Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 29, 1908, Page 2

| | | | THE BEMIDJ! DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON, 'BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Tntered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM NO TIME FOR FILIBUSTERING. Itis up to the city of Bemidii,| through its legally-constituted rep- resentatives on the city council, to provide adequate quarters for the proper housing of the new company of militia and the equipment belong- ing to the company. If this pro- vision is not complied with, and at once, this city stands an excellent chance of losing the company, to- gether with the $6,000 worth of equipment and paraphernalia stored here by the state. There are several cities in the state (including Hibbing) which are very desirous of securing a com- pany of Minnesota state guards; and they are offering all kinds of induce- ments for the companies, including the erection of large, commodious armories, Through the influence of several local parties, the company was secured for Bemidji in pref- enence to several other applicants, among them being Theif River Palls and Hibbing. Those instrumental in getting the company assured the adjutant general that ample quarters would be provided, and the council has gone on record, by resolution prior to the fixing of the location of the company, as being willing to provide ample quarters. This is no time for mincing matters, nor for personal prejudice or spite to be shown toward individ- uals in the city. It is time for action in this matter, and filibustering tactics are a credit to no one who attempts to obstruct and hinder the carrying out of the intentions of those who desire to properly care for the company. No militia company in the state has a finer equipment than Bemidji; and with fine candidates for the company, it is no boast that we will have a company that will be a credit to Bemidji. So let the council do its duty. THE PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE CHARGE. The appeal made to the counci Monday evening for aid for the local G. A. R. post in properly observ- ing Memorial day met with the proper response from the council- men, and is indicative of the spirit of loyalty and patroitism that pervades the people of Bemidji. The Pioneer believes, however, that the people of the city should go further in assisting the veterans in the observance of the day they hold most dear in all the year. The time is rapidly approaching when the grand old men who so nobly thrust themselves to the front in time of danger to save their country from disruption will be compara- tively helpless, and only a shadow of the staunch throng of ’65 will be left to tell the story of those trying days of the civil war. FEach year the ranks are thinned, and each suc- ceeding twelvemonth weakens those who remain, and ina few years it will be the duty of the loyal citizens of the United States to take over all the arrangements of the observance of Memorial day, in order that the veterans and their wives may partici- pate. The public should join heartily in removing from the caresand troubles of the grand old fellows and their faithful helpmates the preparations for Memorial day; let the citizens arrange a simple yet impressive exer- cise, paying all the necessary expenses, and be amply repaid in the honor of the presence of the remaining members of the staunch, brave men who saved the country from dismemberment. Kesult of Chinese Boycott. Hongkong, April 2,.—The boycott by China on the Japanese has become 80 effective in the southern part of China that the Toyo Kisen Kalsha (Orlental Steamship company) has temporarily suspended its South American service, as the steamers of the line are unable to oblain passen- gers and freight. J. Dalzell Brown Pleads Guilty. San Francisco, April 24.—J. Dalzell Brown, formerly manager of the Cali- fornia Safe Deposit and Trust com- pany, pleaded guilty of embezzling sixty-five mortgage bonds of the Sac- ramento Gas and Electric company and was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment at San Quentin. Asleep Eighty-one Days. Los Angeles, Cal, April 2,—No change in the condition of Mrs. Bue- lah Hawkins is reported at the county hospital, where she has entered upon the elghty-first day of her strange trance like sleep. Physicians at the PRESIOENT PAOLS CONERESS AGH Calls Its Attention to Laws He Urges Should Be Passed. GIVES QUITE A LENGTHY LIST Devotes His Message, Howeyer, Almost Entirely to Corpora= tion Control and Labor. -~ Presses Limitation of the Injunction— ‘Would Strengthen the Commerce Board—National Incorpor- tion Advocated. To the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives: In my message to the congress of March 25, 1908, I outlined certain measures which I believe the majority of our countrymen desire to have en- acted into law at this time. These measures do not represent by any means all that I would like to see done if T thought it possible, but they do represent what I believe can now be done if an earnest effort toward this end is made. Laws He Wants Knaoted. Since I wrote this message an em- ployers’ liability law has been enacted which, it Is true, comes short of what ought to have been done, but which does represent a real advance. Ap- parently there is good ground to hope that there will be further legislation providing for recompensing all em- ployes who suffer injury while en- gaged in the public service; that there will be a child-labor law enacted for the District of Columbia; that the waterways commission will be contiu- ued with sufficient financial support to increase the effectiveness of its prep- atory work; that steps will be taken to provide for such investigation