The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-06
PRESIDENT GIVES MESSAGE /!
President Sends Special Message to Congress On
Employers Liabilities and Other Matters

Junction. II Is necessary in order
that the courts may maintain their
own dignity and In order that they
may in effective manner check dlsor-
der aud violence.
II think The federal government
must assume certain measure OF
control over the physical operation OF
railways In the handling af Interstate
| traffic.
II repeat my recommendation that
| railways be permitted 10 form trafiic
associations for the purpose OF con.
ferring about and agreeing upon rates,
regulations and practices affecting In.
terstate business In which the mem.
bers OF the association are mutually
interested. This does not mean that
they should be given the right to pool
their earnings or their traflic.
''In connection with measures 10 re-
strain stock-watering and oyer-capit-
alization there should bc measures
taken Ia prevent at least the grusser
forms of gambling In securities and
commodities.
THE attacks by great corporations
ON the adminlstration's actions have
been given Il wide circulation through.
out the country by writers and speak
ers, who act as the representatives of
predatory wealth--of the wealth ac-
cumulated on giant scale by all
forms OF iniquiiy, ranging from the
oppression of wage workers 10 unfair
and unwholesome methods Of fcrushing
out competition. and Ia defranding
the public by stock-jobblng and the
manipulation of securities. Certain
wealthy men OF this stamp, whose
conduct should he abhorent to every
man OF ordinary decent conscience,
and who commit the hiieous wrong Ut
teaching our young men that Isie-
nomcual business success must or.
dinarily he based on dishonesty, have
during the last few months made II
apparent that they have banded To-
gether to work for reaction. Their
endeayor is to overthrow and discrcd.
II all who honestly administer the
law, 10 prevent any additional legisla-
ton which would check and restrain
them, and 10 secure II possible a free.
dom from all restraint which will per
nit every INSCRIPTIONS wrongdoer Ia
do what he wishes unchecked prosid-
ed he has enough money. The only
way 10 countefact the movement In
which these men are engaged Is 10
make clear to the public Just what
they have done in tho past and just
what they are seeking Ia accomplish
In the present.
"rhe administration and those who
support It's views are not only not eu.
gagged la an assault on property, but
are strenuous npholdcs OF the rights
ot property
DO not for "a moment believe that
the actions Of fthls administration have
brought on business distress: 80 far as
this Is due to local actions Of any par
ticular individuals, II Is due Ia the
speculative folly and fragrant diNhon-
esty of a few menof great wealth, who
seek to shield themselves from the ef-
fects Uf their own wrongdoings by as-
cribing It's results 10 the actions OF
those who have sought 10 put stop TO
the wrongdolng. But II IL were true
that to cut out rottenness from the
body polite meant mnmentary cheek
Ia an unhealthy seeming prosperity, |
should not for one moment hesitate To
put knife 10 the corruption. On BE-
half Of all our people, on behalf 40 less
uf the honest man Of means than 0f the
honest man Who earns each days live
llhood by that day = sweat Of his brow,
IL il necessary 10 insist upon honesty
In business and politics alike, In all
walks Of lie, In big things and in little
things: upon just and fair dealings AS
between man and man