The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-21
Will Not Alter His Attitude. TO PUNISH MALEFACToRS
 OF GREAT WEALTH
  Teddy Talks at the Pilgrim Memorial
 Exercises. } President Arrived in Provincetown One Hour Before He Was Due. But Was Given
 Great Ovation.


 Provincetown, Mass, Aug 2o-The laying of the cornerstone of the Cape Cod Pilgrims Memorial monument here today gave President Roosevelt his first opportunity of the summer to break the silence upon public ques-S tions, and the forty-minute speech which he delivered from a platform on top of Town Hill. was one of vigor and directness, upon matters of national importance.
 The feature of his address was his advocacy of national Incorporation law. and his stand in relation to vio- lators of the law, especially corpora tions. With emphasis. he declared that the administration would not wayer in it's determination to punish certain indicators of great wealth."
 The President declared that the Gov ernment would undertake no action of a vindictive type, and, above all, no. action which would infiict great suf- ferfng upon innocent stockholders and upon the public as whole. He said that the Governments policy in its ultimate analysis meant healthy and prosperous expansion of the business activities of honest business men and honest corporations.
 At one point, President Roosevelt de-
 
 as originally prepared to remark, All that I have said as to desirable and undesirable citizens remains true"
 The day was noteworthy in the hfs- tory of Cape Cod. The monument, which will rise to a height of 250 feet, will commemorate the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil. At the. conclusion of the first part of the ex- ercises on the hill. which included, besides President Roosevelt's speech, addresges by James Bryce, the British Ambassador; United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and Congressman William c. Lowering. the Masonic rit- the cornerstone of the monument, was carried out.
 Following these exercises a banquet was held in the town hall, and later the President was conducted to Odd Fellows TIall where he was introduced to more than 200 Provtncetown and Gloucester fishermen.
 The President spoke to them, com mending their labors and the way in which they performed them. At the conclusion of his remarks, President Roosevelt was driven to the wharf where he boarded the Mayfiower, which sailed at 4 o'clock on her return to oyster Bay.
 Speech of President.
 In his principal address here, the President spoke as follows:
 It is not too much to say that the event commemorated by the monu- ment which we have come here to ded- icate was one of those rare events which can in good faith be called of world importance. The coming hith- CT of the Puritan three centuries ago shaped the destinies of this continent, and therefore profoundly affected the destiny of the whole world. Men of other races. the Frenchman and the Spaniard, the Dutchman' the German. the Scotchman, and the Swede, made settlements within what is now the United Staes, during the colonial pe- riod of our history and before the Dec there has been an ever-swelling immi- grafton from Ireland and from the mainland of Europe; but 1t was the Englishman who settled in Virginia and sachusetts who did most in shaping the lines of our national development. We can not as a nation be too pro- foundly grateful for the fact that the Puritan has stamped his influence so deeply on our national life. We need have but scant patience with the men who now rail at the Puritan's faults. They were evident, Of course, TOT It IS a quality of strong natures that their faliings, like their virtues. should stand out in bold relief; but there is nothing easier than to belittle the great men of the past by dwelling only on 
 the universally recognized standards of the present. Men must be judged with reference to The age in which they dwell. and the work they have to do. The Puritan's task was to con- quer continent; not merely to over run it. but to settle it. to till 1t, to build upon 1t a high industrial and so- ,cial life; aud. while engaged in the rough work of tanning the shaggy will derness at that very time also to lay deep the immovable foundations of our whole American system of political and religious liberty achieved through the orderly process of law This was the work allotted him to do; this ts the work he did; and only master
 We have travelled far since his day That liberty of conscience which he de- manded for himself we now realize must be as freely accorded to others ourselves. The splendid qualities which he left to his children, we other Americans who are not of Puritan blood also claim as our heritage. You sons of the Puritans. and we, who are descended from races whom the Puri- tans would have deemed alien-we are all Americans together We all feel the same pride in the genesis, in the history, of our people, and therefore this shrine of Puritanism Is one al which we all gather to pay homage. nc matter from what country our ances- tors sprang.
 Puritans and ModernA.
 We have gained some things that the Puritan had not-we of this generation we of the twentieth century, here ir this great Republic; but we are also in danger of losing certain things which we can by no manner of means afford to lose. We have gained a joy of living which he had not, and whict 1t is a good thing for every people to have and to develop. Let us see tC 1t that we do not lose what is more important still; that we do not lose the Puritan's iron sense of duty his unbending unfiinching will to do the right as it was given him to see the right It is good thing that life should gain in sweetness, but only pro. vided that 1t does not lose in strength Ease and rest and pleasure are good things, but only if they come as tho reward Of work well done. of a gooc fight well won. of strong effort reso- lutely made and crowned by high achievement The life of mere nlaaS.