Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-23
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upon ":c side r"r tn" r'lct:onary on
the "fh"r 10 ''r:rc TIL" away Iron the
course ~ ."li uii II "rgari mos.
vita! :';i' =" wen - M. nf His nation
And IN jiinr', ms; i:iii"!t"ut 10 re
lneinl."i' j. u "f tina: :.o!irv iaaS two
sides. !, W"l:i in,:.cI ~ al vii day
for ta'.i Ii:'tto.t. il Nntiid indeed mean
the ,'";si:j',ir:: - ;t,, ,f:! q. cur ra-
tons st":,;;,':-e. if SO A." ever permit
ted in i:I,s r,.I:'.;s,. t. go, ~ u spirit
which N".'il ~ rjI linHtr against the
honest in." whn H.hicv"a business
success
'Thrrr - I."::lii., ha<cr and meaner
than tie hatred AT IL" man VII" pros
pcrs honestly. si-,;.ly L.car.sr he has
prosre'c'i ;IG c,laiira2. No spirits
Of every %Gni .Nntri'..i,. hen | say the
honest railroad man. ;Ac honest banker
and The honest business man. the man
VINO m.kcs 4 fortune because his ex-
crptional business ability enables him
to rrndtr exceptional service to The
community. | challenge IL" spirit of
every good American citizen when he
shall receive the ampicSt protection and
be Saf"guarGci against Al Injustice.
porary gusts Of popular feeling that
demand what WAS wrong what was
uHrighteous then the true servant of
the interests Of the people is tn" man
of the people to do evil (great ap-
plauSc). No man viii stand more
strongly than ] viii in the defence Of
property 50 long as it is honestly dc-
Quired and honestly used (cheerS). !!
will stand against the poor man il he
does wrong just as ] will stand against
the rich man if he does wrong i will
stand against crimes Of brutal violence,
just as | stand against crimes of un-
scrupulOus cunning. 4 crime is u
crime and it makes no difference
whether the wrong is perpetrated by
plutocracy or by a mob by a capital
list or a wage worker -
There are certain gentlemen who
have affected 70 misunderstood my
position - That point and to say that
/ have talked against men of wealth;
that l have melted attacks upon the
class thai owns great wealth These
men are blind if they see the facts in
tIlil iiSiit W III pIottCt III every way
in my power honest property; ] will
protect the honest men of wealth to
the extent Of by ability. And in no
way can | ultimately protect the hon
est man of wealth 50 effectively as by
doing everything in my power to bring
to justice his dishonest brother of
wealth. (Great applause).
'Ihe man who builds railroad
where it is needed and runs it honestly
is a henefactor. We should back him
up and protect him against unjust at
tacils. The man who manipulates the
securities OF that railroad So as to
sWindle the outside public or the
stockholders or the investors Of any
kind or shippers. to swindle the people
at large. that man is doing all that he
can to bring down in ruin the fabric
Of cur institutions: that ii is our bus
mess to set our faces like flint against
his wrong-doing. to work TO undo that
vrong-doing in.the interest of the peo-
pie as i whole and primarily in the in
terest ii the honest man Of means.
Remember this. THAI atonement in
this world is largely vicarious; that
If we sit, supine and let men of great
wealth set before the country as a
whole the standard of successful dis
honesty. 50 that young men are taught
to think Of business trickery. of eva
sion and violation of the law. of stock
gambling and Swindling as the chief
roads 10 financial success. that if we
should let such A state Of affairs exist
not only do we bring about a deterio-
ra ion of the public conscience as a
whole. but as sure as fate We ultimate
~ invite ignorant and vile reaction,
whi>h in trampling out the wrong will
trariple out each right at the same
time: while Furnishing the wealthy
wrong-doers will inf1ict the punishment
50 rutally and SO unskilfully as to con-
found in it many men who have done
honestly and WE'LL.
II want to see the process. the process
Of gaining wealth by successful dishon-
esty. stopped; but If it goes SO far as to
invite the very reaction of which l speak
! tapnlause). And the man of property, the
man of great means, will do we'll to turn,
and in the Hottest way. to back up ra-
tional movement for reform; a rational
movement for such supervision and con-
| '''i WV tiiN USE ONVi tiiC
and business use of these great fortunes,
and will. if not eliminated. at least min
| imiZe the evil of which complain. Such
a movement as that in which we are
| now engaged is not in the least unders
| taken with any vindictive purpose. It ID
| undertaken to cure evils and to prevent
| their recurrence
"If the heneficiaries Of those, evils sue.
| coed, which they will not do in stoppine
the movement, it will merely mean that
| in very few wears it would break forth
| again and that in time it would be in the
| control of men who would leaislate with
vindictive purpose, who would legisiate
| and act as executives with the detire to
| hurt and damage the men at whom the
movement was not aimed
There is no movement in its proper
sense that can more properly be Gescrib-
ed as conservative. using the word Will
its real significance. than the movement
which we have seen developed during the
past four or five years. the movement
for the proper supervision and contro! in
the interest of the general public of those