The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-05
PRESIDENT DEFENDS ]
 FOREIGN POLICIES
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<NO0utnuG0 II0tA &0Bo ~k to face with those problems which affect ed our entire civilization at the opening of this new century. The tremendous rush of our industrial development which has brought in it's train. 90 much that Is good and also of necessity brought some what it's evil, the very intensity of tho progress that has been made has meant that new and infinitely difficult problems have arisen which we must strive to solve as best we may.
 Under our form of government. with it's great decentralization of power. some of those problems must be solved through the work of private individuals working by themselves; others by the association into bodies of groups of private citizens and others yet through the various gov ernmental agencies of municipal, State and nation. Especially great. especially difficult are the problems. By the growth and concentration of great individual and above all. great corporate fortunes, lt Is immensely for the interests of the country that there should be such in- dividual and corporate wealth as Ions as it is used right. and when not used right, then 1t becomes a serious menace and danger. tApplause.)
 .aThe instruments and methods with which we are to meet these new prob' lems must In many cases, themselves, ne new, but the 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 ini- mutable laws of order. of justice and of right. We may need, and in my belief, will need, new legisIati conceived in no radical or revolutionary spirit. but in spirit of common sense. common honesty and a resolute desire to face facts as they are political. (Applause.) We will need new legislation but while laws are important, it Is infinitely important that they should be administered in accord- ance with the principles that have marked honest administration from the beginning In the recorded history. (Applause.)
 "In the last analysis the most impor- tant department of civilized government is the Department of Justice. Think what 1t means. The Department or Justice-justice that means that eacn man, rich or poor, strong or weak. shall save his rights and shall not be allowed to do wrong to his fellows. (Applause)
 Praise for MT. Knox.
 And you, here of this city, have 2 right to feel proud of your representative in the cabinet, the man under whom we
 
 Justice will be such in fact as well as In name (Applause and cries of "Knox Knox.") When it comes to pcractice the ounce of performance outweighs the ton of promise. (Applause.) And under Mr. Knox there has been very much more than an ounce of performance. tAp-
 "oh, my fellow countrymen. as we face these infinitely difficult problems let us ever keep in mind that thought 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 intellect-we need character (cries of ''that is it' and ap- plause.) Character, that compound of honesty and courage and common sense, will avail us more in the long run than any brilliancy on the stump or any ad- vising legislative means and methods. The briliiancy is good. We need the in- teilect, we need the best intellect we can get; we need the best intelligence, but we need more still, character. We need commonf sense, common honesty and resolute courage. tAppIause.) We need what Mir. Knox has shown--the character that will refuse to be hurried into any unwise or precipitate movement by any clamor, whether hysterical or demagogic, and on the other hand, the character that will refuse to bs frightened out of the movement which thinks 1t right to un- dertake, by any pressure. still less by any threat. expressed or implicit 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 well each h.fk solution. Much can be done along the lines of supervision and regulation of tho great industrial combinations which have become so marked feature in our civil izatiOn, but If we recklessly try without proper thought, without proper caution, to do too much we shall do nothing or else we shall work a ruin that will be felt most acutsIy among those of other citizens who arc most helpless. It Is no easy task t0 deal with great industrial tendencies. To deal with them in spif- 1t of presumptious and rash folly, and above all to deal with them in spirit of envy and hatred and malice would be to invite disaster, and the disaster would be so widespread that this country would rock to its foundations.
 Can Regulate and Control.
 ''The Mississippi sometimes causes im- mense damage by flood. If you cannot dam 1t and stop the floods, you can reg ulate and control them by levees. You can regulate and control the current; you can eliminate it's destructive fea- lures, but you can do it only by study ing what 8 current is and what your own powers are. It is just exactly so in dealing with the tendencies of our in- dustrial civilization. We cannot tur1 back the wheels of progress. If we could 1t would mean tho absolute destruction of just such industrial centers as this. We will either do nothing or we will do damage if we strive ignorantly to achieve the impossible. But that fact does not excuse us for failure to strive to do what is possible.
 Special legislation Is needed. Some of that legislation must come through nnuni' cipalities, some through States, some through the national government, but above and beyond all legislation, we need honest and fearless administration of thu laws as they are on the statute books Honest and fearless administration oi those laws In the interest neither of thu rich man as such, nor of the poor mar as such, but in the interest of exact and equal justice to all alike, and such ad Tninistration you will surely have whil' MT. Knox remains as Attorney Genera in the cabinet at Washington" (Ap' plause.)
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