THE CHARLOTTE .NEWS. APRIL ,28, 1908
The Special Message of
President Roosevelt
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Washington, p. C, Aprii 28. Pol
lowing is the special message of Presi
dent Roosevelt, whieh was delivered to
l.oth branches of congress late fester
day afternoon: ." I" " .'
To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives:. . '
In my message to congress on March
:r,. 1!Hs, I outlined certain measures
which I believe the majority of our
count rymen desire to have enacted in
to law at this time These measures
U not represent by any means all
that I would like to see done if I
ilionght it possible, but they do repre
sent what I believe can now be done
if an earnest effort toward this end is
made.
Laws That Should Be Passed.
Since I wrote this message an em
1 .lovers liability law has been enact
ed which, it is true, comes short of
what ought to have been done, but
which does represent a real advance.
Apparently there is good ground to
hope that there will be further legis
lation providing for recompensing all
employees who suffer injury while en
l aued in the public service; that there
w ill be a child-labor law enacted for
ihe District of Columbia; that the wa
terways commission will be continued
with sufficient financial support to in
crease the effectiveness of its prepa
ioiy work; that steps will be taken to
provide for such investigation into tar
iff conditions, by the appropriate com
mittee of the house of representatives
and by government experts in the ex
ecutive service, as will secure the full
information ncessary for immediate ac
tion in revising the tariff at the hands
of the congress elected next fall; and
finally, that financial legislation will
le enacted providing for temporary
measures for meeting any trouble that
may arise in the next year or two, and
for a commission of experts who shall
thoroughly investigate the whole mat
ter, both here and in the great com
mercial countries abroad, so as to be
able to recommend legislation which
will put our financial system on an ef
ficient and permanent basis. It is much
to be wished that one feature of the
financial legislation of this session
should be the establishment of postal
savings banks. Ample appropriation
should be made to enable the inter
state commerce commission to carry
out the very important feature of the
Hepburn law which gives to the com
misiiica supervision and control over
the accounting systems of the rail
ways. Failure to provide means
which will enable the commission to
examine the books of the railways
would amount to an attack on the law
at its most vital point, and would ben
efit, as nothing else could benefit,
those railways which are corruptly or
incompentently managed. Forest re
serves should be established through
out the Appalachain Mountain region
wherever it can be shown that they
will have a direct and real connection
with the conservation and improve
ment of navigable rivers.
There seems, however, much doubt
about two of the measures I have re
commended: the measure to do away
with abuse of the power of injunction
rind the measure or group of measures
to strengthen and render both more
efficient and more wise the control by
Ihe national government over the
great corporations doing an interstate
business.
Power of Injunction.
First, as to the power of injunction
and of punishment for contempt. In
contempt 'cases, save where immediate
action is imperative, the trial should
be before another judge. As regards
inj unctions, some such legislation as
that I have previously recommended
should be enacted. They are blind who
Jail to realize the extreme bitterness
Vaused among large bodies of worthy
citizens by the. use that has been re
peatedly made of the power of injunc
tion in labor disputes. Those in
whose judgment we have most right
to trust are of the opinion that wnne
much of the complaint against the use
of the injunction is unwarranted, yet
that it is unquestionably true that in
a number of cases this power has been
used to the grave injury of the rights
.f laboring men. I ask that it be lim
ited in some such way as that I have
already pointed out in my previous
messages, for the very reason that I dc
not wish to see an embittered effort
made to destroy it. It is. unwise stub
bornly to refuse to provide against a
repetition of the abuses which have
caused the present unrest. In a den1
arracy like ours it is idle to expect;
permanently to thwart the determina
'ion of the great body of our citizens
i!t may be and often is the highest dn
iv of a court, a legislature, or an exec
utive, to resist and. defy a gust of pop
ular passion; and most certainly no
miblic servant, whatever, may be the
'onsefiuenc.es to-himself, should yield
to what he thinks wrong. But in a
iptestion which is emphatically one of
public policy, the policy which the pub
lic demands is sure in tne ena xo ue
.idopted; and a persistent refusal to
rant to a large portion of our people
n-liat is right is only too apt in the end
to result in causing such irritation that
when the right is obtained in the
cotirse of. a movement so ill considered
:md violent as to-be accompanied by
vimch that is wrong. . '
Injunction in Labor Disputes.
