The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-26
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get at. and when the suit is undertaken
 l. won't be compromised excepting on
 the basis that the government wins. Loud and continuous applause). Of
 course, gentlemen, no laws amount to
 anything unless they are administered
 honestly and fearlessly. You have got
 to have the administration before the
 law amounts to that (snapping his fin
 gers). l am not going to say l am
 sure of 1t. but I believe it is possible to
 frame national legislation which shall
 give Us more power than We have now,
 at any rate over corporations doing an
 interstate business. I cannot guarantee
 that because in the past it has more
 than once happened that We have got
 laws on the statute books which those
 who made them intended to mean one
 thing and when they came up to decision
 it was found that the intention had not been successfully put into effect. But believe that additional legislation can
 be had. l think we have got to make up our minds to the fact that if it
 proves on effort that we cannot under
 the constitution, as it is, give the na-
 tional administration sufficient power in
 dealings with these great corporations,
 then no matter what our reverence to
 the past may be our duty to the present and to the future will force us to see
 that more power is conferred on the na- tional administration. Loud and con- tinuous applause).
 And when the power has been con-
 ferred it will rest with the national government to administer it. At pres ent we are going to do the best we can with strawless bricks but remember they are bound to be straWless. And finally, men and women O. New Eng land, men and women of state that
 represents so much, that has always | represented so much that is highest and best in the spirit of true Americanism l ask you to remember that after all that has been done that can be done by governmental action, after you have exercised your best wisdom and exer- cised it in the most resolute and lofty spirit, after you have given all the needed power to the national govern
 ment and after that power has been ex- ercised in the wisest and most resolute 1 fashion, 1t will still mean that what has been done is not to make every | thing smooth for each man but simply 1 to give a better opportunity for each
 man to work out his own future on good terms for himself. Wise laws can do something, and we are not to be ex- cused if we fail to insist upon those
 wise laws. Honest administration of hc 1ax do | still less are we to be excused as a people if we condone or connlve at | failure to administer the laws by the 1 public servants of the people After | those laws have been enacted, after
 they have been enforced it will remain true here in this country as it has been 1 true in every country throughout his- tory, that the fundamental factor in 1 each mans success in life must be that
 mans own character. fhe total sum of | the qualities of truthfulness, earnest
 ness, energy, thrift and business abil- ] ity on his part. This state cannot car | " any one. The state cannot do as much for you as you can do for it. | Under no circumstance will it be pos sible by law to shape convictions so | that each man shall succeed. If the man has not got in him the stuff out | of which he can work success, the state | cannot supply it. What can be done ] by the state, by the nation, to make
 the conditions such that each man shall
 be able under the best circumstance.
 with everything most favorable to him, 1 to work out his fate for himself?
 If under those circumstances he fails | I am sorry for him. will help him as 1 far as possible. I will lift him up if he stumbles but I wont try to carry | him, for that is neither helping him
 nor helping me- Loud and continuous | applause).