The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-12-02

influential statesmen Of his day in the
conduct of our international affairs.
His friend and law partner, Frank B.
Kellogg, has for score of years main
tanned the great prestige of his old as
sociate, and is now recognized to be
one Of the foremost authorities of the
nation upon perplexing international
and domestic questions, Probably no
man in private station has had
broader practical experience than he
with matters of nationwide import
ance.
In his professional career Mr.. Kel-
logg has represented, with credit and
success, some of the largest business
interests of the country. But he has
gained his greatest fame by victories
as champion of the people in i'm
portant cases against some of the
greatest trusts and combinations of
the nation. He was counsel for the
government against the paper trust,
and his. famous victory against the
Standard Oil company made him pop
ularly known as the "Trust Buster"
and established his reputation as one
OF the really great lawyers of the
country. This defeat of the Standard
Oil company tended to put an end to
the long list of unfair methods of COM
petition used by INSCRIPTIONS trusts
to destroy and crush competitors, and
to bring to the smaller corporations
and individuals the protection of the
government, so that they may enjoy
the right to engage in business with
fair opportunity to compete.
Probably as brilliant a success. al
though not as we'll known, was when
Mr.. Kellogg acted as one of the coun-
sci for the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in the Investigation of Mr.. E.
II. Hartman, and in the dissolution of
the merger of the Union Pacific and
the Southern Pacific lines.
AS President Of the American Bar
association, at it's annual meeting in
Montreal, Canada, in September. 1918,
Mr.. Kellogg delivered one of the nota-
BILE addresses in which he strongly
outlined the responsibilities and duties
of the nation in it's treaty relations
with other nations so as to promote
international harmony and good will.
His reputation throughout the coun-
try has brought for him many requests
for addresses on public questions and
he has freely complied with them, and
has covered wide range of subjects
in series of powerful and convincing
speeches. In one of them to his old
friends. and neighbors in Olmstead
county, he said:
X x x x x X x X x y: x 4; =; X \; :: =,
* but the day when men can, :,
* by means that are questionable, y
x suddenly amass great fortunes, y
x has, l believe, passed, and certain \
= it is that such fortunes are not :,
x conducive to the welfare, the hap :,
\ piness and the prosperity of the :,
* American people. The greatest y
x danger to the American Republic y
x to-day is it's enormous wealth and y
x its trend to dissolute luxury" y
x * x x x x x x x x * x =: * X * \
One of the most conspicuous ad.
dresses was upon the subject of "New
Nationalism" before the American bal
association in Milwaukee in August
1912. Among other things, Mr.. KEEL
logg said:
II am an optimist. I have great
l. faith in the intelligence and be-
lieve in the high destiny of our
people. I recognize the wisdom
of our constitutional representa-
tive democracy, and I believe the
best way to preserve it is to well
come these changes and meet
these problems, and that the sur
est way to destroy our form of
government and the safeguards
of our constitutional liberty is to
blindly oppose all innovation.
docs not every one know that
the thing more than all others
which makes nation great is
the opportunity offered every man
to his own home, his right to be
a proprietor, to engage in every
branch of industry, unencumber-
ed and uncontrolled by inordinate
wealth When that day comes, if
ever it shall; when these oppor-
tunities are not open to every one,
and the hope in the industrial
world is to become an employee,
that day will mark the beginning
Of the decay Of this republic,
1.-TWO of the problems now con-
fronting the American people are
the control of wealth and its