The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-19

Will never have the chance.
Our country is governed and under eX-
listing circumstances can only be governed
under the party system, and that should
mean and will mean when we have a suf-
icient number Of people who take the
point of view that Judge Dickinson takes,
there VIII be a frank and manly opposition
of party. TO party. of party man to party
man. combined with an equally frank re-
fusal to conduct party contest in any
such way as to give good Americans cause
for regret when compared with what is
said after election. [Applausel.
The frankest opposition to given man
policy not only can be, but almost always
should be. combined with the frankest
recognition of the infinitely greater num-
Der Of points of agreement than of the
points Of difference, and / have accepted
your kind and generous invitation to come
before you this evening, because the long
er l am In political life the more firmly
am convinced that the great bulk Of ques-
lions before us as people are questions
which we can best decide not from the
standpoint Of republcanism or democracy.
Of the average American citizen, whether
republican or democrat. loud applausel,
Differences Should Go.
There are foreign questions and there
are domestic questions. Our political lines
of difference should. and in the great ma
Jority of cases do. disappear at the wa
ter's edge, and when l had to choose a
man to represent to peculiar degree the
interests Of this government In one Of the
most important foreign negotiations OF
recent years, that concerning the Alaska
boundary, l chose the best lawyer one OF
the ablest public men. and one Of the most
fairminded patriots that could be found in
the country; and the fact that he was OF
opposite political faith did not interfere
with Judge Dickinson doing that work
well. Applause
That was a question that concerned tho
United States. all of the United States.
Ion ~, ~, nci
inston and l think. Col. Leads, you will
agree with me. are questions that go much
deeper than party. are questions that at
feet the whole country. and the. man
would indeed be unfit for the position OF
president who did not feel that while he
held that office he held It in the most
emphatic sense the representative of
all the people. Applause
Having drawn an Illinois citizen, at least
one by adoption for one bit Of work. let
me speak Of something that has happened
more recently. One Of the works Uncle
Sam has on hand just at present is digging
the Panama canal-and 1t Is going to be
dug. [Cheers and cries Of Good. Good'l
1t Is going to be dug honestly and as
hut with the efficiency first. Laughter
and applause.]
Bouquet for Illinois.
I wanted congress to give me power to
remodel the commission. 1t did not do 1t.
remodelled 1t anyhow laughter and ap-
plause], purely in the exercise of my exec
utive functions [laughter], and made up
my mind this time that l was not going
to make the slightest effort to represent
different sections of the country on that
canal; | was going to try to have the
whole country represented and put the
best man could get In any given position
without the slightest regard to where he
came from. And while 1t was an accident,
dent, that the two most important posi-
lions were filled from Illinois laughter
and applause]-Shonts and Wallace. from
Illinois.
Now, gentlemen, those are external
questions as regards which the interest of
the whole country and not the interest of
any party or section of the country must
be considered, and humbly considered by
the president It Is just as true of certain
of cur great international policies. Some
Of those present will differ from part OF
what ] am about to say, | believe. how,
ever, that sooner or later 1t will be found
that the great bulk Of our people agree
with what am about to say.
Most Vital Question.
Among the most vital questions that
have come up for solution because of the
extraordinary industrial development OF
this country. as of all the modern world
are the questions of capital and labor and
questions resulting from the effect upon
the public Of the organiza ton into great
masses of both capital and labor. believe
thoroughly in each kind Of organization
ganization does what Is wrong the in.
crease in its power for efficiency that has
resulted from the combination means the
increase in it's power to do harm. and that
therefore, corporation--tha is, organized
capital, and union Chat is organized la Dor.
must alike be held to a peculiar rcspon
sbilty to the public at large, and thai
from each will have the right to demand
not only obedience to the law, but service
to the public. [Applause.l
Now. observe there are two sides t.
what l have said, and we are very apt t.
hear only insistence upon one side; some
times the insstence upon this side. some
times the insstence upon that. but not "a
often as we should insist upon both side
I will take up first the question of or
ganzed capital. When this nation wa
created such thing as modern corpor
great modern corporations engaged in in
terstate commerce. A century ago tn
highways of commerce were exactly sucl
as they had been from the days of tn
dawn Of civilZatio on the banks OF tn
Nile and in Mesopotamia. All that coui'
be done by waterways and by four-wheele
developed to a very marked degree. bu
sails. oars. wheeled vehicles and beasts 0
burden We're as they had been for man.
thousands of years, the only means o
div1duals or corporations engaged in com
merce could act. Under such crcum
stances the fathers and founders Of thi
republic could not foresee and therefor
day. We now have the great highways o
commerce of an entirely different kind tn
waterway: the road for wheel vehicles
have sunk into insignifcance compare
with the railroad, and we therefore, hav
for the first time In history a highway
| a highway for the commerce of all the pco
pie under the control Of a private indi
vidual or private corporation.
Good Men Needed.
| Now, gentlemen, let me in the first plac
ever before us that the men who hav
built up the railway in this country, lk
the 9th ct men VINO have built up the grea
| industries of this country, have. as rule
| there are exceptions. but have as a rule
made their fortunes as incidents to bene
| filing, and not to harmng the country A
a rule benefit not harm has come from
their efforts, and In making fortunes 70
U.S. We have been benefited by the ALI
ance of great captains OF industry w
cannot afford to do damage to those me
or to those corporations in the first plac
| because we cannot afford to do injury t
any man. rich or poor
! The courts will retain and would retair
no natter what the legislature did tn
power to interfere and upset any actio
that was confscatory in its nature. I al
well aware that to give this power mean
the possibility that the power may b
abused. That is true of the power of tax
alton. Nevertheless the power must eXis
Now, for the other side of the question
| There have been a great many republic.
and time and again those republics hav
split upon the rock of disaster. The Rrea
and most dangerous rock in the course {
any republic. the rock Of class hatred.
meant disaster and ultimately the downfa
| of the republic.
No true patriot wiz fail to do everythin
| in his power to prevent the growth of q n