Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-06-17
THIS COUNTRY
HAS BEEN FORTUNATE
nevertheless. The People Should
Not Be hllsled Either BY
Great Wealth or b.
Visionary Re-
formers.

New York, June 17.-Discnssion of
the political problems confronting the
country through the development of
power because of large corporations
is made in vigorous language by
former President Roosevelt i'm this
weeks outlook. Taking for his sub
Ject 'The Thraldom OF Names" MI.
Roosevelt says 1t behooves our peo-
pie never to be misled by designing
men who appeal to the reverence for
or antipathy toward q given name
in order to achieve some alien pur-
pU'e IiIe ll's of a mob ..,.ares.
may be as tyrannical 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 a mob; but
the mob leaders usually state that all
that they are doing is necessary in or
der to advance the cause OF liberty.
while the dictator and oligarcy are
usually defended upon the ground
that the course they follow is abso-
lutely necessary to secure order.
Many excellent people ere taken
N by theNsse Of the word liberty at
the one tirsfi says NC Reasefest.
END The use - the ngkord .rdez ii
the stherN-ana lgnozSnce tlTe s.sApie
fact that despotism is despofisni.
tyranny is tyranny. oppression is OPP
preston. whether committed by one
individual or by many individuals, by
state or by a private corporation.
All forms of tyranny and cruelty
must, alike, be condemned by honest
men.
"In this country we have been very
fortunate. Thanks to the teaching
and the practice OF the men whom We
most revere as leaders, of the men
like Washington and Lincoln, we have
hitherto escaped the twin CULTS of
despotism and mob rule and we have
never been in any danger from the
worst forms of religious bitterness,
but we should therefore be all the
more careful as we deal with our in
dustrial and social problems not to
fall into mistakes similar to those
which have brought lasting destruc-
tion on less fortunately situated peo-
pie.
Whatever the Cost =.
First, we must stand formally on
a DdSlS OF BoOu SOunu etnlCS. III
business IL hurt by the stern exposure
of crookedness and the result of ef-
forts to punish the crooked men, then
wicked or foolish men who wonid
business must be hurt even though
good men are involved in the hurting.
on the other hand we must beware
above all things of being misIed by
condone homicide and violence and
o., o a. IL 4 ..
assassin, because. forsooth they
choose to take the ground that crime
is no crime If the wicked man hap
pens also to have been a shiftless
and unthrifty or lazy man. who has
never amassed property.
"It Is essential that we should
wrest the control of the government
out of the hands of rich men. who
use 1t for unhealthy purposes, and
should keep it out of their hands.
and to this end the first requisite is
to provide means adequately to deal
with corporations, which are essential
to modern business, but which under
the decisions of the courts and be-
cause of the short-sightedness Of the
public, have been the chief factor
in political and business debasement,
But it would be just as bad Ia
put the control of the government
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 ar
attendant result the ruin of the en-
tire community"
Mr. Roosevelt quotes from an ar
ticle by stevens, an English journal
ist. on conditiors in the United states,
written in 1896, I'm which il was de-
clared that if indiyidualism is left alb
solutely uncontrolled as modern
business condition the result will fol-
low that all power Of individual
achievement and individual effort In
the average man will be- crushed out.
on this lire Mr.. Roosevelt continues
as follows
ConTol Corporations. &C..
Those who advocate total lack of
regulation. those who advocate law
lessuess in the business world them
selves give the strongest impulse to