Show STRAUS TALKS ON NEED NED OF O HONESTY 1 I Secretary of Commerce and andi Labor Discusses Modern Conditions in Old Boston BIG STICK IS NECESSARY Big Abuses and Big Lawbreakers Lawbreakers Law Law- bre breakers kers on Side of Labor and Capital Alike Boston Feb 21 Oscar Oscar S. S Straus Stratus secretary of or commerce and and- labor was the chief speaker and ancl guest of ot j honor at nt a n banquet here tonight given b by the merchants of or Boston In their heir forming a permanent 1 I Uon tion for the gen general and t civic chIc welfare of ot the port Secreta Secretary Straus StrauB discussed the thc d development of commerce and ts Its needs in the present lay day and nn showed what he con considered the function of the big stick in modera modern modern mod mod- ern era commercial life lre He le said saM In part port When your our forefathers threw tho the British cargoes of of tea Into the Boston harbor they go gave va to the world an example ex- ex ample mple of or a n new w spirit In commerce commerce- commerce g D spirit that placed patriotism above profit and public and public weal above personal gain They gave concrete expression to o that cardinal American principle Taxation without representation tatton Is tyranny F Forit of or Tj T runny Change Th forms torms of or tyranny tranny change from age ge to age from age from the tho militarism of or tome Rome i to the ecclesiastical tyranny tranny that tha brought about the Reformation then followed pol political tC I t tyranny rann which produced produced pro- pro our revolution n then came economIc eco eco- tho of the tyranny tyranny the oppression thE which masses lasses which brought about tho the French revolution Now my friends s I have not come come here ere to talk politics but to talk business business busi- busi ness but the first requisite of or goo good permanent business conditions is good I not not one kind of or morals for tor tho the thoI farmer armer who drives his cart pf produce I to o market and another kind of or morals for tor or the J railroad which brings the products products of or tho the farms and facto factories es from rom distant poInts ot of opportunity I and right Is i as necessary on theone theone the tho thone one ne highway as on the tho othor other No unreasonable un- un I reasonable conditions or restraint must bo be placed upon either There are arc combinations which promote tra trade anti and combinations which restrain trade tade to o check heck both Is Js harmful to permit both is 13 s more harmful I D l IK t t n y c ty on of a a higher piano than lian in TL Tr 1 v r t age and they 10 contributing more tc ta f tho the true grandeur of at nations and to the true welfare of the masses masse than either the military spirit or the spirit of conquest Commerce has placed more of or the com comforts torts of or life Ute within the reach of at the tho masses than has hns been enjoyed b by b them thein In an any past age And AndI I say this not overlooking o the tho fact tact that there is still much misery and that the demand of or labor for better wages ages and for more of ot the tho comforts of ot life is more urgent than ever over be be- be fore tore But that is one of oC the Indications of ot progress that the masses seek higher standards Js of life and living The Tho true truo welfare of ot a a. a nation naton is not me measured by tho number of ot millionaires millionaires million million- aires but by the con condition of ot the tho mi- mi mil mil- lions lons The development of or our naHor in four generations from three millions milons to ninety millions is the greatest mariet marvel marvel mar mar- vel iet in fn all ni national history but a small fraction of ot this growth is due to conquest con con- quest Quest Quest-It it is due to the tho planter the pioneer and to the tho Industrial promo promo- ter It is due equally as much to the twenty five fic million workers and their descendants who came caine to us during durInG the past one hundred d years ears from foreign lands as to the descendants of ot the Pilgrim Pil PH- grim and Puritan tethers fathers happy Commercial Ern Era We are arc living in a commercial era the the happiest that has ever dawned upon tree free nations nations nations-an an an era ern that dots dog not depend upon force torce of ot arms bo but upon markets an era cra which makes for peace and ond prosperity among na na- na tons That nation naton is 18 the best customer customer customer cus cus- tomer which is freest because freedom freedom freedom free free- dom works prosperity industry and wealth So true Is this that the measure measure meas races ure of a n nations nation's naton's commerce Is directly Influenced by the measure of ot a a nations nation's nations nation's naton's na na- na- na tion's tons ton's freedom The successive e su supremacy supremacy su- su In commerce of the Italian HaHnn republics Holland Holand and Great Gret Britain as compared with wih tho the commercial backwardness back back- of pf f the despotic countries of or Europe Europ during the same periods expresses ox ex presses almost in exact figures the measure of freedom In tn those respective respective respective tive landsA landsA lands A uA community can cn not remain municipally municipally mu mu- corrupt and J commercially honest The civic weal and commercial commer commer- cial cal together honesty wilt will wi go up or go down for lor Corporate There never was more urgent urgent- urgent nee need 1 for right thinking and right acting Incorporate in incorporate incorporate corporate and in political affairs than now now for for a power that makes for tor righteousness in our every day affairs rom from from labor toward towar capital no less leas les than from capital toward labor the power of tho the big stick Is needed be because because because be- be cause there are arc big abuses to be bo corrected corrected corrected cor cor- and big bl lawbreakers kers to be bo checked Let us thank God that there sits situ in the White House a man who possesses a mind enriched with wih an historians historian's his his- torian's l knowledge o of the past pst united with a statesman's forecast of or the thc fu future fu- fu U- U ture who ture-who who has the moral courage of ot a Lincoln fearlessly to uphold a standard standard stand stand- ard of at right doing and nd to redress the justified grievances of the masses andIC and IC If those grievances ances are arc not redressed In a spirit of at Justice the demons of or resentment an and revenge will wil become their ales allies |