Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
Senator Beveridge of Indiana
Speaks at the Celebration Held
Today at Galena, Ill.
Estates RIGHTS" ARE SELFISH
Beveridse Declares Roosevelt is At
tackled as Were Washington, Lin.
coin and Grant-Their Work Con-
tinued by the Present President =
Control of Corporations.

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principal address was delivered by
Senator Albert j. Beveridge, of In
diana, and was heard by several thou
sand people.
| Senator Beveridge discussed at
| length the question of states rights,
which he termed We're British prin-
ciple and conceived and advocated in
selfishness. He also discussed TIE
control of railways by the state and
| nation, saying that the next great
| struggle in the problem will be between
| state regulation Of interstate railways
passing thru each particular state, on
| the one hand, and, on the other hand.
exclusive national control of inter-
state railways thru all the states thru
which such railways pass. The con-
test will not end In day or year. y
he said. "but finally It's conclusion is
inevitable. The railways properly
managed are by far the greatest agen-
cies in our wellbeing. They are the
largest practical force that holds the
American people together. Our pros
perity depends absolutely on our COM
| merce, and our commerce depends abb
solutely on our railways. Our culture
depends absolutely on the quick and
easy communication Of every part Of
the republic with every other part OF
the republic.
IN word, the railways are Of uni-
versal Importance. Their evils are
general evils; their benefits are general
benefits. They are the most distinctly
national of all elements OF American
life. Therefore their control must be
as national as their benefits or their
evils. But II the national government
regulates them, as it should and must,
and if at the same time forty seven
other governments also interfere with
them, we shall have the nations high
ways, which are purely national In
their activities, harassed by forty
eight governments. No system OF
communication can be perfect under
such tangle Of conflicting laws.
THE time must come when states
must reduce their interference with
national highways passing thru them.
or better STILL stop interference alto
gether That time will be delayed,
because of selfish interests: because OF
the recrudescence of states rights with
which we are now troubled; but chief
ly because of demagogues who seek
position and power by attacking these
most conspicuous of public corpora
tons. The American people are as
much in danger from the demagogues
1Ec1,1 nd torn 0nak IN
inf1ame their passions as they are from
selfish interests who seek to exploit
their resources"
Work Of Lincoln and Grant.
Senator Beveridge declared that
Roosevelt is continuing the great work
inaugurated by Lincoln and Grant.
Continuing, he said:
Thus we see that present and fu-
ture problems are merely continu-
alton Of the mighty work OF Lincoln
in the statesman's cabinet and Grant
on the stricken field justas their work
was a continuation OF the labors of
Washington and the 9eat men who
achieved our independence wrote out
in constitution and breathed into the
nation the breath of, life. And just as
these men persohified great move-
ment of the people toward sounder
welfare and a larger happiness in their
day. SO there is man who represents
this same movement in our day. l
need not name him. You know him.
His name is in your hearts and on your
lips. / only voice your unspoken
thought when say that the great sue
cessor of Washington in his time, OF
Jackson in his time, of Lincoln and
of Grant in their time, is in our time
Theodore Roosevelt.
each of these men, so dear to all
Americans, was in his day UNANIMOUSLY
assailed. Think Of the attacks on
Washington. They said that his reiig-
ion was hypocrisy, his immovable de-
termination fixed selfishness, his
patriotism a sham. they said that he
was a politician, and that for the pur-
pose of power he linked himself with
the infamous and the vile.
jackson was called 'tyrant.' They
said that he was an ignorant back
woodsman who knew nothing about
law or government. They DETAINED
his private character. And you,., old
soldiers remember the iniquitous things
spoken of Lincoln The soldiers Of
nationality were called Lincoln hire
lings' and Lincoln dogs Booth justi-
fed hts murder with the now Infamous
phrase sic semper tyrannis.' And
Grand-who does not recall the slime
with which little men sought to soil
that noble name Grant suffered as
Washington suffered. The Father Of
his Country was so harassed that hnal-
lv he exclaimed, I would rather be
dead and in my grave than to stand
this any longer And Grant said in his
second inaugural:
"'Thruout the war, and from my
candidacy for my present office In
1868, to the close Of the last pres1den-
tial campaign, have been the sub
iect of abuse and SANDER scarcely ever
equalled in political history.
"And today, like Washington. like
Jackson, like Lincoln and like Grant.
Theodore Roosevelt is similarly as
sailed by similar men. Like them. he
has been called "despot.' Like them
and like all great men of all countries
and of all times. he has been called
"egotist" and insane" To little minds
the great have always been both vain
and mad. But of our president. who
is great only because he is big enough
to reflect the purposes of ninety mil
lions of people, the final charge that he
is a Child" was made the other day
by brilliant editor in an acid speech.
What do you think Of that. you old