The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-21
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
 IS CHEERED BY GEORGIANS

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 this state of things are the people oi the islands themselves.
 Fair Treatment Necessary.
 It is impossible too strongly to in l sist upon what ought. to be the paten
 he af peop. s Sf of 0ns %esth tn
 but in our interest, in the interest o the public as a whole. that they shoult
 sac~ eseep,ons ses ana Sas s as
 wafd d itG'tR for that fe ability. The tissues o
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 strengthens or weakens the whole II we penalize industry we will ourselve!
 part of the penalty. If we make con, | dftfons such that the men of excep'
 tionai ability are able to secure mark
 ability, then we shall ourselves bene' it somewhat: It is our interest nc less than our duty to treat them fairly On the other hand. il. is no less theil mean the great body of the people. the men of moderate or small fortunes 1 the farmers, the wage-workers, the
 smaller business men and professional | men.
 The man of great means who achieves fortune by crooked methods does wrong to the whole body polite But he not merely does wrong to. he be- | comes a source of imminent danger to- other men of great means; for his ill., won success tends to arouse feeling famed fails to differentiate between the | men of wealth who have done decently and the men of wealth who have not done decently.
 The conscience of our people has been deeply shocked by the revelations made Of recent years IS to the way in which | some of the great fortunes have been obtained and used, and there is, l think. in the minds of the people at large a strong feeling that a serious effort must be made to put a stop to the cyni- cal dishonesty and contempt for right which rave thus been revealed. I believe that something. and hope | that good deal. can be, done by law Ts%SeS tss s ssfts ss of things tbas ps has thus been done, there will yet re- main much which the law can not touch, and which must be reached by men who do not divide actions merely into those that are honest and those that are not. out create third subdf- = kinG of honesty which consists in keep ing clear of the penftentiary.
 Wsieht of Public Indignation. i. It is hard to ach astute men Of this ty oe save by maf ing them feel the weight of an honest public indignation. But this indignation, if it is to be ef- fective. must be intelligent. It is. of nounced, rot for being dishonest, but for being wealthy, and if they are de- nouncej in terms so overstrained and their favor. We can not afford in this country to draw the distinction as be- tween rich man and poor man. The distinction upon hich we must insist Is the vital, deep-lying, unchangeable distinction between the honest man and the dishonest man, between the man who acts dect ntly and fairly by. his | s4as 0h ysd uyifh a nIliPk of his obligations, and tae man who ac- know leeges no internal law save that of his own will and appetite.
 Above all we should treat with a pe- cuiiarly ccrtemptuous abhorrence the man who in a spirit of sheer cynicism debauches either our business life. or use the phrase practical politics as merely euphemism for dirty politics, and it is such men who have brought Sers the w9rd oSsr en tS mSo ss abe noxious phrase business is business" as an excuse and justification for every kind of mean and crooked work; and hang their heads because of some of the things they do.
 It Is the duty of every honest patriot to rebuke in emphati'; fashion alike the politician who does not understand that the only kind of practical politics" which nation can with safety tolerate is that kind which we know as clean politics. and that we are as severe in our condemnation of the business trick cry which succeeds as of the business tricxery which fails. The scoundrel who fails can never by any possibility be as dangerous to the community as the scoundrel who succeeds; and of all the men in the country, the worst citizens, the most contemptuous abhorrence. are the men who have achieved great wealth, or any other form of success. in any save a clean and straightfor- ward manner.
 So much for the general subject of industrialism. Now. just a word in ref erence to one of the great staples of this country. which is peculiarly sta pie of the Southern States. Of course mean cotton. l am glad to see di- versihcations of industry in the South, the growth of agriculture and the growing growth of diversiffcstion of crops in agriculture. Nevertheless 1t will always be true that in certain of basis of the wealth, the mainstay of prosperity in the future as in 'the past.
 Cotton Source of Wealth.
 sequence to the entire country It was the cotton crop of the South that brought four hundred million dollars of foreign gold into the United States last our favor. The soil and climate of the South are such that she enjoys prac- tical mcnopoly in the production of raw sAs be accepted as d substitute for cotton. I welcome the action of the planters in forming a cotton association, and every assistance shall be given them that can be given them by the National Gcvern- ment.
 Moreover. we must not forget that the work of the manufacturers in the South supplements the work of the planter. It Is an advantage to manu- fracture the raw material here and sell to the world the finished goods Under proper methods of distribution 1t may well be doubted whether there can be such thing as overproduction of cot ton. Last years crop was nearly l4,- 100000 bales, and yet the price was suf- ficiently high to give a handsome profit cotton increases each year, and new uses are found for 1t.
 This leads me to a matter of our for eign relations. which directly concerns market for cotton is largely in China. The boycott of our goods in China dur ing the past year was especially inturi- ous to the cotton manufacturers. This Government is doing, and will con- tinue to do, all 1t can to put a stop to to be taken toward this end in which shall need the assistance of the Con gress.
 We must insist firmly on our rights; and China must beware of persisting in a cours of conduct to which we cannot honorGbly submit. But we in our turn must recognize our duties exactly as we insist upon our rights We can not go into the international court of equity unless we go in with clean hands. We unless we do China justice. The chief cause in bringing about the boycott of our goods in China was undoubtedly our attitude toward the Chinese who