The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-02
AUBURN HAS
A BUSY DAY
Mr.. billiard Addresses
Alumni.
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THE COMPETITIVE DRILLS
Cadet Corps Makes Fine Showing
on Campus.
Prizes are Awarded for SIKH I'm MAN.
uai and for orntory--Mr.
HamII Present.
TabIct.
BIZ TARLEroN coLLrER.

Auburn, June I.-(SpeciaI )-For
the one day of commencement, pleas
ure was overshadowed by business to-
day.
From early morning. at 0 o'clock.
when the Alumni Association met in
business session. untfl late tonight,
when the prize awards were made,
there was an avalanche of events
dwelling exercises, orations, six in
all, exhibition of the college buildings,
farm equipment; competitive drills
the event of commencement to most;
athletic problems solved--it all came
today, mass of business that eclfpsed
the social features to a large extent.
The alumni grafton by Frank C. Dill
lard. Auburn. '75. was one Of the events
of the commencement season. Mr.. Dill
lard, general counsel for the Union Pa
cific Railroad, with headquarters IN
Chicago. Is one of the foremost attor-
neys of the Middle West.
The grafton dealt with Some Prob
lens of the Hour" The negro ques-
tion, the extension policy of the United
States. as to the Spanish War, and
the subsequent control of Cuba and
the Philippines; the trust question, the
railroad question, the abolition of war.
socialism and most of the rest of the
problems that beset modern humanity
were revealed and analysed in this
economic address
The Negro Problem.
Touching the negro problem Mr.. Dill
lard offered as solution:
ITO the negro we must be just. We
must help him to raise the morale of
HIS race. We must encourage him in
the acquisition of property. The own
ership of property will raise him in
his own esteem and better At him for
the duties of citizenship. We must
give him the opportunity for education;
for government which must rest on
ignorance is unworthy to stand.
II cannot undertake to prophesy
what the solution OF this problem will
be- We may reach 1t only after many
mistakes and many discouragements.
only after wearisome years and along
toilsome paths. but I believe 1t viii
come as surely as the dawn drives
away the night shadows, and that
when 1t does come 1t will be right"
OF the extension of United States
control to Cuba and to the Philippines.
and as to the wisdom of the war with
Spain--a problem uppe @iost in the
minds of statesmen, the speaker told
that the country acted in the only way
possible.
Fairness to Corporations.
But the most of the address dwelt
with the trust and railroad problems.
Mr. billiard, a leading railroad man
lAfu0GAAs StOOO NAiG A0QEGcH AOE tAlT
regulation, but for a. recognition of
combinations and railroads, not neces-
sarily as illegitimate and OPPRESSIVE
but as the natural growth Of progress,
cooperation and niodernity.
"A problem that in later years has
agitated the public mind, vexed the
public conscience. and dashed to fury
the professional politician, IL the trust
problem" he began the topic.
IL would not for a moment have you
think me q champion OF conspiracies
against trade or defender OF the UNI
fair use of aggregated capital. But I
do sometimes wonder, and / believe
all thoughtful men must wonder, If
trusts properly understood and within
proper limits. are not merely a step in
the economic development of the
world.
II often wonder IL the people of the
twenty-first century. or even the people
of the latter part of this century, may
not look with surprise at some Of the
notions we now have concerning trusts
and smile at the crudity of some of
our legislation.
Before the principles of the division
OF labor were understood II was
thought that the application of these
principles would be destructive of all
trades, yet their application has added