The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-04-30

unwarranted, yet that II is unques-
tionably true that in a number Of
cases this power has been used to the
grave injury of the rights OF laboring
men. I ask that II be limited in some
such way as that have already point
ed out in my previous messages, for
the very reason that | do not wish to
see an enibittered effort made to de-
stroy it. It is unwise stubbornly to
refuse to provide against a repetition
O. the abuses which have caused the
present unrest. In a democracy like
ours It is idle to expect permanently
to thwart the determination Of the
rreat body Of our citizens. It may be
and often is the highest duty of
court loo'e'atrre. or an executive,
to resist and defy a gust OF popular
% ion, ana most certainly no public
servant, whatever may be the conse-
quences TO himself, should yield to
what he thinks wrong. But in ques.
tion which is emphatically one OF pub
lie policy. the policy which the public
demands is sure in the end TO be
adopted, and a persistent refusal to
grant to large portion Of our people
what is right is only too apt in the
end to result in causing such irrita-
ton that when the right is obtained
It is obtained in the course of a move
ment so ill.con sidered and violent as
10 be accompanied by much that is
wrong. The process Of injunction In
labor disputes. as well as where state
laws are involved should be used
s~Gwlgly. and only when there is the
ctearest necessity for H. but II is one
"a necessary 10 the efficient perform
ance OF duty by the court on behalf
Cf the nation that IS in the HIGHEST
6eeree TO he reore'ted that II should
re liable to reckless use. for this
reckless use tends To make honest
tton desire so 10 hamper its execution
IS TO destroy 'ts usefulness.
ss-consoiousness.
Every far-sighted patriot should
protest first of all against the growth
in this country of that evil thing
which is called class-consciousness."
The demagogue, the sinister or fool
ish socialist visionary, who strives to
Jrouse this feeling OF class.conscious-
ress in our working people, does a
foul and evil thing, for he is no true
Az arican: ha is no self-respecting
citizen Of this republic; he forfeits
his right TO stand with manly self-re-
lance on footing of entire equality
With all other citizens. who bows to
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trine OF class hatred into a shibboleth.
who substitutes loyalty to men of a
particular status. whether rich or
poor for loyalty 10 these eternal and
immutable principles of righteousness
which bid MS treat each man on his
worth as a man without regard TO his
wealth or his poverty. But evil
though the influence Of these dema-
gogues and visionaries Is, II Is no
worse in IFS consequence than the in
fluence exercised bv the man of great
wealth, or the man Of power and po-
sition in the industrial world. who by
his lack Of understanding Of still
more by any exhibition OF, uncompro-
missing hostility 10 the millions Of our
working people. tends to unite them
against their fellow-Americans who
are better - in this worlds goods. II
is a bad th'"G to teach our working
people thar men Of means, that men
who have ~ largest proportion of
the substantial comforts OF life, are
necessarily greedy, erasping and cold
hearted, and that they uniustly de-
mand and approximate more tnan their
share of the substance OF the many
Stern condemnation should be visited
upon demagogue and visionary who
teach this untruth and even sterner
upon these capitalists who are in
truth grasping and greedy and brutal
ly disregard the right of others, and
who by their actions teach the dread
full lesson far more effectively than
any mere preacher OF unrest "Class.
grievance" left too long without rem
edy greeds ass-consclousness," and
therefore class-resentment.
Antitrust Law.
The strengthening OF the antitrust
law is demanded upon both moral and
economic grounds. Our purpose in
strengthening II is to secure more ef-
fective control by the national gov
ernment over the business use Of the
vast masses Of individual, and espe-
cially OF corporate wealth. which at
the present time monopolize most Of
the interstate business Of the coun-
try, and we believe the control can
best he exercised by preventing the
growth Of abuses. rather than merely
by trying to destroy them when thev
have already grown. In the highest
sense OF the word this movement for
thorough control OF the business use
OF this great wealth is conservative.
We are trying to steer a safe middle
course, which alone can save us from
a plutocratic class fayOrment on the