The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-05
PRESIDENT DECISIVE
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peace has come. Our army has receiv- ed its reward. And what was the re- ward of our army? The reward of the consciousness of duty we'll done. Our soldiers have fought, have toiled, have struggled, have rolled, so that when victory came they might turn over the government to the civil authorities.
 Victory came. To-day the procla- mation of peace and amnesty has been promulgated and at the same time our generals have been notified that the civil government is supreme in the isl- ands.
 By law we are allowed an army at maximum of a hundred thousand men, at a minimum of sixty thousand. While this war has gone on we have steadily reduced that army until now by orders promulgated it's limit is 66,OOO, and as a matter of fact we have two or three thousand fewer actually under arms That speaks well for our institutions. It speaks well for thu triumphs of the policies with which as a nation we have been Identified during the past four years, and men and women of the United States it shows how slight was the warrant for the fears expressed by those of little faith as to what would follow authorizing even the small army that was authorized.
 .'tNo body of our citizens deserves franker and more generous recognition at the hands of the country than the officers and enlisted men who wear Un- cle Sam's uniform.
 sfEtoI fhera is hOdU Of OlIr citizens which gives more disinterested ser vice with less thought of material re- ward approximately in any way to them. And now, my fellow citizens, I spoke of the task which has confronted those Of Cuba and the Philippines as being one of the tasks which this gen. eration had to face. It is only one.
 We have great problems at home to face am speaking in one of the great industrial centers not merely of Ameri- ca, but of the world. A million people stand grouped in a small radius around the spot where we now are. The growth of your cities within this radius has been one of the most striking phenom- ena of this day and here, therefore, you are brought face to face with those problems which affected our entire civ ilization at the opening of this new cen tury. The tremendous rush of our in- dustrial department which has brought in it's train so much that is good and also of necessity brought somewhat its evil, the very intensity of the progress that has been made has meant that new and infinitely difficult problems arisen which we must strive to solve as best we may.
 Under our form of government with its 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 organized bodies ol groups of private citizens and others yet through the various governmental agencies of municipal state and nation Especially great, especially difficult, are the problems caused by the growth anu concentration of government, indi- vidual, and above all great corporate fortunes. It is immensely for the inter- ests of the country that there should be such individual and corporate wealth as long as 1t is used right, and Wher not used right then it becomes seri ous menace and danger. The instru- rnents and methods with which we arc to meet these new problems must 1T many cases themselves, be new, but tht purpose lying behind the use of these methods of those instruments must, ii we are to succeed, be now as in the past, simply in accordance with the i'm rnutable laws of order of justice and O. right. We may need, and in my belief will need, new legislation conceived 1T no radical or revolutionary spirit, bu in a spirit of common sense, common honesty and resolute desire to fact facts as they are. We will need thu new legislation, but while laws are i'm portant, it is infinitely more importan that they should be administered in ac cordance with the principles that hav' marked honest administration from tn beginning of recorded history. In tn last analysis the most important de partnent of civilized government i The department of justice. Think wha 1t means.
 ..The department of justice, justic which menas that each maj rich or poor, big or small, strong o weak, shall have his rights and shal not be allowed to do wrong to his fel lows. And you, here of this city, hay right to feel proud of your represen tatiye in the cabinet, the man unde whom we can guarantee that the de partment of justice will be such in fac as well as in name.
 ssWlen it comes to practical work tn ounce of performance outweighs the to of promise. And under MT. Kno there has been very much more than a ounce of performance.
 'tOh, my, fellow countrymen, as face these infinitely difficult problem let us ever keep in mind that though W need the highest qualities of the inte lect in order to work out practice schemes for their solution, yet we nee 2. thousand times more, what count for many, many, many times as muc as intellect-we need character Chal acter, that compound of honesty an courage, and common sense will ava us more in the long run than any bri liancy on the stump or any advisin legislative means and methods. TT brilliancy is good. We need the irte lect; we need the best intellect we ca get; we need the best intelligence, b' we need more still, character. We net common sense, common honesty ar resolute courage.
 ''We need what MT. Knox has show
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