The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-05-12

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Union Pacific for Chicago at : O'CLOCK
this incoming. The curtains in III,
presidents private car We're CLOSELY
drawn, and all Was quiet within. Pre-
eeding The presidents special train by
ten minute went the pilot train. and
every p~recaution Was taken TO insure
the presidents safety.
Denver. Colo. Man 1.-THE Rie
Grande train bearing the presidential
party arrived at the Union station in
this city promptly on time. $50 yes
erdaN p. m, and not a hitch occurred
II the arrangements at the station.
h entertainment of President
Roosevelt by he citizens of Denver
was a fitting conclusion Of a day OF
royal welcome as he ~journeyed through
the state of Colorado from Glenwood
Springs.
All the towns along the Denver and
Rio Grand railroad. over which the
presidential party Travelled, centered
their populations at me stations to
greet the president. and every evidence
of hearty sood will WAS seen and heard.
The crowaing event came last night
in the form of 4 banquet rendered
President Roosevelt by the Denver
chamber of at the Brown
Palace hotel. This was. perhaps, the
most sumptuous affair aver held in the
state. and the president WAS visibly
pleased by the picture that unfolded it
self as he entered the banquet hail.
Everything known to the decorators
art was called into use to embellish
the connnodious banquet hall. Tri-
eolored stHeamers n shields. iner-
spersed with pictures Of the president
framed in flags. almost hid the wall.
and on the tables American Beauty
roses added color to the scene Plotted
plants We're literally distributed
through the hall. lei ding an effective
green. The menu Was perfect.
Throughout The services of the courses
stringed instruments blended in beau
tiful melody. The banquet began at
s o'clock and continued until II o'clock,
when the president was escorted to
his private car Rocket. WHERE he all
most immediately retired to await his
departure for Chicago at ! O'Clock in
the morning.
The Banquet.
Promptly Mt $50 o'clock the last
course OF the elaborate menu was fin
shed and President James S. Temple.
OF the chamber of commerce, called
the guests to order ana introduced
Chief Justice William H. Gabbert, who
acted rs postmaster. In a bri"f speech
Judge Gabbert introduced the presi-
dent. who arose amid cheers and APP
plause. He responded TO the toast,
II ne NallOn.
lie was followed bv Gov. Jesse Nc
Donald. who spoke OF The State" and
Mayor Robert w s;peer. who respond
ed to the toast The City"
The president devoted q large por-
ton of his speech to the question of
governmental supervision of railroads.
After leading up to the subject of their
great growth and power and possible
abuses, lie said:
The Precedent OF Rates.
LAS with everything else mundane.
you get that supervisory and reg
ulatory power on iehalf of the nation
You viii not have cured all the evils
that existed and o will not equal
the expectations of the amiable but ill
regulated enthusiast VINO kinks that
YOU will nave crushed ali those evils.
A measure of good will come. Some
good will be done. some injustice will
have been prevented. hut we shall be
a long way from the millennium. Get
that fact clear in Your minds or YOU
will he laying up for yourselves a store
of incalculable disappointment in the
future. That is the first thing.
Nov, the second and the more inn
portant:
When you give n nation the power.
remember that harm and not good will
come from the giving unless you give
1t with he firm determination not only
to get justice for yourselves. but to do
justice to others: that You will be as
Jealous to do justice to tho railroads
as to exact justice from them. We
cannot afford in any shape or way in
this ountrN to encourage a feeling
which would do injustice to a man of
property any more than we would sub
NIT to injustice from a man of prom
ertN. Whether the man owns the big
gest railroad or the creates outside
CORPORATION in the land and whether he
makes each DAYS bread by the sweat
of that DAYS toll. he is entitled to ius-
tice and fair dealing. no more and no
less. A spirit of envy on the part
of those less We'll off against the het-
ter off is rs bad and no worse than
q spirit of arrogant disreeard for the
rights of the mar Of small means on
the part of the man of large means.
The and the envy are NOT
two different qualities: they are the
same quality. shown by men under
circumstances.
Exact Justice Wanted.
We must make up CUR minds that moth
Ing but harm will come from anv scheme
to exercise such supervision as that | ad-
vocate over corporations. and especially
the common carriers. unless we have il
clearly fixed in our minds that the scheme
is 20 be one of substantial justice alike
to the common carrier and to the public.
If 1 have the appointment or retention of
any commission and power to administer
a law of such increased powers I shall
neither appoint nor retain the man who
would fail to do justice to the railroad
any more than | would appoint or retain
the man who would fail to exact Justice
from the railroad. want that under
stood as a preliminary. that is, if / have
the appointment of sny of those men or
their retention they will give a square
deal all around or else their service will
he cut short. With that as preliminary. /
wish to urge with all the earnestness
possess not only upon the public hut apon
those interested IN the great railroad cor
porations. the absolute need of acquies-
ceEce in the enactment of such a law.
AS has been well set forth by the attor-
ney general. Mr.. Moody. in his recent mas
terly argument presented to the committee
of the senate which is investigating the
the legislators have the right.
as | believe. the duty. of comforting
those powers upon some executive body. 1t
cannot confer them upon any court. nor
can it take away the courts power to in
if the law is administered in a
way that amounts to confiscation of prop
erty. OF course it would be possible 10
much short of such confiscation and
yet do great damage perhaps irreparable
.Aan'age. to the great corporations engaged
In interstate commerce.
Benefits to the Public.
We must remember always that most of
men who re rpSponsih]r for tho man.