Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-14
FAIRBANKS TALKS
VICE PRESIDENT NOT IN SYM
PATTY WITH EXECUTIVE.
is OPPOSED TO A BIG NAVY
Efficient Training of Young America
Better than Military Display,
Says lndianian.

Chicago, May 11.-Vice President
Fairbanks was the principal speaker
yesterday at the banquet following
the dedication of st. Stanislaus
parochial school. Mr.. Fairbanks took
exception to President Rosevelt's
shipbuilding policy and other admin
stration ideas. The vice president
Iaid
"The event we have met to cele-
Drate Is evidence of the fact that
while we are growing in wealth, in
commercial and Industrial power, we
are not losing sight of these finer
things which are the browning glory
of the highest and best civilization.
IN the final analysis, the measure of
our progress in the scale of the
worlds estimation is not our banks,
mercantile houses, manufactures,
railroads and our steamsh. IS, but our
great churches, colleges, schools, uni
versities, hospitals and charities.
"We hear much of the need OF
large navy and large army. We all
agree that we should provide ade-
quately for the national defense The
money necessary to this end should
be freely expended, but beyond our
reasonable needs we should not go.
Our national tranquility is not men.
aced from without nor is our domes-
tic peace threatened from within. /
would rather see the people spend
Their money in building up great
schools, colleges and universities,
churches and cathedrals than see
them spend it in unduly expanding
armies and navies.
"The armies of young men and
young women who are trained Ia
school, colleges and universities are
the armies which shall dignity and
glorify American achievement. We
have frequently heard men undertake
to justify an increase of the army on
the ground that the organization of
working men into large, compact
bodies was a possible source of dan
ger. There is, it seems to be, no
possible justification for such a sug-
gestion. 1t is an unwarranted i'm.
parchment Of the patriotism of the
great body Of the American people.
The workingmen of America are
friends and not enemies of the gov
eminent. The relation of labor and
capital to each other is matter of
transcendant importance and it was
never more important than now.
How to divide fairly the fruit of
their joint effort has always been
perplexing problem.
Political laws do much to solve
some Of these problems, but they fall
far short of a satisfactory, just and
final solution. We must look chic fly
to the churches and the school for
help. There the maxims of fair deal
ing are inculcated.
Teach the new generation the
perilous effects of socialism. A propa-
ganda Is maintained to teach its So
called virtues. Socialisms levels
down instead of leveling up. 1t is
subversive of the whole purpose of
republican government.
ut is destructive of the most
powerful factor in our progress, and
that is individual initiative. A sort of
procrustean principle of society and
puts handicap upon genius, ability
and thrift. There has been trans
planted to our soil an enemy to our
institutions. 1t is protest against
republican government. Yes, it is a
challenge to all government estab-
lished by the virtue and patriotism
of men. Anarchy is un-American and
un-Christian.
1--WE have no hospitality for those
who seek to raise the red flag above
the cross and the banner of the re.
public"