The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-09-28
Address by Sc nator Beveridge .

Address by Senator Beveridge.
Senator A. j. Beverage opened the
republican congressional campaign in
the middle west by magnificent ad-
dress to thousands Of people in Chicago,
Saturday evening.
The speech of Senator Beveridge was
in part is follows
THE peoples government should do
no business that the people can do
better themselves; the peoples govern
ment should own no business that the
people can better own themselves.
But the peoples government should
control and regulate industries owned
by some of the people that ars.-so great
as to effect the welfare of all the people.
The people through their govern
ment, should not permit some of them
to practice business methods that will
be unjust to all of them. But the
peoples government should not own any
industry which private enterprise can
efficiently manage and whose abuses
government regulation can prevent
Government ownership of nation
wide business is the European theory
of industry. Government regulation
of nation wide business is the American
theory of industry. 1 am for the
American theory and against the Euro
pean theory. Let Europe copy Ameri-
ca, not America copy Europe. Govern
ment control of railways, but not
government ownership of railways.
"The fate of the Cuban people is in
the hands of the Cuban people. If they
fail in this trial with which they have
been tested by a wisdom beyond human
wisdom, if for the preservation of prac-
tical liberty the American flag ought to
float in Cuba, then let no man doubt
that the American flag will float there.
And when it is unfurled from Santiago
to Havana, that flag will mean for Cuba
what it has meant wherever it has been
raised-liberty regulated by law, peace
full industry protected by orderly
government, human rights secured by
independent courts upheld by all the
force of the greatest government exist
ing among men.
| But let no man be deceived as to
what intervention means. 1t does not
mean proclamations; it means soldiers.
Fifty thousand American troops will be
required to restore Cuba to the condi.
ton in which we left Cuba. Fifty
thousand troops for at least year will
be necessary to build up again that
social order which we once established
in Cuba and which the Cubans them
selves have shattered. Fifty Thousand
American soldiers for one year will be
needed to root out that brigandage
which for decades has had so firm hold
on Cuban soil. After this has been &C
complished American control will rur
smoothly without any soldiers at all
But when we have once more done thai
work we will never again let it be un
done. We have made mistake once
we will not make that mistake twice
If the American flag again goes to Cuba
1t goes to stay; we will return again t.
the traditional American doctrine tina
wherever that flag is raised it never
shall be lowered.
Personally, believe that il tn,
present situation should untangle unde,
the diplomacy of that great young mar
whom conservatives once feared bu
who has proved the ablest real conser
vative of them all, Theodore Roosevelt
it will appear again with the tangles in
finitely multiplied. speak for myself
alone; the administration speaks fol
itself.
"In the end, whether it be decad,
or FIVE decades or century, Cuba mus
be American. History shows that tn,
aspiration of the American people
even while yet we were colonies, wa
that she should be American-tht
colonists petitioned the English king tt
let them make Cuba American territory
and it was in every platform of every
party until the civil war distracted oul
attention from it,
and yet American government in
Cuba can only come at the hands of the
Cubans themselves. For the sake OF
the Cuban and the American people and
the other people of the world pray God
it shall not long be delayed"
DIR. T e. Carmody and family left
for their home in Denver, Wednesday.