The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-23

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ment of Santo Domingo made an earnest
appeal to the Government Of the United
! States and asked that this nation out Of
the abundance Of its strength should strive
to help weaker brother
Now do not forget that that was the
| appeal. and that 1t was because of that
| appeal that we took action. There were,
| Of course, two motives that influenced U.S.
| One was the desire to help the people of
Santo Domingo for their own sakes, and
the other. and legitimate. one, was to try
to SaHto Domingo which might bring the
! United States itself into trouble. The debts
of Santo Domingo were 30 great and the
| impossihility Of paying those debts so patent
that there was threat OF imminent intcrfer-
due their citizens.
And as the only way Of guara nteeing the
collection Of those debts was to seize the
customs houses, it inevitably meant the
tain amount Of Santo Domingo territory
which would almost inevitably produce
a conflict between us and those foreign
Governments. So. In the interest OF the
peace Of the world and In the interest
of justice to Santo Domingo. we yielded
to Santo Domingo's request and have
started to try to help her 30 to carry on her
finances that she may be able to pay all that
she can OF what she justly owes In taking
that action the Government has proceeded
! upon the theory that you cannot formulate
right, individual or national, without
implicitly formulating responsibility and
obligation to go with that right.
DUTIES THAT ACCOMPANY GREATNESS.
"We say that In our own interest and In
| the interest Of the peoples Of the Western
Hemisphere. we adhere to the Monroe
Doctrine. With the PRONUNCIATION OF that
ought by right to accompany It, We
cannot say that other peoples shall not DO
| what ought to be done, unless we do IT
| ourselves. People answer that trouble
and bother will come II we do it. OF course
! II this nation does not do its duty because
tering some trouble. some bother, then let
this nation cease to claim to be great.
Il demand that the nation do its duty
accept responsibility that must go with
be great and that in daring to be great
it shows that it knows how TO do justice to
the weak no less than to exact justice from
the strong. In order to take such position
of being great nation: the one thing we
must not do is to bluff. y Is perfectly
detensibe. although l think perfectly
proper to say we will not try to be big
nation. will not try to play the part OF pig
nation, or act "a such in the world. But
the objectionable thing rs to say we Will
take all steps to act as a big nation at all
Therefore, gentlemen, see to 1t that
i the navy is built up, and kept built up. to
the highest point Of efficiency, i ask that
of peace. believe in the Monroe Doctrine;
believe in the building and maintaining
as an o,en highway for the nations OF man
kind, the Panama Canal. I had great
deal rather SEQ this country abandon the
| Monroe Doctrine and give UP all thought
| of h,,;l IN ho panama canal than 10 see II
| attempt to maintain the one and CONSTRUCT
| the other. and refuse to provide for itself
the means which can alone render Its
attitude az n nation worthy OF the respect
Of the other nations OF mankind. Keep
on building and maintaining at the highest
| point of efficiency the United States Navy.
or quit trying to be big nation. Do one
or the other.
NO GOVERNMENT ny A PIrTocRACY.
Now for our internal affairs am par
ticulary glad to speak to an audience like
this. because l do not know that shell
have the unqualified assent Of everybody
here. II address an audience merely OF
men of very small means or wage workers
| then what want to tell them. as the most
| important thing for them to learn, iss to
avoid an attitude OF rancorous envy or hos.
tility toward men OF wealth, and above all
to remember that the condition Of our so
| cial structure rests upon obedience to the
law. upon the immediate suppression OF
mob violence, mob violence In any form.
| There can be and must be no paltering with
any manifestation Of that spirit. Any at
tempt to override the law BY action OF in
dividuals or by the action OF mobs, whether
| the attempt comes in connection with labor
| difficulties or in any other way. must in the
interest OF the nation he met fearlessly at
the earliest opportunity, and the lawlessness
put down. On the other side. just as we
must never allow this government to be
changed into a government by mob, 40
we must never allow it to be changed into
a government by a plutocracy.,
ha. resulted in an altogether dispropor-
tionate reward to the man who goes into
money making as his only career. 1t is
desirable that he should have reward.
T see no way Of changing the present sys-
too too great, but think that reward alto
pether too great. Two evil results follow.
One is the result to himself, for unless
he Ia a man Of very strong character there
most inevitably comes a certain arrogance,
the rights Of others and Of breeding in
their minds an attitude Of eullen envy to-
ward men Of wealth, (which is infinitely
more damaging to the people who make
IL than any action Of the man OF wealth
could be.
SUPERVISION OF CORPORATIONS.
Another question Of which | wish to
sneak is that Of closer supervision by the
Government Of great industrial combina-
tions; for, of course, wealth at present finds
it's expression through these great indus
trial combinations. think that it has been
a great mistake to act on the theory which
has shaped most of our legislation, national
is possible to turn back the hands of the
clock, to forbid combinations and to restore
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