The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

Our duty is to prevent confiagration by
stopping the manufacture OF inf1ammabfe
Is good citizenship. even at the sacrifice N
party affliation. Will you do your share.
and will do mine?
Let us here dedicate ourselves IN the
republics upbuilding, to the reconstruct
tion OF party and of national policy on
broader and bigger plans. Let us de-
mand leadership consecrated to the pub
lie veal by the strong and simple ties 81
common honesty. equality and manhood.
Let us consecrate our efforts f6Tsuphoic
the majesty OF the law by enforcing its
observance upon the most powerful as
upon the humble. Political parties will
survive, but let it be a survival of tile
natt natest- l care not for the name of the
khe rights OF the people.
World Power in Many Ways
Politically the name OF America is a
world power-the power OF justice. equal
lty and freedom. Industrially America In
a world power-with manufactures and
agriculture greater than those of any
other two nations, and supplying food and
machines to all peoples Commercially the
United States is world powerfully an
internal commerce developed under free
dom OF trade between the states to a
volume many times greater than the for
elgn commerce OF all nations. At this
nour we stand in possession of the gate
ways to the great trade of the Pacific
ocean. which in half century NAV rival
that of the Atlantic The construction of
control of the trade channel between Eu-
rope and Asia. For commercial expansion
North and South We have the dominion
at our Northern doors and South and Cen
trail America at the mouth OF the Mis-
sissippi. The commercial federation of
America is our opportunity and duty The
able regulator of transcontinental railroad
rates. The chief engineer of the eoyern-
ment war department estimates that the
500" canal and lake Transportation save
the ChiDnnrc America S9O
annum as compared with rail rates What
then may be the effect OF the Panama
lantic and Pacific seaboards?
The world is undergoing transformation.
In the far East there are SOC. 600 600 peo-
pie waking from centuries OF Iethargy to
become a world power. On the steDpes
OF Russia the toiling millions are rising
with dreams of constitutional liberty. In
America the patriotism and intelligence
OF the greatest people on earth demand
the divorce OF government from plutoc-
racy and paternafism. The pessimist finds
much in the present situation on which to
base his lack OF faith in our Institutions.
but the conditions which afford him op-
portunity for exultation will be dissipated
by future events. The turn of the on
timist is near at hand. The tempest is
spent their force the troubled waters will
again be smooth. Ours Is a new country.
Our West has been created within the
memory of men still living. Our develop
ment knows no parallel in history Out of
the present industrial and political chaos
will come order. The yeomanry of the
land struck for liberty at Bunker Hfll
They brought the ship of state through
the awful night of civil war They are
responding to a new call of duty and
through them will come the reclamation
and regeneration of the nation. IL will
not come from the extremist who does
not believe in government-it will not
come from the theorist who believes COM
mercial progress is wrong-it will not
come from those who deny the property
rights of others-but il will come through
the sober common sense OF those tOiierS
who create the wealth so essential to our
prosperity as nation and as individuals.
IL Will come, not through excitement.
the true conditions and fearless deter
mination TO arrive at what is best for all
the people. The true grandeur of the
nation will assert itself; if not today then
tomorrow. An enlightened and quickened
conscience has issued the American doc
trine-equal rights to all; special priv
ileges to none.
Competition or Socialism .
The topic chosen by Gov. Cummins
was Competition or Socialism,
Which," He said the competitive fac
tor was the most fundamental force in
civil life. He declared that rebates.
overcapitalization and related evils
had served to wipe out competition
and that the end would be either. gov
ernment control or the enactment of
laws that would fix prices and rates.
He also spoke in favor of federal su-
perVision of railroad rates, saying that
this principle has been recognized
one ever since the foundation of the
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