The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-28


4 pletely cured"
/ peace our honor is iE our own keeping.
! Ii rests with US 10 keep IL unstained. Ana
! all that is necessary-not that IL Is very
| easy always-is that the people should VIII
| inteligently to keep IL unstained. But IL
/ there comes trouble from without, IL Is not
/ enough then TO do well within our own
/ borders, as you who fought IN the civil
war know. II was not enough In 81 that
/ you managed things well in Maine; you had
/ 70 manage them well elsewhere, too. i can
/ say in all sincerity that L believe there Is
but small chance of our having 10 face
trouble abroad; but we shall avoid it, not
by blndly refusing TO admit that there ever
/ might be trouble. but by safeguarding
/ against il. And the best possible safeguard
for this Nation is an adequate and highly
efficient navy.
! chairman of the Senate committee on naval
affairs. GApplause.l l do not suppose II Is
necessary to tell any audience which has
thoroughly good common school educa-
| ton that you do not win victories merely
on the day on which the battle is fought
! YOU have got to prepare for them In ad-
| vance. When Manila and Santiago were
/ fought great glory came 10 the men aboard
the ships, who old the fighting. but an
equal amount of praise belongs to those
men who prepared In advance. Deweys
| ships won their great victory under. the
| presidency of Mckinley. but they were built
under Presidents Arthur, Cleveland and
| Harrison. The men and the officers aboard
| them were able to do what they did be-
cause through months and years OF pa
tient practice. often under officers TO whom
it was denied TO be in actual battle. they
were trained TO the point OF efficiency We
saw.
1.-The men in Congress, such as my host
| of this evening and his fellows, who saw
/ the need, who voted for the ships. who
! voted for the guns who voted TO allow
I money for powder which could be used 10
the best advantage by being used up in
practice-those were the men who rendered
that victory possible. Now. il is the work
IL. l. -. ~ mill
render that navy fit to respond to any call
that may be made upon ii If, which heaven
forbid, such call shall ever be made.
INTERNAL PROBLEMS.
80 much for what is our duty in ref
erence to matters without. Even more i'm
portant is it to deal well and wisely with
affairs within our own borders No great
benefit can come without bringing attend
ant problems of one kind or another. We
rightly proud of our great material
prosperity. Of the wonderful material prog
ress that we have made. 1t is a great thing
for this country that it should have come.
but ii has brought many problems in its
Now, there is not any patent way or
solving all these problems There is not
any pet recipe, any pet nostrum. which
you can take as whole ana have all the
problems of body politics solved. Funda-
mentally you must approach the new prob
l
approached the problems OF their day IL
you going to get satisfactory solu-
ton You have to do il with patience, with
resolution, with courage, and. finally, with
common sense
Take the evils that come up to our mind
when we speak of the trusts. The word
trust is used very loosely. In the ordinary
significance il means simply a large cor
poration created in one State, probably
doing business in other States and usually
with an element of monopoly pertaining 10
alleged
imaginary. others are very real Certainly
the change produced along a number OF
lines by the increase OF power of these cor
porations, by their increase in magnitude.
is not change that most Of Us welcome
There is every reason why We should reso-
lutely declare our purpose and put into
the evils and find out which OF the evils
are real and which are imaginary, and TO
I find out what executive administrative
! eXpedients can be employed 10 minimize
or TO do away with those evils. But the
one thing sure is that IL We try TO apply
those eXpedients which in any way border
upon the historical we are going 10 fail.
1 want 10 see the knife used 10 cut out
the evil, but L want TO see IL used so that
il will be more dangerous 10 the disease
than TO the patient, You can perfectly wen
reduce the prosperity OF the trusts by re-
ducing the prosperity OF everybody. In
1898 no trusts Notwithstanding fourished.
l But we want to devise some method by
which we can minimize any evil they do
without interfering with the general pros
| perity, which is a benefit TO all ZAP
| plause.l We wish TO avoid trying any soiu-
ton OF the problem which would involve
US all in a common disaster disaster that
would be felt most severely by those least
well off in the worlds goods. on the one
hand. 1 believe that the men OF great means
should understand that when we demand
some method OF asserting the power Of the
Nation over all corporations we are acting
not against their interest, bat i'm their in
terest.
when we make the law obeyed by the
man OF means are not acting against
t him. we are acting for him. His safety lies
- in the law, and the worst OF all possible
( lessons to teach would be 10 teach our peo-
Z pie as a whole that the law did not reach
3 him. II must reach him TO make him obey
4 il. exactly as il reaches him 10 protect him
from the wrOngdoing OF others
5 ION the one hand let men OF great wealth
e realize that In seeking for this remedy we
{ are both unalterably bent upon finding IL
D and are doing IL in no spirit OF hostility 20
them, but In a spirit 10 ind out what Is
Z best for them and for all Of US alike. That
other hand. let those who feel that there
is something wrong and they do not quite
Z know what avoid above all things being led
a 70 act in a spirit OF ignorant envy. or
rancor. general or sectional If We are go
] ing 20 solve this problem Alright. IL will be
because We approach IL with all the sanity.
2 with all the tempera teness. the sound intel
! ligence that there is at our command. But
e the minute that We let our eyes be dimmed
7 by the mists OF envy and hatred and ran
cor, we shall UNIT ourselves 20 act either
in our own interest or In the interests OF
, common country lApplause-l
! The presidential party was accompanied
: TO Ellsworth by Governor Hill and his
: staff and Congressman Burleigh and Pow
: ers and Mrs Burleigh and Mrs. Powers.
I The President was driven from the station
: TO The Pines the home OF Senator Hale. BY
, the senator himself. A little later the Pres
ident sat down 10 a dinner In his honor. u
: which were Governor Hi, COngreSsma n
= BurIeigh and Congressman Powers Chic Z
- Justice Wisewell and Justice Emery. OF tn
70 Maine Supreme Court Bench. Presider {
Hyde, Of Bowdoin College, Col n r Ham o
lin and Judge John A. Peters. jr. Thofe
J OF the party not at this dinner We're enter
tanned at the Abenaquis Club The presl-
dental train left for Bangor at 10 p. m.