The process of injunction in labor
lispiites, as well as where state laws
:ue involved, should be used sparingly,
and only when there is the clearest
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Every farsighted patriot, should pro
test first of all against the growth in
this country of that evil, which is call
ed class consciousness." The dema
gogue, the sinister or foolish socialist
visionary who strives to arouse this
teelmg of class consciousness in our
working people, does a foul and evil
thing; for he is no true American, he
is no self-respecting citizen of this re
public, he forfeits his right to stand
with many self-reliance on a footing
of entire equality with all other citi
zens, who bows to the envy of greed
who erects the doctrine of class hatred
into shibboleth, who substitutes loy
alty to men of a particular status,
whether rich or poor, for loyalty to
those detrimental principles of right
eosness which bid us treat each man
on his worth as a man without regard
to his wealth or his poverty. But evil
though the influence of these dema
gogues and visionaries is, it is no
worse in its consequences than the in
fluence exercised by the man of great
wealth or the man of power and posi
tion in the industrial world, who by
his lack of sympathy with, and lack
of understanding of, still more by any
exhibition of uncompromising hostil
ity to, the "millions of our working
people, tends to unite them against
their fellow-Americans who are better
off in this world's goods. It is a bad
thing to teach our working people that
men of means, that men who have the
largest proportion of the substantial
comforts of life, are necessarily greedy,
grasping, and cold-hearted, and that
they unjustly demand and appropriate
more than their share of the substance
of the many. Stern condemnation
should be visited upon demagogue and
visionary who teach this untruth, and
even sterner upon those capitalists
who are in trtuh grasping and greedy
and brutally disregardful of the
rights of others, and who by their ac
tions teach the dreadful lesson far
more effectively than any mere preach
er of unrest. A "class grievance" left
too long without remedy breeds "class
consciousness" and therefore class re
sentment. Strengthen Anti-Trus. Law.
The strengthening of the anti-trust
law is demanded upon both moral and
economic grounds. Our purpose in
strengthening it is to secure more ef
fective control by the national govern
ment over the business use of the vast
masses of individual, and especially of
corporate, wealth, which at the present
time monopolizes most of the . inter
state business of the country; and we
believe the control can best be exer
cised by preventing the growth of
abuses, rather than merely trying to,
destroy them when they have alreardy
grown. In the highest sense of the
word this movement for thorough con
trol of the business use of this great
wealth is conservative. We are try
ing to steer a safe middle course,
which alone can save us from a pluto
cratic class government on the one
hand, or a socialistic class govern
ment on the other, either of which
would be fraught with disaster to our
free institutions, state and national.
We are trying to avoid alike the evils
which would flow from government
ownership Of the public utilities by
which interstate commerce is chiefly
carried on, and the evils which flow
from the riot and chaos of unrestricted
individualism. There is grave dan
ger to our free institutions in the cor
rupting influence exercised by great
wealth suddenly concentrated in the
hands of the few. We should in sane
manner try to remedy this danger, in
spite of the sullen opposition of these
few very powerful men, and with the
full purpose to protect them to deal
rightfully with others.
When with steam and electncty mod
ern business conditions went through j
the astounding revolution which in
this country began over half a century
ago there was at first much hesita
tion as to what particular governmen
tal agency should be used to grapple
with the new conditions. At almost
the same time, about twenty years
ince, the effort was made to control
sombinations by regulating them
hrongli the interstate commerce com
mission, and to abolish them by means
)f the anti-trust act; the two remedies
'herefoTo beius: in part mutually in
compatible. The interstate commerce
aw has produced admirable results es
secially since it was strengthened by
he Hepburn law two years ago. The
nti-trust law, though it worked some
ood. because anything is better than
anarchy and complete absence of regu
lation, nevertheless has proved, in
many respects not merely inadequate
but mischievous.
Misuse of Corporate Power.
Twentv years ago the misuse of cor
porate power had produced almost ev
ery conceivable form of abuse, and had
worked the gravest injury to business
morality and the public conscienca.
For a long time Federal legislation of
interstate commerce had been purely
negative, the national judiciary mere
ly acting in isolated cases to restrain
the state from exercising a power
which it was clearly unconstiutional
as well as unwise for them to exercise,
hut which nevertheless the national
"overnment itseit iaiiea io exerase.
Thus the corporations monopolizing
commerce made the law for them
selves state power and common law
bein" ' inadequate to accomplish any
effective regulation, ana rue miLiunai
power not yet having been put forth.
