The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-26
"HAVE PEOPLE GONE MAD?"
FAILS TO SEE THE NEED FOR A
CRUSADE AND A CRUSADER.
Iudoc Grosscup, a Noted Chicago
Jurist, Speaks at Lincoln
Day Banquet.

Day Banquet.
1udge Peter S. Grosscup of Chi
cago was the principal speaker at
the annual Lincoln day banquet at
Rock Island, III.
The affair was attended by l,OOo
leading business and professional
men.
Judge Grosscup's Speech.
Judge Grosscup among other
things said:
"Mr, Bourke Cochran, in a speech
in the house the other day, said that
what the country needs is a crusade
and crusader; and the whole
house without distinction of party
is said to have loudly applauded. A
crusade and a crusader! Zeal put
above Judgment, mere vigor OF en-
tbusiasm above the sober earnest
ness of the American common sense!
Have the people gone mad?
"a crusade against what? Against
the great new industrial domain OF
the Countrywide great new domain
in which the energies and the for
times of the American people are so
largely bound up? The American
farmer who has reaped prosperity
ont of the markets that the great
new domain has established, and the
American working-man VINO knows
that in his domain alone is TO De
found his field of opportunity, Will
think long and carefully before they
90 in for a crusade like that
"A crusade against what? Against
those who are said to be Offenders OF
the law? Why should not the Of
tenders against the law be tried IN
the future, as they have been IN the
mast. according to the forms OF the
iaw-tO the executive the duty ana
responsibility of presenting the
charge, to the judiciary the duty and
responsibility of determining CUNT or
innocence? Has anything happened
that the sober, Anglo-SaXon way OF
enforcing law should be abandoned?
An Effective Appeal.
"a crusade to catch the voter-to
obtain a lease of political power at
the approaching elections? | am one
of those who believe that an appeal
to the sober, common sense and love
of Justice of the American people
will be infinitely more effective than
any attempt to hurry them pell-mell
into some other strange programme
that they do not comprehend AS
statesmen Washington and Lincoln
are still our exemplars. Peter the
Hermit and Richard the Lion Heart
cd are only traditions.
For two score years and more,
ever since the close OF the civil war,
a new great industrial domain has
been building. Through its chan
neIs American manufacturers ana
commerce are reaching every corner
of the earth. Through the markets
il established, and the business ac-
1tivitv it has created, the American
farmer has been getting prices that
have made him the money lender
of the land, and the American work
ing man wages that has made him
the highest paid working man OF all
lands. But for the rise and growth
of this great domain we would not
now be in the worlds lead as an IN
dustrial people; we would be back
among the people whose farms har-
vest lust enough to keep them alive
from year to year, and whose work
ing men have no prospect beyond the
bread that is necessary to sustain
life
THE ideal of Lincoln was govern
ment of the people, by the people.
and for the people. Lincoln believed
in the capacity and integrity OF
America and the American-the
American farmer, the American bus
mess man, the American working ,
man, American character.
No Room for AntagOnism
Between the engineer and other /
railway employees and the great rail-
way CORPORATION, between the men
who roll steel and the great steel
COMBINATIONS. between the working |
man generally and the corporation |
for which he works, between the man !
whose thrift has put savings into the
hank and the corporations that have
borrowed them out there Will, when |
real corporation reform is achieved,
he no room for those feelings OF an
tagonism that give rise to crusade
for when real corporation reform is
accomDlished-whe the brOadeneu
ideal is on it's way to realization
the great new incorporated domain,
as a field for the requirement or an
enduring individual possession. Will
be open to the wOrking-man as well
as to the capitalist, and to the man
who has savings to put in the BANK
as we'll as to the men who are now
borrowing them out. And the great
responsibility that confronts Presi-
dent Roosevelt, whatever may be the
provocation or the temptation that
befall him, is to see TO it that the
reformative energies of the nation
that he has been so instrumental III
arousing are not used up in storms
and counterstOrms of elimination
and recrimination, that when they
subside will leave us no strength with
which to enter upon the real work
that awaits us.