The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-01-31
MESSAGE SUBMITTED


A%1AN4uutN' from Nakt IL
State action has been wise and elfee-
tive, but much of Il has been neithers
for when the effort IS made 70 ac-
compiish BY the action OF the STATE
what can only be accomplished By
the action Of the Nafiun. the result
can only be disapp and IN.
the end the law wiz probably De de-
Iclared uIicnnstitutiona So likewise
IN the national arena, we who be-
lieye u the measures herein RdVocat-
ed are hantpered and not aided by
the extremists who advocate action
50 violent that Il would either Be use
less or else would cause more mis-
chief that It would remedy.
Good citlzens should be alarmed,
by CONFLICTS over the matter Of iuris-
diction, and by the radical action adj
ivocated by honest people smarting
from a sense of injury received from
i corporations; which injury the Fed
eral courts forbid the States to try
to remedy, while the Federal Govern
ment nevertheless refrains from it
self taking adequate measures TO pro-
vide remedy. II can not too strong
, ~ be insited that the defenders ana,
,apologtsts of the great corporations.
who ave sought in the past and still
e1ENtA ~ aAEtfuaNd. HGElOU ny
the Federal Government to control
these great corporations. are not only
proving false to the people, but are
laying up a day of wrath for the
great corporations themselves, The
Nation win not tolerate an utter lack
OF control over very wealthy men of
enormous power In the industrial, and
therefore in the social lives OF all
our people. some OF whom have
a fNFn aFnra 1eR 4.t a
brutally Indifferent to the Interests OF
the people; and n the Congress does
not act, with good tempered and sens
sible but resolute thoroughness, In
cutting out the evils and In provid-
ing an effective supervision, the re-
salt is certainttto be action on the
ppart OF the separate States, some
times ig-Jpdged and extreme. some
times unjust and damaging TO the
railroads or other corporations, more
often ineffective from every stand
point, because the Federal courts de-
clare 1t unconstitutional
| We have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time It Is a sad fact that
entirely 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
wage workers, who suffer because In
volved in crash for which they
are in on way responsible. At such
a time there IS a natural tendency
on the part of many men to feel
gloomy and frightened at the out
look; but there is no justification
for this feeling. There Is no nation
so absolutely sure of success as ours.
| OF course we shall succeed. Ours is
a nation of mastery energy, with a
continent for its domain, and 1t feels
within It's veins the thrill which
comes to those who know that tey
possess the future. We are not cast
down by the fear of failure. We are
upheld by the confident hope of Ill
innate triumph. The wrongs that
exist are to be corrected; but they
m no way Justify doubt as to the
final outcome. doubt as to the great
material prosperity of the future. or
of the lofty spiritual life whic is to
be built upon that prosperity as a
foundation. No misdeeds done in
the present must be permitted to
shroud from our eyes the glorious
future of the nation: but because of
this very fact II behooves us never to
swerve from our resolute purpose to
cut out wrong doing and uphold
what is right.
the actions Of this administration
have brought on business distress;
so far as this is due to local and not
worldwide causes. and to the act
ions of any particular individuals, 1t
Is due to the speculative folly and
fragrant dishonesty of a few men of
great wealth. who seek to shield
themselves from the effects of their
own wrong doing by ascribing its re-
es0NlN - knala - ~
have sought to put a stop to the
wrongdoing. But IL It were true that
to cut out rottenness from the body
polite meant a momentary check to
an unhealthy seeming prosperity, j
should not for one moment hesitate
to put the knife to the corruption.
On behalf of all our people. on be-
half no less of the onest man of
menas than of the honest man who
earns each days livelihood by the
days sweat of his brow, It is neces-
sary to insist upon honesty in bust
ness and politics alike, In all walks
Of life, in big things and little things.
upon just and fair dealing as be-
tween man and man.
In the work we of the generation
are in. there Is, thanks be to the Al
mighty, no danger of bloodshed and
no use for the sword; but there is
grave need fthose stern qualities
shown alike by the men of the North
and the men of te South in the dark
days when each vainly battled for
the light as it was given. each to see
the light. Their spirit should be our
spirit, as we strive to bring nearer
the day when greed and trickery
and cunning shall be trampled under
feet by those who figt for the right
eousness that exalteth a nation.
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