The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-30
Indiana Orator Declares for Government Control Of
a IT. Railroads. and Delivers Forceful Address with
{ss=z@ Cuban Crisis an Interesting Theme.
- ELOW will be found the full text
of the stirring address delivered
- h,, Senatnr Alhart i ReYarldpe

~ by Senator Albert J. Beveridge
last night at the Auditorium. 1t
marked the opening of the republican
campaign and those who did not hear it,
will readily understand upon reading IT.
Yhy the speech aroused the widest en-
thusiasm. He said: -.s.~s I
America. Every one of our s0,0OO,OO0
q]ories in his American citizenship, and
every one Of our SO,O00,000 would rather
be an American citizen than the cltl-
zen or subject of any other government
beneath the sun. The citizens and SUBJ
jects in every other country, next to
being a citizen, or subject in their ma
tive land would rather be an 4 American.
Immigrants pour from all other coun-
tries to the great republic. More Ger
mans leave the fatherland FOR AMERICA
than for all other countries put togeth-
1er, and twenty millions of our citizen
ship are of German descent. More
Seandinavians come to America than TO
all other countries put together, and
there are more than two-thirds more
American citizens of Scandinavian de-
and Sweden. More French, more Rus
sian and more of every nation hocksto
these shores than to all the ends Of the
earth besides. More subjects OF Great
Britain have come to America tna nan
q
onies-more than have gone to South
Africa. more than to Australia, more
than even to Canada. And these lmml-
grants are the vital, unexhausted COM
mon people of foreign lands seeking
the land of promise; -
More foreign capital chooses America
for Investments than any other portion
Of the globe. There is more English
money Invested in the United States
than in India, China and Australia;
more German money than In all the
countries of Europe; more FRENCH
money than in all the rest OF the, WorlG
put together excepting Russia only: Al
development and not for government
loans. And now we have grown go rich
that, within five years the United
States has itself become the real money
center of the world, and we are. begin,
ming to lend money to Europe instead
of Europe lending money to US: IN
commerce, finance and al mater IA !
beginning Of the Twentieth century the
first nation of the world.
And not in material wellbelng only,
hut in manhood and womanhood as
well. Luther Burbank declares that
America is beginning to produce the
highest human type IN h1st te r ASK t any
next to the British empire the Amer1-
can republic is the mightiest power
among men. Ask any German, and he
will tell you that next to the German
empire, the American republic is the
greatest of the nations. Ask French
man, and he will tell you that next It to
hope Of the world. Ask any citizen OF
subject in any foreign land what. next
to his own is not only the strongest but
the noblest Of peoples. and he will tell
Won that it is the American people. Ask
Americans and 90,00O,oO0 Of them
will answer with one voice, that it is
the land Of that true freedom where lib
erty is realized by and under equa
laws. that mighty dominion whose ma
J terial wealth and power is gloriied by
the highest human ideals, that country
whose traditions, achievements and pur
pose is typifed by the flag that float:
above 1T hat undefeated banner which
ard human rights to all beneath it,
folds.
Service of Republican Party.
s The American people have mad
+ themselves the first Of nations, tn
richest of peoples and the noblest fore
" for good in all history by the fertilit,
of their fields, the richness Of. thei
mines, their unrivaled location, thei
INCENTIVE genius. their tremendous II il;
"
high purpose, their. instinct for right
eousness- yes, by all this. but also b.
Z. making their agent for formulatin
their policies and managing their COY
eminent, the great republican party
It was the party Of Lincoln which tn
American people chose to preserve tn
nation and to secure universal liberty
American people chose to restore thei
lost prosperity at home and thej
broken prestige abroad. And today tn
American people have chosen again 8
their servant and their agent to col
duct the government and write int
laws the conscience of the nation
this historic period Of moral regener;
the party Of that ablest contemporar
statesman in the world, Theodore Roos
welt.
AS Lincoln performed the duty give
him by the American people under. Go
to perform; as Mckinley. discharged tt
duty which the American people ha
given him, under God: to perform, 4
which the American people have give
him, under God, to perform. I sa
perform under God because the dest
MES Of this American people are
rected from above; and their missile
! In the development Of the race is to a
complish the purposes for which tt
God of nations prepared this land ar
established this people,. @
The last half century has witness<
In America the greatest human advan
in all the centuries. More things ha'
been accomplished for the benefit
this nation and Of the race; more co
structive laws have been written al
enforced for the good Of this people al
all the world; more material mental al
moral progress has been made than
any other people or in any other cou
try. Human slavery was abolished al
the nation preserved; the Americ
people did that with the republic;
party as their agent and servant. FIR
homes were given to the millions; t
American people did that with the j
publican party as their agent and SCI
ant. Reputation was killed, resum
tion accomplished and the nation
honor saved. The American peoI
did that with the republican party
industrial system was devised, a hol
market created and the United Stat
made an industrial world within itse
the American people did that thru t
republican party as it's agent and sci
ant. The markets of the world were
vaded until today our foreign trade
greater than that of Great Brita
which, until yesterday, was the Fl
commercial power of the modern wor
the American people did that thru
republican party as its agent and s
want.