The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-07-10

of the world, but in the lines of in
dustry and commerce. Associated cap
ital, he said, was absolutely neces
sary to further the great enterprises
Of this country and when used in the
right direction the country will be
benefited, but not so with the cor
porations. He said that Of recent
years a series of. corporations ha We
been organized that were not for
the purpose Of aiding in the econ
omy of the cost of production, but
were organized for two supreme and
dominant purposes the first Of which
was for the sole idea of making
money out of the act of corsolida-
tion and association, and secondly to
destroy that priceless boon of the
American citiZen-competition. He
declared that 1T was an illegitimate
act to organize a corporation to
manufacture steel rails when it is
done to put. their stock on the
market to gull the people Of the
country, when the only object cam
not be, otherwise than to sstif COM
petition. Any act that Will tend to
suppress the liberty Of the people
ought toEbe driven out, and why?
What course will you rely upon for
making prices if competition is over
come. There is one voice that has
held US together and that IS govern
ment. Whenever you are willing to
surrender that then we must accept
socialism. We are so much in love
with prosperity that we are afraid
to question things. Whenever COM
petition is driven, either potential
or actual, then we come again to
socialism. Continuing along the
line the governor declared that the
government should never fix the
price of any ordinary industrial COM
modify. He declared that a crime
had been committed by the over cap
italization Of these corporations, and
he held that it had not been for the
assistance of the bankers of the east
in tiding over the periods of depres-
sion among the corporations by loan
ing the deposits of the people on
the securitis that they never could
have withstood the storm that
closed round about them.
Referring to the situation in Iowa
the governor said that perhaps it
had drifted I'VE tie line into this
state that he was not a stand-patter
in anything whatsoever. He said
he believed that while the past is
filled with glorious achievements Of
the country, yet he felt that the
future held eve more glorious
things, and that he was constantly
after something better. He declared
he was not in any quarrel with that
maxim which has been heralded
across the sky to ''let well enough
alone" He declared that nothing
was ever good enough and that pro-
gressiontwas not a thing to stand
idly by.
Touching on the manhood of today
the governor said that there had been
too much of the individual training
toward efficiency, and while we
needed the artisean. the lawyer,
doctor, ETC., we need a training in
the moral sentiment of the people
which hold the threads of society,
we need to know and take care Of
each other. The sacred and divine
teaching, 81 am my brothers keep
err is not as prominent in the life
today as it should be. It is fright
fully realistic as we come to think Of
the $4,000, 900 people in this country,
Of how we car MAINTAIN order among
them, how we a give him the
freedom that God gave him at birth.
What we need is the man who will
be true to the fundamental laws,
not the laws that are enacted by
legislatures which are so small that
they will never bind, but the un-
written laws which apply between
fellow citizens. .
The governor paid a handsome
tribute to the old soldier in language
as highly eulogistic Of the deeds he
had accomplished for the preserva-
tion OF the United States of Amer
lea, the destiny Of which was to
lead in the line Of nations to the
highest point and clothed in the
brightest garb it will ever wear.
At the conclusion Of the.governor's
address many in the audience went
forward to be pr~esented..to him.and
extend congratulations on the mag
nicfient address he had given them.
When governor Cummins had fin
ished speaking Mr.. H. P. Beckwith,
formerly of this city, but now of Elk
Point, sang a baritone solo, that