Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-22
Theodore Roosevelt.

u6TSIOIl0 WAS lclu lOudy 10 LuS Out
come of long but friendly controv
ersy between Provincetown and Ply
mouth over the question as to which
place had the prior claim to the Pill
grim fathers. Its erection is due to
the enterprise Of the Cape Cod Monu-
ment Association, which has raised
1920 through public and private
subscription, the federal government
contributing $4,000, the state of
Massachusetts, $4,000, and the town
$4,000 Of the amount
Memorial on Town Hill.
The memorial is to be located on
the top of Town HILL the highest
land in the town, from which it will
rise to the height of $50 feet. 1t will
be built of solid granite One of the
purposes of the structure is that it
may serve as a beacon to vessels
passing around the Cape during the
daytime.
Within the monument, when it is
finished there will rest in the walls
some $50 tablet stones, all commem-
orative of offerings from as many
New England towns, and with each
stone properly inscribed. Further
teresting stones all from England and
each commemorative Of some impor
tant circumstance or event connect
ed with the coming of the Pilgrims
One stone is inscribed, From the
home of Bradford" the piece coming
from Austerfield, England. A second
lis gift from English historians, in
scribed, From the church at Leyden,
Holland, the tarrying place of the
Pilgrims" The third stone is a
triangle of much harder material,
presented by the Women's Suffrage
association of England, and inscribed,
From the church at Delfthaven.'
This block was taken from the altar
of the sanctuary where the final pray
er of the departing Pilgrims was Of
fered
There are to be no winding stairs
in the monument and visitors ascend
ing to the porticoed plaza at the top
, will do so by means of an inclined
winding plane. From the monuments
, lofty outlook it will be possible tc
view the whole, region which the Phi
= grims explored in their search fol
! an abiding place.
I The Presidents Address.
President Roosevelts address fol
/. lows:
The Puritan was no Laodicean, 4,
i laissez-faire theorist When he saw
n conduct which was in violation O
his rights-of the rights Of man, the
% rights of God, as he understood then
n he attempted to regulate such con
/. duct with instant, unquestionint
promptness and effectiveness. j
!. there was no other way to secure
Y conformity with the rule of right
v then he smote dow the transgresso
: with the iron of his wrath.
t Experience has shown that 1t Is
j. necessary to exercise far more eff
a Gel control tlli n at pr. ,-nt owe
d the business use of those vast for
|. used Gas under modern conditions
/, they almost invariably are) In inter
state business When the Constitu
ton was created, none of the condi
lions of modern business existed
Q They are wholly new and we mus
+ create new agencies to deal effective
g ly with them. There is no objection
& in the minds of this people to an
D man earning any amount OF none
ri If he does it honestly and fairly, if h
K gets it as the result of special ski
10 and enterprise, as a reward of ampl
n service actually rendered. But Their
g, is a growing determination that n
g man shall amass great fortune b
q special privilege, by chicanery an
n, wrong-doing, SO far as it is in th
t, rover of legislation to prevent; an
c. that the fortune when amassed sha
not have a business use that is AM
ar social Most large corporations do
I'd business that is not confined to an
a, one state Experience has shown the
~ the effect to control these corpor
10 tions by mere State action can NJ
ri produce wholesome results In mo-
!e cases such effort fails to correct tt
n. real abuses of which the corporate
ed is or may be guilty; while in oths
&c cases the effort is apt to cause eitht
g. hardship to the corporation itself,
IT else hardship to neighboring State
ed which have not tried to grapple wit
fn the problem in the same manner; ar
in of course we must be as scrupulol
to safeguard the rights Of the corpor
,r- tons as to exact from them in r