The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-08-20

combine to bring about as much hnan-
cias stress as they possibly can In
order TO discredit the policy OF the
government and thereby TO secure a
reversal Of that policy so that they
may enjoy the fruits OF their own evil
doing. That they have misled many
good people into believing that there
should be such reversal OF policy Is
possible. II so, / am sorry. but IL will
not alter my attitude.
NO CHANGE ON POLICY.
"Once for all. let me say that as far
as / am concerned and for the 10
months OF my administration that re-
main, there will be no change In the
policy we have steadily pursued, no
lCtup In the effort TO secure the hon
est observance OF the law. for / re-
gai d this contest as one to determine
who shall rule this government-the
people through their governmental
agents or few ruthless ana deter
mined men whose wealth makes them
particularly formidable, because they
hide behind the brsatworks OF cor
porate organization.
''I wish there TO be no mistake on
this point. II ls idle TO ask me not TO
prosecute criminals, rich or poor. But
/ desire no less emphatically 20 nave
IL understood that we have undertaken
and will undertake no action or VIM
dictive type and above all, no action
which shall Wfiict great or unmerited
suffering upon the innocent stockhold-
ers and upon the public as a whole.
"Our purpose Is to act with the mini
mum OF harshness compatible with OBJ
taining our ends. In the man or great
wealth who has earned his wealth hon
estly and used II wisely, we recognize
good citizen worthy OF all praise and re-
spect. Business can only be done under
modern conditions through corporations
corporations that do well. The admins
tration appreciates that liberal but hon.
est profit for legitimate promoters and
generous dividends for capital employed
either in founding or continuing an hon.
est business venture. are the FACTORS nee
cssary for successful corporate ACTIVITY
and therefore for generally prosperous
business conditions.
"Ali these are compatible with fair
dealing as between man and man and
rigid obedience TO the law. our aim Is
to help every honest man, every honest
corporation, and our policy means In It's
ultimate analysis a healthy and prosper
Gus expansion OF business activities OF
honest business men and honest corpora
lions"
The president continued in part as fol-
lows:
''It is not too much 10 say that the
event commemorated by the monument
which we have como here TO dedicate was
one OF those rare events which can In
The coming hither OF the Puritan three
centuries ago shaped the destinies OF THIS
continent. and therefore profoundly aneot-
ed the destiny of the whole world. Men
OF other races, the Frenchman ana the
Spaniard, the Dutchman. the German, the
Scotchman, and the Swede.. made settle
ments within what is now the Ohiteo
States, during the colonial period OF our
history and before the Declaration or In
dependence; and since then there has been
an ever-swelling immigration from Ire
land and from the mainland or Europs,
but Il was the Englishnan who settleo IN
81. rerlia iahr rra N w
In Massachusetts, who did most In snap
ing the lines of our national develop
ment.
I'VE can not as a nation be too pro.
foundly grateful for the fact that the
Puritan has stamped his influence SO
deeply on our national life. we Ieeo
have but scant patience with tne men
who now rail at the Puritans iauits. ~.
age in which they dwell. and the WORK
they have 10 do.
si'he splendid qualities which he left to
mis- children, we other Americans VINO a,s
not OF Puritan blood also claim as our
heritage You. sons of the Purftans. ana
We who are descended from races whom
the Puritans would have deemed AMEN,
we are all Americans together. we Eli
feel the same pride I'm the genesis, In the
history of our people; and thererore tnls
shrine OF Puritanism Is one at whlch we
ell gather to pay homage. no matter from
what country our ancestors sprans =,
most needless to say that the lesson apoVe
all others which Puritanism can teach
this nation is the all-importanoc OF the
resolute performance of duty III We are
men we will pass by with contemptuous
disdain alike the advisers VINO would seek
to lead us into the paths OF ignobie ease
and those who would teach us 10 admire
successful wrongdoing
''The Puritan owed his extraordinary
success in subdung this continent and
making II the foundation for social lite
Of ordered liberty primarily to the fact
that he combined in very remarkaoie
degree both the power OF individual ini-
tiative. OF individual self-helf, and the
power OF acting I'm combination with his
fellows: and that furthermore he joined
to high heart that shrewd common sense
which saves a man from the besetting sins
of the visionary and the doctrinaire.
There is no use in our coming here TO
pay homage to the men who founded this
nation unless we first OF all come In tho
spirit OF trying to do our work today as
they did their work In. the yesterdays that
have vanished. The problems shift from
generation 10 generation. but the spirit
in which they must be approached. IL they
are TO be successfully solved, remains
ever the same. The Puritan tanned the
wilderness, and built up a free govern
ment on the stump-dotted clearirgs amid
the primeval forest. His descendants
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