The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-10-05
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OCCASION WAS DEDICATION OF
NEW STATE CAPITOL
Grafton Contained Tributes TO Penn
sylvania's Accomplishments in Re-
cent Achievements in Legislation
and Also Clear Cut Statement Of
the Rights Of the States and the
Government in Checking Evil
Tendencies Of the Day.


Roosevelt made a,fiying trip to Har-
risburg and York yesterday and in
each city he made a speech in rain.
At the former place the president
delivered the oration at the dedica-
ton of the beautiful new state capt-.
tol, which has just been completed
at cost of $13, 3,000,000, to take the
place of the old state house destroyed
by fire in 1897. The president spoke
in part as follows:
Il do not, however, come here today
to speak only of the past, and still
less to appeal merely to state pride.
We can show that the past is with us
a living force only by the way in.
which we handle ourselves in the
present, and each of us can best
show his devotion to his own state by
making evident his paramount devo-
ton 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-
lutely and effectively with the prob
lens of the present. We are not now
menaced by foreign war. Our union
is firmly established. But each gene
ration has it's special and serious diff
ficulties; and we of this generation
have to struggle with evils springing
from the very material success of
which we are so proud, from the very
growth and prosperity of which, with
justice, we boast. The extraordinary
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 Crap
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 ma
tional greatness, must be the sturdy,
self-reliant character of the indivi-
dual citizen. But many of these evils
are OF such a nature that no private
effort can avail against them. These
evils, therefore, must be grappled
with by governmental action. In some
cases this governmental action must
be exercised by the several states In
dividually. In yet others 1t has be-
come Increasingly evident that no eff
cient state action is possible, and that
! we need through executive action,
through legislation and through judi
cial Interpretation and construction OF
law, to increase the power of the led
eral government.
If we fail thus to increase 1t, we
show our impotence and leave our
selves at the mercy of those ingenious
4 legal advisers of the holders of vast
corporate wealth, who, in the per-
formance of what tney regard as their
duty, and to serve the ends of their
clients, invoke the law at one time
~ fer Il. rivals
and at another time strive for the
nullification of the law, in order that
4 they themselves may be left free to
work their unbridled Will on these
same rivals, or on those who labor
for them, or on the general public
In the exercise Ut their pro ofession and
in the service OF their clients these
astute lawyers strive to prevent the
# passage of efficient laws and strive
TO secure judicial determina nations q
those That pass which shall emascu,
late them. hey do not invoke thu
const tuition In order to compel ths
u due dbser arce of law alike by ricf
and poor by great and small ON thu
contrary, they are ceaselessly on thl
Fatch to- cry out that the constttu
tiOnt Is violated whenever any effor
y made 70 inyok the aid of the ma
tional government, whether for thl
the efhcient supervision Of great cor
porations. Of for eniciently securin,
obedience to such d law as the ma
tionat eight hour law ana similar 10
called labor statues .',S sss93 VI
Fhs doctrine they preach woll,
& make the cpnsti it1tO DIN merely til,
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