Show ANNIVERSARY rm B OF w 1 I GENERAL GRiNI GRA CornerStone of the Carnegie Library Building at Galena III IlL Laid i BEVERIDGE EVERIDGE THE ORATOR HOOSIER SENATOR ENAT R VERY MUCH FOR ROOSEVELT I Galena April 27 The birthday I of ot General Gen rai Grant was celebrated today lor r r the seventeenth time This morn mom Ins Ing the cornerstone of ot the Carnegie Foyt library building was laid The rho commemorative exercises took place this afternoon In Grant park The e orator of ot tho the day was wa Senator Bever of Indiana Senator Beveridge Beyeridge said that It was fitting at a celebration of the birthday of General Grant the meaning of ot whose life lite work was the th ing unity of CJ the American people p into an ever stronger growing nation to discuss the question of ot states rights Plea for Imperialism The Thc ni St come he said when states must reduce their inter interference interference ference with national highways passing through them or better still stop In Interference Interference altogether That time will willbe willbe be delayed because of or selfish Interests because of or the recrudescence of at states rights with which we are now nov troubled but out chiefly because of ot demagogues who reek ek position and power by attacking these most conspicuous of or public cor corporations corpo potions po The American people are as PI luch In danger from the demagogues who ho selfishly and Ignorantly seek to inflame their passions as they are from Interests who seek to exploit their resources The senator discussed the dangers of ot overcapitalization pointed out the necessity of compulsory publicity In Incorporate incorporate corporate affairs and national Incorporation r of great enterprises e Another great reform which the nation must work one id Is prevention of child labor He said thid saidOn On the th question of bt ending eI the bar barbarism barbarism barbarism of ot child slavery in the republic nationality says Bays to states rights what Grant tl captain of nationality said to the tha captains of ot states rights more than forty t years ago immediate and unconditional surrender nd will wm fight It out on 01 o this line If It it takes all aU Bummer Boost for Roosevelt Present and future problems are a continuation of or the mighty work of Lincoln In the thc cabinet and Grant on the stricken field just as their work was wa a continuation of ot the labors of Washington and the great men o achieved our Independence Independence dence who wrote out In constitution and und breathed Into the nation the breath of life lire T IY voice your thought when wh ir w I say my that the great suc successor successor successor cessor of or Washington his time of ot Jackson in his time of Lincoln and of ot Grant in their time is In our time The Theodore Theodore Theadore odore adore Roosevelt And today like Washington like Jackson like Lincoln like Grant Roosevelt Is similarly assailed by sim similar similar ilar liar men Like them he has been called a despot Like them and like Uke nil all the great men of all aU countries and andor of or all times he has been called ego egotist egotIst egotist and insane To little minds the great have always been both vain and hd mad road But of our president who Is great only because he Is big enough to reflect the purposes of of peo people people pie the final charge that he Is Js a child was vas as made the other day by a brilliant f an acid speech If U child he be God give us more moIa such euch children to serve end and to bless bl s this nation God grant that such stock shall not run out S |