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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1007.
RIVERS WILL REGULATE ROADS
Continued from Pago One.
pizrd tacmi oa which they live, make
up what Is on the whole the most val-i
unble asftet In our national life.
VALLEY’8 FUTURE.
“There can be Juat as real progress
tiad culture In the country as In the
city; especially in these days of rural
free delivery, trolleys, bicycles, tele
phone®, food roads and school Improve
ments. The valley of the Mississippi is
politically and commercially more im-
p>'i tant than nay other valley on the
face of the glob*.
“Hero more than anywhere else will
be determined the future of the United
States and Indeed of the whole Western
world; and the type of civilisation
reached In this mighty valley, In this
\w*t -4retch *f country lying between
the Alleghenies and the Rockies, the
great lakes and the gulf, will largely fix
tlir type at civilisation for the whole
' Western hemisphere.
-Already, as our history shows, the
West has determined our national pod
' lltlcal development, and the funda-i
mental principle of present American
; politics, political equality, wns orlgl.
• nally a Western Idea,
VARIETY OF RE80URCES.
“The wonderful variety of resources
In mffervnt portions of the valley make
. the demand for transportation alto
gether exceptional. Coal, lumber, corn,
* wheat, cotton, cattle—on the surface^of I
the soil and beneath the soil the richesj
i are great. There are already evident
' strong tendencies to Increase the enr-
; rylng of freight from'the northern part
of the valley to the gulf. ...
i “Throughout Ihe valley the land Is so
fertile a* to make th* held for the
: farmer peculiarly attractive; and where
i In the west the climate becomes dryer
! we enter upon the ranching country;
i wnne In addition to the products of the
| soil there are also the manufactures
■ supplied In Innumerable manufacturing
1 centers, great and small. Cities of as-;
( tonishtng growth ore found everywhere
from the gulf to the Great Lakes, from
the Alleghenies to the Rockies; most
of them being .situated on the great
river which flows by your doors or
I upon some of Its numerous navigable
f tributaries. New mineral Helds are dis
covered every year; and the constant
ly Increasing use of all tha devices of
Intensive cultivation steadily adds to|
tho nrodurtlve power of the farm.
AVERAGE MAN H0NE8T. ■
-Above all, the average man Is hon
est. intelligent, self-reliant, and or
derly, and therefore a good citizen; and
farmer aftd wageworker alike—in the
last analysis the two most Important
men In the community—enjoy a stand
ard of living, and have developed a
standard of self-respecting, self-reliant
manhood, which are of good augury for
the future of the entire republic.
man can foresee the limit of the possll
blllty of development In the Mississippi
Vfl “Such being the case, and this-valley
being literally the heart of the United
States, all that concerns its welfare
must concern likewise the whole coun
try. Therefore, the Mississippi river
and Its tributaries ought by all means
to be utilized to their utmost possi
bility. PacUttv of cheap transportation
Is an essential In our modern civiliza
tion, and we can not afford any longer
to neglect tf\# great highways which J
nature has provided for us.
NATURAL HIGHWAYS.
“These natural highways, the water
ways. can never be monopolized by any
corporation. They belong to All the
peucHe. and It Is In the power of no one
to take them away. Wherever a navi
gable Hver funs beside railroads the
problem of regulating the rates on the
i".11(roads becomes far easier, because
river regulation Is rate regulation.
When the water rule sinks, the land
rate can not be kept at nn excessive
height. Therefore It la of nutlonal Im-
B stance to develop these streams ns
rhwa.va to the fullest extent which Is
genuinely profitable.
“Year by year transportation prob
lems become more acute, and the time
kaa come when the rivers really fit to
eerva as arteries of trade should be
provided with channels deep enough
and wide enough to make the Invest
ment of the necessary money profitable
to the public.
NATION BACK WORK.
-The national government ahould un
dertake this work. Where the imme
diately abutting land Is markedly bene
fited. and this benefit can be definitely
localised. 1 trust that there will lx*
careful Investigation to see whether
some way can be devised by which the
Immediate beneficiaries may pay a por
tion of the expenses—as Is now the
custom aa regards certain classes of
improvements In our municipalities, and
measures should be taken to secure
from tho localities specially benefited
proper terminal facilities.
