The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-02-28
ATTITUDE ON TRUSTS
SILLY AS ON SLAVES
Roosevelt.
President Declares Common
wealths Must Leave Corpora
ton Control to Nation.

Cambridge, Mass. Feb ss.-President
Roosevelt addressed the Harvard stu
dents and faculty today. being heard
BY a huge crowd
against state rights. saying In part;
Rowing. baseball. Ia crosse, track and
field games. hockey. football are all OF
them good. Moreover IL IL TO my mind
weakness. to desir- to abolish a game be-
cause tendencies show themselves. or prac-
tees grow up. which prove that the game
ought to be reformed. Take football. for
instance TIL. preparatory schools are
able TO keep football clean and TO develop
the right spirit In the players without the
slighiest necessity ever arising to so much
IA consider the question Of abolishing u.
There II no excuse whatever for colleges
falling 10 show the same capacity. and
there IL no real need for considering tho
question Of the abolition OF the game. II
necessary. let III. college authorities In
terfcre 10 stop any excess or pervrrslon.
making their interference. az little officious
nsossssry V to scSisS, tn. end. Ba, there
n no Justification for stopping thorough
ly manly sport because u IL sometimes
abused. when th. experience OF every
abuse IL In no shape necessarily attendant
upon the game.
Study Beats Athletics.
Play while you play ard work while you
work. and though play In mighty good
thing remember that you had better
never play at all than 60 get into n con-
dltion OF mind where YOU regard play az
the serious business OF life
Athletics are good: study Is even better:l
and best OF all n the development OF the
type OF character for the lack OF which.
IA an individual a. IN a nation. no amount
body will atone, You here when you are
graduated will take up many different
kinds OF work: but there h one work In
which all % you should take part simply
~ good American citizens. and that II SELF
government Remember. In the first place.
that to take part In the work OF govern
ment does not In the least mean OF ncces-
sity TO hold office. IL means 20 take an
Intelligent, dlsintervSted and practical
part IN the everyday duties Of the average
citizen. OF the cltiErn who 10 not fad
dist OF a doctrinalr". pu; who abhors cor
rupiion and dlslike- ln-iflciency: who
wishes TO see decent government prevail
at home. with genuine equality OF oppor-
tunity for all men so far as IL can be-
brought about: and who wishes. as far AZ
foreign matters are concerned. 20 see this
cation treat all other nations. great and
small. With respect and ir need be with
generosity, and at the same time show
herself able 10 protect herself BY her own
might from any wrong ~ the hands OF
any outside power.
Up to Strong Men.
In republic like ours the government
class n composed OF the strong men who
take the trouble 10 do the work OF govern
ment: and X YOU are too umid or too fas-i
tldious or too careless TO do your part
10 be considered one OF the governing and
you become one OF the governed instead,
one OF the driven cattle OF the political
arena.
The educated man who seeks 10 consoie,
himself for his own lack OF the robust,
qualities necessary 70 bring success In
American politics by moaning over the
degcneracy OF the times instead OF trying
20 better them. by railing at the men who
do the actual work OF political life instead
o. trying himself TO do the work. n a poor
creature. and. so far as his feeble powers
avail. II a damage and not a help 10 the
country.
Like most other things of value. .duca-
ton IL good only Ia so far as Il II used
Alright. and II ~ is misused or IL e causes
the owner TO be - puff.d UP with pride a.
Co make him missstimat- the relative
values % thirgs 81 becomes harm. not
benefit
Cannot Control Trusts.
There has been a curious revival OF the
doctrine OF state rights By the people who
know IN" states cannot with justice 10
oolh sides practically controI the corpora'
lions. and who therefore advocate such
control because they do not venture TO ex-
press their real wish. which IL that there
shall be no control al all. Honest and fair
dealing railway corporations VIII gain ana
not los" by adequate federal control.
but those who invoke the doctrine 90
state rights To protest state corporate ere.
sCons Ia predatory activities extended
through other states are as short-sighted
a. those who one" Invoked the same doc
irin- TO protect the special slaHeholdins
interest.
State rights should BE- preserved when
they mean the peoples rights, but not
when they mean the peoples wrongs: not.
Tor instance. when they are invoked To
prevent the abolition OF child labor, or To
break the force OF the laws which pro
hibit the importation Of contract labor 10
this country: In short, not when they
atand for wrong or oppression OF any Kind
or for national weakness or Impotence a;
home or abroad