Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-10-07

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thoroughly enforced"
Roosevelt goes further than ever be-
fore in his advocacy of the Govern
ment regulation of industry.
81 do not wish to see the nation
forced into ownership of the railways,
if it can possibly be avoided, and the
only alternatives thorough going and
effective regulation which shall be
based on full knowledge of all the
facts, including a physical valuation
of the property"
He would extend his regulation
also to other than public service cor
porations.
at is my personal belief that the
same kind and degree of control and
supervision which should be exercised
over public service corporations should
be extended also to combinations
which control necessaries of life, such
as meat, oil and coal, or which deal in
them on an important scale
The difficulty of dealing with cor
poration offenders the ex. President
proposes to minimize in this way:
81 believe. that the officers, and es
pecially the directors, of corporations
should be held personally responsible
when any corporation breaks the law :"
Roosevelt takes advanced ground
in approving new and more equitable
forms of taxation.
II believe in a graduated income tax
on big fortunes and in another tax,
which is far more easily collected, and
far more effective--a graduated in
heritance tax on big fortunes, properly
safe-guarded against evasion aud in
creasing rapidly in amount with the
size of the estate"
Quoting Abraham Lincoln's state
ment that "labor is the superior of
capital and deserves much the higher
consideration" he insists that the
people have right to regulate the
terms and conditions of labor, which
| is the chief element of wealth.
I'VE need comprehensive workmens'
compensation acts, both State and
national laws 10 regulate child labor
and the work of women, and especially
we need in our common schools not
merely education in book learning,
but also practical training for daily
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sanitary conditions for our workers
and to extend the use of safety APP
pliauces in industry and commerce
both within and between the States
Since our problems are national,
Roosevelt proposes that they be met
in broad, national way.
The new nationalism puts the
national need before sectional or per
sonal advantage. 1t is impatient of
the utter confusion that results from
local legislatures attempting to treat
national issues as local issues. 1t is
still more impatient of the impotence
which springs from the over division
of government powers, the impotence
which makes it possible for local
selfshness or for legal cunning, hired
by wealthy special interests, to bring
national activities to deadlock.
This new nationalism regards the
executive power as the steward OF the
public welfare 1t demands of the
judiciary that it shall be interested
primarily in human welfare rather
than in property, just as it demands
that the representative body shall
represent all the people rather shan
any one class or section of the people"
The list of Roosevelts recommend
tions includes, besides the measures
mentioned, increased powers to the
| Federal Bureau of Corporations and
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
read iu tment of the nations financial
/ system, an efficient army and navy,
use of national resources for the
benefit of all the people, clear divi-
sions of authority between national
and State governments, publicity OF
campaign contributions both before
and after election, direct primaries
with corrupt practises acts and {by
implication the recall.
1t is not necessary that one agree
with every.detail of this program to
see in it the comprehensive formula
ton of the advanced political thought
of the day. The people are deter
mined to try to free their institutions
from the domination of selfish wealth,
to restore popular government, to es-
tablish equal opportunity. In this
declaration Theodore Roosevelt seems
to cut himself off from those sinister
influences which hampered his adj
ministr,tion and that of his successor.
There is no room on this platform for
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