Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
THE PRESIDENTS JAUNI.
The People of Hartford, Conn.,, Gave
Him a Hearty Early Morn
ing Send-0f.
ADDRESS DELIVERED At PROVIDENCE.
The Era of National P~rOsperit- and
the Inevitable Conditions Accom-
panying It-COmbi nations of zap
itaI and the Duty of the State to
Control Them.

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Williamantic, Conn.,, Aug. 23.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt, after spending the
night at the home of John L. Robin
son, at Hartford, resumed his journey
through New England. His train left
the city promptly at eight o'clock, but
the early hour set for his departure
did not deter the people from turning
out in force and giving him a hearty
send-off. AS he drove up to the sta
ton in any open carriage accom-
panied by Senator Platt, the crowd
cheered. and the president responded
by raising his hat. The floral horse
shoe presented to the president by
the workinmen of Hartford, Friday,
was by his request placed on the en-
CINE. All along the line the small
towns turned out their entire popula-
ton, each apparently anxious to
share in the welcome which Connec-
ticut is extending.
When Williamantic was reached,
the president was driven to the pub
lie square, where he delivered an ad-
dress from his carriage:
Later the president and party pro-
ceeded to Providence, r. l., where, in
the afternoon he was received with a
great ovation and delivered the fol-
lowing address:
President R~OOsevelts Speech.
1--WE are passing through a period of
great material prosperity, and such a pc
Rod is as sure as adversely itself to bring
mutterings of discomfort. At a time when
most men prosper somewhat it always
happens that a few men prosper greatly,
and it is as true now as it was when the
Tower of Sloan fell upon all who were
under it, that good fortune does not come
T. only to the just, nor bad fortune only to
the unjust. When the weather is good
Moreover, not only do the wicked flourish
when the times are such that most men
flourish, but, what is worse, the spirit of
envy and jealousy and hatred springs up
may be doing fairly well themselves, yet
see others, who are no more deserving,
doing far better.
Wise laws, and fearless and upright
administration of the laws can give the
opportunity for such prosperity as that
we see about us. But this is all that they
can do. When the conditions have peen
created which mack prosperity possible,
then each individual man must achieve it
for himself, by his own thrift, intelli-
gence, energy, industry and resolute ,pur-
pose. If when people wax fat they kick,
as they have been prone to do since the
days of Jerusalem, they will speedily de-
stroy their own prosperity. If they go
into wild speculation and lose their heads,
can supply and the business world will
suffer in consequence. If in a spirit of
sullen envy they insist upon pulling down
those who have protited most by the
npS e fntnnGr thnxV ttil1 hlirxF fbnra
selves in the crash of the common disas-
ter. 1t is difficult to make our material
condition better by the best laws. but it Is
easy enough by bad laws to throw the
whole nation into an abyss of misery.
Now, the upshot of all this is hat it is
peculiarly incumbent upon us in a time
of such material well being, both collec-
lively as a nation and individually, each
on his own account, to show that we pos
sess the qualities of prudence, self-knowl-
edge and self-restraint. In our governv
ment we need, above all things, stability,
iixity of economic policy, while remem-
bering that this tiXity must not be fos-
silization, that there must not be ina
bility to shape our course anew to meet
the shifting needs of the people as these
needs arise. There are real and great
evils In our social and economic life, and
these evils stand out, with ugly badness
during good times, for the wicked who
Is every need of striving in all possible
ways, individually and collectively, by
continuation among ourselves IN private
Of g owe tnt1asn for a"e the necc cstting out oufao of
these evils. Only let us be sure that we
do not use the knife with an ignorant
zeal which would make it more danger
GUS to the patient that to the disease.
One of the dangers of the tremendous
industrial growth of the last generation
has been the very great increase in large
private, and especially in large corporate
fortunes.
w may like this or not, just as we
please, but it is a fact, nevertheless, and
as far as we can see, it is an inevitable
result of the working of various causes,
prominent among which has been the i'm
mense Importance steam and electricity
have assumed in modern life. Urban pop.
ulation has grown in this countrw, as in
all civilized countries, much faster than
the population as a whole during the last
century, and where men are gathered to-
gether in great masses it inevitably re-
suits that they must work far more large
ly by means of combinations among them
selves than when they live ISOLATED from
one another. Now, ! suppose that most
OF us prefer on many accounts the old
conditions of life, under which the av-
erage mar lived more to himself and by
himself; when the average community
was more self-dependent, and where ever
though the standard of comfort was low
er on the average, yet there was less of
the glaring inequality in worldly condi-
tions which we now see in our great cit
les.
J. 10 NV tiiil lHD DOOI IldVe
grown poorer, but some of the rich have
grown so. very much richer tina where
multitudes of men are herded together
in a limited space, the contrast strikes
the onlooker as more violent than for
merly. On the whole, our people earn
more and live better than ever before,
and the progress of which we are so
proud counld not have taken place had it
not been for the great upbuilding of in
dustrial c%enters, such as our commercial
and manufacturing cities. But together
with the good there has come a measure
of evil. Life is not so simple as it was,
and surely both for the Individual and
the community, the simple life is normally
the healthy life. There is not in the cit
brotherhood which there is still in coun-
try localities, and the lines of social cleav-
age are far more clearly marked.
For some of the evils which have at
ditlons, we can at present see no COM
plete remedy. For others the remedy
must come by the action Of men them
merely as individuals or by combination
one with another. For yet others some
other remedy can be found in Legislative
municipal. Much Of the complaint against
the combinations is entirely unwar-
ranted. Under present conditions it is as
necessary to have corporations in the
business world as 1t is to have organiza-
ton among wage workers. But we have
a right to ask in each case that they shall
do good and not harm. Exactly as labor
organizations, when managed int%elligently
and In a spirit of justice and fair play,
are of very great service, not only to the
wage workers but to the whole COM
munity, as the history of many labor or
CARNATIONS has conclusively shown, SD
wealth, not merely individual, but cor
porate, when used Alright, Is not merely q
benefit to the community as a whole
but Indispensable to the upbuilding Of the
country under the conditions, which at
present the country has grown TO accent.
but to demand as normal. This Is so OBJ
vious that 1t seems trite even to state
1t, and yet II we are to judge some of the
arguments advanced against, and attacks
made upon, wealth as such, 1t is a fact
worth keeping in mind.
"a great fortune IL not used Alright
makes its possessor in a peculiar sense
a menace to the community as a whole,
just as a great intellect does, IL it is un-
accompanied by developed conscience, by
character. But obviously this no more
affords grounds for condemning wealth
than 1t does for condemning intellect.
Every man Of power, by the very fact