Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-19

only solve them by doing we'll each :
1ar DIT or work as 1t comes up for !,
Much can be done along the fines "
vision and regulation of the great W,
combinations which have become 50
q feature in our civilization, but If ;,
lessly try without proper thought u
proper caution, to do too much We N
nothing or else we shall work WY
will be felt most acutely among fhosa
citizens who are most HELPLESS i
easy task to deal with great industr.
encies. To deal with them in 90;
presumptious and rash folly. and -,
to deal with them In spirit of Az
hatred and malice would be to invt.
ter, disaster which would he ~
spread that this country would rOs, =
foundations. The Mississinni Sa'
causes immense damage by 6ood ,,~
cannot dam 1t and stop the floods -
regulate them, and control them
Yon can regulate and control the &C.
you can eliminate it's destructive
but you can do it only by studyinY
current is, and what your own pows2
Special Legislation Needs
1t is just exactly so In dealing
great tendencies of our industrial u
ton. We cannot turn back the vi.
progress. If we could 1t would ms.
absolute destruction Of just such mi
centers as this. We will either d. ~
or we will do damage If we strive lon
ly to achieve the impossible. But tSs,I
does not excuse US for failure to strIva
what Is possible. Special legislation i ,
ed, some of that legislation must
through municipalities, but above al
yond all legislation we need homes
fearless administration Of the laws .,
are on the statute books. Honest 0rS
less administration Of those laws n
interest neither of the rich man ~
nor of the poor man as such, but in n
tereSt of exact and equal Justice !.
alike, and such administration you will
ly have while Mr.. Knox remains as 4
ney General in the Cabinet at W@4
ton.
Speaks at a Banquet,
At a banquet in the evening, resus
to the toast, Theodore Rooseyelt's
President said in part:
think, gentlemen, that the aven,a d
lean is a pretty good fellow. All M
necessary to find that out Is to know.
and that the differences that come IN A..
US mainly spring from failure to know
another. Sometimes that causes dIfel
among localities; sometimes 1t causes
ferences between employer and emv,
between the men of the town and the M
the country, between the men of one or
ton and the men of another occupatIorG
I most earnestly and ferYently belieVl
the best solvent for all such condta,
bringing the people together, so tina,
side shall get to understand the view
of the other. / don't say that that VII.
vent all differences, but am c0nfdeDt
it will minimize the causes of diffe.
and that 1t will make the differences "a
acute.
| don't believe that any considerable
of our people really wishes i'll of any
siderable body Of our people, and when,
is an appearance Of such wishing Ill
sure that it springs from some fundam
misrepresentation between the two sides
that the best way of removing the a
ence, be it real or assumed, is to try Il
the two sides together, and to try to (
each approach the meeting with the h,
purpose of looking at the matter thu
the cause Of the difference from the i
points of both. And so, gentlemen, n
that meeting such as those tonight
a great assemblage which | had the b,
of addressing this morning, served Que
pose, the most important of aN-th1
pose of getting our people tOgethGa
bringing them in contact, one with ths
err, so that they may realize that the l
enceS that divide one from the 0thea
trivial, and that the unity among US :
fundam mtal. l
Principle of Brotherhood. |
r
by the civil war as regards our civil
apart from the lessons taught In mil,
life, was that of brotherhood, Of {
in the great war, who have been b.
civil war, such as that body that we Br
in the course of the procession this !.
ing, I speak Of men, who have pTaG-
applied for a number Of years the pHI
of brotherhood and who could not (.
any other principle. l mean all tha,
principle of treating man on bis
as a man, with all proper charity II
failings, but with regard primarily i
what is real as distinguished from wiz
accidental qualities and characteristics
There are in this audience, there IL
every audience one speaks to, mele
have fought in the great war, the mGlo
got down to the fighting, to the maD I
to the long, wearisOme months Of luE
in camp, who got to put pretty gOIn
ment on their fellows that were lg
them, If it was a fight, and who bel. !.
move forward, or to be sure that ta
next to them would move the Tigh,t
They did not care a bit whether vi
next to them were bankers or Brig,
They wanted to know whether tEF,e
"stay put" II
Now is that you in civil life? NNa
more think, gentlemen, as one grow .
one comes to feel that it is not the -
in which we perform the duty, 1t Sue
ing the duty that counts. y
Duty, Not Occupation, Counts
l do not care what the mans Occ1.r
is, or what his standing Is. If he IT,
duty well, he is a good citizen andt4..
not he is not a good citizen. COmpaTae
that fundamental question, the Otla 6
lions as to the particular position be Il
pies in public life, social, financial, a3I''
er way-those questions sink into aH
insigniticance.
Now, gentlemen, just one word. lA
portance Of anything that is said u
tested by how nearly what is done .
ward corresponds with it. 1t is yeTiir
thing for US to meet together on the !
of July, in order to remind ourselves re
our forefathers did, to refresh our mel.
as to what our government really me-
ask Of each man here that he pro,
truth by his endeavor, that in El.
line he may be, that in whatever vi
life he may be; that whatever may u
line in which he does his work, be !,
act throughout the rest of the yeN =
talks on the Fourth of July. Il
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