The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957, August 22, 1907, DAILY EDITION, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1907. ALKS ON CORPORATION; Resident Roosevelt, at Provincetown, Mass., Delivers Dedication Address and Pays His Compliments To Law-Breaking Corporations. nnntnwn. Mass.. Auc. 20. It the la)ing of the corner stontj ol Uie PHBr,m memorial monumVnt iere today, a vnsi auuioncu gr-v.o.i resident Roosevelt, who spouo aa '.., to' nnt tnn much to say that tho ireat commemorated by the monu- nent whlcli we imvu uuiuu nuiu iu ledlcato was one of thoso rare events hlch can in goou mini uu uuieu u '.u imnnrtancG. The comtnc ither of the Puritan three centuries 20 shaped tno uesumoa 01 mis con sent, and tncroioro proiounuiy ilecteu tlie ucstiiiy 01 mu wnuiu rorld. Men or otner race3, tno henchman and tho Spaniard, tho lutchtlian, tne uenuau, uiu ouuiuu- lan, and tho Swede, made settle-..- within what Is now tho United lutes, dining tho colonial period of .. viotnrv nnil heforo the Declara tion of Independence; and since then Here has been an ever-sweiiing mi- ilgration from iroinnu aim irom me .inion.i nf Rnrone: but It was the '..n.hmnn who settled In Virctnia Ltd the Englishman who settled In Massachusetts wno urn most in snap ijetho lines of our national develop ment. "We can not a3 a nation uo too profoundly grateful for the fact that 1i.aP11rit.1n has stamned his Influence , nonlv nn nnr national life. Wo need have but scant patience with ...lm nn.tr nll nf (hn THl!- tne niKu wiiw nun iw .I., niv. .... i.n'c fnnitH. Tliov wore evident, of course, for it is a quality of strong natures that their tailings, 111:0 tneir virtues, should stand out In bold re ibf. hut tlmro is nothlnc easier than to belittle the great men of the past by dwelling only on tno points wnere they come short of the universally roonirnlrpil standards of tho nrcseilt. lien must be judged with reference to the age in which they dwell, and the work they have to do. Tho Pur itan's task was to conquer a con tinent; not merely to overrun It, but to settle It, to till it, to mum upon It a high industrial and social life; mil. whlln nncaired in tho rough work of taming the shaggy wilder ness, at that very time also to lay deep the immovable foundations of our wholo American system of civil, political, and religious liberty achieved through tho orderly pro cess of law. This was the work al lotted him to do; this Is tho work he did; and only a master spirit among men could have done It. , "We have traveled far sinco his it. That liberty of conscience which lie demanded for himself, we now naltzn miiRt lin as freely accorded w omers as it is resoiuteiy maisieu promise them that stern happiness which comes from tho sense of hav ing done" in practical fashion a diffi cult work which was worth doing. "iho Puritan owed his extraor dinary success In subduing this con tinent and making it the foundation for a boclal life of ordered liberty primarily to the fact that ho com bined in a very remarkable degree both the power of Individual Initia tive, of individual self-help, and the power of acting In combination with his fellows; and that furthermore he joined to a high heart that shrewd common sense which saves a man from tho besetting sins of tho vlslon- Hl'V mill tlin ilnntrlnnlrn ITn wna stout hearted and h'ard headed. He nail loity purposes, but ho had prac tical good sense, too. Ho could hold Ills num In tlio rniiirli wnrlrmlnv world without clamorous Insistence upon being Helped by others, and yet he could combine with others when- ovov it hppnmo imppscniv tn rln n Inli which could not be as well done by liny one ruin muiviuuuiiy. "These were tho qualities which nnnhlnil him to An his work, nnil tliev are the very qualities which we must snow in uoing our woru touay. mere Is no use In our coming here to pay homage to the men who founded tnis nation unless we first of all come in the spirit of trying to do our work today as they did their work In the yesterdays that have vanished. The problems) shift from generation to generation, but ..the spirit In which they must be approached, if they are to be successfully solved, remains ever the same. The Puritan tamed