New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-31
rBy telegraph 70 Tn. Tribune. I

Indianapolis. May 3O-Under the shadow of
the grim courthouse of Indiana's capital Presi-
dent Roosevelt made a notable address to-day,
dealing with the subjects Of railroad control
and civic righteousness. His message. though
a warning to prospective evildoers, contained
much to cheer the individual citizen, for 1t
breathed that robust optimism characteristic
in spite of all the watering that railroad shares
have received they still worth more than
their face values represent.
The speech which was delivered TO a throng
of 10000 or 10000 persons. was the chief feature
Of the exercises attending the unveiling of the
statue of General Henry W. Lawton. the In
diana hero OF Civil. Indian and Spanish
fame. who died fighting the Filipinos after all
his laurels had been fairly won.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
The Presidents speech follows:
For more than one reason I am peculiarly glad
that this year speak Memorial Day in the
State of Indiana There is no other class OF our
citizens TO whom we owe so much as TO the vet
Grams Of the great war. To them IL was given
TO perform the one feat with which no other
feat can be compared for TO them II was given
to preserve the Union. Moreover, you men who
wore the blue. blessed beyond the victors in any
other war of recent times, have left to your
countrymen more than the material results OF
the triumph. more even that the achieving Of the
triumph itself. You have left country so
ever part OF this Union 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 to-day unveil
by his life bore singular testimony TO the COM
pleteness of the reunion.
GENERAL LAWTON'S CAREER.
General Lawton, In his youth fought gallanty
in the Civil War. Thirty-three years afterward
he again marched TO war. this time against a
foreign foe. and served with distinguished ability
and success a general officer both in Cuba
and In the Philippines. When he thus served it
was in army whose generals included not
only many of his old comrades in arms. but
some of his old opponents also. General
Wheeler and General Fitzhugh Lee. Under
him. both among the commissioned 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 Ameri-
cans now. and nothing but Americans. all united
in their fealty and devotion to their common
flag and their common country, and each know
ing only the generous rivalry with his fellows
as to who could best serve the cause for which
each was ready to Lay down fe ~ Itself a dan d0 Gems h
life; tragedy. but one of those noble tragedies
where pride rises above our sorrow. For
he died in the fulness of time. serving his coun-
man may well envy,
INDIANA IN THE CIVIL WAR
Indiana In the Civil War furnished even more
than her share of brave soldiers. II also fell to
Indiana to furnish the greatest OF all the war
governors who upheld the hands or Abraham
Lincoln; for when history definitely 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 No other man who rem
1ered such services 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
Indiana solely money obtained by pledging
personal nOnOr
and yet never for one moment relaxed in the
help he gave to Lincoln and Chase and Seward
and Stanton in the Cabinet. to Grant and Sher-
man and Sheridan and Thomas in the field. 1t
was work that only the strongest man could
have done. and 1t work vitally necessary for
the sake of the nation to do.
THE PROBLEMS OF PEACE
The men of the generation which fought in
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 prede
reSsors an excuse for falling to perform its
own duties. Our duties are those of peace and
not of Nevertheless they are of the ut
most importance; of Importance to ourselves.
and OF still greater Importance to the children
who. in few years, will take our places as the
men and women of this republic. If We wish TO
show ourselves worthy heirs of the men of the
Civil War must do our tasks with the thor
Dughness with which they did theirs
Great social and industrial problems confront
Us. and their solution demands on our part un-
faltering courage. and yet wise. good natured
self restraint; so that on the hand we shall
neither be daunted by difficulties nor fooled by
those who would seek to persuade us that the
difficulties are insuperabe while on the other
hand we are not misled into showing either
rashness or vindictiveness. Let us try as a
with the industrial and social problems OF to-
lay that Abraham Lincoln showed when, with
AFTER ALL. UsHERs THE SCOTCH