The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-02-10
LUMBERTON. NORTH CAROLINA. MONl
TIE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Criticisms on II by the Two Sen.
afOrs From This State.

Criticisms on IL by the Two Sem
aaOrs From This State.
The North Carolina Senators
are quoted on the presidents
message in interviews in The
Baltimore Sun.
Senator Overman says:
ICSent to congress just at this
time and under the peculiar coz
ditiOnS existing less than a
month after his regular annual
message, as it is in many re-
spects a reiteration of many
things heretofore commended in
his message to congress, the
president evidently intended his
special message as an answer to
the many criticisms made of
him since the panic and also as q
knockout blow to those candi-
dates for the republican nomina-
ton who are out of line and antag-
onistic to his policies. Un-
doubtedly the president has in
this, as in his other messages,
rendered great service tc the
lcOuntry in calling attention to
many honest and needed reforms
which have for a long time been
advocated by the democratic
party.
The message is a great state
paper unusually strong and for
chilly expressed, such as few
men can write, but there is moth
ing especially new in it which
other reformers have not advo.
Gated, and if it will have the
effect of influencing his republi
can friends in congress to joir
with the democrats to enac'
these reforms into law he viii
have aided in doing great things
: for the country and in preserv
ing the government of the mass
es, not the classes, for the many
not the few, and for the preven
tion of dishonest methods b,
corrupt corporations and stocl
gamblers. However, the inter
ference of the general govern
ment with the states rights G
the states and tendencies towar
Capitalization and paternalisr
. the democrats will fight to th
II last ditch. They will advocat
these reforms along conserva
= tive lines, and not along radios
lines, which would give III
= bridled license and curtail tn
" liberties of the people"
e Senator Simmons says:
e I'm some respects the pres
= dents message is democrat
u and sound and in others it is ur
~ democratic and, / think, ul
y sound.
le Most right-thinking and di
interested men, without regal
u to party, 1 think will agree
q substance with the president
Ii recommendations as to Il
~ abuses of the process of injur
oe tion and as to the fundamen4
NC rights of labor, whether cons
- cred individually or in organi
al tion, as we'll as to the duty
or employers of labor-wheth
u private Corporations or the g
lly ernment-to share with him I
IU'' burden of injuries sustained
lis the performance of duty.
III likewise, much that the pr
vi 'ne ident says respecting COVE
1iS ment supervision. regulating
on- control of certain industrial &
Gu public service corporations
One good democratic doctrine 1
len is heartily approved by del
un Gratis.
ur- "But-taken as a whole-in
CAD spirit it's trend aud thought
our purpose, it has the inevits
US effect of destroying individual
'esU itiative and management of
nat vate enterprises and in con'
Is trating powers in the nati'
government. The message
the not only undemocratic but it
ana radical departure compared
ting any of the other state paper
Will the president and marks a ri
and advance during the last IL G
mem months in his views in the iii
re- ton of controland manageme
tart the instrumentalities of pro
un' tion and transportation"
and
priv A special of the 5th from
'N'n' Bern to The Charlotte Obse
'"oi states that Captain Frisbee
u i00 son, who we're reported as dr.
LILLE ed by the wrecking OF their W