into taviff conditions, by the appropriate committee of the house of representa- tives and by government experts in the executive service, as will secure the full information necessary for im- mediate action in revising the tariff at the hands of the congress elected next fall; and finally, that financial legislation will be 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 investi- gate the whole matter, both here and in the great commercial countries abroad, so as to be able to recommend legislation which will put our finan- cial system on an efficient and perma- nent basis. He Mentione a Few More. It is much to be wished that one feature of the financial legislation of this session should be the establish- ment of postal savings banks. Ample appropriation should be made to en- able the interstate commerce commis. sion to carry out the very important feature of the Hepburn law which gives the commission supervision and centrol ever the accounting systems of the railways. TFailure to provide means which will enable the commis- sion to examine the books of the rail ‘ways would amount to an attack on the law at its most vital point, and would benefit, as nothing else could benefit, those railways which are cor- ruptly or incompetently managed. Torest veserves should be established throughqut the Appalachian mountains region wherever it can be shown that they wili have a direct and real con- nection with the conservation and im- provement of navigable rivers. Two Measures in Much Doubt. There seems, however, much doubt about two of the measures I have rec- ommended: The measure to do away with abuse of the power of injunction and the measure or group of measires to strengthen and render both more efficient and more wise the control by the national government over {he great corporations doing an interstate business. DISCUSSES THE INJUNCTION Recommendations as to a Change in Procedure. First, as to the power of injunction and of punishment for contempt. In contempt cases, save where irimedi- ate action is imperative, the trial should be before another judge. As regards injunctions, some such legis- jation as that I have previously ree- ommended should be enacted. They are blind who fail to realize the ex- treme bitterness caused among larg" Lodies of worthy citizens by the use tbat has lLeen repeatedly n.ade of the power of fuiunct.on in labor disputes, Thoge In whose judgmeuat we have most right to trust are of the opinion that wblle much of the complaint against the use of the injunction is unwarranted, yet that it is unques- tionably true that in a number of cases this power has been used to the grave Injury of the rights of laboring men. 1 ask that It be limited In some such way as that 1 have already pointed out In my previous messages, for the very reason that I do not wish to see an embittered effort made to destroy it. It is unwise stubbornly to refuse to provide against a repetition of the abuses which bave caused unrest. In a democracy like ours is idle to ex- pect permanently to thwart the de- termination of the great body of our citizens. It may be, and often is, the highest duty of a court, a legislature, or an executlve, to resist and defy a gust of popular passions, and most certainly no public servant, whatever may he the consequences to himself, should yield to what he thinks wrong. But in a question which Is emphatically one of public policy the policy which the public demands is sure in the end to be adopted; and a persistent refusal to grant to a large portion of our peo- ple what is right is only too apt in the hospital say she may not regain con- solousness for a year or more. end to result in causing such irrita- tion that when the right is obtained it is obtained in the course of a mbvb-! ment so ill considered and violent as, to be accompanied by much that 13! wrong. 5 ‘The process of Injunction in labor disputes, as well as where state laws are involved, should be used sparinz- 1y, and only when therc is the clear- est necessity for it; but it Is one so necessary to the efficlent performance of duty by the court on behalf of the nation that it is in the highest degree to be regretted that it should be lable to reckless use; for {his reckless use tends to make honest men desire so to hamper its execution as to destroy its usefulness. Every farsighted pa- triot should protest first of all against the growth in this country of that evil thing which is called “class conscious- ness.” The demagogue, the sinister or fool- ish socialist visionary, who stirives to arouse this feeling of class conscious- ness in our working people does a foul and evil thing; for he is no true Amer- ican, he is no self-respecting citizen of this republic, he forfeits his right to stand with manly self-rellance on a footing of entire equality with all oth- er citizens, who bows to envy and greed, who erects the doctrine of class hatred into a shibboleth, who sub- stitutes loyalty to men of a particular status, whether rich or poor, for loyal- ty to those eternal and immutable principles of righteousness which bid as treat each man on his worth as a man without regard to his wealth or lis poverty. But evil though the influence of these demagogues and visionarles is it is no worse in its consequences than the influence exercised by the man of great wealth, or the man of power and position in the industrial world, who by his lack of sympathy with and lack of understanding of—still more by any exhibition of uncompromising hostility to—the millions of our work- ing people, tends to unite them against their fellow-Americans ‘who are bet. ter off in this world’s goods. It Is a bad thing to teach our working peo- ple that men of means, that men who have the largest proportion