, 1907-05-31

should supervise the railroad business,
nothing be done to harm securities or
brighten capital, upon which, he said.
the prosperity of the country so large
ly depends.
Safe Investments.
The president declared that it was
the intention of the administration to
make railroad bonds as safe to the in.
weston as the stock of national banks.
Presidents Address In Part.
The following excerpts are taken
from the address of the president:
For more than one reason / am pc
culiarly glad that this year speak on
Memorial day in the state of Indiana.
There is no other class of our 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 a be COM
pared, for to them it was given to
preserve the Union. Moreover, you
men who wore the blue, blessed be-
yOHu lnC NlStolS III any othNi val "
recent times, have left to your u
trymen more than the material results
of the triumph, more even than the
achieving the triumph itself.
A Genuine Reunion.
You have left a country so genu-
inely reunited that all of us now, in
whatever part of this Union we live.
have 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 com
p%leteness of the reunion.
Whole Life to Country.
General Lawton in his youth fought
CALAMITY in the Civil war. Thirty
three years afterward he again march
ed to war, this time against a foreign
foe, and served with distinguished
ability and as a general Of
ficer, both in Cuba and in the Phil
ippines. When he thus served it was
in an army whose generals included
not only many of his old comrades in
arms, but some of his old opponents
also, as General Wheeler and General
Fitzhugh Lee.
All Americans Now.
Under him, both among the commits
stoned officers and in the ranks, were
many men whose fathers 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 each
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 Cen
eral Lawton it befell actually to lay
down his life; a tragedy, but one Of
those noble tragedies where our pride
rises above our sorrow. For he died
in the fullness of time, serving his
country with entire devotional death
that every man may well envy.
Great War Governor.
Indiana in the Civil war furnished
even more than her share Of brave
soldiers. 1t also fell to Indiana to fur
nish the greatest of all the war gov
errors who upheld the hands of Abra-
lam Lincoln, for when history defn-
itely awards the. credit for what was
done in the Civil war, she will put the
services of no other civilian, save
alone those of Lincoln, ahead Of the
services of Governor Morton.
Many Odds Against Him.
No other man who rendered such
services as he rendered worked under
such terrible disadvantages, and no
man without his iron power could have
achieved what he achieved during the
last two years of the war, when he
managed the state government of In
diana solely on money obtained by
pledging his own personal honor and
personal fortune; and yet never for
one momen relaxed in the help he
gave to Lincoln and Chase and Sew
dTu anu Sldllou Ill liC SapiiCt, "
Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and
Thomas in the field. 1t was work that
only the strongest man could have
done, and it was work vitality neces
sary for the sake of the nation to do.
Present Day Duties.
The men of the generation which
fought the Civil wal had their great
tasks to perform. They met them as
strong men should have met them.
| They did them, and we, their children,
profit by their mighty deeds. But no
generation can ever plead The great
deeds of its predecessors as an OK
cuse for failing to perform its own
duties. Our duties are those of peace
and not of war. Nevertheless they are
Of the utmost importance; of import,
ance to ourselves, and still greater
importance to the children who in a
few years will take our places as the
men and women of this republic. Ii
we wish to show ourselves worthy
heirs of the men of the Civil war, We
must do our tasks with the thorough
ness with which they did theirs.
The Right of Property.
One great problem that we have be
fore us is to preserve the rights O
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