The Huttig news., 1908-02-08

justice may continue to be. what 1t 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 hand to great and small, rich and poor. weak and strong. Moreover there should be no delay in Supplementing the laws now on the statute books by the enactment of further legislation as outlined in the message I 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 experience that they can be enforced against the wealthiest cor poration and the richest and most pow erful manager or manipulator of that corporation. as vigorously and fearless ly as against the humblest offender; agents of wrongdoers who have for aortna ao many years gone sSot-free and against great law-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 great interstate common carriers. Our people should clearly recognize that while there are difficulties in any
 
 dealing with these great corporations, these difficulties must be faced. and one of three courses followed. The first course is to abandon all effort to over see and control their actions in the in- terest of the general public and to per init a return to the utter lack of con- trol which would obtain if they were left to the common law. do not for one moment believe that our people would tolerate this position. The ex- traordinary growth of modern indus rendered 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- sitate 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 be adequately protected, and that at the same time those who hold it may be prevented from wrongdoing.
 Talks of Financial Stress.
 "We have just passed through two any such time it is a sad fact that en- tirely innocent people suffer from no fault of their own and every one must
 
 large body of honest business men, of honest investors of honest wagework- CTS, who suffer because involved in a responsible. At such a5 time there is natural tendency on the part of many men to feel gloomy and frightened at the outlook; but there is no justifica- tion for this feeling. There is no na- ton so absolutely sure of ultimate suc- cess as ours Of course we shall sue, ceed. Ours Is a nation of masterful energy with continent for it's domain, and it feels within it's 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- ist 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 few men of great 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. I 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.