The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
SOP TO THE RAILROADS
Handed Out by President Roosevelt in
Speech at Unwilling of Gen. Law
ton Monument in indianapolis.

President Roosevelt was the prin-
cipal speaker in indianapolis Thurs
day at the decoration day exercises
and the unveiling of the Lawton mon
ument. AS was generally anticipated,
the president took advantage of the
opportunity to discuss exhaustively
the nationa, railway situation and TO
outline the administrations program
ii regulation and control.
The speaker was greeted by an
audience OF several thousand people
from Indianapolis and the surround
ing territory. Enthusiasm manifested
itself in continuous cheering, as the
presiden. spoke in the most optimis-
tic terms of the railway situation, de-
claring empnatically that there was
no occasion for alarm or uneasiness,
and that the administration proposed
holding the balance of justice ex-
actly even as between the carriers
and the people. In part he said:
For more than one reason | am
peculiarly glad that this year | speak
on memorial day in the state of In
diana. There is not another class Of
our citizens to whom we owe so
much as to the veterans Of the great
war. To them it was given to per-
form the one feat with which no
other feat can be compared, for to
them it was given to preserve the
union.
"You have left country so genu-
inely reunited that all of us now, in
whatever part of this union We live,
have a right to feel the keenest pride,
not only in the valor and self-devo-
ton of you, the gallant men who
wore the blue, but also in the valor
and self-devotion Of your gallant op-
ponents who wore the gray.
"The hero whose monument We to-
day unveil, by his life, bore singular
testimony to the completeness of the
reunion. General Lawton, in his youth,
fought gallantly in the civil war.
-Thfrty-three years sfterward he again
marched to war, this time against
a foreign foe, and served with dis
;inguished ability and success as a
general officer, both in Cuba, and in
the Philippines. When he thus served
it was in an army whose generals
included not only many OF his old
comrades in arms, but some of his old
opponents also, as General Wheeler
and General Fitzhugh Lee. Under him
both among the commissioned off,
GERS and in the ranks-were many
men whose fathers had worn the blue
serving side by side with others
whose fathers had worn the gray i;
but all Americans now, and moth
ing but Americans, all united in their
fealty and devotion to their common
flag and their common country
Reverting to the issues of the day,
the president said in part:
Great social and industrial prob
lens confront us, and their solution
demands on our part unfaltering cour-
age and yet wise, good-natured self
restraint: so that on the one hand
we shall neither be daunted by diff.
fculties nor fooled by those who
would seek to persuade US that the
difficulties are insuperable; while on
the other hand we are not misled
into showing either rashness or vim
dictiveness.
"One great problem that we have
before us is to preserve the rights
of property; and these can only be
preserved if we remember that they
are in less jeopardy from the social
is. and the anarchist than from the
predatory rich man.
Every federal law dealing with
corporations or with railroads that
has been put upon the statute books
during the last six years has been a
step in advance in the right direction
There can be no swerving from
the course that has been thus mapped
out in the legislation actually enact
ed and in the messages in which
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 conservatism"