The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-12-05
Els Annual Communication Upon Questions
of Importance to the Nation.
VIEWS ON TIE TRUSTS AND TARIFF
a Lowering of Import Duties Would Not Remedy the
Evils of Monopoly-Believes in Tariff Com
mission-Much That Is Good Labor
Unions and Corporations-Many
Needs of the Nation.

To the Senate and House of Representa-
tyes:We still continue In a period OF
not the creature of law, but undoubtedly
the laws under which we work have been
instrumental in creating the conditions
Mich mace 1t possible, and by uEwise leg
kiatlon 1t would be easy enough to destroy
7: There will undoubtedly be periods of
TIDE viii advanee ms % natieS G eue tine
continent flanked by two great oceans.
1t is composed Of men the descendants of
selves; of men winnowed out from among
me nations of the OLD world by the energy,
boStcness, and love Of a6yenture found in
their own eager hearts. Such a Ia ton, so
tune.
As people we have played a large part
In the world, ard we are bent upon maxim &
our future even larger than the past. In
particular. the events of the last four years
the nations. We may either fail greatly
or succeed greatly; but we cannot avoid
ure or great success must come. Even If
e we wos sboS tra % Play Play snail
tgnobly and shamefuliy.
Causes of Prosperity.
No country has ever occupied higher
plane of material well-being than ours
at the present moment. This well-being
Is due to no sudden or accidental causes.
but to the play of the economic forces
III tniS country 1Or over a century: TO
our laws. our sustained and continuous
policies; above all, to the high individ
ual average of our citizenship. Great
fortunes have been won by those who
have taken the lead in this phenomenal
industrial development and most of these
fortunes have been won not by doing
evil. but as an incident to action which
has benefited the community as a WI? le.
Never before has material well-heing
been so widely diffused among our peo-
pie. Great fortunes have been accum-
ulated. and yet in the aggregate these
fortunes are small indeed when COM
whole. The plain people are better OF
than they have ever been before. The
Insurance companies. which are prac-
tically mutual benefit soc:eties-especial-
represent accommodations of capital which
are among the largest in this country.
There are more deposits, in the savings
banks. more owners of farms. more we'll
than ever before In our history. OF course,
when the conditions have favored the
growth of so much that was good. they
have also favored somewhat the growth
sary that we should endeavor to cut out
this evil. but let US keep a due sense of
proportions; let us not in fixing Our gaze
upon the lesser evil forget the greater
them are menacing. but they are the
outgrowth, not of misery or decadence
but of prosperity-of the progress of oar
gigantic Industrial development. This
Industrial development must not be
checked. but side by, side with it should
go such progressive regulation as VIII
diminish the evils. We should fail in
on, duty If we did not try to remedy the
evils, but we shall succeed only If we
proceed patiently, with practical common
sense as well as resolution, separa ting
the former while endeavoring to get rid
of the latter.