The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-03

hands of . president Of the United
States the power t control every cor
poration In the land and there would
be lodged Il nis hands a power tina
would sooner or later destroy demo
cratic government.
IF the people OF the difereat states
allow the management Of c~orporations
within the states to be taken away and
permit the powers reserved to the
states 10 b centralized in the feder-
al government, then the republic
would be robbed of much Of it's
strength and OF hat whicn has made
II great.
1.-The states can be relied upon to
treat railroads and all other interests
fairly. A corporation after all consists
only of a number of individuals exer-
cising charter powers conferred by a
state. III the states are competent to
enact valid laws as to the individuals,
they are just as competent to legis-
late for a aunber of individuals
grouped under the legal fiction of a
corporation. Let the federal govern
ment act with the states. Federal rem
edies should he added to, not substi-
tuted for state remedies.
Nov, Wherever there are privil
eyes to be granted by law. someone
will give graft to secure these privil
iges and will take graft to
give these privileges. Graft can never
be fully done away with while oppor
tunities for graft remain. Until privi-
ieges conferred by law are taken a.
way, graft cannot be fully extermin-
ated.
1T can, however, so far as legisla-
tive bodies are concerned, be reduc-
ed to a minimum by requiring lobby
lists to operate in the open and strip
ping them OF the cloak of respectable
ity with which they too often clothe
their nefarious scnemes.
There should be a law enacted by
congress such as we have in Nilsson
ri. requiring all lobbyists to register
IN public record. stating whom they
represent. how much they are re-
ceiving and from whom, how mach
they are paying out, and to wnon, and
low long they intend to stay. This
would, as in Missouri. to a large ex-
tent correct the lobbyist evil.
while not interfering with the
representatives of legitimate inter
~ nahS kAC EI@hL ~ O1 On
before the committees in a proper
manner in Legislative matters. u C a
law checks the secret workings Of the
corrupt lobbyist. The honest legisla-
tive agent does not object to publici-
ty and the dishonest one has no right
to object to 1t.
''why the agents of privileges call
then lobbyists and make it plain that
they are lobbyists, owe yer Wash
ington like harpies, seeking legisla-
tive favors. They seduce wellmean-
ing men. They turn decent represen-
tatives OF the people into g~rafters by
methods that for insidiousness com
rare only with the efforts of rougues
to entrap young gentlemen.
There is no trick for cO-npronis-
ing a man unknown to these agents
Of interests enjoying special privili-
yes. They lend tine lawmaker money.
they play cards WITH him and let him
win hundreds of dollars: they intro
duce bills into the legislature plainly
unfair to their corporations and that
are certain to meet with the opposi-
ton of every honest statesman. Then
they made a present to the lawmaker.
=" nv III Gil O-Afc mas fotC1 6diA
a thoroughly had bill II il is his first
term in the legislature he may not
know that they have purposely intro
duced that bill to eaten him.
You ask me whet1er believe
young men ought to go into politics?
Most a%ssuredly they should. Not that
7 mean that they should be politicians
In the commonly accepted sense in
which that word is used. Nowadays
to describe a man as a politician car
ries with it Interpretation. A politi-
clan in the true sense of the word,
however. I believe is a man who
takes a deep interest in the welfare
Of his country. I believe every boy
do that.
81 would. In fact, urge the training
Of the boys of this country with just
such an end in view. In tho countries
OF the old world, the future kings are
taught from their Youngest boyhood
the problems of sovereignty.
$50 then, should the boys OF this
country. everyone of non are units
in the sovereignty of this republic. be |
taught the duties and obligations Inn
posed upon them"