Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-17
ROOSEVELT CUNNING
FOR 0RINO-L[GGEDGAhE
FORMER PRESIDENT HAS vIooR
Gus EDITORIAL IN CURRENT
MAGAZINE ISSUE.
MUST PUNISH WICKED,
THO INNOCENT SUFFER

use Of Words "Liberty" and "order'
| Big Men and Corporations as We'll
as Vicious Must ee Controlled BY
Law.
New York, June 17.-Discussion of
the political problems confronting the
country thru the development Of power
by large corporations is made in Wig
orous language by Ex-President
Roosevelt in his article in this weeks
| Outlook. Taking for his subject 1.-THE
Thraldom Of Names" Mr.. Roosevelt
says it behooves our people never to
be misled by designing people who ap-
peal to the reverence Of or antipathy
toward a given name in order to
achieve some alien purpose. The rule
of a mob, he declares, may be as ty-
rannical and oppressive as the rule Of
single Individual, and the rule of an
oligarchy, whether this oligarchy is a
plutocracy or a bureaucracy may be
as sordid and bloodthirsty as that Of
mob; but the mob leaders usually
state that all that they are doing is
necessary In order to advance the
cause Of Liberty" while the dictator
and oligarchy are usually defended
upon the ground that the course they
follow Is absolutely necessary so as to
secure "order"
"Many excellent people are taken in
by the use Of the word liberty at the
one time," says the ex-president, "and
the use Of the word order at the 9TH
er and ignore the simple fact that
despotism, tyranny tyranny. oppression
oppression, whether committed by one
individual or by many individuals, by
state or by private corporation. All
forms of tyranny and cruelty must
alike be condemned by honest men.
| Punish Wicked, the Innocent Suffer.
First and foremost, we must stand
| firmly on basis of good sound ethics.
We intend to do what is right for the
ample and sufficient reason that 1t is
right. II business Is hurt by the stern
exposure of crookedness and the result
OF efforts to punish the crooked men,
then business must be hurt, even tho
good men are involved In the hurting,
until 1t so adjusts itself that 1t is pos
sible to prosecute wrong doing with
out stampeding the business commun-
| fty into q terror-s struck defense Of the
wrongdoers and an angry assault upon
these VINO have exposed them. On the
other hand, we must beware, above all
things, of being misled by wicked or
foolish men who would condone
homicide and violence, and apologize
for the dynamiter and the assassin be-
cause, forsooth, they choose to take the
ground that crime is no crime II the
wicked man happens also to have been
shiftless and unthrifty or lazy man
who has never amassed property. It is
essential that we should wrest the con-
troll of the government out of the
healthy purposes, and should keep 1t
out Of their hands; and to this end the
first requisite Is to provide means ade-
quately to deal with corporations,
which are essential to modern business,
but which. under the decisions Of the
courts, and because of the short sight
edness of the public. have become the
chief factors in political and business
debasement. But 1t would be just as
bad to put the control of the govern
ment into the hands Of demagogues
and visionaries who seek to pander to
ignorance and prejudice by penalizing
thrift and business enterprise, and
running all men Of means, with, as an
attendant result, the rule Of the entire
community"
Laws to Control by Man.
| Mr.. Roosevelt quotes an article by
Stevens, an English journalist, on
conditions in the United States, writ
ten In 1896, in which 1t was declared
that II individualism is left absolutely
uncontrolled as modern business con-
| dition, the result will follow that all
power of individual achievement and
individual effort in the average man
! will be crushed out just as effectively
As If the state took absolute control OF
everything. On this line Mr.. Roosevelt
continues as follows:
"Those who advocates total lack OF
regulation, those who advocate law
lessness in the business world, them
selves give the strongest impulse to
what believe would be the deadening
movement towards state socialism.
! "There must be law to control the
big man. and therefore especially the
big corporations, dn the industrial world
in the interest of our Industrial democ-
racy Of today. This law must be ef-
hcient, and therefore it must be adj
ministered by executive officers, and
not by lawsuits in the courts. II this
Is not done, the agitation to increase
| out of all measure the share Of the
government in that work will receive
an enormous impetus The movement
for government control of the great
business corporations is no more q
movement against liberty than move
ment to put stop to violence Is a
movement against liberty. The huge
irresponsible corporation which de-
mands liberty from the supervision OF
government agents stands on the same
ground as the less dangerous criminal
| Of the streets who wishes liberty from
police interference.
Some Dishonest Newspapers.
The ex-president closes with q direct
reference to newspapers.
yet another thing" he says. "No
movement ever has done or ever will
do good IN this country where assault
10 made not upon evil wherever found,
but simply upon evil az It happens to
be found in q particular c;as5. ! ne h.S
nswspaper. owned or controlled "a