The result was mischievous in the ex
treme, and only shortsighted and utter
n annreciate the grossness ot
failure to appreciate the gr
the evils to wniuu .0.
on gave rise, can excuse -tae well
meaning persons who now desire to
abolish the anti-trust law outright, or
to amend it by simply condemning
"unreasonable" combinations.
Executive Should Have Power.
Power should unquestionably- be
lodged somewhere in ,- the, executive
B of the ' government to permit
combinations which will further the
public interest; but it must always be
remembered that, as regards the great
and wealthy combinations through
which most of the interstate busi
ness of today is done, the burden of
proof should be on them to show that
they have a right to exist. No judicial
tribunal has the knowledge or the ex
perience to determine in the first place
whether a given combination is advisa
ble or necessary in the interest of the
public. Some body, whether a com
mission, or a bureau . under the de
partment of commerce and labor,
should be given this power. My per
sonal belief is that ultimately we shall
have to adopt a national incorporation
law, though I am well aware that this
may be impossible at present. Over the
actions of the executive body in which
the power is placed the courts should
possess merely a power of review an
alogous to that obtaining in connection
with the work of the interstate com
merce commission at present. To con
fer this power would not be a leap in
the dark; It would merely be to carry
still further the theory of effective gov
ernmental control of corporations
which was responsible for the creation
of the interstate commerce commission
and for the enlargement of its powers,
and for the creation of the Bureau of
corporations.
Federal Legislation.
The interstate commerce legislation
has worked admirably. It has bene
fited honestly managed and wisely con
ducted railroads; and in spite of the
fact that the business of the country
has enromously increased, the value
of this federal legislation has been
shown by the way in which it as ena
bled the federal government to cor
rect the most pronounced of the great
and varied abuses which existed in the
business world twenty years ago
while the many abuses that still re
main emphasize the need of further
and more thoroughgoing legislation
Similarly, the bureau of corporations
has amply justified its creation.. In
other words, it is clear that the prin
ciples employed to remedy the great
evils in the business world have work
ed well, and they can now be employ
ed to correct the evils that further
commercial growth has brought more
prominently to the surface. , The pow
ers and scope of the interstate com
merce commission, and of any similiar
body, such as the bureau of corpora
tions, which has to deal with the mat
ter in hand, should be greatly enlarged
so as to meet the requirements of the
present day.
North Carolina Case.
The decisions of the supreme court
in the Minnesota and North Carolina
cases illustrate how impossible is a
dual control of national commerce.
The states cannot control it. All they
can do is to control intrastate com
merce, and this now forms but a small
fraction of the commerce carried by
the railroads through each, state. Ac-,
tual experience has shown that the.
effort at state control is sure to nulli
fied in one way or another sooner or
later. The nation alone can act with
effectiveness and wisdom; it should
have the control of the business and
of the agent by which the business is
done for any attempt to separate this
control must result in grotesque ab
surdity. This means that we must re
ly upon National legislation to pre
vent the commercial abuses that now
exist and the others that are sure to
arise unless some efficient government
al body has adequate power of control
over them. At present the failure of
congress to utilize and exercise the
great powers conferred upon it as re
gards interstate commerce leaves this
commerce to be regulated, not by the
state nor yet by the congress, but by
the occasional and necessarily inade
quate and one-sided action of the fed
eral judiciary. However upright and
able a court is, it can not act con
structively; it can only act negatively
or destructively, as an agency of gov
ernment; and this means that the
courts are and must always be unable
to deal effectively with a problem like
the present, which requires construc
tive action. A court can decide what
is faulty, but it has no power to make
better what it thus finds to be faulty.
There should be an efficient Executive
body created with power enough to
correct abuses and scope enough tc
work out the complex problems that
this great country has developed. It
is not sufficient objection to say that
such a body may be guilty of unwis
dom or of abuses. Any governmental
body, whether a court or a commis
sion, whether executive, legislative or
judicial, if given power enough to en
able it to do effective work for good,
must also inevitably receive enough
power to make it possibly effective for
evil.
Therefore, it is. clear that (unless a
National incorporation law can be
forthwith enacted) some body or bod
ies in the executive service should be
given power to pass upon any combina
tion or agreement in relation to inter
state commerce, and every such combi
nation or agreement not thus approv
ed should be treated as in violation of
law and prosecuted accordingly. The
issuance of the securities of any com
bination doing interstate business
should be under the superivision of the
national government. . ,
As to Labor Organizations.
