Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-06

must each do its part"
SAID President ROosevelt's message.
and each can do a certain amount
that the other cannot do, while the
only really satisfactory results must
be obtained by the representatives of
the national and state governments
working heartily together within their
respective spheres. But in my judg-
ment thorough going and satisfactory
control can in the end only be obtained
by the action of the national govern
ment, for almost all the corporations of
enormous Wealth-that is the corpo-
ratlons which it is especially desirable
TO control-are engaged in interstate
commerce, and derive their power and
their Importance not from that portion
OF their business which is interstate.
but from the interstate business. 1t is not
OF demarcation between the two kinds
or business falls. This line must ulti-
eonTts be M,,c dra w by the federal
ADEQUATE control of the great corpora
lions by state action has been wise
and effective, but much of it has been
neither; for, when the effort is made
to accomplish by the action of the state
what can only be accomplished by the
acton of the nation, the result can only
pc y =, disappointment. and in the end the
st1tutional So likewise in the national
arena, we who believe in the measures
nereln advocated are hampered and
not aided by the extremists who advo-
cate action so violent that it would
either be useless or else would cause
more mischief than 1T would remedy.
Points to the Future.
''The laws must in the future be adj
ministered as they are now being adj
mln!stered, so that the department of
?uStlce may continue to be- what it now
Is. IN very fact the department of JUS
mits justice is meted out with an even
hand to great and small rich and poor,
weak weak, and strong. Moreover. there
laws now on the statute books bv the
ehactment of further legislation as
outlined In the message | sent to the
eonigFess on its assembling. Under the
SHlstlng laws much, very much has
peen actually accomplished during the
past SIX years and it has been shown
by actual experience that they can be
enforced against the wealthiest cor
poratlon and the richest and most pow
erful manager or manipulation of that
corporation, as vigorously and fearless
y as against the humblest offender.
against the very wrongdoers and
agents of wrongdoers who have for
aont many ~, years gone scot-free and
against great law-defying corpora
tlons OF immense wealth, which. until
Wlthln the last half dozen years have
o otga,eu Il themselves t and have expected
ot1erS TO treat them as being beyond
ana above all possible check from law
Il is especially necessary to secure TO
the representatives of the national gov
ernneht full power to deal with the
great corporations engaged in inter
state comerce. and above all. with the
great interstate common carriers. Our
people should clearly recognize that
Whlle there are difficulties in any
course of conduct to be followed in
d DEAN 9, "a with these great. corporations
OF three courses followed. The first
course is to abandon all effort to over
see and control their actions in the in
terest OF the general public and to per-
mt return to the utter lack of CON
troi which would obtain if they were
lett to the common law. 1 do not for
one moment believe that our people
traord1nary growth of modern indus
trialism has rendered the common law
W WI &c. grew up under and was adapt
Hohs' IN many respects inadequate to
deal with the new conditions These
new conditions make it necessary to
shackIe cunning as in the past we have
ana corporate fortunes, the vast COM
oinations of capital, which have marked
the development of our industrial sys-
TEN, create new conditions, and neces-
state change from the old attitude
or the state and the nation toward the
rules regulating the acquisition and
eerty in order both that property may
pc adequately protected and that at
the same time those who hold it may
De prevented from wrongdoing.
Talks of Financial Stress.
We have just passed through two
months or 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
honest investors, of honest wagework-
ers, who suffer because involved in a
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 justifica-
ton for this feeling. There is no ma
cess as ours. OF course we shall sue
coed. Ours is a nation of masterful
energy, with continent for it's domain.
they possess the future We are not
cast down by the fear of failure. We
are upheld by the confident hone of nj
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
permitted to shroud from our ewes the
glorious future of the nation; but be-
cause of this very fact it behooves us
never to sWerVe from our reSOiute pur-
pose to cut out wrongdoing and uphold
what is right. l do not for a moment
believe that the actions of this admin
istration have brought on business dis
tress, so far as this is due to local and
not Worldwide causes, and to the ac-
tons of any particular individuals, it
is due to the speculative folly and ia
grant dishonesty of a few men of great
wealth. who seek to shield themselves
from the effects of their own wrong
doing by assembling its results to the
actions of those who have sought to
put a stop to the wrongdoing. But il
it were true thai to cut out rottenness
from the body polite meant a mo-
mentary check to an unhealthy
seeming prosperity. 1 should mot 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 liveIi-
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.
Belasco Hard Worker.
David Belasco is the hardest worker
of all the American playwrights. II
is not an unusual occurrence for him