Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-19

Twenty-Five Hundred People Braved the Cold And Tedious Trip in
Order 10 Hear Rooseveh.--Cave Him Grand Ovation.

make it.. Distrust the politician. distrust
the man who promises that If you vote
his way you will nave the millennium and
have 1t quick.
You need in a public man fundamental
ly. the same qualities that you need in a
private man; are those qualities?
Honesty in the first place: nOhing can
take the place Of that. Don't fool your
self by believing hat smartness unac-
companied by scruple can take the place
of honesty. Distrust hat man who tells
YOU he will benefit one class by exciting
its envy n hatred against another
class. You can't get any benefit out OF
a timid man. He must have courage. And
courage is not enough care not how
brave and honest a man may be, II he
is a fool he is not worth knocking on the
head. You need honesty in it's broades
and widest acceptatiOn; you need cOur-
age in a public man to stand up for what
is right no matter from where h pres
sure comes and o need common sense
or you will do more to mar the well being
of the state than any could do to save
the adroit Scoundrel..
Trusts. or corporate a~ggregations of
capital, spring from our highly complex
and specialized industrial conditions. 1t
would be perfectly easy to destroy the
trusts of we would not destroy so much
with them. If we should destroy steam
and electricity and go back to the days
~ vi pctl aAI StdSS SoaSAACS VIC
would have no trusts. We have got to
find out by which way we can get rid of
the trusts and not pay too dearly for It.
Thu state can do a certain amount with
in their own borders; maybe the nation
will have to take up the work. In the
last congress the democrats defeated a
proposition to submit a constitutional
amendment to the people to enable the
nation to take up and deal with this
problem. We needed a two-thirds vote.
There We're $50 republican votes and only
four democratic votes in favor Of 1t.
There We're 100 democratic and only two
republican votes against it. I only wish
to point out that the democrats voted
against the only proposition which could
nave been adopted for the nation to take
to itself the power of dealing with these
great corporate bodies.
Governor Roosevelt then told OF his ex-
p%erience with the franchise corporations
in New York and the passage ofsthe
franchise tax law by a republican legis-
lature, which he signed and which plac-
edd $500, 900, 600 of corporation property on
the tax rolls. He told too, of the demo-
| cratic Mayor Van Wyck and the demo-
cratic boss Dick Croker becoming 1.-THE
heaviest stockholders. in the ice trust
which was the worst trust in New York.
He pointed out the hypocrisy of Croker's
democratic convention in New York in
condemning the ice trust.
I'm 1892 we We're told that capital had
grown to rich. The capitalist had pros
| pered, 1T was our duty to down him.
The country voted that way. and beyond
question it got him down. But the worst
of it all was that when he came down
all the rest of us We're under him, too.
mo one enjoyed the next three years.
The capitalist saw ruin, the worker came
to the verge of starvation. 1t was hard,
terribly hard on the men; 1t was a thOus-
and times worse for the women and chill
lpop Tha fy1o1o 1, Qrta1 4. 1n1trfnn wa
ought to learn, must learn, is hat while
all share in a general prosperity, al
though perhaps to an unequal degree,
we all share in adversely as well, and not
so uneaually, for the lower suffer the
most. In good times all share in the
good; in bad times all must suffer.
I'm 1892 the people voted to down the
capitalist, and set up Coxey's army in
stead. 1t was the action of misguided
men who thought that by tearing down
secure general prosperity. Such can
never be. We can do something toward
prosperity by legislation: more can be
done by the people as a whole: but most
of all can be done by absolute, individual
honesty. We all slip and stumble along
the way; all need at times a helping
hand; and woe to him who will not eN-
tend such a hand, but strives always to
tear down others for his own profit.
1--WE stand at the threshold of a new
century. Each year of the century just
closed has lone the work of Providence,
We have fought the civil war; we have
conquered the vast country for civiliza-
ton: we have established liberty and
prosperity. We now appeal to the men
of the mighty west to see that the work
don does not shrink. When men of
courage and ability continue to take
their place in the foremost rank, the
country will not shrink. The republican
party asks your support in the contest
for the continuance of the battle of prog
ress. 1t is only by so doing tina the
country can avoid disaster, the worst we
have ever known. We are given a stand
ard bearer to teach to the nations that
where once the flag of our country is
hoisted in honor, it shall not be pulled
down IN dishonor."
MIR. CLARK'S ADDRESS.