of the sub- stantial comforts of life, are necessari- Iy greedy, grasping, and cold-hearted, and that they unjustly demand and appropriate more than thelr 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 truth grasping and greedy and brutally dis. regardful of the rights of others, and who by their actions teach the dread- ful lesson far wmore effectively than any mere preacher of unrest. A “class grievance” left too long with- out remedy breeds “class conscious- ness,” and therefore class resentment. CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS Reasons Advanced for Strengthening the Anti-Trust Law, The strengthening of the anti-trust law is demanded upon both morai and economic grounds. Our purpose in strengthening it is to secure more ef- fective control by the national gov- ernment over the business use of the vast masses of individual, and specia)- I¥ of corporate, wealth, which at the present time monopolize most of this interstate business of the country. Anl we Dbelieve the control can best be ex- ercised by preventing the growth of abuses rather than merely by trying to destroy them when they have already 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 trying to steer a safe middle course, which alone can save us from a plutocratic class government on the ore hand or a soclalistic class govern- ment on the other, either of wkich would be fraught with disaster to our free institutions, state and national, We are trying to avoid alike the cvils 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 unres'ricted individualism. There is g.ave danger to our free institutions In the cor- rupting influence exercised by great wealth suddenly concentrated in tie hands of the few. We should in some manner triy to remedy this danger, in spite of the sullen opposition of these few very powerful men, and with the full purpose to protect them in all fheir rights at the very time that we require them to dea) rightfully with others. When with steam and electricity modern business conditions went through the astounding revolution which in this country began over half a century ago there was at first much hesitating as to what particular gor- ernmental agency should be used to grapple with the new conditions. At almost the same time about twenty years since the effort was made tc control combinations by regulating them through the interstate commerce commission, and to abolish them by means of the anti-trust act; the two remedles, therefore, being in part mn tually incompatible. The interstate commerce law has produced admirs- ble results, especlally since it was strengthened by the Hepburn law two Years ago. The anti-trust law, though it worked some good because anything is better than anarchy and complete absence of regulation, nevertheless has proved in many respects not merely inadequate but mischievous, Twenty years ago the misuse of corporate power had produced almost every conceivable form of abuse, and had worked the gravest injury to busi- ness morality and the public con- science.. For a long time federal reg- ulation of interstate commerce had been purely negative, the nattional judiciary merely acting in {solated cases to restrain the states from ex- erting power which it was clearly un: constitutional as well as unwise for them to exercise, but which neverthe- less the national government itselt failed to exercise. Thus the corporations monopolizing commerce made the law for them: selves, state power and common law being inadequate to accomplish any effective regulation, and the national power not yet having been put forth. The result was mischievous in the ex- treme, and only shortsighted.and nt- ter failure to appreciate the grossness of the evils to which the lack of regu- lation gave rise can excuse the See that the next cough remedy you buy is wrapped years of sale and use, for himself a good name, but it takes time to win the confidence of your fellow men. Truth and per- severance are the alternate rungs on the ladder of success, and he who reaches the top must make no false step. There are hundreds of cough medicines with all sorts of names, each claiming to be the best, but the test of time will prove whether or not they have established the right to be called the best. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has had thirty-five and has cured coughs and colds under all conditions, in all countries and clim- ates, and the verdict today is that it has no equal. - BARKER’'S DRUG STORE A GOOD NAME VERY one desires to establish . Careful selection of the drugs, intelligent and skillful compound- ing, the entire absence of opium, chloroform, or any other harmful ingredient, and the absolute purity of every article that goes into its composition, has built up and sus- tained its good name. These are the things you should remember, and the next time you want a cough medicine, it is worth while to see that you get Chamber- lain’s and secure the virtues which a good name implies, Every dealer who sells a of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy guarantees it to give satisfaction or he will refund the money. bottle Price, 25c. Large size,50c. meaning persons who now desire t¢ abolish the anti-trust law outright, or to amend it by simply condemning ‘“‘unreasonable” combinations. Power should unquestionably be branch of the government to permit combinations which will further the public interests, but it must always be remembered that as regards the great and wealthy combinations through which most of the interstate business 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 experience to determine in the first place whether a given combiny- tion is advisable or necessary in the interest of the public. Some body. whether