The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-31

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afternoon, President Roosevelt dehV
cred the following address at the Me
mortal Day services here:
| The Presidents Address.
| For more than one reason 1 am pc
culiarly glad that this year / speak
on Memorial Day in the state of Ind
lana. There is no other class of ouI
citizens to whom we owe so much as
| to the veterans of the great war. To
them it was given to perform the one
feat with which no other feat can be
| compared, for to them it was given
| to preserve the Union. Moreover, you
men who wore the blue, blessed be
yond the victors in any other war OF
recent times, have left to your coun
trymen more than the material re
suits of the triumph, more even than
the achieving the triumph itself. You
have left a country so genuinely re
| united that all of us now, in whatev'
er part of this Union we live, nave
a right to feel the keeneSt pride, not
only in the valor and self-devotion OF
you, the gallant men who wore the
| blue, but also in the valor and self
devotion of your gallant opponents
who wore the gray. The hero whose
| monument we today unveil, by his
| life bore singular testimony to the
completeness of the reunion. General
| Lawton in his youth fought gallantly
| in the Civil War. Thirty-three years
afterward ne again marched to war.
this time against a foreign foe, and
served with distinguished 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 ma
NY of his old comrades in arms, but
l. leo
General Wheeler and Gen. FitZhugh
Lee. Under MIN, both among the
commissioned officers and in the
ranks, were many men whose faith
ers had worn the blue serving side
by side with others whose fathers had
worn the gray; but all Americans
now, and nothing but Americans, all
united in their fealty and devotion to
their common flag and their common
country, and eacn knowing only the
generous rivalry with his fellows as
to who could best serve the cause for
which each was ready to lay down life
itself. To General Lawton it befell
actually to lay down his life; a trag-
edy, but one of those noble tragedies
where our pride rises above our sor-
row. For he died in the fullness of
time, serving his country with entire
DEVOTION death that every man
may well envy. -
One great problem that we have be-
fore us is to preserve the rights OF
property; and these can only be pre-
served If we remember that they are
in less jeopardy from the socialist
and the anarchist than fnom the pre-
datory man of wealth. 1t has be-
come evident tnat to refuse to invoke
the power of the nation to restrain
tod fha an
of great wealth who does evil is not
only to neglect the interests of the
public, but is to neglect the interests
of the man of means who acts honor
ably by his fellows. The power of the
nation must be exerted to stop crimes
of cunning no less tnan crimes of v1o-
lence. There can be no halt in the
course we have deliberately elected
to pursue, the policy of asserting the
right of the nation, 50 far as DIT has
the power to supervise and control
the business use of wealth, especially
in its corporate form. Today 1 wish
to say a word to you about the first
and most important feature of this
task. the control of the common car
riers doing an interstate business;
control absolutely vested din the ma
ton, while in so far as the common
carriers also transport the mails 1t
is in my opinion probable that wheth-
er their business is or is not dnter-
state it is to the same extent subject
to Federal control, under that clause
of the Constitution granting to the
National Government power to estab-
lish post roads and therefore by nee
essary implication power to take all
action necessary in order to keep
them at the highest point of efficiency
. Every Federal law dealing with cor
porations or with railroads that has
been put upon the statute books dur
ing the last six years has been step
in advance in the right direction. All
action taken by the Administrator
under these and the pre-existing laws
has been just and proper. Every suit
undertaken during that period mas
been a suit not merely warranted, but
required, by the facts: suit in the
interest of the people as whole. and.
in the long run. particularly in the
interest of stockholders as well as in
the interest of business men of prop
erty generally. There can be no
swerviag from the course that has
thus been mapped out in the legisla-
ton actually enacted and in the mes
sages in which I have asked for fur
ther legislation. We best serve the
interests of the honest railway men
when we announce that we will fol-
low out precisely this course 1t is
the course of real. of ultimate con-
servatism- There will be mo halt in
the forward movement toward a full
development Of this policy; and those
who wish us to take a step back
ward or to stand still. if their wishes
were realized, would find that they
had invited an outbreak of the very
radicalism they fear. There must be
progressive legislative and admi1is-
trative action for the correction of
the evils which every sincere man
must admit to nave existed In rail-
road management in the past.
Such additional legislation as that
for which have asked in the past.
and especially that for which asked
IN my message at the opening of the
last session OF Congress. Is not mere
ly Inn the interest of the public. but
most emphatically in the interest Of
every honest railway manager and of
all investors or would-be investors in
railway securities. There must be
vested ii the Federal Government q
full power Of supervision and control
over the railways doing interstate hu-