The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-21
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES HIS
 POLICY IN ALL DEALINGS
 WITH GREAT CORPORATIONS
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social life; and, while engaged in the rough work of tanning the shaggy wilder ness, at that very time also to lay deep the immovable foundations of our whole American system of civil, political and religious liberty achieved through the or derly process of law. This was the work allotted him to do; this Is the work he did. and only master spirit among men could have done 1t.
 We have travelled far since his day. That liberty of conscience which he de- manded for himself. we now realize must be as freely accorded to others as it IS resolutely insisted upon for ourselves. The splendid qualities which he left to his children. we other Americans who aie not of Puritan blood also claim as our heritage. You, sons of the Purltans and we, who are descended from races whom the Puritans would have deemed alien we are all Americans together. We all feel the same pride in the genesis in the history. of our people: and therefore this shrine of Purtanism Is one at which we all gather to pay homage. no matter from what country our ancestors sprang. What Purltans Didn't Have.
 We have gained some things that the Puritan had not-we of this generation,  great republic. but we are also in danger of losing certain things which the Puri- tan had and which we can by no manner of means afford to lose. We have gained a joy of living which he had not, and which it is a good thing for every people Q have and to develop. Let Us see to it at we do not lose what is more im- tant still; that we do not lose the Pur- s iron sense Hf duty, his unbending, 1ching will 10 do the right as it was him to see the right It Is a good hat life should gain in sweetness,
 provided that it does not lose
 rth. Ease and rest and pleasui q
 things. but only if they come hs
 1 of work well done, of a good ell won, of strong effort resolutely de and crowned by high achievement The life of mere plea sure of mere effort SC. is as gnoble for nation as for ividual. The man is but a poor who teaches his sons that ease and should be their chief objects in woman who Is a mere petted toy. )le of serious purpose, shrinking iffort and duty, is more pitiable le Veriest overworked drudge. So put a poor leader of the people. poor national adviser. who seeks the nation in any way subordl-
 ort to ease who would teach the
 lot to prize the greatest bless
 chance to do any Work, no nat-
 hard, if it becomes their duty to
 To the sons of the Puritans 1t IS
 needless to say that the lesson
 Il others which Puritanism can
 is nation is the all-importance of
 ute performance of duty. If we
 we will pass by with contemptu-
 lin alike the advisers who would
 cad us into the paths of ignople
 those who would teach us 10
 successful wrong-dong. Our
 ould be high, and yet they should
 1le of achievement in practical
 and we are as little to be ex-
 we permit our ideals to be taint-
 what Is sordid and mean and
 we allow our power of achieve
 atrophy and become either in
 f effort or capable only of such
 effort as to accomplish noth-
 manent good. The true doctrine
 to this nation, as to the tndi- imposing this nation, is not the ase, but the life of effort. If
 my power to promise the peo-
 $ land anything. l would not
 hem pleasure. I would promise
 stern happiness which comes