Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-31
RAPED
CORPORATE ABUSES.
In a Memorial Day Address al III.
dlRapols He Again Talks on
Railroad Question.
LAWS PLEASE HONEST MAgNlTEs.
No Recommendations That He HAS.
Made or Laws That conareus Has
Enacted Are Objectionable to the
Man looking for tho Square ooalp
Reform Only Started.
tBy Associated press,)

lNDlANAPoLlS, IND. May TO-
PRESIDENT Roosevelt today delivered y
the principal address hero MT the TIM
yelling of q monument to General
Henry w Lawton. He discussed rail.
way problems and incidentally paId5
u warm tribute to oliver Morton, tho
war governor of Indiana.
The President arrived at 1o:4s d. m. N
from Canton, Ohio. accompanied Inv
Vice-President Fairbanks, and was
driven to the Fairbanks home, where
luncheon was served. after which hes
was escorted to the court lo,isa
square by United Statcsttroopy, Thir.H
teen companies of the G.. A. II. and n
other organizations Tho pnrafla
route of two miles was lined with
cheering crowds. .S
The program of exert.ses included
Nh invocation by Rev. ID. II. Lucas mn 6
nadresS by Governor j. IL. Haiily: mll.s
&c ~ by the Seventh Regiment band,
We reading of u poem tiedIcated to
I y, ,;l,aWton by James WhitcomiS
itifoyf the Introduction OF tie Prea.-
!, by Governor Hnnly and I,resi.ss
XXI isusse "! ny aad
The men or the generation which
fought the Civil Wnrs had their rre,st
task5 TO perform. They met them sls 4
strong mon should have met thpml
They did them, and We. their children
profit by their mighty deeds. nut no
generation can ever plead tho great {
ueeus OF It's predecessors as an OK.
Guse tor falling to perform It's own
.uuties. our duties are those of peace
ana not OF war. Nevertheless tbay
are OF tile utmost iniportance: of
Importance to ourselves and or still
greater Importance to the children
VINO In II few years will take our
places as the mon and women of this
Republic. Ii we wish to show our.
selves worthy heirs of the men az
the CIVIL War, we must do our tasks
with the thoroughness with which
thnN did theirs.
Great social ana Industrial prob,
lenls confront us, and thor solution <
demands ON our part unfateling cour.
age, ana yet wise. guod,natured
selirestraint; so that cn the one hand
we snail neither be daunted by diff
cuitics nor fooled by those who would
seek to persuade us that the diff
Gnlties are insupcrable; while on the
olner hand we are not misled into
showing either raslness or vindictive-
ness. Let us try as a people to show a
me same qualities as we deal with the 4
and social problems or
today that Abraham Lincoln showed
"nen with indomitable resolution, but
win n kindness, patience. and com.
mon sense quite as remarkable, he
faced four weary years of open war
In front. of calumny. detraction and
from behind, and at the end
gave to his Countrymen whom he had i
'rrved so we'll the blood.bought gift
of race freed and n nation forever
united.
One great problem that we have be-
lore us Is to preserve the rights of
property: and these can only be pre-
served If We remember that they are
In less jeopardy from the socialist
ana the anarchist from the predatory
man OF wealth.. II has become evf.
dent that to refuse to invoke the
power of the nation to restrain tho Z
wrongs committed by the man OF
great wealth who does evil is not only
to neglect tho interests of the public,
but is to neglect the interests OF the
man of means who acts honorably
by his follows. The power of the ma /
zion must lie exerted to stop crimes
OF cunning no less than crimes oe @A
violence. There can be no halt III
the course we have deliberately elect
ed to pursue, the pcs. OF asserting
the right of the nation, so far as 1t s
has the power to supervise and con-
troll the business use of wealth. espe.
clally In It's corporate form. To n
day wish to say word to you about
the first and most important feat
ure of this task, the control of the 4
common carriers doing an interstate
business; control absolutely vested
in the nation, while IN so far as the
common carriers also transport the u
mails 1t is In my opinion probable that
their business is or not inter,
state 1t Is to the same extent subject
to Federal oantrol. under that clause
of the Constitution granting to the
National Givernment power to estabs
fish post roads and therefore by
necessary implication power to take
all action necessary in order to keep
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