Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-03-03
ROOSEVELT REFUSES ALL
PANIC RESPONSIBILITY

PANlC RESPONSIBILITY
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y President Roosevelt refuses
8 to accept responsibility for the
q financial panic. In his latest
z message he says:
Il We have just passed through
u two months of acute financial
- stress. At any such time It Is
Sc sad fact that entirely limo
Il cent people suffer from no fault
& of their own; and everyone must
y feel the keenest sympathy for
- the large body of honest bust
e ness men, of honest investors,
4 of honest wageworkers, who suf-
~ fer because involved in a crash
- for which they are in no way
4 responsible. At such time
| x there is natural tendency on
q the part of many men to feel
s. gloomy and frightened at the
i: outlook; but there is no justii-
= cation for this feeling.
Il There is no nation so abso-
4 lutely sure of ultimate success
Il as ours. OF course we shall sue
y coed. Ours is a nation of mas
II terful energy, with continent
Il for its domain, and II feels with
Il in its veins the thrill which
& comes to those who know that
& they possess the future. We
x are upheld by the confident hope
- of ultimate triumph.
4; The wrongs that exist are to
3 be corrected; but they in no
= way justify doubt as to the fin
- al outcome, doubt as to the
q great material prosperity of the
Y future, or of the lofty spiritual
!; life which Is to be built upon
Il that prosperity as foundation.
u No misdecds done in the pres
4 ent must be permitted to shroud
- from our eyes the glorious flu
:; ture of the Nation; but be-
ie cause of this very fact it be-
Il hooves us never to swervc from
Il our resolute purpose to cut out
:: wrongdoing and behold what is
y right. ......
Z; do not for a moment believe
| y. tbnt tho pti,n, of The Admin
q istration have brought on bust
q ness distress: so far as this is
Il due to local and not worldwide
Is causes, and to the actions of any
4 particular individuals. 1t is due
Il to the speculative folly and fla
a. grant dishonesty OF a few men
IS of great wealth, who seek to
4. shield themselves from the eff
e fects of their own wrongdoing
= by ascribing its results to the
4 actions of those who have
- sought to put a stop to the
Il wrongdoing.
l. But If 1t were true that to
q cut out rottenness from the
- body polite meant Il momentary
- check to an unhealthy seeming
{; prosperity, | should not for one
Y moment hesitate to put the
IS knife to the corruption.
& On behalf of all our people,
=: on behalf no less of the honest
!: man of means than of the hon
Il est man who earns each days
y livelihood by that days sweat
Il of his brow, II Is necessary to
- insist upon honesty in business
4 and politics alike, in all walks
I: of life, In big things and in lit
Is tie things; upon just and fair
~ dealing as between man and
!. man. Those who demand this
q are striving for the right in the
q spirit of Abraham Lincoln when
4 he said:
e "Fondly do we hope, fervent-
:; ly do we pray, that this mighty
q. scOurge may speedily pass
!, away. Yet, If God Wills that 1t
Il continue until all the wealth
q piled by the bondsmen's two
4 hundred and fifty years of un-
Is requited toll shall be sunk, and
IS until every drop of blood drawn
!: with the lash shall be paid by
4 another drawn with the sword,
- as was said three thousand
!: years ago, so still 1t must be
4 said, The judgments of the
- Lord are true and righteous al
- together.
"a with malice toward none;
y with charity for all; with firm
y ness in the right, as God gives
- us to see the right, let us strive
e on to finish the work we are
= in"
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