The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-27
PRESIDENT SAYS
NO MOB CAN RULE
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the war, and of the peace that made
good the results of the war-Georgo
Washington; while the two grent polit-
ical tendencies of the time can be sym
bolized by the names OF two other great
Virginians-Je and Marshall
from one of whom we inherit the abid-
ing trust in the people which is the
foundation stone of democracy, and
from the other the power to develop on
behalf of the people a coherent and
powerful Government, n genuine and
representative nationality,
1.-TWO generations passed before the
second great crisis of our history had
to be faced Then came tho Civil war,
terrible and bitter in itself and in its
aftermath, but a struggle from which
the nation finally emerged united in
fact as we'll as In name, united forever
On, my hearers, my fellow countrYmen,
great indeed has been our good fortune;
for as time clears away the mists that
once shroudcd brother from brother and
made each look as through glass
darkly' at the other, we can all feel
the same pride in the valor, the devo
tion and the fealty toward the right as
IT was gwen to each to see the right,
shown alike by the men who wore the
blue and by the men who wore the gray.
Rich and prosperous though we are as
people, the proudest heritage that each
of us has, no matter where he may
dwell North or South, East or West, is
the immatcrial heritage of feeling, the
right to claim rs his own all the valor
and all the steadfast devotion 10 duty
shown by the men of both the great az
mlcs, Of the soldiers whose leader was
Grant and the soldiers whose leader was
Lee. The men and the women of the
Civil war did their duty braVely and
well in the days that were dark and ter
rible and splendid. We, their descend
ants, who pay proud homage to their
memories, and glory in the feats of
might of one side no less than of the
other. need to keep steadily in mind
homage of heart and of hand, and not
of the lips, the homage of deeds and
not Of words only. We. too, in our
turn, must prove our truth by our en-
deavor We must show ourselves
worthy sons of the men of the mighty
days by the way in which We meet the
problems of our own time. We carry
our heads high because our fathers did
we'll in the years that tried men s souls,
and we must in our turn so bear our-
selves that the children who come after
us may feel that we too have done our
duty.
Should Be Ready For War.
"We cannot afford TO forget the max
that the surest way TO avert war is TO
be prepared to meet it. Nevertheless,
the duties that most concern us OF this
generation are not military, but social
and industrial Each community must
always dread the evils which spring
up as attendant upon the very qualities
which give it success, We of this
mighty western republic have to Crap
pie with the dangers that spring from
popular self government tried on scale
incomparably vaster than ever before
in the history of mankind, and from an
abounding material prosperity greater
also than anything which the world has
hitherto seen.
GAS regards the first set of dangers,
1T behooves us TO remember that men
can never escape being governed. Eth
must submit to being governed by 9th
ers. If from lawlessness or fcRleness,
from folly or selfindulgence, they re-
fuse to govern themselves, then most as
suredly in the end they Will have to be
governed from the outside. They can
prevent the need of government from
without only by showing that they pos
sess the power of government from
within. 4 sovereign cannot make eX-
cuses for his failures; sovereign must
accept the responsibility for the eXer-
else of the power that inheres in him;
and where, as is true in our republic, the
people are sovereign, then the people
must show sober understanding and a
sane and Steadfast purpose if they are
TO preserve that orderly liberty upon
which as a foundation every republic
must rest.
In industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with il certain
grave evils. 1t is our duty to try to
cut out these evils without at the same
time destroying our ell-being itself.
This is an era of combination alike IN
The world of capital and IN the world OF
labor. Each kind of combination can
do good, and yet each, however power
full, must be opposed when II does ill.
At the moment the greatest problem
before MS is how to exercise such con-
troll over the business use of vast
wealth, individual, but especially cor
porate, as will insure its not being used
against the interest Of the public, while
yet permitting such ample legitimate
profits as Will encourage individual in
itiative. It is our business to put stop
to abuses and TO prevent their recW-
renee, without showing n spirit of mere
vindictiveness for what has been done
in the past In John Morley's brilliant
sketch of Burke he lays especial stress
upon the fact that Burke more than
almost any other thinker or politician
OF his time realized the profound les
son that in politics we are concerned not
with barren rights but with duties not
with abstract truth, but with practical
morality. He especially eulogizes the
way in which in his efforts for economic
reform, Burke combined unshakable res
olution IN pressing the reform with Il
profound temperatures of spirit which
made him, while bent on the extirpation
Of the evil system, refuse to cherish an
unreasonng and vindictive i'll will
toward The men who had benefited by it.
Said Burke, If | cannot reform with
equity, ! will not reform at all. "
(There is) state TO preserve as
well as n state TO reform.
A State to Preserve.
"This is the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the reform
of abuses of corporate wealth. The
wrong doer, the man who swindles and
cheats. whether on a big scale or lit
tie one, shall receive at our hands mercy
AaaSA MEhWA3Be