The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-10
LARGE FORTUNES
ARE NOT AN EVIL
BISHOP IRELAND SCORES THE
RADICAL WoULD.BE REFORM
ERS IN SPEECH.
DANGER IN OWNERSHIP
Either By City or Nation is Point ed
Out-Men Not Equal in Matter
OF PoWer--Denounces Vo-
lent Unonisn.

Council Bluffs, Ia, Nov. 9.-The So,
ciety of the Army Of Tennessee re-
elected General Dodge president.
| Among the vice presidents are: Cap
tain Joseph r. Reed, of Iowa; Gen
! eraI Lewis b Parsons Of Illinois;
| General j. r. Kinney, Of Illinois; Cap.
tain T. N. Stevens. of Michigan; Colo
mel w. b. Keeler, of Illinois, and Cap
| tain w. Fracker, of Iowa recording
! secretary, Colonel Cornelius Cadle;
corresponding secretary, Major w. II,
Chamberlain; treasurer Major A. NJ.
| VanDyke.
The closing event was banquet.
The toast First President" was re-
sponded to by a Letter from President
Roo. evelt The speakers were Arch
bishop LELAND, Mrs John A. Logan,
Rev. r. Z. Sherman, Private Thomas
C. Richmond, Judge Smith Mcpherson
| and General J. H. Stebbs,
The most notable speech was that
Of Archbis hop Ireland in response to
toast our Country" After paying a
! glowing tribute 10 the wonderful
growth in all that makes for great
ness in nation and to the patriotism
of the people and especially of veter.
ans of the Civil war, the archbishop
said:
Scores Violent Unionism.
"That all is perfect in the present
conditions we must not assert but we
must assert that nothing should be
done. subyersive of public order, de,
structiye of spirit of the country and
it, institutions. Wild anarchists and
would d-be-assassins are public enemies
of public societies. To tolerate with
them is to tolerate with open sedition
An enemy Of public order is the work
ingman. who, refusing his own labor,
| deters by violence his brother work
man from offering his labor. This is,
even in a greater and stronger degree.
| the strong and powerful who override
the law of the land in carrying out
schemes of their ambition.
Private property and the right OF
every one to own and,dispose of the
! fruits of brain and hand m1lsL, be re
garded as sacred and inviolable. 1t is
| the cornerstone of social structure, to
destroy it or weaken it, you arrest
ambition and effort, you give room to
carelessness of the morrow. to in
dolence and illness; you establish bar
( barism. Barbarism is that state Of
| society where men, having nothing
which is the exclusive possession of
any prey upon the strength and labor
| of others.
/ All Men Not Equal He Says.
That in holding private property
there will be inequality is a fact that
/ is inevitable. Men are not and never
will he equal in power that builds up
property in sacrifice of self in the
! economy thai preserve and increase it.
/ Preaching utopianism as a remedy of
/ this inequality, proposal of schemes
| that ignore the nature of men and
vital conditions of human society are
an insult. no less than an injury to
1.-THE individual whom they fain would
/ beguile.
Sees Danger in Ownership Plan.
"A chief panacea put before us is
common ownership, through city,
state or nation of productivity and
Of transportation hither and thither
/ of results of this productivity. Let us
/ he on our guard, common ownership
] in one direction leads D. common
ownership in another. all the more o
when the purpose really held in mind
/ by the many is to grasp wealth with
on. personal effort to make mp for
ones deficiency by despoiing others. .
Large fortunes, legally obtained,
the speaker declared. are not neces-
sarily an evil. They are necessary TO
marvellous growth and characteristic
of American life. they must not. how
ever. be allowed to violate law or op
press the weak.