Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-23

tism. Enterprises that are fioated now are
well-built. seaworthy crafts which will
weather financial storms, instead Of rot
ten hulks planned to look like perfect ships,
but which go to pieces before the first sour
ry of wind in the first financial gale.
Not only has business grown healthy
as well as great. but more historic achieve
ments for the good of the whole American
people have been wrought under Theodore
Roosevelts guidance than during any five
years since the Declaration OF lndepen-
dence was signed, excepting only the one
mightiest period of our history. We have
followed not that Chinese motto, Let well
enough alone but that American motto.
Make bad better, and better best.
Speaking of the nations regulation OF
said:
1T was the nations will that President
Roosevelt voiced when he demanded that
law should be passed for the national
sary that unjust discrimination should
cease, that every shipper in this republic
should be treated alike, that unjust
charges should not be made for the trans
portat1on of the products of the American
millions. The railwayrate law will cor
rect many of the evils of railway trans
portation. And if it does not correct them
ALL the law will be amended by each sue
ceeding Congress until every wrong and
every evil in railway transportation has
been eliminated.
Nations Control of It's Business.
For a hundred years we have been
tending steadily toward the nations con-
troll of the nations business. The prod
ucts of the people must be hauled from
ocean to ocean, from gulf to the dominion,
from Oregon to Florida, from Arizona to
Maine. Transportation gives them their
value. Therefore, railway rates are tax
on every human being in the republic. And
from this fundamental fact springs the
wrong of exclusively private control of
our transportation system and the right
of the people who are thus taxed to have
voice in the conduct of that mighty
business. And so it Is that the principle
of the nations control of nationwide bust
ness is vital. The railways exist for the
nation, not the nation for the railways
that is, the maximum of honest profit to
the railways and welfare of the nation
Senator Beveridge ended his address as
follows:
1.-The glorious American people, torch
bearers of liberty; this American repub-
lie, hope of the world; this American land,
so nobly placed, so rich in all that min
listers to human use and happiness; that
people will not be corrupted by their pros
perity, because their prosperity will be
honest and pure; that republic will not
decay because its government will be kept
close to that people: that land will not be
spoiled and rified by crazed efforts for
hasty wealth, but made richer by intelli-
gent industry and care. Development, not
exploitation; progress, not decadence,
while even brighter shines the light of that
true freedom that men call equity before
the law onward and upward, carried by
the American millions as they press for
ward In the strength and joy of righteous
living, passing by the gods of gold and
leaving behind them the false worship of
the broken idols of the market place-a
market cleansed, set in order, and regen-
tnd n l,oll ri nixytl{o h.
made immortal and American institutions
a blessing to mankind"