Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-02-12
MESSAGE IS WARM
President Flags Corporations
That Defy Laws.
DENIES HE CAUSED PANIC
Attacks of Great Concerns on His Ad-
ministration Are Vigorously Re-
peIIed-Employers' Liability and
Abuses Of Injunction Discussed.


Abuses of Injunction Discussed.
Washington.-In a message dealing
principally with the control of great
corporations. transmitted to congress
on Friday, the president fiays what he
terms the law defying trusts" in no
uncertain terms.
In the opening paragraphs of the mes
sage he urges the Immediate reenact-
ment of the employers liability law.
ana Tor such legislation as will remedy
the abuses of the injunction. He then
turns his attention to stock jobbing
and other forms of high finance, and
says:
Il do not know whether it is posi-
BILE. but if possible. it is certainly de-
sirable. that in connection with meas
DISQUALIFICATION there should be
measures taken to prevent at least
the the grosser forms of gambling in Sc
making large sales of what men do
not possess and 'cornering' the market
1t would seem that the federal
forbidding, the use of the mails, teIe-
graph and telephone wires for mere
gambling ga a. ing. in stocks and futures just
as IL does in lottery transactio
Mr.. Ripley and Relating.
Next President Roosevelt turns his
reply of the chief of the bureau of
corporations to statements made bv
the Standard Oil Company and by
President Ripley of the Santa Fe rail-
trlct Attorney Eeney of San Francis
co lnclosing one from the Santa Fe's
general es.r freight traffic manager to the
me president say shows the utter
IA II of the plea of ignorance made
Dy high oftieials Of the Santa Fe and.
The president adds:
The attacks by these great corpora
lions tons on the administrators actions
throughout the country in the neWspa-
pers and otherwise, by those writer's
and speakers, who. consciously or UNI
OF predatory wealth-of the wealth
aaccumulated on giant scale by all
forms OF 1niquity, ranging from the
oppression or WagewOrkerS to unfair
ana unwholesome methods of crushing
out competition. and to defrauding the
n Pic oy stock Jobbing and the manip-
men or this stamp. whose conduct
should be abhorrent to every man of
ordinar1ly decent conscience. and who
commit the h1deOuS wrong of teaching
our young men that phenomenal BUSH
ness success must ordinarily be based
feu d1s anth have during the last
rev months made 1t apparent that they
nave banded together to work for a
tteeactIon. Their endeavor is to over
adTom and d tse all who honestly
additional legislation which would
e Sss and restrain them, and to secure
II possible a freedom from all re-
scrupulous wrongdoer to do what he
wishes unchecked provided he has
enough money"
Campaign of Lawbreakers.
Denying that the administration is en-
president continues:
=, There are ample material rewards for
nose VINO serve with fidelity the man.
IN,,N
dearly paid for by the people who per
NIT their representatives, whether in
pubic n life, in the press, or in the col
10 preach and to practice that there is
one law for the rich and another for the
poor: The amount of money the repre-
s'entatlVes or certain. great moneyed in
terests are willing to spend can be gagged
by their. recent publication broadcast
throughout the papers of this country,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. of huge
advertisements attacking with enven-
omed bitterness the Administrations pol
ICY or warning against successful dis
honesty, and by their circulation of PAM
ph!ets and books prepared with the same
OBJECT; While they likewise push the cir
c9latlon Of the writings and speeches
OF men who, whether because they are
mlsied or because, seeing the light, they
yer are willing to sin against the light.
to the cost of the plain people. '''--
The books and pamphlets, the con-
trolled newspapers. the speeches by pub
III VI private men 10 Wnlcn i REFER,
usually and especially in the interest
of the Standard Oil Trust and of certain
notorious railroad combinations. but they
also defend other individuals and cor
porations of great wealth that have been
guilty of wrongdoing. 1t is only rarely
that the men responsible for the wrong
maliy they hire others to do their bidding
or find Others who will do 1t without hire.
FROM the railroad rate law to the pure
food law, every measure for honesty in
business that has been passed during the
last six years has been opposed by these
men on its passage and in it's admins
and INSCRIPTIONS craft could suggest
and the command of almost unlimited
money secure. But for the last year,
the attack has been made with most
bitterness upon the actual administration
OF the law: especially through the depart
ment of justice. but also through the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
the bureau of corporations.
Business" That Is Hurt.
The president at considerable length
defends his administration against the
charge that. its policy was responsible
for the business depression. and says
that the business that is hurt by the
movement for. honesty is the kind of
business which. in the long run. it
pays the country to have hurt.
In concluding his message President
Roosevelt says:
81 do not for a moment believe that
the actions of this administration have
brought on business stress; so far
as this is due to local and not world
wide causes. and to the actions of any
particular individuals, It is due TO the
speculative folly and fragrant dishon-
esty of a few men of great wealth. who
fects of their own wrongdoing by as
cribing its results to the actions of
those who have sought to put a stop
to the wrongdoing. But IL il were true
that to cut out rottenness from the
body polite meant a momentary 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
the honest man who earns each days
livelihood by that days sweat of
his brow, it is necessary to in
tics alike in ali walks of life. in big
things and little things: upon just and
fair dealings as between man and man."
Reused the Sage Of Chelsea.