The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23
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Extremist Leaders Are Worst Foes of
Liberty, He Assert Wars
Upon consump.
.Provincetown, Mass. Aug. 22.-De-
ploring the fact hat the average jury
man, while inclined to find a trust
guilty, hesitates to convict individuals
In that trust. President Roosevelt.
speaking here today at the laying OF
the cornerstone of Pilgrim memorial
monument told OF the difficulties in the
way of criminally prosecuting IL. H.
Hartman In person, although the pres
tdent did not specifically mention Mr..
Hartman. In this connection he said:
There Is unfortunately q certain
number of our fellow country1nen who
seem to accept the view that, unless a
man can be proved guilty of some par
ucular crime he shall be counted a good
citizen no matter how infamous the life
he has led. no matter how pernicious
his doctrines or his practices.
The presidents speech, in part, fol-
lows:
It IL not too much to say thai the event
ccmmemorated by the monument which
those rare events which can In good faith
be called of world Importance. The COM
Ing hither Of the Puritan three centuries
and therefore profoundly affected the des-
tiny OF the whole. world. Men Of other
races, the Frenchman and the spanisrd.t
man. and the Swede. made settlements
within what is now the United States. dur
Ing the colonial period of our history and
and since. then there has been an ever
swelling immigration from Ireland and
from the mainland of Europe; but 1t was
and the En&lishman who settled in Maesa-
chusetts who did most in shaping the lines
Of our national development. We cannot
the fact that the Puritan has stamped his
influence so deeply on our national life.
Danger Of Losing.
w have gained some things that the
Puritan had Motive of this generation, we
OF the twentieth century. here in this
Of losing certain things which the Puritan
had and which we can by no manner OF
means afford to lose. We have gained a
It Is a good thing for every people to have
and to develop. Let us see to it that we
DO not lose what is more Important still;
that we do not lose the Puritan's iron
sense of duty, his unbending. u%nf1inching
will to do the right as 1t was given him
t. see the right; It is a good thing that
vided that 1t does not lose in strength.
Ease and rest and pleasure are good
things, but only Il they come as the re-
well won. Of strong effort resolutely made
and crowned by high achievement. The
life of mere pleasure, of mere efortlees
ease. Is as ignoble for a nation as for an
individual.
The man is but a poor father who
should be their chief objects in lie: the
woman who Is a mere petted toy, incap-
a6ie OF us serious ret purpose, shrinking from
veriest overworked drudge. So he is but
q poor leader of the people, but a poor
nationai adviser, who seeks to make the
ease, who would teach the people not to
prize as the greatest blessing the chance
to do any work. no matter how hard, il it
becomes their duty to do 1t.
Not Ease; Effort.
Ine true doctrine to preach to this ma
nation. is not the life of ease. but the life
Of effort; II it were in my power to
promise @al,fd the me- people aIag, Of this land ANYTHING.
would promise them that stern happiness
which comes from the sense OF havins
which was worth doing.
me utterly changed conditions Of our
national life necessitate changes in GER
81 III III 0al VI our EOVeTnmanf Ynafh-
DDS. Our federal system Of e~oyernment Is
based upon the theory of leaving to each
to each state. the control over
members and which the neople of tho In.
cality themselves can best grapnIe Win
while providing for national regulation in
nation as a whole.
It seems to RE that such Question. nc
national soveretenty and states rights
need to be treated not empir,cally ~ non.
demically. but from the standroir. Of the
interests of the peonle as a whole. Ma.
tioral sovere,snty is to he upheld IN so ia.
used for the rcal and ultimate god or ne
vyeon!e: and states rights are to he unheld
IN so far as thes mean the necnle's FIGHTS
relations OF the neoole as a whole to ~,
great cnrn0rst'ons which are the dist,n.
gushing feature of modern business con.
ditions.
More Efficient Control,
Experience he's shown thot n .. reoo,
: sary TO exercise a far moro efficient ron.
trol than at present over the business use
which are used Gas under mo5ern condi
tloDs they nlmost Invariably are) In in.
t@esstatc .h''stress. When the constttut.or
err brs'ress cx'sted. They are .V WOLF 81 mod r.n
Acd we must create new agencies "a aea
ensct'vely with them; There<is no ostec.
mans %earnine any amount Of money r. ~
does 1t honestly and fairly. If he vets : !,
as me result OF special skill and enter
prise. as = rewarl of ANNIE sery.re act,,
ally er, rsIas fred Rpt there is 2 srowine
ereat fn ,tta,o IN ,na ann no nan n, shall anass Z
rane-v ard w~ronsdotne. so far as - l. IN. !,
the ct Hesitation to nrevent: ant
that the fortune when arrassed shnn |,
hove a huss-css use that is anti-snc;ia, ho'
Most large cornoratiors do a ',nsineS
thot Is not confined tn arv me, state
Fvnericnce has shown that tha nrror+ =,
control these coronratiors nv more st,t
action can rot produce wholesome res,,lts
In most cases such effort fails to correc