a commission, or a bureau un der the department of commerce and labor, should be given this power. My personal bellef is that ultimate- Iy we shall have to adopt a national fncorporation law, though 1 am well aware that this may be impossible at present. Over the actions of the executlve body In which the power is placed the courts should possess mere- Iy a power of review analogous io that obtaining in connection with the work of the interstate commerce com- mission at present. To confer this power would not be a leap in the dark; it would wmerely be to carry still fur- ther the theory of effective govern- mental control of corporations which was respansible for the creation of the interstate ‘commerce commission and for the enlargement of its powers; and for the creation of the bureau of corporations. The interstate commerce legislation has worked admirably. It has bene. fitted the public; it has benefitted hon- estly-managed and wisely-conducted railroads; and in spite of the fact thaf the business of the country has enor- mously increased the value of this fed- eral legislation has been shown by the way in which it has enabled the federal government to correct the most pronounced of the great and varled abuses which existed in the business orld 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. Tn other words, it is clear that the principles employed to remedy the great evils in the business world have worked well, and they can now be em: ployed to correct the evils that further commercial growth has brought more prominently to the surface. The pow- lodged somewhere in the executive; ers and scope of the fnterstate com- Inerce commission, and of any similar body—such as the bureau of corpora- tions—which has to deal with the mat- ter in hand, should be greatly enlarged, 80 as to meet the requirements of the present day. DUAL CONTROL IMPOSSIBLE Nation, Not State, Can Act Wisely and Effectively. The decisions of the supreme court in the Minnesota and North Caroliny eases illustrate how impossible is 1 dual control of national commerce, The states can not control it. 41 they can do is to control intrastate commrce, and this now forms but a small fraction of the commerce car- vied by the raflroads through each state. Actual experlence has shown that the effort at state control is sure to be nullified in one way or another sooner or later. The nation alone can act with effectiveness and wisdom; it should have the control both of the business and of the agent by which the business is done; for any attempt to separate this control must result iy grotesque absurdity. This means that we must rely upon national legislation to prevent the commercial abuses that now exist and the others that are sure to arise un- less some efficient governmental body has adequate power of control over them. At present the fallure of the 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 occaslonal and necessarily inade- quate and one-sided action of the fed- eral judieiary. However upright and able a court it is can not act constructively; it can only act negatively or destructively, as an agency of government; and this means that the courts are and must always be unable to deal effectively with a problem like the present, which requires constructive 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 to work cut the complex problems that this great country has developed. It is not sufficient objec- tion to say that such a body may be guilty of unwisdom or of abuses. Any governmental body, whether a court or a commission; whether executive, leg: Islative or judicial; if given power enough to enable it to~do effective work for good must also Inevitably re- celve enough power to make It pos- sibly effective for evil. Therefore it i8 clear that (uniess a national Incorporation law can be forthrwith enacted) some body or bodies in the executive service should be giv- en power to pass upon any combina- tion or agreement in relation to in- terstate commerce, and every such combination or agreement not thus ap proved should be treated as in viola- tion of law and prosecuted according- ly. The issuance of the securities of any combination doing interstate busi- ness should be under supervision of the national government. AS TO LABOR IMMUNITY President Gives His Views on That Important Subject. A strong effort has been made to have labor organizations completely exempted from any of the cperations of this law, whether or not their acty are in restraint of trade. Such excep- tlon would in all probability make the bill unconstitutional, and the legisla: ture has no more right to pass a hill without regard to whether it is consti- tutional than the courts have_lightly to declare unconstitutional a law which the legislature ho~ solemylv en- acted. The rasnome: P T Ou % =~ un _the other, and ap dbuse of POV DY tne-legislature in one directici™ s equally to be con- demned with an abuse of power by the courts in the other direction. It is not possible wholly to except labor organizations from the workings of this law, and they who insist upon totally excepting them are merely pro- viding 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 mnot be required to furnish 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 ic 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 en‘er into trade agreements with the em- ployers. But when labor undertakes in a wrongful manner to prevent the dis- tribution and sale of the preducts of labor, as by certain forms of the boy- SPEAR HEAD us for catalog. A tag from a 10-cent piece will count FULL value (A tag from a S-cent picce will count HALF value OBACC with valuable tags Save your tags from J. T. 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