What further remedies are needed in the way of governmental regulation, or taxation, can only be determined after publicity has been obtained, by process of law, and in the course of administration.

The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete--knowledge which may be made public to the world.

Artificial bodies, such as corporations and joint stock or other associations, depending upon any statutory law for their existence or privileges, should be subject to proper governmental supervision, and full and accurate information as…

The large corporations, commonly called trusts, though organized in one State, always do business in many States, often doing very little business in the State where they are incorporated.

There is utter lack of uniformity in the State laws about them; and as no State has any exclusive interest in or power over their acts, it has in practice proved impossible to get adequate regulation through State action.

Therefore, in the interest of the whole people, the Nation should, without interfering with the power of the States in the matter itself, also assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations doing an interstate business.

This is especially true where the corporation derives a portion of its wealth from the existence of some monopolistic element or tendency in its business.

When the Constitution was adopted, at the end of the eighteenth century, no human wisdom could foretell the sweeping changes, alike in industrial and political conditions, which were to take place by the beginning of the twentieth century.

With the sole exception of the farming interest, no one matter is of such vital moment to our whole people as the welfare of the wage-workers.

If the farmer and the wage-worker are well off, it is absolutely certain that all others will be well off too.

It is therefore a matter for hearty congratulation that on the whole wages are higher to-day in the United States than ever before in our history, and far higher than in any other country.

Every effort of legislator and administrator should be bent to secure the permanency of this condition of things and its improvement wherever possible.

The National Government should demand the highest quality of service from its employees; and in return it should be a good employer.

In all industries carried on directly or indirectly for the United States Government women and children should be protected from excessive hours of labor, from night work, and from work under unsanitary conditions.

The Government should forbid all night work for women and children, as well as excessive overtime.

American wage-workers work with their heads as well as their hands.

Moreover, they take a keen pride in what they are doing; so that, independent of the reward, they wish to turn out a perfect job.

This is the great secret of our success in competition with the labor of foreign countries.

Very great good has been and will be accomplished by associations or unions of wage-workers, when managed with forethought, and when they combine insistence upon their own rights with law-abiding respect for the rights of others.

Finally, there must also in many cases be action by the Government in order to safeguard the rights and interests of all.

When all is said and done, the rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensable prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive.

To be permanently effective, aid must always take the form of helping a man to help himself; and we can all best help ourselves by joining together in the work that is of common interest to all.

The second object of a proper immigration law ought to be to secure by a careful and not merely perfunctory educational test some intelligent capacity to appreciate American institutions and act sanely as American citizens.

But it would do what is also in point, that is, tend to decrease the sum of ignorance, so potent in producing the envy, suspicion, malignant passion, and hatred of order, out of which anarchistic sentiment inevitably springs.

Finally, all persons should be excluded who are below a certain standard of economic fitness to enter our industrial field as competitors with American labor.