Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-03
doubt the entire stock taken by the
Bloomfield thieves. Chief Gray earned
a reward of $25 for recovering the stob
en- goods.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Fairbanks Says They Demand Protec,
ton in Use of Their Eupn+iops


Fairbanks Says They Demand Protecs
ton in Use of Their Functions.
st. Paul, Sept. THAT capital and
labor should be protected in the FREQ
ana proper exercise of their functions.
and that the violent hands of ienor-
ance and passion should not be laid
upon the business agencies through
which the United States has come to
its prestige and power, was the warn
ing of Senator Fairbanks, in his
speech yesterday at the Minnesota
state fair, Concerning the outbreaks
OF race troubles, Senator Fairbanks
held that the remedy lies in the sure
and rapid enforcement of the law.
The opening ceremonies were held
i'll the big stock tent,S and Senator
Fairbanks was the principal address.
He said in part:
Operation and co.Operation.w
"Our progress is the result of the opera.
| ton and cooperation of many interests
| through period of many years 1t is the
| result of the action of great laws of trade
which are underwritten, and we should
not lay upon the agencies through which
we have come to our present prestige and
power the violent hands of ignorance or
| passion lest we do more harm than good;
lest we create greater ills than those we
suffer. We should not hesitate to denounce
wrong. and should seek to eradicate 1t
wherever it exists. We should locate 1t
and deal with it, but we should not strike
out blindly and equally against both the
evil we would remove and the good, wa
should preserve
Demagogue Pestience.
"Ahove all things we should avoid tho
demagogue as a pestilence, and take coun.
| sci only of reason and right. There is no
wrong we have not the power to remedy
| or prevent. and that power we should ex-
ercise with wisdom and unflinching pur-
pose. We should safeguard legitimate en-
terprisc, fair competition. and capital prop.
erly employed Neither the appeal of prejs
udice nor the voice of greed should swervt
us from this purpose. 1t is as much our
imperative duty to protect capital and Ia
bor in the free and proper exercise of their
| functions as it Is to restrain and forbid
| the encroachments of wrong.
''rhcre is no more vital or wholesome
lesson to be drawn amidst these number
| less evidences of peace. these rewards of
the toll and the genius of the husbandman
and the craftsman, than that we are sur
| rounded and governed by law, which is as
! vital to us the atmosphere we breathe
| is necessary to our physical existence; VI
tiate either. and it is done at our peril. In
.
lies the only sure guaranty OF those or
DERBY conditions which are the life of trade
| and which yield to labor and capital their
surest and largest returns"
Delays Arouse Resentment.
| Referring to the sporadic cases of lynch
! ing and burning the senator said: 1.-THE
| protracted delay and the miscarriage of
/ justice arouse spirit of resentment which
| often finds its expression in the unrestrain-
ln1 VII al nnff IN law I &c, ffnI
that there should be persistent instead
of an intermittent sentiment in favor of the
prompt. orderly, and effective enforcement
OF the law. We must deal with all infrac.
tions of the law through the established
judicial tribunals, sensonably, vigorously,
and justly.
), The certainty that lawbreakcrs will hd
speedily punished will go far to deter lave
breaking. The virtue of the law lies NOT
so much within itself as in its infexible en-,
forcement While we insist that outraged
Justice shall be swiftly avenged we must
J, NOT rob the accused IF the fullest measure
of protection to which he is entitled under
the constitution and those orderly meth
DDS of procedure which are the fruits OF
the wisdom of centuries. Vengeance
should not be met with vengeance, but
should be compelled to answer in that Sc
rene tribunal whose judgments are alto
, gether just. in that forum where presides
the majesty of the law.
lone of the Snrest safeguards against
ldisordcr lies in the thorough incubation
of spirit of justice among men, For
, without there abdes with the people a
love of justice, laws arc impotent. and tho
: ministers of the law nerveless. We should
+ teach the love of justice everywhere.
No Place For Anarchy.
n ."Ihere are some in our country, who de-
spite all the splendid lessons about them,
2 have an inadequate conception of the true
: meaning of liberty. They fail to realize
D that liberty and license are not correlatiye
terms Let them he made to understand
4 that in the United States law is liberty and
: liberty is law. We have no hospitality be-
Z meath our flag for those who seek to strike
down law and order in the name of an
archy They may lay their red hands upon
the nations great and beloved magstrate
e but they cannot reach the mighty heart
8 of the republic. They but quicken the
+ love of the people for their priceless hertz
age by increasing it's cost.
''rhc deluded lawbreaker is the enemy of
$ society. So. also. is the intelligent citizen
4 who is Indifferent to the discharge of his
S civic duties. If the order respecting elect
!. or fails to secure good laws and competent
f officers to execute them because of his
: own neglect, he must stand morally re.
sponsible for many of the offenses which
disgrace society. Both the violator of the
L law and the intelligent citizen who is res
It creant TO his sacred duty must stand to,
e gether in the pillory of public condemnat
a tion."
A clay working plant will be estab-
lished at Baskerville if tests are sat-