TRUSTS DENOUNCED. A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1908, Page 7

TRUSTS DENOUNCED. A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

VIGOROUS LANGUAGE. WAR ON ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION. By T Ii graph.- -Press Association.- -Copyright NEW YORK, Ist February. In what is admitted on all hands to be the most impassioned and stirring document ever issued from the 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 Railroad Company, and the whole web of business corruption. Mr. Roosevelt urges that Congress pass further legislation to deal with the evils he specifies, and suggests the prevention of tho grosser form of gambling in stocks and "future ' commodities. Regarding the railroads, ( the President says they should be made to issue stocks and bonds only in such manner as may be approved by- tho Federal Govern ment, and that the proceeds of operating the lines should be used for improvement of the services and not for the enrichment either of an individual or of a syndicate. The Federal Government, the Message ( proceeds, must assume, in a certain measure, control over the physical operation of railroads in handling inter-State traffic. Besides their rights, employers must be impressed with their 'obligations and duties towards employees, investors, and the general public. President Roosevolt recommends, intes alia, the re-enactment of the Employers' Liability Law, in conformity wi^b. the Supremo Court's decision that it should be confined to a corporation doirig inter-State business. i Democrats in both Houses applauded the Message. In tho Senate, Mr. Jefferson Davis (Democrat, ex-Governor of Arkansas) described the Message as the best democratic document that had ever emanated from a Republican President.