Show ROOSEVEL TS SPEECH our readers are well aware ahat we hold theodore roosevelt in high regard in our estimation hp is the greatest president of the last forty years he is great in ili that he is aggressively gres for the right regardless of the degree of offense his unswerving fidelity to justice may cause he fears neither the capitalist nor the union ats ests theroan of millions arih enrin of 1 i 1 i toil toll 0 his speech at the ode opening n 1 n g of the Jamez jamestown town exposition discloses his high resolve to be right at whatever cost he lie opens his speech with a tribute to the english people the founders of this republic and ho he be stows dp served honors upon the people of other european nations who have played such an important part in developing cevelo ning america he lie never forgets to praise the soldiers of the civil war or the pioneers plo neer who blazed the trails for our modern civilization I 1 I 1 then coming down to present day affairs he be clearly defines his position on a most important question between the lines one can read a reference to recent tebet events such as the harriman letter ld and the attitude of organized labor we quote at length from the clang part of his speech in industrial matters our enormous prosperity prospLr ity has brought with it certain grave evils it is our duty to try to cut out these evih evils without at the same time destroying our well being itself this is an all era of combination alike in the tile world of capital and in the world of labor each kind of combination can call do good and and yet each however powerful must be opposed when it does ill fil at the moment the greatest problem before us is how to exercise such control over the business use of vast wealth individual but especially corporate as will insure its ing used against agal list the interest of 1 the I 1 public while yet permitting such ampie ample legitimate profits as will encourage individual initiative it is our business to put a stop to abuses and to prevent their recurrence without showing a spirit ot of mere vindictiveness for what has been done in the past in john morless Mor leys brilliant sketch abete of burke he lays especial stress upon the fact that burka burko more than almost any other thinker politician or pol idel a of his timo time realized the tho profound lesson that in fol IN cities we are concerned not with barren rights but with dut duties les not with ah ab truth hut but with practical morality he ile specially eulogizes the way it in which in his ills efforts for economic reform burke combined unshakable resolution in pr pressing the reform with a profound temperate temperateness noss of spirit which made him while bent on the extirpation of alio the evil system refuse to cherish an unreasoning and vin ill III will toward the man hierl who had benefited by IL said burke if I 1 cau can not reform with equity I 1 will not reform at al there Is a state to preserve preserve is as well as a state to reform form V I 1 r 1 I 1 I 1 this is 15 the exact spirit in ili which this country should move to the reform of aliases of corporate wealth the wrongdoer wrong doer the tha man who swindles and cheats vh whether etler on oil a big scale or a little one I 1 shall receive at our hands handa mercy as is scant as it he committed crimes clinies of violence or brutality wo we are unalterably determined to prevent wrongdoing in the future we have no intention of trying to wreak such an indiscriminate vengeance fot for wrong done in the past pt as would confound the innocent with the guilty our purpose is to build up rather than to tear down we show ourselves the truest friends of property when we make it evident that we will not tolerate the tile abuses of property steadily bent on preserving the institution of private property wo we combat every tend tendency enex toward reducing the people to economic servitude and we care not whether aether the tendency is due to a sinister agitation directed against all property or ar whether it is duo due to the actions of those of the predatory classes whose antisocial anti social power is immeasurably increased because of the very fact that they possess wealth above allec insist that while fac ing irig changed conditions ind and new problems we must face them in the spirit which our fore forefathers fathera showed when they founded and preserved this R republic e the cornerstone of the lie lies in our tr treating each man nian on his worth as a man paying paving no heed to his creed his birthplace or his occupation asking not whether ho he Is rich or poor whether he labors with head or hand asking only whether he acts decently and honorably in the various relations of his life whether he lie behaves well to his family to his neighbors to the state we bae base our 0 ur regard for each man on the essentials and not tho go accidents aW dents wo we judge him not by his profession but by his deeds by his conduct not by b y what ho he has liar acquired of this worlds goods other republics have fallen tallen because the aitt zens ens gradually grew grow to consider tho interests of a class before the interest 3 of the whole bior for when such was the case it mattered little Tw whether hother it was tho the poor who plundered the rich or tho the rich who exploited tho poor in either event the end of the republic was at hand we aro are resolute in our purpose not to fall into such a it pit this great republic of onn ouri shall never become the government of a plutocracy pluto crac Y and it shall never become the government of a mabb god will it shall remain what our fathers who founded it meant it to be a government in which each man stands on his ills worth as a man where each is to given the largest per personal liberty consistent with securing ring the well being bein of tb tho whole and where so far as in us lles lies anve e strive continually to secure fo for each man such quality equality of opportunity that in the strife of life ho he may have a fair chance to show the stuff that is 19 in rim wo we are proud of our schools and of the trained intelligence they give ive our phil children drell the opportunity to acquire but what wo care for most is the character of the average man for we believe that if the average of char |