The United States
riUANCIAL MOVEMENTS. WAVAI, PROGRAMME SEDUCES. VIGOROUS PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE. MIIiLIKOAIREB SCARIFIED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 28. Mr Cortclyou withdraws from the National Bank 45 million follars In Government deposits—half on May 9th and the remainder on the 23rd. The Senate, by 00 to 23, again defeated the Naval Appropriation Bill, but afterwards consented, by President Roosevelt's desire, to provide for four battleships. President Roosevelt's Message to Congress urges in the strongest terms legislation limiting the use of injunctions in the case of labour disputes, and also legislatioa increasing the power of the national Government to regulate the inter-State business of great corporations. Mr Roosevelt protests against the growth of class consciousness, declaring that the abuse of the process of injunction by employers must breed class consciousness, and therefore class resentment. While condemning the demagogue, who preaches envy of wealth, Mr Roosevelt caustically remarks that his counterpart la the "hard, cruel multi-mil-lionaire who is the least enviable, and least admirable of citizens, whose son Is a fool and his daughter a foreign princess."
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Southland Times, Issue 12122, 30 April 1908, Page 2
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