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tial party started In carriages for Rand
Park. where the President and other
spoke.
The Presidents speech was as fol-
lows:
Men and Women of Iowa:
81 am glad indeed to see you aud to
speak to you in this thriving city of your
great and prosperous State. believe with
all my heart in the people OF Iowa, for [
think that you are good. typical Americans.
aud that among you there has been de-
veloped TO a very high degree that body of
characteristics which we like to regard as
distinctively American.
During the last few years we of the
United States have been forced to consider
very seriously certain economic problems.
We have made a beginning in the attempt
to deal with the relations of the National
Government-that is, with the relations OF
the people of the eountry-to the huge and
wealthy corporations. controlled for the
most part by Il few very rich men, which
are engaged in interstate business-espe-
cially the great railway corporations. You
know my views on this matter: You
know that l believe that the National
Government. in the interests of the people,
should assume much the same supervision
and control over the management of the
interstate common carriers that 1t now ex-
ercises over the national banks. You know
furthermore that / believe that this super
vision and control should be exercised in a
spirit of rigid fairness toward the corpo-
rations, exacting justice from them on be-
half of the people. but giving them justice
in return.
Recently I have been reading the work
of the eminent italian scholar Ferrero on
the history of the Roman Republic, when
the life of the Roman state had become
that of a complex and luxurious industrial
civilization. | am happy to say that the
differences between that. civilization and
our own are more striking than the re-
semblances; and there is no warrant for
our being drawn into any pessimistic COM
parison between the two civilizations. But
there is every reason why we should study
| TarpfIIDv the nHet In order IN draw from
/ 1t lessons for use in the present. One of
the most striking features of the years
which saw the downfall of the Roman Re-
public was the fact that the political life
Of Rome became split4 between two camps,
one containing the rich, who wished to
exploit the poor, and the other the poor
under such circumstances, the public man
i who was for the moment successful tended
to be either a violent reactionary or a Vio.
lent demagogue. Any such condition of
political life is as hopelessly unhealthy
now as it was then. / believe so implicitly
in the future Of our people, because be
lieve that the average American citizen
will no more tolerate government by a mon
that he will tolerate government by a plu-
tocracy; that he desires TO see justice done
to and Justice exacted from rich man ana
poor man alike. We are not trying TO favor
any man at the expense of his fellows: we
are trying to shape things. so that as far as
possible each man shall lave a fair chance
Ia life; so that he shall have, so far as by
law this can be accomplished, the chance
to show the stuff that there is In MN.
We have no intention OF trying to work
for the impossible and undesirable end OF
giving to the lazy, the thriftless, the weak
and the vicious, the reward that belongs
to. and in the long run can only come TO,
the hard working, the thrifty, the r~esolute,
and the honest. But we DO VISA 10 see
that the necessary struggle in life shaii
be carried on under genuinely demo-
cratic conditions; that, so far as human
action can safely provide 1t, there shall pc
an approximately fair start; that there shan
be no oppression Of the weak, and t9 IA mo NO
a vast fortune by methods or IN ways that
are t%ortuOus and dishonest.
Therefore we need wise Jaws, anu W.
1--WE can get such laws and such admin
i~stration only II the people are awe 70
their interests. The other day | listened
to an admirable sermon by Ekshop Johh-
ston. of western Texas. His theme was
that the vital element In judging any man
should be his conduct. and neither ms
position nor his pretensions; ana, Iurr
thermore, that freedom could only. stay
with a people which has the habit OF SELF
mastery. As he said, the price OF nperty
is not only eternal vigilance, but eternal
virtue. and / may add, eternal common
sense. Each man here knows that he him
self has been able to use his freedom 10
advantage only provided that he could
master himself, that ne could eontrol
his own passions and direct his own
faculties. Each of you fathers ana moul-
ers here knows that if your sons are TO
do well in the world they must know nov
to master themselves. Every man must
have a master; If he is not his own mas
ter, then somebody else will be. rms Is
just as true of public life as OF private
life. If we cannot master ourselves eoh,
troll ourselves, then sooner or later we snel
have to submit to outside control; Tor
there must be control somewhere
'One way of exercising such control 1s
through the laws of the land. Ours is a
government Of liberty. but it is a govern
ment of that orderly liberty which comes
by and through the honest en1ofcemenl
of and obedience tn the law. AT intervals
during the last few months the appeal mas
been made to me not to enforce the law
against certain ~wrongdoers of great wealth
because to do so would Interfere with The
business prosperity, Of the country; UnaGr
the effects of that kind of fright which
when sufficiently acute we call panic, THIS
appeal has been made to me even by. men
who ordinarily behave as decent citizens.
One newspaper which has itself strongly
advanced this view gave prominence 70
the statement of a certain man of great
wealth to the effect that the so-called
financial weakness was due entirely TO
the admitted intention of President Roose-
Welt to punish the large moneyed interests
which had transgressed the laws" 1 do
not admit that this has been the mata
cause of any business troubles we have
had, but it is possible that 1t has been
a contributory cause. II so, friends, as
far as I am concerned, 1t must be accept
ed as a disagreeable but unayoldable tea-
1lVEl III u GbhA9N u VAAAI khAA NO A1AD
as I am President will not be changed.
In any great movement for righteousness,
where the forces of evil are strongly en-
trencbed. it is unfortunately inevita lie
that some unoffending people should si,%er
i'm company with the real offenders. THIS
is not our fault. Tt is the fault of those
Ia whose deceptive action these innocent
people owe their false position. A year
or two ago certain representatives OF
labor called upon me and In the course of
n very pleasant conversation told me that
thev regarded me as the friend of labor
I answered that l certainly was, and that
I would do everything In my power for
the iaborine man except anything that was
wrong. I have the same answer to make
to the business man. I will do every
thing I can do to help business conditions
/ except anything that Is wrong. And it
would be not merely wrong but Infamous
10 fail TO do all that can be done to Sc
cure the punishment of those wrong
doors whose deeds are peculiarly repre-
4 hensible because they are not committed
under the stress Of want. Whenever a
| serious effort is made to cut out what is
evii in our political life, whether the eff
fort takes the shape of warning against
| the gross and sordid forms of evil in
! some municipality, or whether 1t takes the
shane Of trying to secure the honest en-
Fort" and Joseph A. Birkholz, author of
the campaign song, stepped to the front
and led the assemblage while they sang
all its stanzas.
When quiet hid been restored and the
candidate was finally able to speak. he
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