The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-31
>iOOD CITIZENS
 ARE NEEDED
loasevsIt Takes Up Problem
 Of Our Government.
MUST CONTROL THE TRUSTS.

MUST CONTROL THE TRUSTS. h Not In Favor of Government Owner
 ship of Railroads, He Says During
 Osawatomie (kan.) Speeeh-Finan-
 eiaI Systsms Should Be Investigated
 at Once.
 Osawatomie, Kan, Aug. 31.-There have been two great crises in our country's history-frst when it was formed and then again when 1t was perpetuated. The formative period in- cluded not merely the Revolutionary war, but the creation and adoption of the constitution and the first dozen years of work under it. Then came sixty years during which we spread across the continent-years of vital growth, 1nt of growth without rather than growth within.
 Then came the time of stress and strain Which culmiEated in the civil war, the period of terrible struggle upon the issue of which depended the Justification of all that we had done earlier and which marked the second great period of growth and develop ment within.
 The name of John Brown will be forever associated with this second period of the nations history, and Kansas was the theater upon which the first act of the second of our great national life dramas was played.
 It was the result of the struggle in Kansas which determined that our country should be in deed as we'll as iA name devoted to both union and freedom, that the great experiment of democratic government on a national scale should succeed and not fail.
 It was a heroic struggle, and. as is Inevitable with all such struggles, it had also dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good and much also of evil, and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good evil. N
 For our great good fortune as a na- ton we,l the people of the United States as whole, can now afford to forget the evil or at least to remember 1t without bitterness and to fix our eyes with pride on the good that was accomplished.
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 Even, in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass darkly, and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular pas sion the vision of the best and the bravest is dimEled.
 Looking back, we are all of us now able to do justice to the valor and the disfnterestedness and the love of the right as to each it was given to 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 valor, the sincerity, the self degotion shown alike by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, and our sadness that such men should have had to fight one another is tempted by the glad knowledge that ever hereafter their descendants shall be found fight ing. side by side, struggling in peace as well as in war for the uplift of their common country, all alike resolute to raise to the highest pitch of honor and usefulness the nation to which they all belong.
 As for the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. they deserve honor and recognition such as are paid to no other citizens of the republic, for to them the republic owes its all, for to them it owes its very existence.
 I do not speak of this struggle of the past merely from the historic stand point Our interest is primarily in the application today of the lessons taughr by the contest of half century ago.
 It 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 pre- 'cisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of those days to meet those crises.
 It is half melancholy and half anus ing, to see the way in which we'll mean ing people gather to do honor to the men who iQ companys-lth John Brown and under the lead of Abraham Lin coin faced and solved the great prob lems of the nineteenth century, while at the same time these same good peo- pie nervously shrink fran or frantical- ly denounce those who are trying to meet the problems of the twentieth in the spirit which was accountable for the successful solution of the problems of Lincoln's time.
 Linooin's Forecast.
 ! Of that generation Of men to whom we owe so much the man to whom we owe the most is, of ceurse, Lincoln. Part of our debt to him is because he forecast our present struggle and saw the way out. He said:
 "I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition. but to assist in ameliorating mankind" And again: "Laboz is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed but for labor. La Dor is the superior of capital and de serves much the higher consideration. Capital has it's rights which are as