The Portland daily press., 1900-07-05

While / say these things, at the same
time believe in ombinations OF capital
believe they are the means by which
great enterprises are conducted and the
wealth of the continent is developed.
But there Is q monopolstic tendency
in them against which we should be ON
our guard, just as there is a tendency to
violence and wrong In the combinations
OF labor. What we want is the republic
viii, riding supreme above them all
compelling them to their place, extin-
gushing the power Of them II need be
in many particular juncture in the
Interest OF the public right. Society
Will yet be wise enough to do th is with
out at the same time destroying or inn
pairing the inherent right either of labor
or capital.
I speak no word of alarm. counsel
only the things which make for our peace,
clear sighted Judgment and con-
science in our public affairs, eternal
vigilance, patient waiting, labor without
ceaslng for the higher ends.
AS nation we are apparently free
form any dangers from without, but there
are tendencies in our society which do
not afford the same sense OF security
form dangers within. Whether
the wide departure we have made in
America from the simplicity and social
equality of earlier times is upward or
downward, and what shall be It's final
goal, are questions OF the deepest signi-
ficance and If we can aid but slightly in
their true solution, the result is worthy
OF our constant study and effort Mean
while, as the one lesson of the hour, let
all resolve to uphold the supremacy of the
law N this loved native land Of ours.
Liberty and wealth are only conditions;
they are not ends The vital questions
what do we do with our liberty, what do
we do with our wealth. One of the most
welcome sig rs of the times IS the lavish
way IN which wealth is being devoted
to public uses In founding and endOw1ng
churches, libraries, schools, colleges,
charities, throwing open to ali the doors
OF hospitals, where modern medicine q
science, no longer superstition, stands
ready to exhaust her subtIest Skill to
relieve the humblest sufferer. There is
no range in America for license, tur-
/ bulence, tumult or violence, and those
who attempt to transplant them here, if
they do not heed other warning in sea-
son, will at last feel the power of this
government when it smites them to the
dust. NO organization can rise superior
to the law. Each must move within It's
own legallysapp0inted sphere of action
Social order is the first and supreme
requirement., even liberty is secondary to
that; the security of any particular form
OF wealth is secondary to that. Charles
Sumner was accustomed to refer 80 the
constitutional provision that the United
States shall guarantee to every state OF
the Union republican form of govern
ment as the sleeping giant Of the consti-
tuition. Under 1t, II the emergency should
ever arise which awakes it to action,
even state may be saved from anarchy
by the arm of the Federal power without
thereby invading any state right. No
city nor state, no force or Numbers nor
form of organization, VIII ever be per-
m1tted so long as the spirit of the father
abides with US, to jangle into .discordsthe
harmony of that well ordered liberty for
which they SO wisely provided when they
flung off forever their aI1eg1 ance to the
| throne OF Great Britain.