The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-12

endure for time, If need be, while they work out through their own agen- cies the difficulties which changing circumstances are ever presenting.
 Control of Corporations.
 And the people Of Ohio have no excuse for lapsing from the virtue of self-reliance. They have shown that they know how to deal with trusts and combinations organized and conducted in defiance of the laws of trade and the rules of fair dealing. They are sure they, better than others, can control without crippling tho corporations they create and fix the conditions on which those created by other sovereignties may do business within their borders. And they are not willing to yield the right to do this to any other power or to have 1t qualified save by the con- dition, to which they have given ir- revocable consent, that they must act justly with respect to rights lawfully acquired.
 Tt is matter of no personal i'm terest to me because my aim in life has never been to amass wealth, but am not taken with the idea of seeking to limit by law the acquisition of for tunes. The smallest fortune is too great if 1t be dishonesty or unfairly gained. With laws so framed as not to impose unnecessary charges on the people which operate to give some ad- vantages over others, and with laws impartially enforced to prevent unfair methods and corrupt practices. no for tunes will be, swollen which implies unnatural and perverted growth.
 Nor, with our will tested systems of inheritance and restriction of en- tailments. will fortunes long remain in unworthy hands, while fair gotten wealth has neither temptation nor oc- casion to seek illicit favors from of ficials and enforce the laws And in our free country every man who thinks happiness lies in wealth has the right to get as rich as he honestly can. All we should demand is that he shall not increase his gains by withholding from the 1aborer his just reward or adding hardships to his lot, nor by deprivfng others of their gains by unfair competi- tion. And he must bear his due share of the expenses of the governments which protect him in pursuit and pos- session.
 "But'if for the first time in the his- tory of the race somebody is to draw i lines around thrift and enterprise. l |. the experiment for herself. For all economic measures are necessarily ex- periments, especially those which deal with new conditions. And when the atmosphere is charged with discon- tent and resentment, no matter how just, the eye Is not always sure nor the hand always steady, so that re- suits not intended or desired may fol- low.
 'The people of each state can best decide for themselves, from time to time, what measures to adopt and judge their operation and effect They can better and more promptly correct or change them to suit their case, as trial may suggest. And each state will have the benefit of the expert- ence of the other states as well as its own. If a measure prove wise 1t will promptly be adopted wherever condi- tions require it. If 1t prove unwfse the less scope it has the better.
 What higher hope can I express, in conclusion. than that when Vir- ginia and Ohio meet from century to century, as no doubt they will. to celebrate their origin on this spot they may greet each other as they do today. as free, Independent and SOW ereign States whose dignity Is mag nffied and giorlfieds not reduced or obscured, by the Union to whose greatness they contribute and fin whose glory they shsre."