Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-05

re thu Senate and House of Representa-
tive: We stu continue IN period Of
81 ~ creature of law, but Undoubtedly
- ~ under which We work have beer
IN srebIlng ind me he p G9na.ie ions
Atian it would be easy enough to destroy
11sfe will undoubtedly be periods Of
&c VAi advance This nation is seated on
n continent hanked by two great oceans
n 10 composed of men the descendants of
salvas; Of men winnowed out from among
DE nations Of the OLD world by the energy,
RS.sness end love Of aeS gent a9nMd IN
HlAsae. will surely wrest success from for
| rs people we have played large part
bur kuture even larger than the past. In
saf Sseas q h hat last tof -four woe os
MI eur s aS us a b M ereaty
which bH5 se1 a ss
l1re q great success must come. Even II
Re wo1id. we cannot play small part.
W.uM se that we, We should no Play a large part
fgnobly and shamefully.
, But eur people, the sons Of the men of the
IRON IN their s bioaa rejoice In the present. a
and face the future high Of heart and reso-
lutte Of VIII. Ours Is not the creed Of the
1el u hope and Of triumphant endeavor.
I'VE do. not shrink from the struggle before
US. There are many problems for us to
face at the outset of the twentieth century
grave problems abroad and still graver
at home; but we know that we can solve
That we bring to the solution the Qualities
LOT head and heart which were shown by the
men : who ', s;,i in the days Of Washington
of Lincoln. preserved 1t.
Causes of Prosperity.
No
plane of material well-being than ours
at the present moment This weli-being
Is due to no sudden or accidental causes,
"a this country for over century; to
our laws, our sustained and continuous
policies; above all, to the high individ-
fortunes have been won by those who
have taken the lead in this phenomenal
Industrial development. and most Of these
evil, but as an incident to action which
has benefited the community as q whole.
, Never before has material well-being
pie. Great fortunes have been accum-
ulated, and yet in. the aggregate these
= are are small indeed ed when
whole. The plain people are better off
than they have eyer been before. The
ticaiiy mutual benefit societiesaespenc &c
~ helpful to men of moderate means
represent accum1lations Of capital which
"
There are more deposits in the savings
banks. more owners Of farms. more we'll
paid wage workers in this country now
than ever before in ourhistory. OF course.
when. the conditions have favored the
growth of SO much that was good, they
have also favored somewhat the growth
Of what was evil. It is eminently neces-
Sary that we should endeavor to cut out
Ahia evil. but let US. keep due sense Of
proportion: let us not in fixing our gaze
upon the lesser evil forget the greater
good. The evils are real and some of
outerowth, not of misery or decadence.
but Of prosperity-.of the progress Of our
gigantic industrial development. This
Industrial development must not he
checked. but side by side with 1t should
go such progressive regulation as will
diminish the evils. We should fail in
our duty II we did not try to remedy the
evils, but we shall succeed only if we
proceed patiently, with practical common
sense as well as resolution. separating
the good from the bad and holding on to
the former while endeavering to get rid
OF the latter.