A strong effort-has been made to
have labor organizations completely
exempted from any operations of this
law, whether or not their acts are in
restraint of trade. Such exception
would in all probability make the bill
unconstiutional, and the legislature has
no more right to pass a bill without
regard to whether it is constiutional
than the courts have lightly to declare
unconstitutional a law which the legis
lature has solemnly enacted. The re
sponsibility is as great on the one side
as on the other, and an abuse of pow
er by the legislature in one direction
is equally - to be condemned with an
abuse of power by the courts in the oth
er direction. It is not possible whol
ly to except labor organizations from
the workings of this law, and they
who insist upon totally excepting them
are merely providing that their status
shall be kept wholly unchanged, and
that they shall continue to be exposed
to the action which they now dread.
Obviously, an organization not formed
for profit should be required to fur
nish statistics in any way as complete
as those furnished by organizations for
profit. Moreover, so far as labor is
engaged in production only, its claims
to be exempted from the anti-trust law
are sOund. This would substantially
cover the right of laborers to com
bine, to strike peaceably, and to enter
into trade agreements with the em
ployers. But when labor undertakes
in a wrongful manner to prevent the
distribution and sale of the products
of labor, as by certain forms of the
boycott, it has left the field of produc
tion, and its action may plainly be in
restrain of interstate trade, and must
necessarily be subjected to inquiry, ex
actly as in the case of any other com
bination for the same purpose, so as
to determine whether such action is
contrary to sound public policy. The
heartiest encoragement should be giv
en to the wageworkers to form labor
unions and to enter into agreements
with their employers; and their right
to strike, so long as they act peacea
bly, must be preserved. But we should
sanction neither a boycott nor a black
list which would be illegal at. com
mon law.
The measures I advocate are in the
interest both of decent corporations
and of law-abiding labor unions. They
are, moreover, preeminently in the in
terest of the public for in my judg
ment the American people have defi
nitely made up their minds that the
days of the reign of the great law
defying and law-evading corporations
are over, and that from this time on
the mighty organizations of capital ne
cessary for the transaction of business
under modern conditions, while en
couraged so long as they act honestly
and in the interest of the general pub
lic, are to be subjected to careful su
pervision and regulation of a kind so
effective as to insure their acting in
the interest of the people as a whole.
Attention Called to Report of Mr.
Matthews.
Allegations are often made to the
effect that there is no real need for
these laws looking to the more effec
tive control of the great corporations,
upon the ground that they will do their
work well without such control. I call
your attention to the accompanying
copy of a report just submitted by
Mr. Nathan Matthews, chairman of the
finance commission, to the mayor and
city council of Boston,, relating to cer
tain evil practices of various corpora
tions which have been bidders for fur
nishing to the city iron and steel. This
report shows that there have been ex
tensive combinations formed among
the various corporations engaged in
structural steel work in New England.
, This combination included substantial
ly all the local concerns, and many
of the largest corporations in the Unit-
.ed State, engaged manufacturing or
furnishing' structural -steel 'for use in
any part of New England; it affected
the states, cities and towns, the rail
roads and street railways, and general
ly all persons having occasion to use
iron or steel for any purpose in that
section of the country. As regards the
city of Boston, the combination re
sulted in pareeling out the work by
collusive bids, plainly dishonest, and
supported by false affirmations. In its
conclusion, the commission- recom
mends as follows:
"Comment on the moral meaning of
these methods and transactions would
seem superfluous; but as they were de
fended at the public hearings - of the
commissian and asserted to be com
mon and entirely proper incidents of
business life, and as these practices
have been freely resorted to by some
of the largest industrial corporations
that the world has ever known, ,the
commission deems it proper to record
its own opinion.
"The commissioner dislikes to be
lieve that these practices are as al
leged, established by the general cus
tom of the business community; and
this defense itself, if unchallenged.
amounts to a grave accusation against
the honesty of present business meth
ods.
"To answer an invitation for public
or private work by sending in what
nirports to be genuine. bids, but what
in reality are collusive figures pur
oosely made higher than the bid which
is known will be submitted by one of
the supposed competitors is an act of
plain dishonesty.
"To support these misrepresenta
tions by false affirmations in writings
that the bids are submitted in good
faith, and without fraud, collusion, or
connection with any other bidder, is a
positive and deliberate fraud; the suc
cessful bidder in the competition is
guilty of obtaining money by false pre
tenses; and the. others have made
themselves parties to a conspiracy
clearly unlawful at the common law.
