The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-28
bEVERIDGE: TALKS
Of STATES Rights
Uses Celebration Of Grants
Birthday to Defend here
Nationality"
BECOMES FULS0ME IL
PRAISE OF ROOSEVELT
Sees I'm tie President the Great
Successor Of Washington,
Lincoln and Grant.

GALENA, ILL.,, April 27.-The birth.
day of General Grant was celebrated
today for the seventeenth time This
morning the cornerstone of the Carnc"
gie.Foyt $50,000 library building was
lard. The commemorative exercises took
place this afternoon in Grant park. The
orator of the day was Senator Bever"
idge.
Senator Beveridge said that it was fit
ting at n celebration of the birthday
of General Grant, the meaning of whose
life work was the ever-increasing unity
of the American people into an ever
stronger growing nation,' to discuss
the question of states rights,
States Must Not Interfere.
'The time must come" he said,
"when states must reduce their inter
ference with national highways passing
through them, or. better still. stop IN
reference altogether, That time will
be delayed because of selfish interests,
because Of the recrudesccnce Of states
rights with which We are now troubled;
but chiefly because Of demagogues who
seek position and power by attacking
these most conspicuous of public cor.
porahons. The American people are as
much IN danger from the dcmagogue
who seltshly and ignorantly seek to in
Hame their passion as they are from
selfish interests who seek to exploit
their resources. -
The Senator discussed the dangers of
orercapitalization and pointed out the
necessary of comm lSnryr h1tairN- in
porate affairs and national incorporation
OF great enterprises. Another great re-
form which the nation must work out.
be said, is prevention of child labor
He said:
ION the question oc ending the bar
barism of child slavery in the republic,
Nationality says TO States Rights what
Grant, the captain of Nationality, said
TO the Captains of States Rights moro
than forty years ago-Immediato and
unconditional urrender-and-'W will
fight it out on this line if it takes all
summer
Praises Roosevelt.
"Present and future problems are
merely "A continuation Of the mighty
work of Lincoln III the statesman s cab.
met and Grant on the stricken field,
just as their work was n continuation of
the labors of Washington and the great
men who achieved our independence.
wrote out in the Constitution and
breathed into the nation the breath of
= life. 1 only voice your unspoken thought
when / say that the great successor of
Washington. his time. Of Jackson in his
time, of Lincoln and Of Grant in their
time. is in our time Theodore Roosevelt
And today, ike Washington, like
Jackson. like Lincoln, and like Grant
Roosevelt is similarly assailcd by sim
liar men. Like them, he has been called
despot Like them and like all the
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 be
cause he is big enough to reflect the
purposes OF ninety millions Of people
the final charge that he. is child was
made the other day BY a brilliant edi
tor in an acrid speech. ~
''If child he be, God givrNns more
such children to serve and to bless thi
nation. God grant that such stock shall
not run out. -