The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-27
NOTABLE EVENTS AND DAY
FULL OF INCIDENTS MARKS
OPENING OF BIG EXPOSITION
International Naval Review and Address by Pres
ident Roosevelt Chief Features of
Dedication

I buildings wire Illuminated tonight.
Roosevelt Reviews Nations Growth.
The president in his address spoke
| with the deepest feeling regarding
the settlement of America. it's many
strifes and struggles and finally
| brought his remarks to a close with a
diversion of the problems now facing
| the Republic
| The concluding portion of his speech
follows:
| We can not afford to forget the
| maxim upon which Washington in
sisted, that the surest way to avert
war is to be prepared to meet 1t.
Nevertheless the duties that most
concern us of this generation are not
military, but social and industrial.
AS regards the first set of dangers,
it behooves MS to remember that men
can never escape being governed.
Either they must govern themselves
or they must submit to being gov.
erned by others If from lawlessness
or fickleness, from folly or self-in
diligence. they refuse to govern them
selves, then most assuredy 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 possess the
power of government from within. A
sovereign can not make excuses for
his failures; sovereign must accept
the responsibility for the exercise OF
the great power that inheres in him;
and where, as is true in our republic,
the people are sovereign, then the peo-
pie must show sober understanding
and a sane and steadfast purpose il
they are to preserve that orderly
liberty upon which as foundation
every republic must rest
Prosperity Also Brings Evils.
In industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with 1t certain
grave evils. It Is our duty to try to
cut out these evils without at the
same time destroying our well 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 powerful, must be OPP
posed when it does ILL., At the mo-
ment the greatest problem before us
Is how 10 exercise such control over
the business use of vast wealth, in
dividual, but especially corporate, as
will insure its not being used against
the interest of the public, while yet
permitting such ample legitimate
profits as will encourage individual
initiative. II is our business to put q
stop To abuses and to prevent their
recurrence without showing spirit
OF mere vndictiveness 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 lesson
that in politics we are concerned not
with barren rights but with duties;
not with abstract truth, but with prac
tital morality. He especially eulogizes
the way in which in his efforts for
economic reform. Burke combined un-
shakable resolution in pressing the
reform with a profound temperate
ness of spirit which made him, while
bent on the extirpation of the evil
81 stem. refuse 10 cherish an unrea-
soning and vindictive Ill will toward
the men who had benefited by IT,
Said Burke, "If | can not reform with
equity | will not reform at all
This is the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the re
form of abuses of corporate wealth.
The wrong-doer. the man who
swindles and cheats. whether on a big
scale or little one, shall receive at our
hands mercy as scant as ii he COM
mitted crimes OF violence or brutal
ity. We are unalterably determined
to prevent wrongdoing in the future
we have no intention of trying to
wreak such an indiscriminate ven
geance for wrongs done in the past
as would confound the innocent with
the guilty.
Build Up, Net Tear Down.
Our purpose is to build up rather
than TO tear down. We show our
selves the truest friends of property
when VIC make il evident that we will
not tolerate the abuses of property. /
We are steadily bent on preserving
the institution Of private property; !
we combat every tendency toward
reducing the people TO economic ser
vitude: and we care not whether the
tendency is due to a sinister agitation /
against all property. or whe- |
ther it is due 10 the actions Of those !
members OF the predatory classes /
whose anti social power is immeas- /
ursblv incI cIeased because OF the fact
that they possess wealth.
Men Judge BY Deeds Alone.
Above all. VIC insist that while I