The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-14

other important provision is one which
does NOT remedy any existing evil. but
liable injury to the wnole country
~! Mr III Eresldent the press Of the coun-
son and 0ut VI seas0n, insisted that all
OF our transportation evils and I'LL of
portation ofrenses are awaiting only
this panacea of Interstate Commerce.
Commission rate-nlaklnga power in
the people are being s' aeceived. and an fn as
they II ~ yiil awaken SOON 70 g realization
zatton OF the fact that rates which
nave 5sIIay and in
even higher; that rates which heretos
adapt themselves to the commerciai
and Industrial exigencies Of the coun.
try will hereafter become rigid and
a iss tossand n.e of tt e
Independent. viii n the future become
OF the great seaboard towns of tie
country; and tnat the competition
soma p aas zee as
after ne dormant. They win awaken,
real Tor e The utter ans abso, the
complacency OF ali the great trusts in
t na,,ss country ~ which are the prime
and 81 housand o.hsr %renss as sYlls
the , public; and, Mr. President, there
WILL be so some reaction. IN my opinion.
slightest degree affected.
1t y impossible 70 properly consider
offenses in railroad rate making With
out gu inyestigating the causes which lead
invite them, but in very many in
stances. force them upon unfolding
Mr.. President. Industrial and COM
mercial America of today is not the
i thi1iw Raa or eommereial America Of
to conditions of thirty years ago have
absolutely no potency when applied to
fhs sSe saons Of today and M
reailsaslon as to Where our rS in a rn.i
stop temporlzing and avoiding the real
though he may be in seemingly Inn.
he for the people and for Congress.
We may as we'll understand now where
YEA, we are s, at and what we are up against:
evils which how from these changed d
M Presid let us ap ri that ares9
in the. worlds history. whenever the
critical, time has arisen which was TO
heterMine the survival Of the fittest
whether In PHYSICAL political. or in
dustrial evolution. the memorable law
of nature has never given but one al
Tentative Or adaptation. Destroy the
opposing conditions or submit and
adapt yourself to them. That is as
much the law today as 1t hps been any
time in the history Of tht world.
There is a most extreme nervous ten
sion over this whole country and over
the world at large which Is ominous. q
hysteria; II We can take the press as
little Disqualification that. grows out Of
rate making or the complaints that are
made by shippers. 1t has a broader
and a wider Significance. than that.
These are only evidences of this world
wide restlessness. 1t can only be COM
pared, 1t seems to me, with that tense
strain Of public sentiment In this coun-
try which followed the election of Mr..
Lincoln and continued up to the very
beginning OF the civil war.
What is this crisis? 1t is the strug-
Ism on the one hand and combination
great corporate interests and oppor-
Opportunities. These two conditions
are now coming In such sharp contact
with each other that one or the other
will ultimately be supreme. The peo-
pie are realizing which one Of these
conditions Is rapidly gaining the as-
cendancy, and, as Americans. with their