Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-07

justice may continue to De, what IL now
Is, in very fact the department of JUS
mits justice is meted out with an even
hand to great and small, rich and poor,
should % be BEN no delay II In suppiementing the
laws now on the statute books by the
enactment of farther Legislation as
congress on its assembling. Under the
existing laws much. very much has
been actually accomplished during the
past six years and IL hkA been shown
by actual experience the they can be
enforced against the weaIthiest 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;
A6oye all they verb have 6eeq Sed
agents of wrongdoers who have for
so many. years gone seot-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 heyond
and above all possible check from law.
1t is especially. necessary to secure to
ernment full power to deal with the
great corporations engaged in inter-
state comerce and above all, with the
piEP %hiIe there ' are difno1ities 'N9 in any any
course of conduct to be followed in
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-
nit a return to the utter lack of con-
troll which would obtain II they were
one moment believe that our people
would tolerate this position. The eX-
trialism has rendered the common law.
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
shackie cunning as in the past we have
and corporate fortunes, the vast com
binations of capital, which have marked
the DEVELOPMENT OF 9;t 9ur indusnTiaI str noSo 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 adequately protected, and that at
the same time those who hold 1t may
be prevented from wrongdoing.
Talks of Financial Stress.
1--WE have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. AT
any such time 1T 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-
| ers, who suffer because involved in a
crash for which they are in no way
responsible At such time there is
natural tendency on the part of many
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
| the outlook; but there is no justifica-
| ton for this feeling. There is no ma
tion SO absolutely % sure OF ultimate mate sue sue
| ceed. Ours is a nation of masterful
| energy, with a continent for its domain,
and it feels within it's Veins the thrill
| w a know
| they possess the future. We are not
cast down by the fear of failure. We
innate triumph. The wrongs that ex-
| list are to be corrected: but they in no
way justify doubt as to the final out
come, doubt. as to the great ma terial
| prosperity of the future, or of the lofty
! spiritual life which is to be built upon
| that prosperity as foundation. No
| 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
| what - right. do not for n 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, II
is due to the speculative folly and fla
| grant dishonesty of few men of great
| wealth, who seek to shield themselves
from the effects. of their own wrong
| actions of those who have sought tc
| put stop to the wrongdoing. But ii
| 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, II
is necessary to insist upon honesty II
business and in politics alike, in al
walks of life, in big things and in little
things; upon just and fair dealing a:
between man and man. Those whC
demand this are striving for the righ
in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln" saiC
the president in conclusion.