UNITED STATES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 937, 3 February 1908, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. ■ Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, Yesterday. In what on all hands is admitted to be the most impassioned and stirring document ever issued from White House, and which takes the form of a special message to Congress, President Roosevelt vehemently denounces the methods of the Standard Oil Trust and the Atchison line and the whole web of business corruption, and urges that further legislation he passed for the prevention of the grosser forms of gambling in stocks and the future's commodities. Regarding railroads. President Roosevelt says they should issue stocks and bonds only in a manner approved of by the Federal Government and that the proceeds be used for improvements, and not for the enrichment of either individual or syndicate. The Federal Government must assume a certain measure of control over the physical -operations of railroads, and employers must be impressed with the obligation of their duties towards oraployeOS, \l\VOStovs, and the general public. President Roosevelt recommends, inter alia, the re-enactment of the employers' liability law in conformity with the Supreme- Court's decision that it should be confined to corporations doing inter-State business. Democrats of both Houses applaud•ed the message. In the Senate, Mr Jefferson Davis described the message as the best Democratic document that has ever emanated from a Republican President.