“The expense to the nation of enter
ing upon each a scheme of river 1m
provement as that which I believe It
should undertake, will necessarily be
great. Many cautious and conservative
people will look askance upon the
project, and from every standpoint It is
necessary. If we wish to make It suc
cessful, that we should enter upon It
only under conditions which will guar
antee the nation against waste of Its
money, and which will Insure us against
entering upon any project until after
the most elaborate expert examination,
and reliable calculation of the propor
tion between coat and benefit.
DEFINITE POLICY.
In any project like thla there should
be a definite policy, and a resolute pur
pose to, keep In mind that the only im
provements made should be those real
ly national In their character. We
should act on the same principle In Im
proving our rivers that we should fol
low’ In improving our harbors. The
great harbors are of consequence not
merely to the Immediate localities, but
to immense stretches of country, and
the same Is true of the great rivers.
“It Is these' great rivers and great
harbors the Improvement of which Is of
primary national Interest. The main
streams should be Improved to the
highest practical degree of efficiency
before Improvements are attempted on
the branches, and work should he un
dertaken only when completion J» in
sight within a reasonable time, so that
assured results may be gained and the
communities-affected depend upon the
Improvements.
UNITED 8TATE8 8H0ULD AID.
“Moreover, ss an Incident In caring
for tha river so that It may become an
efficient channel of transportation, the
United Rtates government ahould do Ita
full part in levee building, which. In the
lower reaches of the river, will not only
give a channel for commerce, but will
also give protection to the adjacent
bottom lands.
Immense sums have already been
spent upon the Mississippi by the states
and tho nation, yet much of It remains
practically unuoed for commerce. . The
reasons for this fact arc many. One Is
that the work done by tho national gov
ernment at least has not been baaed
upon a: definite and continuous plan.
Appropriations by congress, Instead of
assuring the steady progress and time
ly completion of each piece of work an
It was undertaken, have been Irregular
and uncertain. As a direct consequence,
far-reaching plans have been discour
sed and continuity In execution has
been made Impossible.
ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT.
“It Is .altogether unlikely that better
results will be obtained so long as the
method Is followed of making partial
appropriations at irregular intervals fon
works which should never be under
taken until It Is certain that they can
be carried to completion within a defl-
nlto and reasonable time. Planned and
orderly development Is essential to the
best use of every natural resource, and
to none more than to the best use of
our Inland waterways. In tho case of
the waterways It hus been conspicu
ously absent.
•Because such foresight was lacking,
tho Interests of our rivers huvo been In
fact.overlooked, In spite of tho Immense
sums s|H*nt upon' them. It Is evident
that their most urgent need Is a fur-
sighted and comprehensive plan, deal
ing not with navigation alone nor with
Irrigation alone, but considering our In
land waterways us a whole, and with
reference to every use to which they
can be put. The central motive of such
a plan should be to get from the
streams of the United Rtates not only
the fullest, hut also the Inost perma
nent service they are capable of render
ing to the nutlon ns n whole.
ROADS INCOMPETENT.
’The Industries developed under the
stlmylUN of the railroads are for the
moat part permanent industries, and
therefore they form tho basis for future
development. But the railroads have'
shown that they alone can not meet
the demands of the country for trans
portation. and where this Is true the
rivers should begin to supplement the
railroads, to the benefit of both, by re
lieving them of certain of the less prof,
liable classes of freight.
•The more far-seeing railroad men, I
ntn glad to tell you, realise this fact.
Keep Arbuckles* Ariosa Coffee in the
original package, and grind it at home as you
use it Warming it slightly develops the flavor,
and makes the grinding easy.
That delicious appetizing
aroma is too good to lose in a
grocery store.
Coffee loses its identity as coffee after it
is ground.
If you know and want a good coffee buy
Arbuckles’ Ariosa
Coffee
and grind it at home. The cheapest good
coffee in the world.
