The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-23

In our hearts there Is no room for any
second love.
When we provide memorials TO
theodore Roosevelt, therefore, we
erect everlasting monuments to that
Ideal; We set up shrines to American
nationalism of which our leader was
the foremost priest and prophet of
our tme-shrines at which our chill
dren's children can renew their faith
and go forward in that faith, ever in
creasing the happiness, power and
glory of the Republic and winning in
/ the end the ultimate heights of Ma
t1onal brotherhood in interest, III
| speech, in aspiration, and in blood.
Reforms Are Permanent
, Although it was only yesterday that
the reforms for which Theodore Roose-
welt fought were accomplished, al
ready they are accepted by everybody
as permanent, wise and righteous
Even those who resisted them most
strenously now admit the justice and
utility of them. Who now would place
combinations Of capital above the gov
eminent Of the nation? Who now
would return to the days of license,
when trusts and railways were unre-
strained and unregulated by public
exploiters the nations forests and
minerals and stream?
Who now would permit the selling
of diseased meat and poisoned food?
Who now defends the slavery and
starvation Of the children Of the re-
public? Who now would again place
representative government in the
| hands of professional bosses hired to
do work of non-public interests? Not
one honest and intelligent man or wo-
man in the country would, today,
tolerate even the proposal to go back
to the conditions from which Theodore
Roosevelt rescued America
NO: Those evil days are gone for
ever; the great transition has been
safely made; and now with that task
finished and behind us, we can turn
our eyes to the future and put our
whole strength into the work before
US. But if we are to do the work
we'll, we must labor in the spirit which
inspired Theodore Roosevelt
"Our future ask is as difficult as it is
simple-and it is never ending That
task is to assert the power and
majesty of the nation over every force
or influence or class within the ma
tiOn-assert the supremacy of the ma
ton over everything and everybody
assert it through public opinion, assert
1t through the court, assert it by
legislation, assert it, if necessary by
all the organized power of the national
government
Must Preserve Freedom.
Capital may again try to control
congress by the election of its tools to
Senate and House; let the people be
alert tN defeat c11ch efforts no
last two years certain labor organiza-
tions have attempted to dominate the
country. They have by methods Of
terror compelled the enactment Of
| legislation. Ard now doctrines are
| proclaimed utterly destructive of our
! American idea and practice of orderly
| freedom. We must crush that propa-
| ganda.
For the hour, however. his inter
! national craftsmanship is foremost in
our minds. Determinative as this was,
| it was not the chief foundation stone
/ Of his enduring reputation as a states
! man. But while his principal title to
i that leading place in history which
/ he Will always occupy, is the service
to the American people which l have
tried to outline, that title is strength
ened and made of world importance
by what he did to establish America S
/ true position in international affairs.
In this field of action he held to
the traditional American statesman
ship that the United States hOuld be
the beneficent guiding power Of the
western hemisphere; and that our es,
pecial mission is the safeguarding and
normal development of these western
ocean bound continents. So came the
' Roosevelt Cuban policy. the Roosevelt
Canal policy, the Roosevelt South
American policy, and the Roosevelt