The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-31
THE MEMORIAL
DAY ADDRESS
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selves worthy heirs Of the men Of the
civil war, we must do our tasks with
the thoroughness with which they did
theirs
Great social and industrial prob
lens confront us, and their solution
demands on our part unfaltering
courage, and yet a wise, good-natured
self-restraint; so that on the one hand
we shall neither be daunted by diff
culties nor fooled by those who would
seek to persuade us that the difficult
ties are insuperable; while on the
other hand we are not miSled into
showing either rashness or vindictive-
ness. Let us try as a people to show
the same qualities as we deal with
the industrial and social problems of
today that Abraham Lincoln showed
when with indomitable resolution, but
with a kindness, patience, and conf
mon sense quite as remarkable. he
faced four weary years of open war
in front of calumny. detraction and
intrigue from behind, and at the end
gave to his countrymen whom he had
served so we'll the blood-bought gift
of a race freed and nation forever
united.
One great problem that we have
before us is to preserve the rights
OF property: and these can only be
preserved of We remember that they
are in less jeopardy from the social
list and the anarchist than from the
predatory man of wealth. 1t has be-
come evident that to refuse to invoke
he Of fhn IN IN
the wrongs committed by the man of
great wealth who does evil is not only
to neglect the interests of the pub
lie, but is to neglect the interests of
the man of means who acts honor
ably by his fellows. The power of
the nation must be eXerted to stop
crimes of cunning no less than crimes
of violence. There can be no halt
in the course We have deliberately
elected to pursue. the policy of as
sorting the right of the nation, SO
far as it has the power to supervise
and control the business use OF
wealth, especially in its corporate
form. Today l wish to say word
to you about the first and most i'm
portant feature of this task, the con-
troll of the common carriers doing
an interstate business; a control alb
solutely vested in the nation, while
in so far as the common carriers also
transport the mails it is in my opin-
ion probable that whether their bust
ness is or is not interstate it is to
the same extent subject to federal
control, under that clause OF the con-
stitution granting to the national gov
eminent power to establish post roads
and therefore by necessary implica-
ton power to take all action neces-
sary in order to keep them at the
highest point OF efficiency.
Every federal law dealing with cor
porations or with railroads that has
been put upon the statute books dur
ing the last six years has been a step
in advance in the right direction. All
action taken by the administration I'M
der these and the pre-existing laws
has been just and proper. Every suit
undertaken during that period has
been suit not merely warranted,
but required, by the facts; suit in
the interest OF the people as a whole,
and, in the long run, particularly in
the interest of stockholders as well
as in the interest of business men
of property generally. There can be
no swerving from the course that has
thus been mapped out in the legis-
lation actually enacted and in the
messages in which l have asked for
further legislation. We best serve
the interests of the honest railway
men when We announce that we will
follow out precisely this course. 1t
is the course OF real, of ultimate con-
servatism. There will be NO halt in
the forward movement toward a full
development of this policy; and those
who wish US to take step backward
or to stand still. If their wishes were
realized, would find that they had in
vited an outbreak Of the very radical
ism they fear. There must be pro-
gressive legislative and administra-
tive action for the correction of the
evils which every sincere man must
admit to have existed in railroad