The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-21
ONCE MORE
STATES HIS POSITION
Corporations Which Have Been Conducting
Their Business According to Law
Have Nothing to Fear.
Prosecution of LaWbeakerS viii Continue but Not to Point
Where innocent Parties Will Suffer.

Provinceton, Mass, Aug 2--The laying
today of the cornerstone of the Pilgrim
memorial monument completed the foun-
dalton of the imposing structure which
will commemorate the landing within n
few feet of it's base of the Pilgrim Faith
ers. A big fleet of fishing vessels and
yachts in the harbor had a background of
eight formidable warships. The May
flower. having on board, President Roose-
Welt, rounded the cape an hour ahead of
time.
Previous to landing the president re-
CeiVed the commanders OF the WaTSh1ps
and a committee of citizens on board the
Mayflower. The great crowd on the
wharf cheered when the chief executive
of the nation landed The president en-
tered a carriage and proceeded to the
monument site preceded by a band The
route through the town main thorough
fare was a continuous ovation. The ex-
ercises were opened with prayer by Rev.
Samuel Elliott of Boston, president of the
American Unitarian association. The Ma
sonic ceremonies of stone laying were
conducted by Grand Master Bake of the
Massachusetts grand lodge of Masons.
When President Roosevelt was introduced
by Governor Guild thousands greeted his
appearance with prolonged bursts of ap-
plause.
The president spoke as follows:
FFcSlOenIS ADDRESS.
1t is not too much to say that the
event commemOrated by the monument
which we have come here to dedicate was
one of tt ose rare events which can in
good faith he called of world Importance
The coming hither of the Puritan three
centuries ago shaped the destinies of this
continent, and therefore profoundly af-
fected the destiny of the whole world
Men of other races, the Frenchman and
the Spanisrd, the Dutchman, the German,
the Scotchman and the Swede, made set
Elements within what is now the United
States, during the colonial period of our
history and before the Declaration of In
dependence; |and since then there has
been an ever-swelllng immigration from
Ireland and from the mainland of Eu
rope; but II was the Englishman who set
tied in Virginia and the Englishman who
settled in Massa chUsetts who did most
in shaping the lines of our national de-
Velopment
We cannot as nation he too pro-
foundly grateful for the fact that the
Puritan has stamped his influence so
deeply on our national life We need
have but scant patience with the men
who now rail at the Puritans faults.
They were evident, of course, for il Is
2 quality of strong natures that their
failings, like their virtues, should stand
out in bold relief; but there is nothing
easier than to belittle the great men of
tire past by dwelling only on the points
where they come short of the universally
must be Judged with reference to the age
in which"they dwell. and the work they
have to do The Puritan's task was to
conquer a continent; not merely to over
run it, but to settle 1t, TO till it, to build
upon II a high industrial and social life;
and. while engaged in the rough work of
tanning the shaggy wilderness, at that
very time also to lay deep the immoVa-
ble foundations of our whole American
system of civil, political and religious
liberty, achieved through the orderly
process OF law. This was the work al
lotted him to 90; this is the work he did;
and only a master spirit among men
could have done it.
Heritage Of All.
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
are not OF Puritan blood also claim as
our heritage. You, sons Of the Puritans,
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 there
fore this shrine Of Puritanism is one at
which we all gather to pay homage, no
matter from what country our ancestors
sprang.
Puritan had Motive of this generation,
we of the twentieth century. here in this
great republic: but we are also in danger
of losing certain things with the Puritan
had and which We can by no manner of
means afford to lose. We have gained
& JOY of living which he had not, and
which it is a good thing for every people
to have and to develop. Let us see
TO it that we do not lose what is
more important still; that we do not
lose the Puritan's iron sense of duty, his
unbending, .unflinching will to do the
right as it was given him to see the right
II is good thing that life should gain
in sweetness. but only provided that il
does not lose in strength Ease and rest
and pleasure are good things. but only
If they came as the reward of work well
done. of good fight well won, of strong
effort resolutely made and crowned BY
high achievement. The life of mere
pleasure, of mere effOrtless ease is as
ignoble for nation as for an individual
The man Is but a poor father who teaches
his sons that ease and pleasure should be
their chief objects in life: the woman who
is a mere petted toy, incapable of serious
purpose. shrinking from effort and duty.
is more pitiable than the veriest over
worked drudge So he is but a poor
leader of the people, but a poor national