ARBUCICL.B BROS.. New Tort City. *
THE ATLANTA DENTAL COLLEGE.
The operatory of The Atlanta Dentn! College Is open for practical work
from l a. m. to J p. m. each day excepting Sunday*.
Filling operation* of all kinds. Including gold, and tooth extractions,
with or without gas. are made by the advanced student*, entirely free of
charge. Experienced demonstrators in charge.
THE ATLANTA DENTAL COLLEGE.
ATLANTA COLLEGE OP PHARMACY
Up to data. ' We teach men to be first -das* pharmacists and first-class
chemists also. We have a greater demand for our graduates than we can
supply. Th* Pure Food and Drugs act Is making the demand greater than
refer. Address Geerge F. Payne, Ph.G., Dean, A0*/ 2 Armstrong 8t., Atlanta, Ga.
THE
KEELEY
CURE
Do You Know What It Does?
It relieves a person of all desire for strong drink
or drugs, restore# his nervous ayetem to Its normal
condition, and reinstates a man to his home and
and many of them have become earn
est advocates of the Improvement of
the Mississippi; so that it tnay'become
a sort of inland seaboard, extending
from the gulf far Into the Interior, and
I hope ultimately to the Great Lakes.
An Investigation of the proposed lakes-
to-the-guTf deep waterway Is now In
progress under an appropriation of the
last congress.
DECISION IMPORTANT.
“We shall await Its results with the
keenest Interest. The decision Is ob
viously of capital Importance to our
Internal development and scarcely its®
so in relation to external commerce.
This Is but one oi the many projects'
which it Is time to consider,, although
mofct Important one- Plans for the
improvement of our Inland navigation
may fairly begin with our greatest riv
er and Its chief tributaries, but they
can not end there. -
Many. other rivers of the United
States demand Improvement, ao as bet
ter to meet the requirements of Increas
Ing production from the soil. Increasing
manufacture, and a rapidly growing
population.
OTHER QUESTIONS.
"While thus the Improvement of In
land navigation Is a vital problem,
there are other questions of no less
consequence connected with our wa
terways. One of these relates to the
purity of waters used for the supply
of towns and cities, to the prevention
of pollution by manufacturing and
other Industries, and to the protection,
of drainage areas from soil wash
through forest covering or Judicious
cultivation. With out constantly In
creasing population this question be
comes more and more pressing, be
cause the health and safety of great
bodies of citizens are directly Involved.
“Another Important group of ques
tions concerns the Irrigation of arid
lands, the prevention of floods, and the
reclamation of swafhps. Already many
thousands of homes have been estab
lished on the arid regions, ami the pop
ulation and wealth of seventeen states
and territories have been largely In
creased through Irrigation. Yet this
means of national devolpmenli Is still
In Its Infancy, and It will doubtless
long continue to multiply homes and
Increase the productiveness and power
of the nation.
OVERFLOW LANDS.
The reclamation at overflow lands
and marshes, both In the Interior and
along the coasts, has ulroady been car
ried on with udmlrable results, but In
this field, too, scarcely more than a
good beginning has yet been made. Still
another fundamentally important ques
tion Is that of WAter I»owsr.
“Its significance In the future devel
opment of our whole country, and es
pecially of the West, Is but Just be
ginning to be understood. The plan of
the city of Lo* Angeles, for example,
to bring water for Its use a distance
of nearly 250 miles—perhaps the bold
est project of the kind in modern limes
—promises not only to achieve Ita pur
pose, but In addition to produce a wa
ter power sufficiently valuable to pay
large Interest on the Investment of over
f 2 J,#00,000.
THE WATER POWER.
“Hitherto such opportunities for us
ing water to double purpose have not
always been seized. Thus it has re
cently been shown that water enough
Is flowing unused over government
dams, built to Improve navigation, to
produce many hundreds of thousands
of horse power. It Is computed that
the annual value of the available but
unused water power In the United
Rtates exceeds the annual value of the
product* of nil our mined. Further
more, It Is calculated that under Judi
cious handling the power of our
streams qioy he made to pay for nil the
works required for the complete devel
opment and control of our Inland wa
terways.