the wilderness, and built up a free government on 'the stump-dotted clearings amid the primeval forest. His descendants must try to shape tho life of our complex industrial civilization by new devices, by new methods, so as to achieve In the end the same results of justice and fair dealing toward all. He cast aside nothing old merely for the sake of innovation, yet he did not hesitate to adopt anything new that would save his purpose. When he planted his commonwealths on this rugged coast ho faced wholly new conditions and he had to devlso new methods of meeting them. So we of today face wholly new conditions In our social and Industrial life. We should cer tainly not adopt any new scheme for grappling with them merely because It Is new and Untried; but we can not afford to shrink from grappling with them becauso they can only be grappled with by some new scheme. The Puritan was no luuiuccuu, rnmn fnr nnrsnlvns. The sniencliu hn laissez-faire tneorist. wnun iiu qualities which ho left to his child- 'saw conduct which was in violation i. . . ..i i 4.1, n lVfn nf mort ren, we otner Americans wno are uui ot Puritan blood also claim as our heritage. You, sons of the x'urltans, and we, who aro descended irom races whomUiio Puritans would have deemed aliaP we are all American 'together. We all feel the same pride la the genesis, in tho history, or our people; and therefore this shrine Of Plirltnnlom lo nnn nt TOhllh WO all gather to pay homage, no matter irom what country our ancestors sprang. "Wo Tinvn rrntnorl anmA thtnffH that tne Puritan had not we of this gen eratlon, we of the twentieth century, here in this great Republic; but we iro Alan l Hnnmii. nf lnalnir pertain (things which the Puritan had and which we can by no manner or means Jffrtril tn Inoa 7n linvo crnlnnfl fl lOV ol living which he had not, and which It Is a good thing for every people to have and to develop. 'Let us seo to It that wo do not lose whatsis Dlfirfl Imnnlflt. aftll Vint Wf fin Tlbt lose the Puritan's iron sense ot dgfpf, ws unbending, unflinching wlllJtp ao the right as it was given him Ao see tho rli. it 1, nn,i tViliSr flint I We should gain in sweetrtfps, but vuij jirovinea jtat it uoes uui i" ta strength. tiMmpe and rest and r'vU4Uto ill 3 gUUU tUlllb", Will- "...rf laey come as the reward of work well dono, of a good fight well won, of strong effort resolutely made and TFATOM.l 1... t.l1. UtAn.nn1 llO -wnucu UJ UlgU UUlUUVClUClll.. - 'e of mere pleasure, of mere effort- eape, is as ignoble ior a uuuuu "for an individual. Tho man is but a Poor father who teaches his sons Pint nnn 1 ..1 .n M-isMiIrl hn ttelr chief objects In life; tho wo tan who is a mere petted toy, in capable of serious purpose, shrinking from effort and duty, Is more pitiable than tho veriest overworked drudge. So he Is but a poor leader of tho People, but a poor national adviser, """ seeics to make tno nation m uuj wy subordinate effort to ease, who ouia teach the neoplo not to prize 9 tVn .. x .. 1.1 , Vis nlinnprt to do any work, no matter how hard, tit becomes their duty tp do It. To tne Rnna nf v.A n..ntinna tt 4a nlmost leedless to say that the lesson abovo "iners which Puritanism tan teach this nation is tho all-lmport- anCB nt !, l..t nfnFmglinl of ?it'. If wo are men wo will pass y with contemptuous disdain alike the advisers who would seek to lead - mm me paths or lgnouio uau " those who would each us to admire "utcessim wrongdoing, uur lueuia should ho i,ic, or,H vot timv should ty tannliin nf nniiiovoment In urac hal fashion; and we aro as little to v Mcuseu if wo permit our iuc 10 na I.I..1. ..... i.i i nnl.1 nnn m - -v laiuitU Willi WUU1. o "'i lan and base, as If we allow our "" oi acnievemont to airupuj " -.uuie either incapable 01 ouuit u Pablo only of such fantastic effort of his rights of tho rights of man, v,o rir-Vita nf find, as he understood them he attempted to regulate such conduct with instant, unquesuumuu promptness anil ertectivenesa. n. n,ca ivna nn other way to secure conformity with the rule of right, then he smote down the transgressor with tho iron or nis wraiu. mc i-it nf tlio Puritan was a spirit which never shrank from regulation of conduct if sucn regulation waa necessary for the public weal; and v.,,. is. tho Rnlrtt! which we must show today whenever it is necessary. 