The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-29

that we should set before US is 10 keep
prosperity, 70 render its advantages less
unequal, TO try TO secure a greater equali-
~ of its benefits, but above all never I'M
der any circumstances TO lend ourselves
TO the leadership OF any who appeal 10 the
baser passions of mankind. LApplause.l
Now, in your State, in your great manufac-
turing centerS-the reason they are built
is because of the capital that has come
there, mainly In corporate form. II you
had never had the big captains OF industry,
who worked individuals who worked
in combination as corporations, you never
would have had that prosperity. you would
not have had the material upbuilding in
this community Evils have come through
our very prosperity, but iE warning against
the evil let us be exceedingly careful not
to war against the prosperity.
Nov, it would be perfectly possible at
any time TO make ii unpleasant for the
trusts-perfectly possible to prevent big
corporations from making money. They
did not make any money in 1S93-and neith-
er did any one else. Let us face the fact
that there are evils. 1t is foolish TO blink
of these evils. Let US set ourselves, but
temporarily and with sanity, to strive to
find out what the evils are and to remedy
them. If any man tells you he can ad-
vance a specific by which all the evils of
the body polite will be made to disappear,
distrust him, for If he is honest he knows
not what he says Mankind has moved
slowly up through the ages, stumbling,
hating, rarely by leaps and bounds, gen.
orally by a slow and painful progression.
L.
are going to succeed now, if, as 1 believe,
we shall succeed. by showing exactly the
qualities which our fathers showed when
in great crisis they succeeded.
at IS in civil life as ii is in military life.
The men who fought in the great civil
war, under Grant and Sherman, wore diff
ferent uniforms from the cOntinentals who
followed Washington, were armed with diff
ferent weapons and were drilled with diff
ferent tactics; but the spirit of the man
himself was the same. lApplausel. The men
who saw AppomattoX saw ii because they
had in them stuff out OF which was made
those who saw Yorktown
COURAGE NECESSARY.
at is just so in civil life. There is not
any more possibility of remedying all of the
ills, social, economic, political, of the body
polite by some patent device now than
there was such possibility in 1776 or 1861.
Victory then came to the men who showed
the good ordinary, sturdy, commonsense
qualities. The men who won in the revo-
luton and made this country take its place
among the nations of the earth did it be-
cause they had in them courage resolution,
integrity, unbending will and common
sense. [Applause.1 Abraham LincOln-the
spirit incarnate of those who won victory in
the civil war-was the true representative
Of this people, not only for his own genera
ton, but for all time, because he was a
man among men, man who embodied the
QUALITIES VI Ills ltllOW-meI, out VINO ell
bodied them to the highest and the most
unusual degree of perfection, who embodied
all that was in the Nation of courage, OF
wisdom of gentle, patient kindness and
of common sense. And great, sad, patient
Lincoln led us to victory from 1861 to 1865
because he did not trust to any mere trick
or device, because he drove deep down tC
the heart of things and based his reliance
on the fundamental virtues of mankind
the old, old virtues of mankind. That is
the spirit we have to show in facing tbs
problems of to-day.
IF we approach those problems in q spirit
of hysteria we will fail, as we'll we deserve
TO fail; if we approach them in a spirit OF
envy and rancor and malice toward our fell
lows we will not only fail but we will dras
them and us in common ruin. Shame tC
US if we blink at the evils. They are there
and to say that it is not there will not dis.
prove its presence Face the problem; real.
ize its gravity and then approach it in &
spirit, not merely of determination to solve
ii, but of hearty desire to solve it with JUS
tice to all, with malice to none; to solve II
in spirit of broad kindness and charity
in a spirit that will keep us ever in mnC
that If we are to succeed at all il must bt
by each doing to the best of his capacity hi.
own business and yet by each remembering
that in a sense he is also his brothers keep
err" GApplause.l
At the conclusion of his remarks tn,
President at once re-entered his carriag,
and drove TO the station, where he took tn,
| train for Newbury, near the summer HON,
of Secretary Hay.