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' j tfilippup imn -"" k' I 1 14 The Commoner. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 47 President's Mes sage to Congress (Continued from Page 9) duct that Is, by his character and not by his wealth or Intellect. If ho makes his. fort o honestly, there is no just cause or quarrel with him. Indeed, we have .nothing but the" kindliest feelings of admiration for the successful business man who behaves decently, whether ho has made his success by build-. ing or managing a railroad or by shipping goods over that railroad. The big railroad men and big shippers are simply Americans of the ordinary type who have developed to an extraordi nary degree certain great business qualities. They are neither better nor worse than their fellow citizens of smaller means. They are merely more able in certain lines and therefore exposed to certain peculiarly strong temptations. These temptations have not sprung newly into being; the ex ceptionally successful among mankind have always been exposed to them; but they have grown amazingly in power as a result of the extraordinary development of industrialism among new lines, and under thcie new con ditions, which the lawmakers of old could not foresee and thereto nnni.i not provide against, they have be come so serious and menacmr as to demand entirely new remedies. It is in the interest of the best type of rail road man and the " st type of shipper no less than of the public that there should be governmental supervision and regulation of these great business operations, for the same reason that it is in the interest of the corporation which wishes to treat its employees aright that there shou'J be an effec tive employers' liability act, or an ef fective system of factory laws to pre vent the abuse of women and chil dren. All such legislation frees the corporation that wishes to do well from being driven into doing ill, in order, to compete with its rival, which prefers to do ill. We desire to set up a moral standard. There can be no delusion more fatal to the nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is suffi cient in judging any business or poli tical question- from rate legislation to municipal government. Business success, whether for the individual or for the nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompan. by and develops a high standard of con ducthonor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and con scienceless in trade and we': and cowardly in citizenship, Is not a good Epilepsy can fco cured.' To those afflicted this con voys a wonderful message. Though quite common, it is only a short time since It was considered incurable The discovery that it was purely a nervous disorder has led to the application of the great nerve restorer, Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine with the happy result that thousands have been eorrnlnrnlv numri .,i ,.tr" are being cured every day. ' "In tho year '92 I was stricken with epilepsy. Doctors treated me for several years, but I grow worse. I would have such awful fits. I cannot toll my awful Si"?01.1".?8- ,A drufirglst recommended Dr. Miles' Nervine, and I bought a bottle, and found It helped mo, and I took three more and, am cured. I had only ono light snoll after I commenced taking it. I do hope tho time will como when oveiybody will know that your medicine cures thes. awful fits." JOHN LEWIS, Clarion. Pa Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold under a guar antee that your druggist will refund your money If first bottle does not benefit thing at all, but a very bad thing for the nationv This government stands for manhood hrst and for busi ness only as an adjunct of manhood. "The question of transportation lies at the roo of all industrial suc cess, and the revolution In transport ation which has taken place during the last half century has been the most important factor in the growth ui me uuw industrial conditions. Most emphatically we do not wish tosee i" jiuau ujl gruui iiueius reiuseu tne reward for his talents. Still less do we wish to see him penalized; but wo desire to see the system of rail road transportation so handled that the strong man shall be given no ad vantage over tho weak man. We wish to insure as fair treatment for the small town as for tho big city; for mo smau snipper as tor the big ship per. In the old days the highway of commerce, whether by water or by a road on land, was open to all- it be longed to the public and the traffic? along it was free. At present the railway is this highway, and we must do our best to see that It is kept open to all on equal terms. Unlike the um uiKuwuy it is a very dicicult and complex thing to manage, and it is far better that it should be managed by private Individuals than by tho government. But it can only be so managed on condition that justice be done the public! It is because, in my judgment, public ownership of rail roads is hierhlv nminafmhia . ...ij probably in this country entail far reaching disaster, thnr. t tu rn .. such supervision and regulation of them in the interest of the public as will make it evident that there is no need for public ownership. The oppo nents of government regulation dwell upon the difficulties to bo encountered and the intricate and involved nature of the problem. Their contention is true. It is a complicated and delicate problem, and all kinds of difficulties are sure to arise in connection with any plan of solution, while no plan will bring all the benefits hoped for by its more optimistic adherents. Moreover, under any healthy plan, the benefits will develop gradually and not rapidly. Finally, we must clearly understand that the public servants who are to do this peculiarly responsible and delicate work must themselves be of the highest type both as regards integrity and effi ciency. They must be well paid, for otherwise able men nnn -. fii long run be secured; and they must - ioouoo u iuuy proDity wni"n will re volt as quickly at the thought of pand ering to any gust of popular preju dice against rich men as- at the thought of anything eyen remotely re sembling subserviency, to rich men. But while I fully admit the difficul ties in the way, I do not for a mo ment admit that. thfiRo difflnnlffnc n rant us in stopping in our effort to secure a wise and just system. They should have no other effect than to spur us on to the exercise of the res olution, the even-handed justice, and the fertility of resource, which we like to think of as typically American, and which will in the end achieve good results in this as in other fields of activity. The task is a great, one and underlies the tas" of dealing with tho whole industrial problem. But the fact that it is a great problem does not warrant us in shrinKinr from tho attempt to solve it. At present we face such utter lack of supervision, such J..UCUUIU uuui cue restraints or law, that excellent men have often been literally forced into doing what they deplored because otherwise they were left at the mercy cf tho unscrupulous competitors. To rail at and assail the men who have done as they best could under simli nnnri.Hnna plishes little. What we need to do, is to develop an orderly system; and I 0.1, a ayaium cun only come through the gradually increased exercise of the right of efficient government control. BEYOND UNDERSTANDING The mob assaults on the Jews in Russia cannot be understood at all unless some subtle diabolism is at work lashing blind ignorance into a bloodthirsty rush upon the Innocent. When the Russian government and people learn from the creat suifscrin- tlons pouring in that the sympathies of the most enlightened nations is with the Jews struggling against mob murder and rapine the undoubted ef fact will be to succor the downtrodden race, for tho relief funds show that the victims are not friendless, and also amount to a worldwide protest. St. Louis Globe Democrat. REVEALED AT LAST James Hazen Hyde testifies that Senator Depew tried to get him ap pointed ambassador to France. 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