The Washington times., 1908-01-31

ment has omitted to exercise the au-
thOrlty conferred upon il by the inter
state clause OF the Constitution has
made the States FESTIVE under what
some cases has PROBABLY stimulated
them TO 90 too far in the attempt TO
correct these abuses. with the result
that all measures which thew PASSED
good or bad. have been held up by the
Federal courts. The necessary eQuiU-
able and uniform regulation cannot be
obtained by the separate action Of
the States, but only by the affirmative
action Of the National Government.
Laying Up Day Of Wrath.
This is an appeal by a high State
judge. alarmed, as good citizens should
be alarmed. by conflicts over the mat
ter Of jurisdiction, and by the radical
action advocated by honest people
smarting from a sense Of injury re
ceived from corporations; which in
jury the Federal courts forbid the
States to try to remedy, while the
Federal Government nevertheless re-
Trains from itself taking adequate meas
ures 10 provide a remedy. It cannot
too strongly be insisted that the de-
tenders and apOloEists Of the great cor
porations, who have sought in the past
and still seek 20 prevent adequate aC-
ton by the Federal Government TO
control these great corporations, are
not only proving false to the people,
but are laying up day OF WFatA lOI
the great corporations themselves
The nation viii not tolerate an utter
lack Of control over very wealthy men
OF enormous power in the Industrial,
and therefore In the social, lives OF all
our people, some OF whom have shown
themselves Cynlcaly and bTutaly IN
different to the interests Of the people
and II the Congress does not act, with
good tempered and sensible but r6SO-
lutte thOrOughness, in cutting out the
evils and in providing an effective su-
perVisiOn, the result is certain 70 Do
action on the part OF the separate
States sometimes wise, sometimes III
judged and extreme, sometimes unjust
and damaging TO the railroads or other
corporations, more often lneUeclNt
from every standpoint, because the
Federal courts declare It unconsuJu-
We have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress ~
any such time II IS a sad fact tha~
entirely innocent people suffer from no
fault Of their own; and everyone must
feel the keenest sympathy for the large
body Of honest business men, Of honest
investors of honest wageWOrkeTS, VINO
suffer because involved in q crash Tor
which they are in no way responsible.
AT such a time there is a natural tend
ency on the pert OF many men 10 ieet
gloomy and frightened at the outlook ,
but there IS no JuSuncatlOn Tor TINS
feeling. There is nc nation so absolutely
sure of ultimate success as ours. or
course we shall succeed. Ours is a ma
ton of masteTful energy. with a con-
ttnent for its domain, and 1t feels with
in it's 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 ultimate triumph.
The wrongs that exist are to be cor
Tected; but they in no way justify doubt
as to the final outcome, doubt as to the
great material prosperity Of the future,
or Of the lofty spiritual life which is
20 be built upon that prosperity as q
foundation. No miSdeedS done IN the
present must be permitted to shroud
from our eyes the glorious future OF
the nation; but because of this very
fact il behOOves US never TO swerve
from our resolute purpose 10 cut out
WrOngdOing and uphold what is right
Distress Due to Rich Men.
do not for a moment believe that
the actions of this Administration have
brought on business distress; so far as
this is due to local and not worldwide
causes, and 10 the actions Of any par
ticular individuals, it is due TO the spec
ulative folly and fragrant dishonesty of
a few men Of great wealth, who seek to
shield themselves from the effects of
their own wTongdoing by ascribing its
results to the actions Of those who have
sought to put a stop TO the wrOngdOing.
But If il were true that TO cut out rot
tsnness from the body polite meant a
mOmentary check TO an unhealthy seem
ing prosperity ! should not for q mo-
ment 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 honest man who earns each
days livelihood by that days sweat
OF his brow, IL is necessary TO insist
UPON honesty in business and politics
alike, in ali 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 when he said:
"Fondly Go we hope, fervently do we
pray, that this mighty scOurge may
speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills