The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-08

Dled, so that when victory came thew
might turn over the government to the
civil authorities. (Applause.) Victory
came. Today the proclamation of peace
and amnesty has been promulgated and
at the same time our generals have been
hotlned that the civil government is
supreme in the islands. (A~pplause.)
Does not that speak we'll, oh, my
brethren, for our army. for our troops.
that the troops of this people should
wage war hoping for a triumph which is
7ut the power into the hands CT the
civrf authorities?
we nave great problems at home to
lace. Especially great. especially diff
cult are the problems caused by the
growth and concentration of great in
oividual and above all. great corporate
fortunes. 1t is immensely for the in
terests of the country that there should
be such individual and corporate wealth
as long as 1T is used right, and when not
used right then it becomes a serious
menace and danger. (Applause.) The
instruments and methods with Which
we are TO meet these new problems must
In many cases, themselves, be new, but
inc purpose lying behind the use of
these methods. of those instruments
must, if we are to succeed, be now as in
the past, simply in accord with the i'm
mutable laws of order, of justice and
right. (Applause).
" may need, and IN my belief, will
need, new legislation conceived in no
radical or revolutionary spirit, but in a
spirit of common sense, common honesty
and resolute desire to face facts as they
are. CApplause.) We will need then
new legislation, but while laws are i'm
DOrt9nt If &c infinitely r1nrn rnrtor
that they should be in accordance with
the principles that have marked homes.
administration from the beginning of re-
corded history. (Applause) In the last
analysis the most important department
OF civilized government is the Depart
mont of Justice. Think what it means.
The Department of Justice. justice
which means that each man rich or
poor. big or little, strong or weak, shall
have his right and shall not be allowed
to do wrong to his fellows. (Applause.)
And YOU, here of this city, have a. right
TO feel proud of your representative in
the Cabinet, the man under whom we
can guarantee that the Department OF
Justice viii be such in fact as we'll as in
name. Loud and continued APPLAUSE,
cheers and cries of Knox" "knoX.')
'Oh my fellow countrymen as we face
iN'tS III LIZ ODle1llS Z IL
ever keep in mind that though we need
the highest qualities of the intellect in
order to work out practical schemes for
their solution, yet we need a thousand
times more What counts for many, many.
many times as much as ineffective need
char acter. (Cries of That is it and ap-
plause.)
" need what Mr.. Knox has shown
the character that will refuse to be hur-
ried into any unWise or precipitate move
ment by any clamor, whether hystericaS
or deInagogic, and on the other hand,
the character that will refuse to be
frightened out of the movement which
he thinks it right to undertake, by any
pressure, still less by any threat, express
CT implied. (Cries of Hear, hear and
applause)
"Gentlemen, we have great problems.
We can only solve them by degrees. We
can only solve them by doing each part
Of work as it comes up for solution.
Much can be done along the lines Of su-
pervision and regulation of the great
Industrial combinations which nave be-
come so marked a feature in our civili-
%zation, but if We recklessly try without
proper thought, without proper caution,
to do too much we shall do nothing or
10y ShoiI hNoION a lulil IDdl Will Ut 1clt
most acutely among those of our citizens
who are most helpless. 1t is no easy
task to deal with great industrial ten
dencies. To deal with them in a spirit
of presumptuous and rash folly and
above all to deal with them in a spirit Of
hatred or malice would be to invite dis
astcr, a disaster which would be so
widespread that this country would rock
to its foundations
The Mississippi sometimes causes i'm
| mcnsc damage by floods, you can regu-
late them and control them by levees.
You can regulate and control the cur
rents, you can eliminate it's destructive
feasures but you can do it only by
studying what a current is and what
our own powers are. (~Applause.) 1t
is just exactly so in dealing with the
great tendencies of our industrial civil
cation. We cannot turn back the wheels
Of progress. If we could it would mean
the absolute destruction of just such in
dustrial centers as this. We will either
do nothing or we will do damage if we
strive ignorantly to achieve the impoS-
| siblc. But that fact does not excuse us
for failure to strive to do what is pos
sible. Special Legislation is needed
some of the Legislation must come
through municipalities, some through
| States, some through the national gov
ment, but above and beyond all legis-
lation we need honest and fearless ad-
ministration of the laws as they are on
the statute books. (Applause.) Honest
and fearless administration Of those laws
in the interest neither of the rlch man
as SUCH, nor of the poor man as such,
, but in the interest of exact and equal
Justice to all alike, and such admlnlstra-
ton you will surely have WINE MI
Knox remains as Attorney General IN the
Cabinet at Washington" Applause)
After the address the German singers
sang sEAmerica." the vast audience join
, ing III the words of the final verse. lne
honcdiction was then pronounced by
Rev. DIR. L. n. Boyle.
The President Immediately after"afd
re-entered his carriage and suroundeo