"Forests are the most effective pre
venters of flood*, especially when they
grow on the higher mountain slopes.
The national forest policy. Inaugurated
primarily to avert or mitigate the tim
ber famine which Is now beginning to
be felt, has been affective also In secur
ing partial control of I|<mhIs by retard
ing tho run-off and checking the ero
sion of tho higher hIojwh within the
national forests. Httit the loss from
soli wash Is enormous.
LOSING SOIL MATTER.
It is computed that ope-fifth of a
cubic mile In volume, or one billion
tons In weight of the richest soil matter
•f the United Suite*, Is annually gath
ered in storm rivulets, washed Into the
rivers and borne Into the sea. The
loss to the farmer Is in effect a tax
greater than nil other land taxes com
bined, and one yielding absolutely no
return. The diqsirttnent of agriculture
Is now devising and tenting means to
check this enormous waste through Im
proved methods of agriculture and for
est management.
“Citizen# of all portions of the coun
try are coming to realize that, how
ever important the improvement of
navigation muy be. It is only one of
many snds to be kept In view. The
demand for navigation l> hardly more
pressing than the demand® for reclaim
ing land# by Irrigation In th® arid re
gions and by drainage In the humid
lowlands, or for utilUtng the water
power now running to waste, or for
purifying the waters so as to reduce
or remove the tux of soil waste, to j
mo,. n»nuSc, mW|Vs u. fi u.rd .
“It Is the part of wisdom to adopt
not a Jumble of unrelated plans, but a
single comprehensive scheme for meet
ing'all the demands so far as possible
at the same time and by the same
means. This Is the reason why the In.
land waterways commission was cre-
uted In March last, largely In response
to petitions from citizens of the in
terior, Including many of the members
of (his congress. Broad Instructions
were given to Ihe commission In ac
cordance with this general poltcv that
no plan should be prepared for ffie use
of any stream for a single purpose
without carefully considering, and so
far us practicable actually providing
for, the use of that stream for every
other purpose.
“Plans for navigation and power
should provide with special care for
sites and terminals not only for the
Immediate present, but also for the fu
ture. It Is because of my conviction In
these matters that 1 am here.
GREAT TASK.
“The Inland waterways commission
ha# a task broader than the considera
tion of waterways alone. There Is an
Intimate relation between our streams
and the development and conservation
of all the other great permanent
sources of wealth. It Is not possible
rightly to consider the one without the
other. No study of the problem of the
waterways could hope to be successful
which failed to consider also the re
maining factor# In the great problem
of conserving Hll our resources. Ac
cordingly. I have asked the waterways
commission to take account of the or
derly development and conservation,
not alone of the waters, but also of the
soil, the forests, the mines, and all the
other natural resources of our coun
try.
. ! Msnv pf Hlffft rfNBrert which #*
tiot beta m ihe habit of eililHf Inti,
hsustlbl* are being rapidly exhausted.
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Qr (o certain reslona fiave ai iu.Ulj- die.
appeared. Coni mine*, oil and gax
flelda, and Iron mines In Important
number* nre already worked out.
UNCHECKED CONTROL.
"Tho coal and oil measure, which
remain are paaetng rapidly, or have
actually paaaed, Into the poeseeelon of
great corporation,, who acquire omi
nous power through an unchecked con.
trnl of there prime neceiodtle, of mod
ern life; a control without supervision
of any kind. We are consuming our
forest, three times faster than they are
being reproduced. Some of the richest
timber lands of this continent hnve al.
ready been destroyed, and not replaced
and other vest areas Hr. on the verge
of destruction. Tet forests, unlike
mine,, ran be so handled a, to yield
the heat results of use, without ex
haustion, just like grain fields.
"Our public land,, whose hlgheat
use Is to Hup ply home, for our people,
have been and are still being taken In
great quantities by large private own
er,. to whom home-making la at the
very beat but % secondary motive eub-
ordhinto to tho desire for profit. To
allow the public lands to be worked by
the tenant, of rich men for the profit
of the landlords. Instead of by free
holders for the livelihood of their wives
and children. Is little less than a crime
against our people and onr lnstifu
lion,.
