The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-31
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Presidents Address Before Union
League Club.
ADVANCED GROUND TAKEN
WHAT THE EXECUTIVE SEEKS
TO ACCOMPLISH.

nHfLADELPHIA, Jan. 20.-President
Roosevelt was the guest of honor
and principal speaker tonight at
the forty-second anniversary banquet
OF the Union League. The president
came TO this city over the Pennsylvania
road from Annapolis, where he attend
ed the exercises this afternoon incident
TO the graduation. of the senior class
of cadets. An immense throng greeted
Mr.. Roosevelt at the railroad station,
and he received an ovation on his way
TO the Union League. At the club
house he passed through two lines of
cheering members to the reception
room, where from 6.15 to O'Clock he
stood and shook hands with several
hundred prominent citizens. The First
troop, Philadelphia city cavalry. acted
as the presidents escort while he re-
NAMED in the city. When President
Roosevelt arose TO make his address he
was greeted with long-continued APP
plause- Then the enthusiastic assembly
stood and sang .tThe Star-Spangled
Banner" accompanied by the First
Regiment band, N G. p.
Presidents Address.
This club was founded to uphold the
hands Of Abraham Lincoln when he
stood as the great leader in the strug-
gle for union and liberty. We have
a right, therefore, to appeal to this
club for aid in every governmental or
social effort made along the lines
marked out by Lincoln. The great
president taught many lessons which
we. who come after him, should learn.
Among the most important of these
was the lesson that for veal or for
woe we are indissolubly bound togeth-
or, in whatever part Of the country we
live, whatever our social standing,
whatever our wealth or our poverty,
whatever form of mental or physical
activity our life work may assume.
Lincoln, who was, more emphatically
that any other president we have ever
had, the president of the plain people,
was yet as far removed as Washing
ton himself from the slightest faint of
demagOgy. With his usual farsighted
Clearness of vision he saw that in a
republic such as our permanent pros
perity of any part of our people was
conditioned upon the prosperity of all;
and that on the other hand any effort
to raise the general level of happiness
~ striking at the Well-being of pOr-
ton of the people could not but be in
the end disastrous to all.
Same Principles Apply.
THE principles which Lincoln applied
to the solution of the problems of his
day are those which we must apply if
We expect successfully to solve the
different problems of our own day
problems which are largely industrial.
EXACTLY as II II possible TO develop
high mortality unless we have as a
foundation those qualities which give
at least certain minimum of mater
iaI prosperity, so is il impossible per-
manently TO keep material prosperity
unless there is back of il a basis of
right living and right thinking. In the
last analysis, of course, the dominant
factor in obtaining this good conduct
must be the individual character of the
average citizen. If there is not this
nf Il, in,
the average citizenship of the country
all effort TO supply it's place by the
wisest legislation and administration
VIII in the end prove futile But given
this average of individual character,
then wise laws and the honest admin
istration of the laws can do much to
supplement il. Il either the business
world or the worth of la Dor loses it's
head. then il has lost something which
cannot be made good by any COVER
me ntal effort. Our faith in the future
of the republic il firm. because we be-
lieve that on the whole and i'm the long
run our peop-e think clearly and act
rightly.
Supervision Necessary.
"Unquestionably. however, the great
development Of industTialism means
that there must be an increase in the
supervision exercised by the govern
mcnt over business enterprises. This
supervision should not take the form
OF violent and ill-advised interference;
and assuredly there is danger lest it
take such form ii the business leaders
of the business community confine
themselves TO trying to thwart the eff
forts at regulation instead Of guiding
it Alright. Such men as the members
OF this club should lead in the effort to
secure proper supervision and regula-
ton OF corporate activity by the gov
eminent, not only because II is for the
interest of the community as a whole
that there should be this supervision
and regulation, but because in the long
run it viii be in the interest above all
of the very people who often betray
alarm and anger when the proposition
is fTst made
Guard Against Oppression.
Neither this people nor any other
free people will permanently tolerate
the use of the vast power conferred by