The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-10-03
The PRESIDENT
AT CANTON.

canton, Oct. EN- route to Iowa.
where he will meet twenty governors
ana go down the Mississippi, President
Roosevelt stopped over here long
enough to call upon wage-earners and
,wage-payers the country over to Join
hands and get together on the broad
ground of humanity. This was the
keynote Of the speech he today de-
livered at the ceremonies attendant
upon the dedication OF the Mckinley
monument. He said in part:
We have gathered to pay respect to the
memory or William Mckinley, who as
president won a place in the hearts of the
American people such as but three or four
OF all the presidents Of this country have
ever won: He was of singular uprightness
and purity of character, alike In nnhIic
and In private life; a citizen who loved
peace, he did his duty faithfully and well
tor tour years of wal when the honor Of
the nation called him to arms. AS con-
gressnian, as governor of his state, and
anally as president, he rose to the fore
most place among our statesmen, reaching
a position which would satisfy the keenest
amplCon; but he never lost that simple
and thoughtful kindness toward every hu-
man being. great or small, lofty or hum
pie, with whom he was brought in con-
tact, which so endeared him to our peo-
pie. He had to grapple with more sert-
Gus and complex problems than any presi-
gent since Lincoln, and yet, while meet
continued to live a beautiful and touching
family life. a life very healthy for this
nation to see in its foremost citizen; and
now the woman who walked in the Shadow
ever after his death, the wife to whom h,s
loss was a calamity more crushing than Il
couid pc to any other human SSing, lies
beside hin here in the same seIaulcher.
From purposes not merely diverse, hut
pltterly conflicting. he was able to secure
healthful action for the good Of the state.
IN poth poise and Judgment he rose level
as leader of the nation, and like all men
with the root Of true greatness in them
ne grew to steadily larger stature under
was a good citizen and a brave soldier q
chief executive whose wisdom entitled him
TO the trust which he received throughout
the nation.
1t would be a cruel disaster to this conn
try to permit ourselves to adopt an atti-
tude Of hatred and envy toward success
worthily won, toward wealth honestly ac-
CURED. Let us in his respect profit by
the example Of the republics of this west
ern hemisphere south of us. Some of these
republics have prospered greatly; but
there are certain ones that nave Jagged
far behind, that still continue In a condi-
ton of material poverty, Of social and DO
litlcal unrest and confusion.
To these communities foreign canita]
now rarely comes, because it has been
found that as soon as capital is employed
so as to give substantial enumeration to
those supplying 1t, 1t excites ignorant en-
pressive action, within or without the law,
as sooner or later to work a virtual con-
fscation. Every manifestation Of feeling
of this kind in our civilization should be
crushed at the outset by the weight of a
sensible public opinion.
From the standpoint of our material
prosperity there Is only one other thing as
important as the Encouragement Of a
spirit of envy and hostility toward honest
business men, toward honest men OF
means; this is the encouragement of dis.
honest business men, the war upon the
~chicanery and ~wrongdoing which are pc.
cullarly reDulsive. peculiarly noXious
when exhibited by men who have no ex.
cuse of want, of poverty. of Ignorance
for their crimes.
Men of means, and above all men Of
great wealth, can exist in safety under the
peaceful protection of the state. only II
orderly societies, where liberty manifest:
itself through and under the law. 1t /.
these men who. more than any others
should, in the interests Of the class te
children and their children's children, seel
IN every way. but especially in the con.
DUCT of their lives, to insist upon and tt
bulld up respect for the law.
W~rongdoing is confined to no class. Coco
and evil are to be found among both rich
and poor, and in drawing the line among
our fellows We must draw 1t on conduc'
and not on worldly possessions. In the alb
stract most of us will admit this. In thu
concrete we can act Upon such doctrine
only If we really have knowledge of ant
wage-worker and the capitalist are able
10 enter each into the others life. to NEE
eacn other so as to get into genuine sym.
pathy with each other, most Of the mis-
Understanding between them will disap.
pear and its place will be taken by a judg.
ment broader, more just. more kindly, anC
more generous; for each will find in the
other the same essential human attributes
that exist In himself