Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-23


moral natures as in their economic and
financial capacities.
Like rulers Of nations" said he. they
unconsciously claim for themselves an i'm
munity from moral principles which some
how do not seem adapted to their con-
GERMS"
I DR. Schurman did not, however consider
this a hopeless condition. said he:
In the ancient world traders and mer-
chants were despised and associated with
/ robbers and pirates; but the merchant of
civilization, and in the modern develop
ment of vast affairs and high finance
| doubt not we shall ere long see the same
control of moral principle which already
dominates the ancient avenues of trade
and commerce,
Remedies for Evils.
The speaker then referred to the more
radical remedies proposed for existing
evils. He denied that 30 far the expert
ments in state and municipal ownership
of public utilities had resulted In any APP
probable benefit, although he did not oppose
that system. He said, however:
| dread the bureaucracy which govern
ment ownership of American railroads (as
proposed by w. ]. Bryan would make
Inevitable. No government in the world
ness, and least OF all the government of
the United States which, draws its life
from party politics and In which all ad-
ministrations are necessarily short-lived
The speaker said he could not agree with
President Roosevelt as to the threatened
danger from swollen fortunes" He said /:
The danger see comes not from swollen
fortunes, bur from stolen fortunes. The
man who has honestly accumulated for
tune of millions, or, II you ike, billions,
but the man who, for the sake, of such a
gambling, of illicit privileges. of monop-
olstic oppression. Of Injustice and law
eeutiYe oficiais Of legislators and even of
Ny own hope for reform lies in the
awakening of the conscience OF our peo-
pie both as regards the life of the indi,
vidual and the life of the nation; and
there are signs that such an awakening
has occurred Only yesterday, the, objects
of real worship were our millonaires and
billionaires Today we have torn down the
affairs of Mammonism and erected an altar
The new politics needs new leaders. We
have them in Folk at the eapitoL IN % mis- rr5
in Hughes at the executive mansion ~
Albany, N. Y, and, most illustrious OF all
ington Yet in democracy even the
: abiest leaders are but the agents OF pup.
lie opinion It Is for US all theTsIoF sound
! and high-keyed. Let us not IN our ae
votion to just reforms run into excuses
which will endanger those ideals OF I'D
erty and Individual rights which have beer
2 the glory of the American people ana tn
inspiration of American history
j. Hamilton Lewis Address.
]. Hamilton Lewis prefaced his serious
= ness with a few characteristics stories o
n the south, arousing the rsibilities Of tn
: banqueters to a high pitch. He spoke
u follows:
m
pie that their country was well founde
o by heroes and patriots, II those VINO ~
herit j are not patriots ana heroes she ero;
' Thomas Jefferson that "a recurrence
: fundamental principles, is essential to q
f wg,aSle who originated this truth; it wa
:. ! God. He commanded that ye turn yoH
e faces to the faiths Of your fathers "
;, old faiths, with our windows open towar
: Jerusalem. and our faces to the east, whel
wisdom of heaven which inspired II
| fathers of the republic to CONSTRUCT IN
temple of liberty as habitation OF Jul
s tice and the security Of freedom to
r nations
The want of due limitations upon oficiI
, execution in some governments the ut.
had been the authors of evils and disa'
tiers which were before our early master
| II was to escape these there followed or
war of blood and sacrifices and the sacrihS
| of property and privileges OF thousand
Tonight we are surrounded by condition
which, as a penalty for these ofenst
against established limitations of WASH
ington, threaten us with war from ahroa
IT. II was washington who saw these ii
evitable results from the attempt slyly an
secretly to encroach upon the barriers , {
law overthrow the fundamental restri'
lions.
CIeveIand-BIOunt AFFAIR.
When ex-Pfesident Cleveland assumed a
| ma I've r
| with paramount authority to the Ha
waiian Islands to re-establish queen upo
republic had dethroned her he. by thi
| exercise OF unconstitutional perogatiVe-it
noring congress as the peoples representa-
tives-truly offered the precedent fror
which President RoOsevelt-going the usua
| bounds which greater license takes upo
cor to revolt Colombia In order to wor
! the Panama dynasty out OF the secessio
OF S9Ioi9ian states ss,nis 'I i n,,s s'
| Then acquiesced upon grounds Of politics
! party expediency Against the greater &C
/ and from our own inanity President Roose
welt seemed to be justified In taking lieens
I 10 declare a prOtectorate OF the Unite
, states over Santo Domingo, giving gu
| moral guaranty to the payment OF $3OOO
900 of obligations and enter into the poss
| bllities of conflict with foreign nations, a
| without consultation with or regard TO Ill
senate or the peoples representatives.
| insincerity He moves only along line
permitted and which he feels the peopl
have abdicated to him heretofore reserve
| TO themselves.
Rapidly following these violations b
| executive usurpation, of which i haY
spoken, came the sudden invasions of thos
who are In the ranks Of my own politics
alliance. Those who, 10 tempOrize wit
| economic evils would destroy the form an
fixed fashion OF our national arrangemer
and as an immediate panacea proclaim tina
| all local government shall abdicate II
| control over local demands and local az
gresslOns They who would surrender IN
state a business institution TO the ma
tional ownership OF the property OF I'll
citizen, while the state shall end Its eXis
ence as a governmental Institution. In a
political parties there are those who woul
shatter the constitution and all the fur
damental doctrines Of the fathers. u the