The Glenwood post., 1908-02-08

Is. in very fact the department of JUS
tice, where SO far as our ability per.
Haa WeaR " ana Fafa ssrons ana ~ Moreover. eo there
should be no delay In sppplementing the he
outlined in the message l sent to the
e9istins H laws ss mush very much. has
been actually accomplished during the
past six years, and 1t has been shown Ha
enforced against the wealthiest. cor
poration and the richest and most pow
eofn anaser Or aS
" as against the humblest offender;
Anoys ali they have been snforeed
agents of wrongdoers who have for
SO many years gone seot-free ,t,s ana
niG against gre Great iaMs isw-defyng in R eoPpora
tions of immense wealth. which. until
within the last half dozen years have
others to treat them as being beyond
and above all possible check from law.
i is espseiaiy necessary to secure to
ernment full power to deal with the
great corporations engaged in inter
great Interstate common carriers. Our
people should clearly ~, Recognize ,,gI that
dealing with these great. corporations,
these difficulties must be faced. and one
course is to abandon all effort to over
see and control their actions in the in
terest of the general public and to per-
troll which would obtain II they were
left to the common law. 1 do not for
Would 3olerate ffs1 tbs posItion our rRe eoe
trialism has rendered the common law,
ed to deal with totally different condi-
tions. in many respects inadequate to
aeW eond,tioes o ngw make eohaSas Il to
shackle cunning as in the past we have
shacaled force The vast individual i.
binat tions of capital which have marked
the development of our industrial sys-
state a change from the old attitude
of the state and the nation toward the
rules regulating the acquisition and
erty, in order both that property may
be be Adequately protected, r ana hn1d that n m at
be prevented from wrongdoing.
Talks Of Financial Stress.
I'VE 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
feel the keenest sympathy for the
large body of honest business men, OF
honest investors. of honest wagework-
responsible. AT such time there is
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
the outlook: but there is no justifica-
ton for this feeling. There is no ma
coed. ours is a nation, of masterful
energy, with a 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
are upheld by the confident hope of ul-
Innate triumph. The wrongs that ex-
Way at ustfg doub as to oa the 'aey nal in ou
come, doubt as to the great material
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
cause of this very fact 1T behooves us
never to swerve from our resolute pur:
what is right. I do not for 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 worldwide causes. and to the ac-
tions of any particular individuals. IL
grant dishonesty of few men OF great
from the effects. of their own wrong
actions of those who have sought to
put stop to the .wronsdoing. But il
IT 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