The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-10-26
PRESIDENT REITERATES POLICY
IN NASHVILLE SPEECH.
Sixteen Months More of Persis-
tent Effort to Punish Success
full Dishonesty--Turned Light
Into Dark Places But Is Not
RESPONSIBLE for Revelations.

Auditorium, said he did not believe
his policies had any material effect in
bringing about the present disturbance
in the financial world. After paying
a high tribute to Tennessee, he said
in part:
IT have come down on this trip,
friends, primarily in connection with
the development of this country.
wish to see the great main artery Of
the Mississippi and it's chief afluents
made navigable highway, open to
all the people of the United States,
as only waterways can be. I believe
that developments will prove of i'm
mediate benefit to all the states ada
cent to the Mississippi. I believe it
will prove of ultimate benefit to all
the states beyond the Mississippi. be-
cause I am convinced that in the long
run, dlsregarding minol exceptions,
if you benefit any portion of the
American republic, the benefit in the
end diffuses itself over the entire re-
public.
To Punish Dishonesty
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market, in the high financial world,
during the past few months. The
statement has frequently been made
that the policies for which I stand,
legislative and executive, are respon-
si5le for the trouble. Now, gentle
men, those policies of mine can be
summed up in one brief sentence.
They represent the effort to punish
successful dishonesty. I doubt if
these policies have had any material
effect in bringing about the present
trouble. but if they have it will not
alter in the slightest degree my de-
termination that for the remaining
sixteen months of my term those poll
cies shall be persevered in unswerv-
ingly. If to arouse that type of civic
manhood in our nation it were neces-
sary to suffer any temporary CONNER
cial depression, should consider the
cost small.
Only Unearthed Wrongs <
Cali we have done has been to un-
earth the wrong done. It was not the
fact that it was unearthed that did
the damage All I did was to turn
on the light. I am responsible for
turning on the light, but am not
responsible for what the light showed.
II will permit neither.:the demagogue
on the one side nor the reactionary on
the other to drive me away from the
course of policy which I regard most
vital for the ell-being of this nation.
Aud the thing most important to re-
member is that that policy has two
sides.
''It would be an evil day for this
nation, it would mean the beginning
of the end of our nations greatness,
if we ever permitted in this republic
to grow up spirit which would dis
criminate against the honest man who
achieves business success. There is
nothing baser and meaner than the
hatred of the man who prospers
honestly, simply because he has pros
pered.
81 challenge the spirit of every good
American when I say that the honest
railroad man, the honest banker and
the honest business man, the man
who makes fortune because his ex-
ceptional business ability enables him
to render exceptional service to the
community, shall receive the amplest
protection and be safeguarded against
all injustice.
eff ever there should he any tenn
porary gusts of popular feeling that
demand what is wrong. what is un-
righteous, then the true servant Of the
people. the man who truly serves the
interests of the people, Is the man
who disregards that temporary wish
of the people to do evil.
mo man will stand more strongly
than will in the defense of property
so long as it is honestly acquired and
honestly used. I will stand against
the poor man if he does wrong, Just
as will stand against the rich man
if he does wrong. will stand against
crimes Of brutal violence, just as I
stand against crimes Of INSCRIPTIONS
cunning.
Punishment Difficult
1t is difficult matter to punish
the crimes Of INSCRIPTIONS cumming
committed by men of great wealth.
It is dicffult matter to punish, as
he should be punished, the man at
the head Of great business concern,
or at the head of great railroad. who
does wrong to the whole body politic
by mismanagemento of that property.
1t is difficult because as yet we
hardly have the proper laws, and sti
more because the people themselves,
through their representatives and
personally, do not yet fully realize
how serious the crimes are which are
committed in this fashion
In other words, gentlemen, our
whole movement is simply and solely
to make the decalogue and the golden
rule of some practical moment in the
business of the community.
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