The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-02-07

p1efa q labor union. and every form
murder 70 bribery and balot-box stun
ing IN politics. We are trying TO secure
stH ri,gngis o. OF opportunity FOR all; and tho
or OF another.
Laws Must Continue to Be
Administered with Even Hand
The laws must In the future be adj
ministered as they are now being adj
Justice may continue to be- what il now
! Is. In very fact the department OF JUS
u ne.i Where 50 FAR as our ability permits
70 great and small. rich and poo- weak
and strong Moreover there should be
no delay In experimenting the laws now
ON the statute books by the enactment of
Iurther legislation as outlined In the
message ! sent 70 congress on its assem-
bhng' Under the existing laws, much,
very much, has been actually accom-
pushed during the past six years. and 10
has been shown by actual experience
that they can be enforced against the
wealthiest corporation and the richest
and most powerful manager or manipu-
iat9r OF that corporation as vigorously
ana f.arlessy as against the humblest
offender. Above all they have been
enforced against the very wrongdoers
ana agents OF wrongdoers who have for
80 many years gone scot free and fouted
the laws with impunity, against great
aw,defylng corporations 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
II is especially necessary to secure to
the representatives or the national gov
corporations engaged in Interstate COM
merce, and above ALL with the great in
terstate common carriers. our people
should clearly recognize that while there
are difficulties I'm any course of conduct
10 be followed in dealing with these great
faced az
The first course is TO abandon all ef-
fort TO oversee and control their actions
and 10 permit a return to the utter lack
Of control which woulc obtain IL they
were left TO the common law. ! do noe
for one moment believe that our people
would tolerate this position The ex-
traordinary growth of modern Industrial
ism has rendered the common law, which
grew up under and was adapted TO deal
with totally different conditions, in many
respects inadequate to deal with the new
conditions. These new conditions make 10
necessary TO shackle cunning in the
past we have shackled force. The vast
individual and corporate fortunes. the
vast combinations OF capital, which have
marked the development OF our Industrial
system. create new conditions. and neces-
state change from the old attitude Of
the state and nation toward the rules
regulating the acquisition and untram-
meled business use of property. In ordeB
' a p19pt tbst may the DC sa tms
those who hold 1t may be prevented from
wrongdoing.
The second and third courses are ia
have the regulation undertaken either
by the nation or by the states OF
course in any event both the national
government and the several state gov
must do each it's part. and
each can do certain amount that the
Dther cannot do, while the only really
results must be obtained
by the representatives of the national
md state governments working heart
ly together within their respective
Roroushgoing ' and satisiEacto 5gqs@ een'
rol can in the end only be obtained by
he action of the national governmen.
'normous wealth-tnat IS the corpo1-
ions which II is especially deslrable1tc
engaged in Interstate COM
heir Importance not from that por-
ion OF their business which is intra-
tate, but from the Interstate business
< is not easy always to decide just
where the line of demarcation between
ne Two kinds OF business falls. This
inc must ultimately be drawn by the
ederal courts. Much OF the effort &c
ecure adequate control OF the great
orporauons by state action has been
cen neither. for when the effort n
lade to accomplish by the action OF
he state what can only be accom-
lished by the action of the nation the
esult can only be disappointing and In
ne end the law Will probably be de-
Jared unconstitutional, So likewise
! the measures herein advocated are
ampered and not aided by the extrem.
Us who advocate action so violent
hat II would either be useless or else
ould remedy.
We have just passed through tive
onths OF acute nancial stress At any
zen time IL is sad fact that entIrely
inocent people suffer from no fault
,e keene wn sS xna vyery one I'M must feel
)dy OF honest business men. OF hon.
! investors. OF honest wageworkers
no suffer because involved in a crash
!. which they are in no way respon.
BILE Az such time there is a natu.
tendency on the part OF many mer
ltlook; but there IS no Justification
this feeling. There is no nation Sc
sure OF ultimate succes1
ed ours is nation OF masterfu
ergy. with continent for it's do.
ain, and Il feels within Its veins the
rlll which comes TO those WHO know
at they possess the future. We are
I cast down by the fear OF failure
e are upheld by the confident hope
ultimate triumph. The wrongs thai
list are 70 be corrected; but they in no
y Justify doubt as TO the nnal out.
me, doubt as to the great material
Dsperity OF the future. or OF the LOFTY
ritual life which is to be built upon
4, prosperity as a foundation No
seeds done In the present must bs
united TO shroud from our eyes this
'rious future OF the nation; but be-
Use OF TINS very fact IL behOoveS us
yer to swerve from our resolute pur-
g 70 cut out wrongdoing and uphold
at is right
do not for q moment believe that tbs
Ions OF this administration hays
IBht on business distress. so far a.
Is due TO local and not Worldwide
ses, and 10 the actions OF any mar
liar individuals, II is due to the specu
We folly and Migrant dishonesty OF a
men OF great wealth, who seek 70
Ia themselves from the effects of their
wrongdoing by ascribing its results
ne actions OF those who have sought
put stop to the wrongdoing AM
I were true that 70 cut out rotten
from the body polite meant a mo-
nary check TO an unhealthy seemlns
'perity, / should not for one momenf
tate TO put the knife TO the corrup-
On behalf OF all our people on
air no less of the honest man az
ms than OF the honest man who earns
J days livelihood by that days sweat
lis brow. IL Is necessary 10 insist upon
esty In business and politics alike in
walks OF life, in big things and in
? things, upon just and fair dealina
etween man and man. Those who de-
d this are striving for the right in
spirit OF Abraham Lincoln when he
ondly do we hope. ferventiy do We