New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-08

last IAN, spoke yesterday at ST Fetei SilAA~-4s
Brooklyn After declaring that he was an optimist'
he said in part:
History has demonstrated that the work of Amer
lea is to renake the world and the thing ask you
cRac rs are e Sdng up for the peormahce
of this task? That America fills and colors the
versal air. is not to be doubted But what is the
character that is to WELD our greatness FOR fbe
welfare disorder of the world? -,
these things The aTor Of the soil 9 and Of the
atmosphere; of the high clear heaven, the endIess
ering mountains begetting in men an aptitude for
Ire OF 'honght ad speech nde EaTn the
worker with pure food and ample a good roof and
strength in the physical man. 1t is due TO this
and TO other causes that have hastily toncneG
already that our people have become physlcaliy
and as an entire people DO not hesitate En-, 70 ssy
and the finest promise for the future. And we
are both one and the other pree1seiy pecanse NE
because We have not let reverence for yesterday
the most notable thing in our attitude toward ili
Of What may he called our fSs that IL was
simply putting every man IN proper
II IS not 50 easy. however for us to put our
finger on what might be called our SP!l} ha ass
oee S OF for ne at least il is hard to find
and am not prepared admit that it is pure cohl-
mercalis. although comerca3lIsn is tb Tefy our our
spiritual centre of gravity is nato5d lo s o'Jr
new civilization The fools to him who can use
And one thing which / believe I discover with
great precision is that as nation we b ARE e9I md
the sensual We are suffering from the c0Il'"eioi'
with every people in the world before ourselves elves
there has always been something that mas Ge re
Teonie is 70 endure always be some one thing
which is sacred 10 the national +iT tbnE what
we mold most sacred is the ennoblng, pow feo q
work and deep down beneatn GER and gi'' saving
ideal of Righteousness. o,+o,i,- square and
intrepid and generous: he is full Of COURAGE except
where he is mere moneyhags aaI IN has made
him practically an alien 10 our temper
TOLERATTON OF VENEER
Speaking of lack of intellectual of
and our t0iera62 3r G INTO Existence in later times
literary influences that have h eIPso 1bicb have
served to dfuso error throughout the land which
have spread the germ of contaglon OF Fsa 1raS
malice and ali uncharitableness ana Wlch n9ES
made men lmpaeTC 4o any ni ME on their way to
the Office the trolley car or on the terry peal
gestfvd institution the one that affords the best
key to character. the one thaJ PES p II
tahes 0l a o and hest that is in US The chief
tine f he nress is 10 equaiizo the strain of
change and 10 prepare mems mnos lo 5;s ~.
as A natural development, and not violent preach
Of continuity. The pulpit has ceased 70 De me
place Is the press doing its work as Vel! w ilaT
kind Of me
think: at any rate. better men tllah ma IL 10
making anywhere else. + 80
make towards Of us we meet cur friends in the
street or N the marketplace, men who nave p ,
5ope eagerly for the reforms that We hope for,
and We ask them to sign a petition to the legis-
IstIlre or a protest TO the Mayor and they assure
us that their heart is with US, but their signature
or the president of their company may not IKE H.
or may make their situation insecure or may
cost them client or interfere with lhef ia
chances; and of these men one can only feel that
their pretended desire for reform is at bottom a
selves these wouId-be simultaneous servants OF
have no sympathy for envious railing at wealth.
II is neasre!eSs bessl1g Ior rs sht We nav 50
6eIiberaieI. permitted the upbuiding of dishonor
a6ie millions through corruption. greed and OPP
PRECISION. but remember that for every Rockefeller
We may admit as the .fnal ugly fact that the
9le prospeT d 81 BUT one part Of The
people knows and is eternaly vlgilant or rs m
s schqs = b nteTes+s Of he Community ana
eya net De +5 5e 70 he Wholly dsregarded or
eoatve ofcias. But professional goiiticfians are
time servers and such are generally Inoral
towards This IS something 70 be thankful Tor.
then are more tfmid and leads them to keep their
close 10 the ground
HOPE N DISCLOSURES
And We should not be Respondent because Of the
shameful disclosures OF The iast yeaI taae II as
problem, clearly stated is half solved. and these
ereat WaTe Of resenent has spread over
Continent. feeling that our confidence and g9od
with and we know that what can't reach
through the courts we can through publicity; ana
tor. is more powerful than the law, Tor i makes
the opinion that makes the law -,
% IT5 ~ ne shoulders of another and remain
there through the law of the survival of the fit
test Bur he did not add that. when the upper
man grows heavy, the under man invarlaby
throws him our owners of public utility fran
this. For sooner or later, the people come 1 70
know that whoever else PAYS the people always
IN the struggle between superiority and hunger,
in the struggle between 9yer%fefg Wea1h p SlH
standards of living hunger and aspiration Always
wn s E alc ana ASK What is the limit and what
the measure of our national selt-controL For an
that it may temporarily at least substitute bad
by worse But do not believe it, and Will not
let the hnancers for their purposes, scare me
nfo believing il Suppose the people come to be
eve, as they steadily being driven 10 believe
that after all, the State, with all men as share
holders. is good corporation as any other. and
as fl to conduct all business involving social func
ton, as a number Of smaller individual monopo-
listic corpora tons, and determine to try the
experiment of socialism. what may we expect in
expect by way Of administrator, when cannot
! get a respectable, not decent. supervision
| of the insurance companies?
MACHINERY BROKEN DOWN.
within the last twenty years our laws have been
50 changed as to take cognZance of the machinery
! of the party and make It part of the legal ma
! created POLITICAL monopoly which It has divided
between two parties that ruled by thetr bosses
/ fetal in the United States from the President to
! the constable, leaving nothing TO the people ex-
way our most fundamental nstitution-our right