necessary to secure to the representatives of the national gov eInnent full power to deal with the si eat corporations engaged in inter state comerce. and above all with the Saeai interstate common carriers. Our p9oIple hIp should clearly recognize that Whlle there are difficulties in any course of conduct to be followed in ueaIng with these great corporations. these dlfhculties must be faced and one or three courses followed The first course IS 10 abandon all effort to over see ana control their actions in the in terest or the general public and to per
 nlt a return to the utter lack of con ,roI which wcdld obtain if they were lelt 10 the common law I do not for one moment believe that our people would tolerate this position. The ex- .raordinary growth of modern indus- triaIlsm has rendered the common law
 which grew up under and was adapt- eu e. 10 deal with totally different condi- Ssiolis' Tn many respects inadequate to ueaI with the new conditions These new cono'lonS make it necessary to sndckie cunning as in the past we have shackled force. The vast individual and corporate fortunes the vast com tl pllnations of capital which have marked the development of our industrial sys- tenn create new conditions and neces- sitate change from the old attitude or the state and the nation toward the rules regulating the acquisition and untrammeled business use of nrnn- erty in order both that property may De adequately protected and that at the same time those who hold 1t may De prevented from wrongdong.