'The utterly cnangeu tuuuiuuuo . ,. nntinnn life necessitate Unanges.ln certain of our laws, of our governmental mumuua. w federal system of government is based upo the theory of leaving to each community, to each state, the control over those things wnicn affect .only Its own memuera uu which the people of the locality them selves can best grapple with, while providing for national reguht on , tnose mattera wm uv..--... -- i !. otir,n na n whole. It seems to me that such questions as na tional sovereignty and state s rights need to be treated not biiiuivi jioiiir lint from the stand- point of the interests of the people as a wnoie. .. j. "National sovereignty ia iu -4. upheld In so far as it means the sovereiB""- " k"w ' . : used for the real and ultlmato f "!... v, nnnnio! and state's I right are to bo upheld In so far v "b ., o. tlm np.nnlo's Hghts Especially H this true T )lhli .i itl, tlin relations of the People; as a whole o the great corporuuuua ..-.. .- -I the distinguishing feature of modern business conditions. 4. . t "Experience has shown that It is necessary to exercise a far more effl clen control than at present over the T business use of those vast for t nes chiefly corporate, which are used (as under modern cond tlons Zy ajniost invariably are) in Hjter- ?oTwas created 'none; of tho condl tons ofvmodern business existed. They aAvholly new and we must create agencies to deal offec c.ruu.1 .nfi i,m Thpro Is no ob- ect on In the minds of this people to any man's earning any amount of money if he does It honestly and fa?rly i ho gets it as the result of snecial "lclll and enterprise, as a re K of ample service actually ren- to ;dered. But.there is a grow n torminatlon mat uu - -a great fortune by special privilege, by chicanery and wrongdoing, so far as It Is In the power of legislation to as it "" ' . ih. fortuno when SSP. . "Sis- . 5J-S- of which the corporation Is or may bo guilty; while In other cases the effort is apt to cause either hardship to the corporation Itself, or else hardship to neighboring states which have not tried to grapple with the problem In the same manner; and of course wo must be as scrupulous to safeguard the rights of tho corpora tions as to exact from them in re turn a ifull measure of justice to tho public. j 4 4 4 1 J t J v "1 believes In a national In- corporation law for corpora- tlons engaged in interstate ! business. 1 believe, further- more, that the need for action is most pressing as regards those corporations which, be- cause they are common car- t rlers, exercise a quasi-public J v function; and which can be completely controlled, in all re- spects by tho Federal Govern- 4 mpnt. liv the nxernlsQ of tho ! power conferred under the in- 4r v terstate-commerce clause, and, If necessary, under the post- 4. rand nlmiKO. nf tlio nnnstltntlnn. t 4 J $ t 4 l 4 4 4 i "During the last few years we have taken marked strides In advance along the road of proper regulation of these railroad corporations; but we must not stop In the work. The National Government should exer cise over them a similar supervision and control tq that which it exercises over national banks. Wo can do this only by proceeding farther along tho lines marked out by the recent na tional legislation. "In dealing with any totally new set of conditions there must at the outset be hesitation and experiment. Such has been our experience In deal ing with tne enormous concentration of capital emplojed In Interstate business. Not only the legislatures but the courts and the people need gradually to do etiucateu so mat tney may see what the real wrongs are and what the real remedies. Almost every big business concern Is engag ed In Interstate commerce, and such a concern must not be allowed by a dexterous shifting of position, as has been too often the case In tho past, to escape thereby all responsibility oltlior tn Rtnte or to nation. The American people became firmly con vinced of the neeo. or control over these great aggregations of capital, especially where tney had a mono polistic tendency, before they became aulte clear as to the proper way ot achieving tho control. Through their representatives In Congress they tried two remedies, which were to a large degree, at least as inter preted by the courts, contradictory. On the one hand, under the anti-trust law the effort was made to prohibit all combination, whether It was or was not hurtful or beneficial to the public. On the other hand, through the interstate-commerce law -a be ginning was made in exercising such supervision and control over com liinntlnns ns tn nrevent their" dolns anything harmful to the body politic. The first law, tne so-caneu onenmui law, has filled a useful place, for It bridges over the transition period until the American people shall definitely make up Its mind that it will exercise over the great corpora tions that thoroughgoing and radical control which it is certain ultimately to find necessary. The principle of the Sherman law so far as It pro hibits combinations which, whether becauso of their extent or of their character, are harmful to the public must always be preserved. Ul ,imn,Ah. ttnr T linno with reasonable speed, tile National Government must pass laws whlcn, wnne incruubum the supervisory and regulatory power of the Government, also permits such useful combinations as are made with absolute openness ahd as tne repre sentatives of the Government may previously approve. But it will not be possible to permit such comblna ti.,t, covo na tlm RApnnd stace In a course of proceedings of which the first stage must be the exercise of a far more complete control by the National Government. . , IT .lAnllnrr ivltll thnsfi WllO Offenu against the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws tne Department ui Justice has to encounter many and great difficulties. Often men who have been guilty of violating these laws have really acted in criminal fashion, and If possible should be proceeded against criminally; and therefore It is advisable that there should be a clause in these laws pro viding for such criminal action, and lor punishment by imprisonment as well as by fine. But, as is well known, In a criminal action tho law Is strictly construed In favor of tho defendant, and In our country, at least.both judge and jury are far more inclined to consider his rights than they are the Interests of the general public; while In addition it Is always true that a man's general . nt-iAJ-.n wov na en 111111 luul a. litii action will He when It may not be nosslble to convict nira ot any uu criminal act. ......... V ! ! V "There is unfortunately a t certain number or our ieiiow- v countrymen who seem io ui.- - cept the view that unless a man v can be proved guilty of somo j. narHxninr nrlme ho shall bo counted a good citizen, no mat- ter how infamous tno m -- has led, no matter how per- v nicious his doctrines or his .. nriontlfiAQ J JJ4 WHVM whenever a special champion of either class, no matter how evil his general life, Is acquitted of somo one specific crime. Such a view Is wick ed whether applied to capitalist or labor leader, to rich man or poor man. But we have to tako this feel ing Into account when wo aro de- lintlnc whntlmr It la nnaatliln tn irnt a conviction In a criminal proceed ing againsi some ricn irusi mugmiiu, many of whoso actions aro severely to be condemned from the moral and social standpoint, but no one of whose actions seems clearly to es tablish such technical guilt as will ensure a conviction. As a matter of expediency, in enforcing the law against a great corporation, we have continually to weigh tho arguments nro and con as to whether a prose cution can successfully be entered Into, and as to whether wo can be successful In a cilminal action against tho chief Individuals in the nnrnnr.itlon. and If not whether we can at least bo successful In a civil action against tho corporation Itself. Any eneotivo action on tno part oi to Government is always objected to, as a matter of course, by the wrongdoers, by tho beneficiaries of tho wrongdoers, and by their cham- iitnnn- nnil ,nfton nno of the most effective ways of attacking the ac tion of the Government is oy oDject Inir to nractical action upon tho .ground that It does not go far . .t- f A M il a h.nHti rt flMtl Ann OnOUgll. UIIO Ul Uie I.IVUIIIAJ uuvn;v;a df those who aro really striving to prevent the enforcement of theso laws Is to clamor for action of such severity that It can not bo under taken because It will bo certain to fnll If trlod An Instnnun of this Is the demand often made for criminal prosecutions where such prosecutions would be certain to iau. we nave found by actual experience that a jiirv which will cladly punish a cor- ( Continued on page four.) WANT ADS WANTED By Mrs. J. A. Goodwill, a few summer boarders; parties wishing a dayon South Coos river can get dinner. Phone 20x8. Launch Tioga leaves 8:00 a. m. daily. WANTED Anybody having goods to store call at Taylor's Piano House on Broadway, near C. street. Large warehouse Just completed. Terms reasonable. WANTED Two heavy teams to haul piling for Plat B wharf, on con tract or six dollars per day. L. D. Kinney. FOR SALE Portable bake oven and baking utensils. Address "Busi ness" care Times. WANTED Dishwasher and chamber maid, at Hotel Oregon, North Bend. WANTED Ten men to clear land on Plat B, by the acre. L. D. Kin ney. WANTED A good, live, energetic boy, who Is not nfraidvof work. Apply to Times .office. FOR SALE Eight-room house and lot on Mead street, just norm or M. E. church, .rrlcer $1800, cash. J. S. Edmunds, North Bend, or F. L. Sumner, Marshfleld, Ore. WANTED Well connected, sober, reliable young man as fellow law student, evenings. Address R. L. J., Times office. WANTED Girl bookkeeper for gen eral merchandise store. Address box 209, Marshfleld, Ore. FOR RENT 5-room cottage with bath, also 4 housekeeping rooms. Apply Tlme3 office. LIST YOUR rooms and houses with Hellesath's agency, 2nd and A street. Speedy service. WHEN YOU sell anything to a sec ond hand man you get his price for it -wnen you sen it tnrougu Hellesath's Agency House you get vour own price. I buy or sell anything for you. Hellesath's Agency & Commission Hou3e. lid and A streels I Electric , j There is no power' so t clean, safe, flexible in ap- 1 I plication and ready for in- 1 I stant use as an electric 1 I motor. It is more econom- 1 I ical than steam, both in in- , 1 I stalling and operating. I i Your expense stops the sec- I I ond your machine stops. 1 1 TiTe Coos Bay Gas j 1 (lb Electric Co. 1 1 1 New Autumn and Winter WANTED Two or four furnished rooms for light housekeeping, in quire at Times. A BARGAIN Two lots in Bandon, one a corner, 40 x 100 each. Price for both, $170 net. Stuts man & Co. WANTED An elderly lady to cook for eating club of eight men. Ad dress Box P, North Bend. Clothing FOR SALE Undertaking business at North Bend. Apply Hotel North Bend. iiiiiii iiiu ii ibit - "'ease, but tho life of effort, ll w. control these coryui -- "' roYG; " now by a group of predatory 2E!J "X ?w?r t promise the Btat0 action ca not producewho MJ .8 & P plu'eTpSre.15' I Sorfd 'Sort falls to coVrect the real abuses anarchistic leaders agto. FOR SALE Furniture for three rooms complete. Also one wall tent 14x20; 5-room nouse ior rent. Call at Oregon Hotel, North Bend. FOR RENT Nice largo furnished room, with, bath; close In. Appiy at Times office. FOR RENT Nicely furnished front room; gentlemen prorerea. ap ply at Times office. LAND WANTED Few acres for berries, tomatoes, garden truck. Back from cold winds, on deep waterway or good road. Within seven miles of city. No fancy boom prices. Phone Hotel Oregon. no children, Inquire Room 1, south stairway, Johnson building, Second ana u streets, We beg to announce the arrival of our new line of the David Adler & Sons Autumn and Winter Clothing. We do business under the motto, "T'is better a little early than a little late" and therefore have ordered our new sea son's goods so as to have them, as soon as the makers have them out and by this method1 have eliminaied all the vexatious delays caused by the conges tion of shipping in the months of Sep tember and October. We Iinvo nn exclusive lino of the David Artier Sons Clothing. These lines nro clothes celebrated for their wearing qunlltics, their fit nnrt dis tinctive style. PLANZ f- (& ROLANDSON III"8309" 010Jil 8 UallUon .boawjHi Sacchi MiMmMmtte$m lie 91 Yw; b&Io b t K 1-y o Id. M in ii- 01- r- II' hd cd (Ot ru rt-n-nd P ho cl- ,011 ho jho m go lB- ko cs IN t