The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-10-11
A THOUGHTFUL TALK.
THEIR NEW CAPITOL DEDICATED
Cost of Construction and Interior De-
coration was sls.Uoo. 900. Building
Covers Two Acres. Has 4sl Rooms
and More Floor Space Than Nation
al Capitol.

al Capitol.
Harrisburg, Pa. Speeial.-The new
capitol dedicated j. one OF The most
beautiful and imposing buildings IN
the United States, not only III archi-
tecure but In interior decorations and
furnishings. Thus far the building
and furnishings represent the eSpen-
diture Of $l3.O00.0O0. The building
is Roman-Corinthian in general de-
sign, faced with Barre granite. IL
covers trihe more than two acres
and consists OF main building and
two wings, the total length being
525. and breadth pa feet, surmounted
with dome rising o92 feet above the
first floor. The most striking feature
Of the exterior is the employment of
80 great granite monoliths, each
weighing 81 tons The building con-
tains 4Sl rooms occupied by all the
departments of the State government.
including the supreme and superior
courts. 1t contains more floor space
than that of the Capitol at Washing
ton. and more than that of the capital
at Albany. The $9,000,GO0 spent III
furnishing the building have been
made the campaign issue by tie fusion
candidates who are opposed to the Re
publican candidates.
The Presidents 8 Speech.
The principal speech at the dedi
cation Of the new State capitol was
delivered by President Roosevelt. The
President felicitated Pennsylvania up
Oh the fine progress she has made and
the great men she has produced. At
ter speaking at some length upon the
powers and duties of the State he APP
piled himself for while TO more gen
eral matters affecting the nation at
large. Among other things the Pres
ident said:
do not come here to speak only
Of the past, and still less to appeal
merely to State pride. We can show
that the past is with us living
force only by the way in which We
handle ourselves in the present, and
each of us can best show his de-
votion to his own State by making
evident his paramount devotion to
that Union which includes all the
States. The study of the great deeds
of the past is Of chief avail in so
far as it incites us to grapple reso-
iutcly and effectively with the prob
lens Of the present. We are not
now menaeed by foreign war. Our
Union is firmly established. But each
generation has its special and serious
difficulties; and we of this genera
tion have to struggle with evils spring
ing from the very material success
for which we are so proud, from the
very growth and prosperity Of which
with justice we boast. The extraor-
d;nary industrial changes of the last
half century have produced totally
new set of conditions, under which
new evils flourish; and for these new
evils new remedies must be devised.
Some of these evils can be grap-
pied with by private effort only; for
/ We never can afford TO forget that in
| the last analysis the chief factor in
personal success, and indeed in nat
ional greatness. must be the sturdy.
self-reliant character Of the indivi-
dual citizen. But many of these
evils are of such nature that no
| private effort can avail against them.
These evils, therefore, must be grap-
| pied with by governmental action. In
some cases this governmental action
must be exercised by the several
States individually. In yet others
it has become increasingly evident
that no efficient State action is pos
sible, and what we need through exc,
cutive action, through legislation, and
through judicial Interpretation and
construction Of law. to increase the
| power of the federal government.
After showing what has been done
in the past few years to help along
the advancement Of the nation he
| said:
| We have actually accomplished
much. But We have not accomplished
all, nor anything like all. that we feel
must be accomplished. We shall not
halt; we shall steadily follow the path
we have marked out, executing the
laws we have succeeded in putting
upon the statute books with absolute
iEpartiality as between man and man,
and unresting in our endeavor to
strengthen and supplement these by
further laws which shall enable us in
more efficient and more summary
fashion to achieve the ends we have
in view.
In closing his speech President
Roosevelt said:
1t behooves Ls Americans to look
ahead and plan out the right kind
Of civilization as that which we in
tend to develop from these wonderful
new conditions of vast industrial
growth. 1t must not be, it shall not
be, the civilization Of mere plutoc-
racy. a banking house, Wall Street
syndicate civilization; nor yet can
there be submission to class hatred, to
raneor, brutality and mob violence, for
that would mean the end of all civili-