Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-06-14

+ CORPORATIONS SUBJECT TO
PUBLIC CONTROL.
when YOU 20 beyond this field o.
co-opcration. you reach n field which
Is now largely occupied by large cor
porations. which are exercising pun
lie use and for that reason subject e
public control.
| believe that eventually the public
ownership of ali public utilities is in
evltable in this country; but | an
not a believer in the theory that W,
are ready to-day for municipal owner
ship in all our cities or for the govern
s ment ownership Of all our railroads.
Municipal ownership without NUM-
cipal integrity may be Q, creater evil
than corporate ownership, "and the
last condition Of that man be worse
than the first"
believe that political honesty must
come before public ownership, and
that the only way we viii ever get
political honesty is 10 restore the
great majority OF our people to the
land. where they will live close 10
nature. and learn the obligations ot
man to his fellow men. and the i'm
perative need of public integrity, by
learning 10 unite together 10 do things
,r themselves.
.ONESTY THE CORNERSTONE
OF COOPERATION.
Man is the product Of his environ
ment Man will be what be Is trained
to be. And cooperation will train
men to he honest with each other and
with the public because honesty and
integrity In the discharge OF obliga
tlons TO ones fellow men is the |
corner stone of cooperation.
Without II cooperation is a bouSe |
built upon the sands.
With such integrity, cooperation is
a house built upon the eternal rocks
as foundation.
And 50 il is that your movement for
the formation Of farmers associations,
In order that YOU may transact FOR
yourself the business Of selling your
own soil products, is but a single
thread In the great cable Of cooper
ton which will finally warp our ship
of state of the rock>. and draw ID 10
a safe anchorage.
The profits that you will make for
.OulrtlA III indAlN4 VI tAAhNS "
operative associations. and their man
agement, is the least OF the reasons
which should impel YOU onward in the
A CRISIS IN OUR HISTORY.
We have reached a crisis In our
country's history.
II Is a crisis threatening greater |
danger than when the cloud of dis
union swept up from the south and the
nation was drenched in the blood OF a
civil war.
The cancer of corruption following
10 the wake Of great wealth is eating
out the vitals of our country.
| have shown YOU that there is but
1Dne cure, and il il to men Of your class
hat We must look for this cure.
In training yourselves 10 cooperate
together 10 do things for yourselves
hat one man cannot do for himself.
you are engaged in carrying out
patriotic purpose just as noble a.
Though you had enlisted as a soldier /
Fl shoulder your arms and march to 1
he front and lay down your life. if |
'heed be, In repellug the army of a |
Foreign invader.
We are spending millions for forts !
and nayies and 20 maintain an army 10 |
protect ourselves against the Other |
hatiOns of the earth.
Our greatest danger is not from
Foreign nations. Ii is i'm our midst
I is al the very heart OF our political
|hnd social life.
And you who are here to-day are
pioneers ia the great campaign which
will result In Overthrowing the cohorts
pr corruption which will otherwise
|iestroy Us.
OPPOSITION 4 STIMULANr.
4 i have been told that your move.
ment meets with opposition. Tho~c
who oppose il are most unwise. II f.
the lesson of all periods of the history
OF our race that reform movements.
movements for the betterment Of man.
kind, even movements which merely
purport TO be for human bettermeut
and are Of questionable character. have
been strengthened and built up and
perpetuated by opposition and per
secution.
No greater stimulus TO the growth Of
your movement could exist than 90
have IL systematically opposed. Such
opposition rouScs the cOmbativeness
md aggressiveness which is in every
mans being, stimulates him to greater
fort, and encourages him to perseverC
Until obstacles have been overcome
which would otherwise have caused
failure.
STRENGTH COMES FROM
STRUGGLE.
IL is another law of nature that
strength comes from strenuous strug
gle. The strong arm is the arm thai
Is used. The strong mind is the minC
that thinks. The strong man il tho
man who has developed every fibre OF
his physical vigor by use. The stronl
races of the earth are those which
have survived oppression and over
come great obstacles in their develop
ment
Be not discouraged by any condition
that may confront you.
Be not discouraged even by temper
airy failure. 1t is the history OF al
movements that failure must at time;
be part OF their record.
But as the wise saying has IL
Failures are but the pillars of sue
cess"
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SUCCESSFUL