Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-01-18
wilson Defines
A CORPORATION
THEY ARE USEFUL, But HAVE
SLIPPED OUT or CONTROL,
The Times ARE CHANCEFUL
Endorses Oregon LnW-Duty II Plain
--IiuslnCss ON Novel Scale
our own Creatures.

Woodrow Wilson today assumed the
duties of chief executive of New
Jersey and delivered his inaugural
address.
Sweeping reforms in legislation,
mot the foolish ardor of too sam
guine or too radical reform" the
governor says. nut merely the tasks
that are evident and pressing are
urged Ch!ct among them are the
enactment of AN employers liability
law providing Tor compensation to
Injured and disabled worlmcn, the
perfection ana the extension of the
direct primary law to all elective
offices, and to party nominations a
law restricting the issuance OF char
tors to corporations and providing
for close scrutiny and regulation of
existing corporations, the enactment
of a conservation law and revision
of the existing method OF taxation.
lie said, In part:
The opportunity of our day In the
field of politics no man can mistake
who can read any, even the most
superficial signs of the times. We
have never seen day when duty
was more plain. the task to be per
formed more obvious the way In
which to accomplish it more easy to
determine. The whole world has
changed within the lifetime of men
not yet in their thirtcs; the world
of busincs and, therefore, the world
of society and the world of politics.
The organization and movement Of
business are now, and upon novel
scale Business has changed 80 rap
idly that for long time we were
confused, alarmed, bewildered in u
sort of terror of the things we had
| ourselves raised up.
But corporations are no longer
| hobgobblns which have sprung AZ
US out Of some mysterious ambush.
not yet unholy inventions of rascally
rich men, nor yet the puzzling de-
vices by which ingenious lawyers
! build up huge rights out of a multi
tude of small wrongs; but merely
organizations of perfectly lntclligl-
/ bic sort which the law has licensed
for the convenience of extensive bust
ness; organizations which have prey
/ ed very useful but which have for
| the time being slipped out of the
| control Of the very law that gave
| them leave to be and that can make
| or unmake them at pleasure. We
/ have now to set ourselves to control
them. soDerly but effectively and to
| bring them thoroughly within the
regulation Of the law.
"ln the first place It is plain that
our laws with regard to the rela-
tions oC employer and employe are
In many respects wholly antiquated
and impossible. They were framed
for another age which nobody now
living remembers, which Is. indeed,
80 remote from our life that It would
be difficult for many Of MS to under
stand it if It were described to US.
"A new economic society has
sprung up, aud we must effect a
new set Of adjustments, We must
not pit power against weakness The
employer Is generally In our DAY a
powerful group OF lhdlNlduais' ah'
the worklngman Is stlL under oui
existing law an individual When
dealing with his employer, in case
ol accident Tor example or oil loss
or ol illness as wen as IN every con
tractural relationship we mus
nave Woihlhginah COMPENSATION
act "hlch VIII not put upon hli" tn'
purdeh oil IlshlhB Po"'riu' COM
poslto employers 10 oD'al" nus I'sn'S
out Whlch VIII give nun ms rlsht
W''hout SUIT ulreety' ana W''""",
contest py autoIhauc oP''"t'"" o.
law, as u OF law ol insurance
ms IS 'he lliS' adjustment "eeo
CO. ueoauSe u uIIo''S tne rIB"l'' u''
happlhes me HN'S ana lor'"''S o.
the greatest nuI"p'r' anu pe''"'e
]" Ine adjustment i'' "''''" J"'"''
cries louues|
"ou'u urge U"e '"'P''','e w.
lgatloh Oh p"p"e po"oS anu p"""'
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the abuse Of the privilege OF Moor