The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-05-02
PLUTOCRACY
NOR MOB rule HERE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAKES
ADDRESS At OPENING OF
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
Declares Best Way to Maintain Peace
Is to BE Prepared for War-Great
Problem Is to Exercise Just Con.
troll Over Vast Wealth.

Norfolk, Va, April 27.-"This great
republic of ours shall never become
the government Of a plutocracy, and it
shall never become the government Of
a mob" said President Roosevelt
Friday afternoon in his address at
the opening of the jamestown exposi-
ton. Mr.. Roosevelt paid a compli-
ment to each of the nations taking
part in the fair, and added: I'm par
ticular let me express a word of
hearty welcome to the representative
of the mighty island empire of Japan,
that empire which, in learning from
the west, has shown that it had so
much, so very much; to teach the
west in return"
Refers to Civil War.
The president touched a tender
chord when he said of the great civil
war: "Rich and prosperous though we
are as a people, the proudest heritage
that each Of us has, no matter where
he may dwell, north or south, east or
west, is the immaterial heritage of
feeling, the right to claim as his own,
all the valor and all the steadfast de-
votion to duty shown by the men Of
both the great armies, of the soldiers
whose leader vas Grant and the SOL
diers whose leader was Lee"
The presidents reference to his Wis
1t to the foreign warships. and the
American navy was turned in an i'm
promptu manner upon the recent gath
ering in New York to discuss world
policies, and he held up peace and
righteousness as virtue and blessings
that go hand in hand. He said that If
the time ever comes when the world
must choose between them Shame to
it If it chooses peace" The thought
for this expression was accredited to
the Bible, which the president said
contained a good deal of sound read
ing that would not be out Of place in a
peace conference.
Excerpts from Address.
The most important u~tterances in
the presidents address are as fol-
lows:
"The world has moved so far that it
is n % longer necessary to believe that
one nation can rise only by thrust
ing another down.
II believe that there is a rising
tide in human thought which tends for
righteous international peace; a tide
which behooves us to guide through
rational channels to sane conclusions;
and all of IL here present can well
afford to take to heart st. Paul's coun-
sci: If it be possible, as much as
lieth in you, live ~peaceably with all
men,
"We cannot afford to forget the
maxim upon which washington insist
ed, that the surest way to avert war
is to be prepared to meet it.
"Thfs is an era of combination alike
in the world of capital and in the
world of labor. Each kind of combina-
ton can do good, and yet each, how
eve powerful, must be opposed when
it does i'll. At the moment the great
est problem before us is how to exer-
else such control over the business
use of vast wealth, individual, but es-
pecially corporate, al will insure its
not being used against the interest of
the public, while yet permitting such
ample legitimate profits as will en-
courage individual initiative.
1--WE show ourselves the truest
friends of property when we make it
evident that we will not tolerate the
abuses Of property. We are stead
lily bent on preserving the institution
of private property; we combat every
tendency toward reducing the people
to economic servitude; and we care
not whether the tendency is due to a
sinister agitation directed against all
property, or whether it is due to the
actions of those members of the pred.
atory classes whose antisocial power
is im~measurably increased because OF
the very fact that they possess
wealth"