The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-08
The Presidents Message.

the 31st of January elaboration of the fol-
lowing points
An injured workman has no remedy and the entire
burden of the accident falls the helpless man. his
wife and his children.
The injured employee or his surviving dependents
should not be required to bring suit. The
compensation should be paid automatically. The
principle should be made applicable to private
employers.
1t is all wrong to use the injunction to prevent
the entirely proper and legitimate action OF labor
organizations The fact that the punishment tor
violation of an injunction must be without inter
vention of jury furnishes reason why the process
should be surrounded with safeguards.
If some way of remedying the abuses IS not found,
Indignation may produce revolt against the whole
use of inunctions Men of property cannot afford
to trust to anything save the spirit OF justice and
fair play.
The usual result of imitation (of railroad capitali-
zation) is to impose upon the public unnecessary
but everlasting tax, while only few spectators are
benefited.
In fixing the charges of railroads it is better
to allow too liberal than too scanty earnings, other
wise railway development may not keep pace with
the demand
The attempt to provide against all combinations
of whatever character must necessarily be either tu
tile mischevous and sometimes both. Real good
can come only by a thorough and continuing super
vision the acts of the combination in all parts.
Each and every one OF these laws would represent
part of the campaign against privileges, to make
great property-hoders realize that property has its
duties less than its rights.
cards or lotteries the race track and gambling
in the stock market. One method is just as PERM
cous as the other and in the evil worked far greater
The federal government could at least act by for
bidding the of the mails telegraph and telephone
wires for gambling in stocks and futures.
Certain wealthy men, whose conduct should be
abhorred by every man OF ordinary, decent con-
science and who commit the hideous wrong of teach
ing young that phenomenal business success
must ordinarily be based dishonesty, have banded
together to work for reaction.
T,a oI,,,, Tho xxyIO ire
views are not engaged in assault property, but
are strenuous upholders of the rights of property
We attack only the corrupt men of wealth who
find in the purchased politician the most efficient in
strument of corruption and in the purchased news
paper the most efficient defender of corruption 1t is
not the puppet but the strong, cunning men and the
mighty forces working for evil behind and through
the puppets with whom have to deal
Such attacks (of radicalism) become inevitable II
decent citizens permit those rich men whose lives
corrupt and evil to domineer in swollen pride
unchecked and unhindered the destines of this
country
Every measure for honesty in business that has
been passed during the last six years has been OPP
posed by these
When we are able to put the real wrongdoer in
prison, this is what strive to do; this is what
have actually done with some very wealthy Grim
nals. The government has put behind the bars with
impartial severity the powerful nancier the power
full politician the rich land thief the rich contractor
All their wealth and power cannot protect them.
1t often happens That the f effort to P1Soa is
lawyers and their employers mainly responsible
for this state of things.
That stakeholder is not innocent who purchases
stock in corporation whose methods and manage
ment he knows to be corrupt
The apologists of successful dishonesty by their
acts have unsettled business" They have hurt hon
est business men, honest workngmen, honest farmers
and now they clamor against the truth being told
The outcry against stopping dishonest practices
among wrongdoers who happen to be wealthy is sim
lar to the outcry against every effort for cleanliness
md decency in city government, because, forsooth
it hurts business"
The business" which is hurt by the movement