ABUSING LAND GRANTS.
The great central fact of the public
land situation, a, the public lands com.
mission ’well said, I, that the amount
of public land patented by tho govern
ment to Individuals Is Increasing out of
all proportion to the number of lien-
home,. It Is clenr beyond perprtvent
ure that our natural resources have
been and nre still being abused, that
continued abuse w-lll destroy them, and
that we have at last reached the forks
of the road.
“We are face to fnco with the great
fact that the whole future of the nation
Is directly at slake In the momentous
decision which Is forcctl upon us. Rhnll
we continue the waste and destruc
tion of our natural resources, or shnll
we conserve them? There Is no other
question of equal gravity now before
the nation.
THE PLAIN DUTY.
It Is the plain duty of those of us
who for the moment are responsible to
make Inventory of the natural re
source* which have been handed down
to ux. to forecast an well as we may
the need, of the future, and so to han
dle the great sources of our prosperity
a, not to deetroy Ih advance all hope
for tho prosperity of our descendants.
"As I hnvo said elsewhere, tho con
servation of natural rt»ource» Is the
fundamental problem. tJnless we solve
that problem It wllf avail us little to
solve all others. To solve It. the whole
nation must undertake tho tnsk through
thdr nrganlxatlons and associations,
through tho men whom they have made
specially responsible for the welfare of
the several states, anil Anally through
ongress and the executive.
CALL CONPERENCE.
"As a preliminary step, the Injand
aterwnys commission has decided,
.. Ith my full approval, to call a con
ference on the conservation of natural
resources, including, of course, the
streams, to meet In Washington during
the coming winter. This conference
ought to be among the most Important
gathering* In our history, for none
have had a more vital question to con-
elder.
There Is a great nnttonal project
already under way which renders the
Improvement of the Mississippi river
and Its trtbutarlea specially needful. I
mean the Panama canal. The digging
of that canal will he of benefit to the
hole country, but most of all to the
Mates nl the Pacific alope and the gulf,
end tf the Mississippi Is properly Im
proved, to tho states through which It
" THE PANAMA CANAL.
"The digging of the Fonamu canal Is
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the greatest engineering feat which has
yet been attempted on this globe. The
work has been going on most success-
ulways lie kept sod maneuvered ss a unit,
fully ami with fewer drawbacks and- 8y^L-"<KLi? ‘n)T“iww > t" U sppeor In*pur
dlHlcultles than I hud dared hope, tt hen home waters la the other. And; oh my
under our treaty with Panama we took
posseeslon of the ctinal xona t was con
fident that we ahould be able to build
the canal, but I took It for granted that
we should meet many unexpected dif
ficulties. not only In tha actual work,
but through and because uf the Ule-
cascs which had mode the tatlunue a
byword of unhealthfulnesa.
"The work done In making the con
ditions on th* lethmua healthy, how
ever, has been so succesiful that at
present the death rutu among the thou-
eand. of Americana engaged In the
canal work la lower than to moat locali
ties In the United States.
DIRT IS FLYING,
The organisation has been perfect
ed, tho machinery In,lulled and the
actual work, of the dredges, the stkam
shovels and the dirt trains. Is going on
with constantly Increasing rapidity and
eirectlvenean. In August over 1.J0O,-
000 cubic yards of material were
removed, chiefly from the Culebra cut
—tho record removal—and If thla rate
can be kept up, ns 1 heileve It will be
kept up. ihe work of digging will be
through In half a doseti year*. The fin
ishing of the look, of the great dntn
may take a little longer; hut It begins
to look es though the work will be
completed even sooner than we had
ealimnted.
"Remember, gentlemen, that any
work like title entnlle grave responsi
bilities.' The one Intolerable position
for a self-re,peeling nation, a, for a
self-respecting mnn, Is to hlulf and
then not be able to make good. IVe
have accepted the Monroe doctrlno as a
cardinal fenture of onr foreign policy.
