The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-01
Roosevelt Speaks of In
ter State Commission.
A BRYANESQUE SOUND
Calling For Exact and Equal Justice to
All the President Uses Words
That Might Have Been Bor-
rowed From One OF the
Nebraskan's Speeches.
eBy the Associated press.),

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 30.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt was the guest of honor
and principal speaker tonight at the
4gnd anniversary banquet Of the I'm
ion League. The President came to
this city over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road from Annapolis. where he at
tended the exercises this afternoon,
Incident to the graduation of the sem
Tor 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.
When President Roosevelt arose to
make his address he was greeted with
long continued applause. Then the
entire assembly stood and sang lhe
star Spangled Banner.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
President Roosevelt in his address
said:
This club was founded To upheld me
hands of Abraham Lincoln when he
stood as the great leader in the strug-
gle for union and liberty. We nave
Il right, therefore, 10 appeal 10 TINS
club for aid in every governmental or
social effort made along the lines
marked out by Lincoln. The great
President taught many lessons when
we WHO COME lllGI nun siiodid 49, -
Among the most important of these
was the lesson that for veal or for
voc we are lndissolubly bound to-
gether In whatever part of the coun-
try we live, whatever our soclal
standing. whatever our wealth or our
poverty, whatever form of mental or
physical activity our life work may
assume. Lincoln, who was, more
cmphatically Than any other Presi-
dent We have ever had. the President
Of the plain people, was yet as 1ar
removed as Washington himself from
the slightest faint of demagogy. Win
his usual farsighted clearness or VS.
len he saw in q republic such as ours
permanent prosperity OF amy part Oh
cur people was conditioned upon the
prosperity Of all; and that on the
other hand any effort TO raise the gen
e..al level of happiness by striking at
The well-being of a portion OF the peo-
pie could not but be in the end dlS-
astrous to all.
The principles which Lincoln applied
10 the solution of the problems OF ms
dav are those which we must apply IL
we expect successfully to solve the
different problems OF our own DAY.
problems which are sc largely indus-
rial xactly as it is inpossibleSto de-
velop Il high morality unless We nave
as Il foundation those qualities Whicn
give at least certain iliiilliluii "
material prosperity, so 1T IS Impossible
permanently to keep material prosper
ity unless there is back of it basis
OF right living and right thinking. III
The last ANALYSIS. of course, the coinl-
nant factor in obtaining this good con-
duct must be the individual character
cf the average citizen. If there is not
this condition of nd.Nidual character
in the average citizenship of the coun-
try all effort to supply its place by the
wisest legislation and administration
win in the end prove futile. But g ven
this average of individual character,
{hen wise laws and the honest admin
istration of the laws can do much to
supplement- It. II either the business
world or the world of labor loses It's
head, then it has lost something which
can not be made good by any govern
mental effort. Our faith in the 1u-
tlre of the Republic is firrn, because
we believe that on the whole and IN
the long run our people think clearly
and act rightly.
For Government Supervision.
Jrnauestonab bly,, however, the great
1eyelopment of induStrialisn means
that there must be an increase IN the
suDervision exercised by the govern
ment over bus ness enterprises. inns
supervision should not take the form
os violent and ill-advised interference
and assuredly there is danger lest IL
take such form if the business leaders
az the business community contine
themselves TO trying to thwart the ell
fort at regulation instead of guiding II
:rght such men as the members OF
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