"Where, as in the case of the 'Bos
tort Agreement,' a number of the most
important manufacturers and dealers
in structural steel in this country, in
cluding the American Bridge Company,
one of the constituent members of
the United States Steel ''Corporation,
have combined together for the pur
pose of raising the price, by means of
collusive bids and false representa
tions, their conduct is not only repug
nant to common honesty, but is plain
ly obnoxious to the federal statute
known as the Sherman anti-trust law.
"The commission believes that an
example should be made of these men.
and that the members of the 'Boston
Agreement,' or at least all. those who,
in October and November, 1905, enter
ed in the fraudulent competitions for
the Cove Street draw span and the
Brookllne Street bridge, 'should ' be
brought before a federal grand jury
for violation for participation in these
transactions has not yet elapsed, and
the evidence obtained by the commis
sion is so complete that there should
be no difficulty in the government's
securing a ' conviction in this case.";
Low Standard of Morality of Business
Concerns. '
I have submitted this report to the
department of justice for thorough in
vestigation and for action -if action
shall prove practicable.' "
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Surely such a state of affairs as that
above set forth emphasizes the need
of further federal legislation, not
merely because of the material bene
fits such legislation will secure, but
above all because this federal action
should be part, and a large part, of
the compaign to waken our people as
a whole to a lively and effective con
demnation of the low standard of mor
ality implied in such conduct on the
part of great business concerns. The
first duty of every man is to provide
a livelihood for himself and for those
dependent upon him; it is from every
standpoint desirable that each of our
citizens should endeavor by hard work
and honorable methods to secure for
him and his such a competence as
will carry with it the opportunity to
enjoy in reasonable fashion the com
forts and refinements of life; and,
furthermore, the man of great business
ability who obtains a fortune in up
right fashion inevitably in so doing
confers a benefit upon, the community
as a whole and is entitled to reward,
to respect; and to admiration. But
among the many kinds of evil, social,
industrial, and political, which it is
our duty as a nation sternly to com
bat, there is none at the same time
more base and more dangerous than
the greed which treats the plain and
simple rules of honesty with cynical
contempt if they interfere with making
a profit; and as a nation we can not
be held guiltless if we condone such
action. The man who preaches hatred
of wealth honestly acquired, who in
culcates envy and jealousy and slan
derous ill will toward those of his
fellows who by thrift, energy, and in
dustry have become menof means, is
a menace to the community. But his
counterpart in evil is to be found in
that particular kind of multimillionaire
who is almost, the least enviable, and
is certainly one of the least admirable,
of all our citizens; a man of whom
it has been well said that his face has
grown hard and cruel while his body
has grown soft; whose son is a fool
and his daughter a foreign princess;
whose nominal pleasures are at best
those of a . tasteless and extravagant
luxury, and. whose real delight, whoso
real life work, is. the accumulation and
use" of power in its most "sordid and
least elevating form. In the chaos
of an 'absolutely unrestricted commer
cial individualism under modei-n con
ditions, this is a type that becomes
prominent as inevitably as the marau
der baron became prominent in the
ohvsical chaos of the dark ages. We
are striving for legislation to minimize
the abuses which give this type its
flourishing prominence, partly for the
sake of what can be accomplished by
the legislation itself, and partly be
cause the legislation marks our par
ticipation in a great and stern moral
movement to bring our ideals and our
conduct Into measureable accord.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House, April 27, 1908.
DOCTOR'S TRUST BOOSTS PRICES
Combination Results in Nearly Dou
bling Their Fees.
Mahanoy City, Pa., April 28. The
physicians of this place, who organized
a week ago for mutual protection, an
nounce an increase in rates, ranging
from 23 to 100 per cent, according to
the hour of call. It costs .he ailing
$2 now to disturb the doctors' slum
bers, whereas heretofore the price was
only half that much.
New Brotherhood Meets in Detroit.
Detroit, Mich., April 28. From all
parts of the country distinguished
preachers and laymen have rallied in
Detroit for the first convention of the
Congregational Brotherhood of Amer
ica. The sessions opened in the First
Congregational Church this morning
and will continue until Friday.
A covetous man makes no friends.
Cingalese.
Southern Christian Convention.
Greensboro, N. C. April 28. The
Southern Christian Convention met
here today in annual conference and
will remain in session during the
rest of this week. Delegates are in
attendance representing the various
conferences in Alabama, .Virginia,
North Carolina and Georgia.
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