MUST POLICE CANAL.
We have undertaken not only to
build, but to police and to guard the
Panama canal. This mean*, unless we
are willing to accept the humiliation
of being treated some time by some
strong nation a, n vnln and weak brag
gart. that we must build and maintain
our navy at the highest point of ef
ficiency. When the canal Is finished our
navy can more from one ocean to the
other at will; for, remember that our
DISTRESS AFTER EATING
Make tome new
Body and
Brain Tissue
every day or
You Drop
Back;
Right Food is
the Only Supply
Grape=Nuts
food |# marie of selected parts of wheat
and barley tlmt furnish the natural
phosphate* required by the human sys
tem for rebuilding waste tissue In the
brain and nerve centers, and supplies
vital energy to body and mind.
The nervous system controls the di
gestive machinery, and the brain di
rects the' working and money-making
power. x
Ten day# on Grape-Nut# regularly
will show you
“There’s a Reason’’
.RWl. "th* holt! 18 WfllVU#" 1h
£k»«. lt'a "a little heiuth itm."
Do You Ever Feel As Though You
Had Swallowed A Brick, In-
stead of a Meal?
That heavy, blunted, gtuffed-tip, lead
like feeling, which you often experience
after eating a meal, Is positive proof
that something Is wrong with your dl
festive organa. They nre becoming
weak and tagged out. There It a lack
of gaetrlo and other digeitlvt juices.
The food la no longer properly digest'
ed and It form, a heavy load on your
ttomach, *o that nearly every meal
cauete you misery and distress.
If you ars In this condition, It means
that you have dyepepela In eome form
and may have had It for eome time,
though you didn't realise It.
Now IS the time to check It, for If
you don't It will surely develop Into
worse forma of dyepepsla and other
stomach troubles, which may have se
rious results.
But that la not all. The stomach la
the hub of th? body and an Injury to
It Is an injury to all. A weak etom-
ueb cuuse* the whole body to suffer.
The action of the heart, liver and kld-
neye becomes sluggish. The brain be
comes Inactive. The nerve, become
unetrung. The blood lose, IU vital
ity.
The only safe, sure, scientific meth
od of restoring your stomach to Its
healthy, normal atate. Is to use Htu-
art's Dyspepsia Tablets, which will act
aa ir substitute In digesting your food,
thus giving your stomach a much need
ed rest.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have
stood the teste for years. Thousands
have used them and been cured. Phy
sician, all over the United State, rec
ommend them. They are not a secret
remedy. They contain fruit and vege
table essence,, pure concentrated tinc
ture nt hydraalle, golden seal, lactose,
anti pure aseptic pepsin. These com
bined Ingredients will digest the coare.
est kind of food and do the work Juat
aa well as any good, strong, healthy
stomach will.
Don't take our word for It. Ask your
physician, your druggist or any of your
friends, who may have used Btuart'e
Dyepepsla Tablet,. But you don't even
have to take their word for it. Find
out for yourself. Bend for a free sam
ple package and try them. That's the
surest way to learn the truth. Then.
If you are satisfied, you ran go to your
nearest druggist and get a, flfty-ccnl
>ox. AH druggists, sell them.
Bldg., Marshall, Mich.
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friends #n<l fellowAraerlcana, I ipost ear
nestly hope all our i»eoplo will remember
that in th* fundamental question* mo *
deeply affecting the life or the nation the
ean he «r> proper division on parly lines.
NOT PARTY QUESTION.
“Mutter# of such grave moment should]
Ihe dealt with along the line# of consistent
aiul well-tUouzht-otit pulley, without regard
to nny ehniige of nduiiubtrntlon or of party
at Wanhfnjrthn. fturli questions aa the up-
of glHHMigij
letluti of
■■■■■■■■■■■with the plan* Howl
helm: nirried out. tturi the Improvement of
the Mlrfftlf'slppl river, are not party quea-
in mu'll matters a* these liecqtiie thu wel
fare of the nation Imperiously demand#
the notion that I am taking. It Is action
In the luturest of all the people, and tr
weed for It will he a# great long after
have paaaed out of public life as It 1# now.
