The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-07

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| those corporations both regards the general
| p1bIic and regards their relationships among
| themselves. When you have the power. should
most earnestly advocate that it be used with
greatest wisdom and self-re .Taint.
| The first thing won be to fnd out the facts.
For that purpose / absolutely clear that we
need publicity. not as favor Of the many or one
corporation, but as a matter Of right The
mere fact OF the publicity Itself will tend 10
/ stop any Of the evils and IL will show that
Of the alleged evils imaginary. And. finally.
In making evident the remain ng faults. those
| that are not imaginary. and are no; cured by
| the light Of day Itself. it will give intel
J hgent proposition As TO the methods TO take in
getting at them.
SHOULD HAVE ONE SOVEREIGN.
We should have under any circumstances one
sovereign to which the big corporations should
Dc responsiole-a sovereign in whose courts the
corporation could be held accountable for any
failure 70 comply with the laws OF the Le:is-
lature OF that sovereign do not think you
accomplish that among the fOrty-sx sovereigns
| Of the States. I think that IL will have 10 be
Trough the National Government.
Now. / want 10 draw lesson from the
p-rience Of some Of you whom in the audi
eiice who fought in the Civil War. You recoi-
lect It perfectly well. whether you wore the blue
or the gray. how people who sat at home were
dead cure you ought to do everything quickly
You who wear-ny friend there-the button which
SHOWS that you wore the blue remember the
days Just before Bull Run. when all IN. excel
lent people who We're at home said it was your
Guty TO go on at TO Richmond. They de-
nianded that II be done; they wanted /; then
within two weeks. Then Bull Run came along.
and the movement the other way and then
a lot OF the who had been demanding
at the tops OF their voices that yvu should in
stantiy 20 TO Richmond said that the var
was over: it was done: nothing more TO ne
compnshed- You and those like you Cid
think The North and South We're built
CT a different stuff. The went on for years
and you would not have gotten 10 Richmond at
sll II you had insisted that YOU could only 60
there by a patent device. That not the way
you get there
You got there bv setting your teeth and rnak-
Ing your minds up that you were in 10 see that
nght there Then had face defeat and
come up again. and. IL defeated. TO try again
until cut Of defeat wrested triumph You
made uD your minds that vou would wiz, by the
same Qualities which have made sood soldiers
Irom the time tina: the world was Young The
men In the blue and the men in gray who
ionRht IN the great Civil War had different
weapons and were drilled In different tactics
from the soldiers who followed Washington AMI
Green and Mad Anthony WAYNE. who fought
anaer a MARION who fought at Bunker Hill. who
Ioneht at Kings Mountain. You had different
.SIn.s. ~ aiherent weapons. different tactics. hit
CONDITIONS CHANGE
And now, II ever this country shouli he called
as most earnestly hope and believe Il, never
viii be called TO face a serious foreign Zoe the
men that night VIII have high power small
eahoer. smokeisss powder rifles: they will fight
In open order instead Of the cid eIbov-to-eIboyv
TOUCH They will fight under entirely different
tacucs; under different conditions. but II they
the same stun that their fathers had in the
CtVii War. their grea;a-grandfathe-s in the Rev
oiutionsry War The weapon changes the gun
changes. Dut the qualities Of the men behind the
gun have get TO remain the same as ever
1t is just so in dealing with these problems q,
citizenship The changed conditions mean that
tnere must be change in the laws: change from
time to time In the fundamental underlying law
OF the land. which We call the Constitution IT,.
law now and then has no change. but in the long
run II Is the man behind the Law that counts
he hest Ia
We need the best Constitution. and need 10
amend II 80 rs TO keep it what II is-the best
Constitution But Constitution no law win
supply the place in the average Individual OF
those qualities which in their sum make up good
citizenship.
It is Just as Il IS in battle hate and .,
any National Guardsmau is here he will ap-
preciate what say. hate TO our National |
Guard armed with black-powder rnusket |
would about soon gee him armed with = cros,
bow believe that for any man wearing IN,
uniform which IS Uncle SANS" or may be |
Is none too good
CANNOT MAKE MEN By LAWS.
but II you give a man the best weapon in the |
world and he himself is a pretty poor sort of a 1
creature he will be beaten by a good man with /
q club applause and iaughter)
NOW. II Is Just so in the field of civic lIfe II /
our average citizenship Is low, laws will save
US. ihere are other countries with almost ex-
sctly our Constitution: with very much similar
iaNs 10 ours where. nevertheless. the experience
OF Tree government has almost been a failure b.
cause the men were not the same: because they
the iast r..or- :, ,,p,r+ eo IN hin Izensnip IN
ard of citizenship upon which w. win hs,. %
rely in this Republic
at h can oe o.ns oy law. something can
the law but mos, ~ ali ,,n auiiaisera,ion oe
having the right kind OF men: the right kind of L
women In the country. We need more than in
tellect- We need character-character which
counts most: that Is what counts more than any
thing else in life: character which counts for the
individual in private life. which counts in the
life OF the state; character which wan to Sc.
IN ,s ~, puone men wnen tney tackle NE problem
fundamentally composed OF m nv eIsn.n,s h-,
which must command these three: Honesty. frst.
l 90 nor care now aoie man IT, IL he Is
nan is :, he is sf-a,d he - no In nov u
hrst then courage and those two qualities are not