The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-02-07

Justice may continue 10 be. what II now
is. in very fac, the department of JUS
tice. where SO far as our ability per-
mits Justice Is meted out with an even
hand to great and small. rich and poor.
weak and strong. Moreover. there
should be no delay in suppiementing the
ENACTMENT of further legislation as
outlined in the message l sent to the
congress on its assembling. Under the
existing laws much. very much. has
been actually accomplished during the
past six years. and it has been shown
by actual experience that they can be
poration and the richest and most pow
erful manager or manipulation of that
corporation. as vigorously and fearless
Above all; they have been enforced
against the very wrongdoers and
agents of wronsdoers who have for
fiouted the laws with impunity.
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 beyond
and above all possible check from law.
II Is especially necessary to secure to
the representatives of the national gov
ernment full power to deal with the
great great eorporations ENGAGED in inter
great interstate common carriers. Our
people should clearly recognize that
while while there he eo,. are diiiisultieS in any
dealing with these great corporations
these ,e difiicuities must be faced and one one
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 If they were
left to the common law. / do not for
one moment believe that our people
would tolerate this position. The ex-
traordinary growth of modern indus
trialism has rendered the common law.
which grew up under and was adapt
tions. in many respects Inadequate to
deal with the new conditions. These
new conditions make it necessary to
and corporate fortunes. the vast COM
bina,ions of capital. which have marked
the development of our industrial sys-
ten. create new conditions. and neces-
state change from the old attitude
OF the state and the nation toward the
untrammeled business use Of prop
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.
I'VE have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time it is sad fact that en-
tirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own: and every one must
feel the keenest sympathy for the
large body of honest business men. of
honest investors, of honest wagework-
ers. who suffer because involved in
crash for which they are in no way
responsible. At such a time there is
natural tendency on the part of many
men to feel gloomy and frightened at
the outlook: but there is no justifca-
tion for this feeling. There is no ma
ton so absolutely sure of ultimate sue
cess as ours. OF course we shall sue
coed Ours is nation of masterful
energy with n continent for its domain.
and It feels within it's veins the thrill
they possess the future. We are not
cast down by the fear Of failure. We
are upheld by the confident hope of ul-
list are to be corrected; but they In no
way Justify doubt as to the final out
come, doubt as to the great material
spiritual life which is to be built upon
that prosperity as a foundation. No
misdeeds done in the present must be
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 wrongdoinS and uphold
what is right. 1 do not for a moment
believe that the actions of this admin
istration have brought on business dis
not world wide causes. and to the ac-
tions of any particular individuals, IL
Is due to the speculative folly and fla
grant dishonesty. of a few men of great
wealth. who seek to shield themselves
from the effects of their own wrong
doing by ascribing its results to the
actions Of those who have sought to
put stop to the wrongdoing. But il
IT were true that to cut out rottenness
from the body polite meant a mo-
mentary check to an unhealthy
seeming prosperity, 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. it
Is necessary to insist upon honesty in
business and in politics alike in all
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" said
the president in conclusion.