Evening journal., 1907-10-03
PRESIDENT AT
CAIRO, ILL.
tcontInued From FIrst Pagel

] Impossible 10 linpfONlSe even a ludhe-
shift navv under the conditions Of
modern warfare. The Navy must be
built and all its training given in time
OF peace. When once war has broken
out it II too late to do anything. We
now have a good Navy, not yet large
enough for our needs. but II excellent
material Where a navy is as small
as ours. the cardinal rule must be that
the battle ships shall rot be separate
ed. This year 1 am happy to say that
we shall begin a course OF which /
hope will be steadily followed here
after. that, namely, Of keeping the
battle-ship fleet alternately in the
Pacific and in the Atlantic. Early IN
December the feet will begin its voy-
age to the Pacific, and it will number,
friends, among its formidable fighting
craft three great battleships, name
respectively. the Illinois, the Missouri
and the Kentucky. 1t is a national
fleet in every sense Of the term. and
it's welfare should be- and I firmly be-
lieve is. as much a matter of pride
an dconcern for every man in tha
farthest interior Of our country as for
every man on the sehcoast. A long
ocean voyage is mighty good trainingi
and not the least good it viii do win
be to show just the points where our
naval program needs strengthening.
] Real Democracy.
4 so much for foreign affairs. Now
! for a matter of domestic policy. We
believe in real not o sham de-
nlocracy. We believe in democracy
as regards political rights, as regards
education. and, finally, as regards in
dustrial conditions. BY democracy we
understand securing, as far asst is
humanity possible to secure it, equality
of opportunity, equality of the condi-
tions under which each man is IL
show the stuff that Is in him and t.
achieve the measure oe success tc
which his own force of mind and
character entitle him. Politically w'
can be said substantially to have
worked out our democratic ideals, ans
the same IS true. thanks to the com'
/ mon schools. in educational matters
But in industry there has not as ye
been the governmental growth neces
shrv in order to meet the tremendous
changes brought about in industrial
conditions bv steam and electricity. !
. is not IN accordance with our princi
, pies that literally despotie powe
should be put into the hands of a fov
, men in the affairs of the industrio
world. Our effort must he for Jus
and effective plan of action which
, while scrubulOusly safeguarding IN
2 rights OF the men of wealth, shall YET
so far as IS humanity possible, secur
r under tho law to all men equality q
, opportunity TO make n living. IN
Instruments for the exercise Of moderl
industrial power are ths great corporn
tions which. though created by tn
individual states. have grown far be
, vond the control Of those States an
transact their business throughou
large sections OF the Union. Thes
i, corrorations, like the industrial condi
tions which have called them into be
, ing. did not exist when the Constitu
ton was foundedi but the wise fore
:. thought of the founders PROVIDED
under the Interstate commerce claus
4 of the Constitution. for the very
emergency which has arisen. The Ne
tional Government alone has SUN
4 GENTLY extensive power and jurisdlo
! ton to exercise adequate control owe
q the great interstate corporations
While this thorough supervision an
control by the National Governmen
o Is aeslrablv primarily In the interes
+, of the people. Il win also, l firmly be
r lieve. be to the beenfit Of those corpoI
atlons themselves which desire to b
r honest and law-abiding. Only thu
& can we nut over these corporations on
- competent and efficient soverign-th
2 Nation-able both to exact justlc
n from them ana to secure Justice 20
- them. so that they may not be alter
nately pampered and oppressed. tn
nroposaI need be dreaded only b
n those corporations which do not wis
4 10 obey the law or 10 be controllel
r lust fashion, but prefer to take the
{ chances under the present lack OF a
a system and to court the chance of gel
- ting improper favors as ofsetting "
/. chance of being blaclSmailed-an att
S tude rendered familiar in the past .
10 those corporations which had thrive
under certain corrupt and lawless cit
Il governments.
v The first need iss to exercise IN
a Federal control in thoroughgoing an
4 efficient fashion over the railroad
which. because OF their peculiar pos
tion. offer the most immediate an
urgent problem. -