The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-02
TwENTY-THIRD INSTALLMENT
THE BIG STICK AND THE SQUARE DEAL.

economists. % the believers In unurnit-
ca cor1fe tflUr. unlimited Individuals ru.
sere in TIE actual state OF affairs false
and mischierous- They realized that the
government must urN interfere % pro-
tect labor. 20 suburdiuat, the hir curTu-
ZION lion 10 tne public welfare. and TO
-hAchte cunning and fraud exactly a.
centuries before ~ had lnterfcred TO
-hackle the physical force which does
TIE Tyraaay o. Plu,ooraey.
n. Dix reacuonaries 90 tL~ business
world and their allies and iuatrum~ntr
among politicians and newspaper editors
Ion and especially OF the fact that most
81 their opponents were on che wronr
lltely unchanged These men d.r,sn5.d
Tor themsel Ives an iusuuuitv from goV-
ernmental control wAich. 10 granted
wound nave been ae wicked and az fool
lsh a. immunity 60 tine barons Of the
~ iiu century. Many o. them were
etli men Many others were just as
harons' but they We're a. utterly unable
az any medieval ca=tlc-0wuer 20 under
sNIla what the public interest really
W4s. There have been arlstocracIes
which have PLAYED a great and benefit
.ent patt az STAGES In the growth OF
where Tor our people whnt VS. neeeeg
WAS a real democracy: and of am forms
on =! fanny the least attractive and the
wealth ne y,rs, tne t5arniny OF mere
Tho Power 20 Control
hen / became president. the cues
lion as TO the method bV which the
United states rovernment Vas 10 rontTol
TIE CORPORATIONS wos not set Important.
The absolutely vital question was
wn.ul e. the government had power %
control them az all The question had
not Vet been decided lu favor of fIe
I nited states government. n was use
less TO discuss methods % controlling
DIX business by the national govern
ment until Ia was definitely settled mat
the national government had tho power
20 control l. decision OF De supreme
court had. with seem ug aeanIteuegs
settled that the national government lad
not the power
THIS decision 7 caused TO Do annuIled
bN the court that had rendered 10. and
the present power ~ the nationoi gov
eminent 20 deal effectively with the
trusts fs due solely TO the success OF
the administration IN securing this re-
Nertal or Its former decision by the SUI
pTcme court.
The constitution was formed very
largely because IL had become lmpera-
i've To give TO some central authority
the power 10 regulate and control inter
state com merce. Al that time. when
corporations We're iu their Infancy and
no difficulty IN exercising the power
granted. In theory. the right OF the
nation 10 exercise this power continued
inquest .oued. Iuf changing conditions
ohscurcd the matter IN the sight al fha
people as "a whole. and the conscious and
TIE unconscious advocates OF an f~I-
limited and unCoutroll1ble capitalism
gradually secured the whiting away
~ the national power to exercise this
iueorctc cal flEut or control until 10 prac-
tically vanished. After the CIVif war
with the uorteutous growth OF indus
trial combinations Co. this country. came
"a period or reactiouarv decisions bv the
courts which as regards corporations
illuminated In what is known as the
Knight case.
Go Be Continued wednesday Morning