The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-31
Declares for Tariff Changes to Be Made by
a Commission Removed From Political
InfluenCe===GOyernment Supervision Of
Big Corporations Is Advocated=-==
Remedy for Panics Proposed

Osawatomic, Kan, Aug. 3l.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt delivered the following
address address In this city today:
There have been two great crises
in our countrys history; first when 1t
was formed. and then again when 1t
was perpetrated The formative pc
rlod included not merely the Revolu-
tonarv war, but the creation and
adoption OF the constitution and the
first dozen years OF work under it
Then came sixty years In which We
spread across the continent-years
OF vital growth. but Of growth without
rather than growth within. Then
came the time of stress and strain
which eliminated In the Civil war. the
period of terrible struggle. upon the
issue of which depended the justltca-
ton OF all that was done earlier, and
which marked the second great period
of growth and development within.
The name of John Brown Will be for
ever associated with this second pc
rlod of the nations history, and Kan
Sas WAS the theater upon which the
first act OF the second of our great
national life dramas was played II
was the result OF the struggle in Kan
Sas which determined that our coun.
Try should be in deed as well as In
name devoted TO both union and free
dom; that the great experiment of
democratic government on a national
scale should succeed and not fail II
was a heroic struggle, and. as Is In"
eyitable with all such struggles. 1t
had also a dark and terrible side. Very
much was done of good. and much
also of evils and. as was inevitable In
such period Of revolution, often the
same man did both good and evil
For our great good fortune we, the
people of the United States as a whole
Can now afford 20 foTgetethe evil, or
at least TO remember il without bitter
ness. and to fix our eyes with pride
on the good that was accomplished
Even in ordinary times there are very
few of us who do not see the prob
lens OF life as through a glass. dark
Is. and when the glass is clouded by
the murk OF furious popular passion.
the vision of the best and bravest is
dimmed Looking back We are all
OF us now able to do Justice TO the
Valor and disinterestedneSs and the
love OF the right, as TO each IL Was
given 10 see the right. shown both by
the men of the north and the men of
the south in that contest which was
finally decided by the attitude of the
west. We can admire the heroic
yalor, the sincerity. the self-deyotion,
shown alike by the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray,
and cur sadness that such hen should
t1 Roh lie
pered by the glad knowledge that ever
hereafter their descendants shall be
found fighting side by side. struggling
IN peace as well as In war for the up
lift Of their common country. all alike
resolute 10 raise 10 the highest pitch
: OF honor and usefulness the nation to
which they all belong AS for tho
veterans of the Grand Army OF the
Republic, they deserve honor and
recognition such es is paid TO no other
citizens Of the republic, for TO them
the republic owes its all, for to them
ii owes its very existence.
Yoyalty Must Apply to Present.
do not speak of this struggle OF
the past merely from the historic
standpoint Our interest is primarily
in the application today of the les
sons taught by the contest of half q
century ago il is Of little use for
us TO pay lip loyalty to the mighty
men of the past unless We sincerely
endeavor to apply to the problems OF
the present precisely the qualities
which In other crises enabled the mer
OF that day to meet those crises, 1t Is
half melancholy and half amusing to
see the way in which well meaning
people gather 10 do honor to the men
who. In company with John Brown
and under the lead of Abraham Lin
coin. faced and solved the great prob
lens of the nineteenth century, while
al the same time these same good
people nervously shrink from or fran
tically denounce those who are trying