Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-12-05
ROOSEVELT TO CONGRESS
His Annual Communication Upon Questions
of importance to the Nation.
VIEWS ON TIE TRUSTS AND TARIFF
A Lowering of Import Duties Would Not Remedy the
Evils of Monopoly Believes a Tariff Com
mission-Much That Is Good IN Labor
Unions and Corporations-Many
Needs of the Nation.

tivss: we SIN continue in period Of
the laws under which we work have been
which MADE it possible. and by unwise leg
islation it would be easy enough to destroy
depression The wave will recede; but the
tide will advance. This nation is seated on
# is composed Of men ~ the feV descendants Of
pioneers, or in sense, pioneers them
selves; of men winnowed out from among
the nations of the old world by the energy,
boldness, and love of adventure found in
their own eager hearts. Such a nation, SO
placed, will surely wrest success from for
tune.
AS people we have played large part
our even lager han he pas IN
partic1iar the events vents Of ne last four years
tRe nations. We may 1s either fail greatly
or succeed greatly: but we cannot AVOID
ure or great success must come. Even if
We would, we cannot play small part.
would be that we should play large part
ign obly and shamefully.
But our people. the sons, of the men of the
civil war, the sons of the men who had
iron in their blood, rejoice in the present
and face the future high of heart and Eeso-
weakMng and the coward; ours is the gos-
pei of hope and of triumphant enceavor
us. There are many. problems for us to
face at the outset of the twentieth century
at home; but we know that we ca solve
them and solve them well. provided only
Of head and Heart Which We're shown no by the
men who In the days OF Wa a nh s m
of Lincoln. preserved 1t.
Causes of Prosperity.
No country has ever occupied higher
plane of material well-being than ours
at the present moment. This well-being
but to the play Of the economic forces
in this country for over century; to
our laws. our sustained and DC, eont .lle;,
fortunes have been won by those who
industrial development, and most of these
fortunes have been won not by doing
evil. but as an incident to action which
has benefited the community as a whole
Never before has material well-being
pee DHen SO wtdeiy rt aim9sed am9 b our PEG
ulated. and yet in the aggregate these
fortunes are small indeed when com
whole. The plain people better off
than they have eyer been before. The
tically mutual benefit societies-especial-
ly helpful to men of moderate means
aceHmplations Of f esF 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 our history OF course,
when the conditions have favored the
growth of much that was good, they
have also favored somewhat the growth
of what was evil. 1t is eminently neceS-
this evil. but let us keep a due sense of
proportion; let not in fixing gaze
upon the lesser evil forget the greater
good. The evils real and some of
| them are menacing, but they are the
outgrowth. not of misery or decadence,
but of prosperity-of the progress of our
gigantic industrial development. This
checked. but side by side with it should
go such progressive regulation will
diminish the evils. We should fail in
our duty if did not try to remedy the
evils, but we shall succeed only if we
proceed patiently, with practical common
sense as well as resolution, separa ting
the good from the bad and holding to
the former while endeavoring to get rid
of the latter