The sun., 1904-12-13
PENNA. SOCIETY HONORS KNOX
Continued from First Page.

Continued from First Page.
be recognized by the Prince coming TO
her In the form Of President.
Always very truly yours.
ANDREW CARNE01K.
Then Senator Knox rose. In part he
said:
senator Knox's speech.
! My relation to this superb function i'm
poses limitation and restraint upon the
character and extent OF the response that
gratitude and appreciation Of SO great a
compliment most naturally suggest. To
be the recipient OF 80 signal an honor at the
mar ks point In ones life to which memory
must ever recur with pardonable pride.
When to the honor Of being your guest
you add kindly expression OF conmendation
OF such services a. ! have been able to
render to our country in the past, and well
burden OF obligation that no mere words
can adequately discharge. l can only say
to you, my fellow Pennsylvanians and to
you. my fellow guests thank ,t yEa ALL ..,
dence, Pennsylvania, confers a title to
o share In her greatness and glory which
her sons and daughters carry with pride
and satisfaction. Since the foundation
was the centre Of population. wealth. cult
ure and power, her people have borne
their undiininished honors and RESPONSE
bilitiee nodestly and unostentatiously
John Adams said: .Pennsylvanians were
adoption Of the Constitution was unequivocal
which Ihe added could not be said Of Massa-
ohmsetts. New York or Virginia.
To this Maclay. one Of Pennsylvania
first Senators, replied that we had, no
doubt, our faults; but certainly the virtues
OF plainness, industry and frugality would
he allowed to us in some degree; that Fed
eralism with US was general but there was
a general adherence OF the pomp and
pecially everything which bordered on
royalty
Maclay's conception OF governments
was that We should reduce the practice
OF 1t TO the principles Of common sense"
and this same Pennsylvanian's devotion
to the republican simplicity which char
acteriZes her people was manifested by
the success attending his initiative to strike
from the minutes of the first session of the
Senate a reference TO President Washing
tons address to the Congress as his most
gracious speech and his equally success
full efforts to defeat the proposal to give
the President OF the United States the title
of His Highness, His Elective Highness"
or his highness the President Of the United
States
WE SHOULD NOT DEVISE vExATIoUs LAWS.
l like the notion that the practice of
government should be reduced to the prin-
ciples Of common sense. and l honor the
Pennsylvanian whose republican simplicity
objected to the monarchical titles Of the Old
World as "contraband language in the
stands the test OF the principles OF common
sense that il can be a source Of satisfaction
to the servant. or of value to the people.
1t is automatic that "the people who are
least governed are best governed; from
which 1t follows that we should not be
IiliUapt In the Yarpisa Of iDpapllitv
to devise veSatious and unnecessary laws
to fret the people in their ordinary occupa-
tons, and, though legislation should be
fearlessly directed against that which Is
to support abstract theories of govern
ment.
The eternal principles Of common sense
are plain and easily understood. They |
find their hest expression in simple Ian |
guage. Their application reduces seem
ingly complex situations to understandable /
ones. In governments they are best Oh.
served when necessary laws are expressed ,
in plain terms. when they are interpreted |
40 that their spirit IA not destroyed by /
Juggling with the letter. and so |
that the common understanding and the !
final authoritative decisions are found to |
he in accord, and when they are executed
promptly, fearlessly and without discrimi-
nation.
sEcTIoSALIsM DECREASING.
III every ~ iiuSt
be that the interest Of one is the interest
Of all and that all stand equal before the
aw. and it Ia a promising indication Of our
endurance "a a nation that more and more
do the American people require that the
theory and practice in government shall
gree in these respects. We are more
and more thinking and acting nationally,
not sectionally and for the benefit of all
The people, n OF some of the people
Ii is far cry from the defeat Of the bill
20 locate the national capital ON the Sus-
luehanna River in Pennsylvania, which
defeat was accomplished by Pennsylvania
Senator lest the proposed improvement
of the Susouehanna interfere with the
commerce Of the Delaware, to the con-
.truction OF the canal which will join the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean for the benefit.
Upon equal terms, Of the commerce OF the
" orld.
Likewise, there IL an mmeasurable
difference between New fork's futile at
empt to grant to one person the exclusive
he perfect freedom and equality OF right
low enjoyed by all upon all the highways
II commerce fully insured and guaranteed
by the law.
1t is evident that the American people
now approach great questions. not only
With greater breadth of view, but in better
emper; that is, with more tolerance for
he other point Of view. Difficulties which
we're formerly thought to be unsolvable
ire now solved. The arbitrator is now to
large extent, doing the work OF the
,ludeeon and the lockout. and, -notwith-
standing some vicious and powerful agen-
,ies working to encourage class divisions
rue democracy of feeling and action now
han at any time in our history.
ROOSEVELT WHOLE PREsIpKSr.'
T., u 7 |