MAKE IT PERMANENT.
“On theao great point# that I have men
tioned. a* on other# I could mcutlou. from
tho #tntid|mint of tb# nation the policy It
everything, while It Is of little import#nre
who cnrrle# It out so long a# It actually
I# carried oat. Therefore, i hope you will
#ee to It, according to your best endeavor,
that tho policy i# accepted n# permanent,
a# something to be persevered In beenuso
of the Interest of the wbela fwvple. and
without regard to any possible political
rbiiugea.
“fiofore closing, let me any a word upon
the subject of the regulation of th* rail
way# by congress under Ihe Interstate com
merce clause of the constitution. In njy
Judgment, the old day# of happy-go-lucky
ludlfTerenro on tha part of the public to
the conduct of the corporations have pass
ed. The American iHMipio ha# made up Ita
mind flint the conditions of modern Indus
trialism nre such ns Imperatively to uetnand
over these great corporal Ions.
EXACT JU8TIC6,
... we should ox-
act Justice from them to the public. Rome
of tnem have become so Imbittuifcd to disre
garding everything but their, own wishes
and Interest* that tho effort to establish
a proper supervision over them has aroused
on their part a curiously unreasonable an-
. ..._ .. •— im0 „ „ ot >so|„
hat wo have been
ot been Improperly
radical; using the word in its right scuae,
we Iiilto been conservative.
“We have merely taken the first step* In
a policy which must bo permanent Ir our
democratic Institution# are to endure: while,
aa a matter of course,
ever In mind that It il
rlous to true democracy to Inflict. #a tame-
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„ - .... ... most also keep
ever In mind that It is exsrtlv as Inju
rious to true democracy to Infilat, as tame
ly to suffer, wrong. We can no more tol
erate Injustice to Ihe railroads than Injus
tice by them; one course I# a# Immoral
uml n# fundamentally mischievous and In
jurious to the people aa the other.
WATCH BOND I88UE8.
In the matter of the supervision of the
great railway corporations we are acting
aa all civilized governments hnve already
acted or are on the |»nltit of acting. Tho
unrestricted Issun'of railway secnrltle* with
out any supervision, nud under circum
stance* which often result in the graveut
sen mini, should not be permitted, and only
by governmental action can It bo prevented,
ft Is a frond v thus prevented 4 ~
(}• nanny, for Instance.
via Kuglaod, the first royal commission of
railways, of which that great parliamentary
and popular leader, William Ewart Glad-
— , set forth at fundimen-
let which htr# bar® at
ito law, or which, at 1
ipaedllv be enacted. Of
ment Tike this In wbloh
Jrmly believe, will at - _
course, In any movament
we are now eugaxed. In any mq.Hntent
— to the r#fuT'“~
ngaged ‘
nttlng i
. jpiw. ...
looking to the regulation of vaat corporate
wealth engaged In Interstate business, and
to the cutting out of all abuses connected
therewith, there will at times be suffering
Id which, unfortunately, many Innocent
people will lw» Involved.
INNOCENT SUFFER.
“But such suffering of the ionpeeil Is un
avoidable In every great movement-»f life.
Able and unscrupulous men are sure to de
ceive certain Innocent outsiders and |wr-
suade them to Invest In ventures under con
ditions which render In## certain when the
force of the law la asserted. I am exceed
ingly sorry for these Innocent netiplc; but
ft Is not possible, because of them, to re-
tuso to proceed against the men who have
victimized them.
“It Is Juat such a ease a# would occur
If an unscrupulous man with counterfeit
money visited some remote village, #IH*nt
his money, am) then disappeared. The local
Innkeeper and livery stable keeper, tha
* f -IM | t |, # uelghl»orlug farmer.
.... hnve been victimised; they would
have lodged and fed the man, have supplied
him with good# from tha store and the
farm, have hired horses and wagons to him,
an® In ratiirn would find themselves load-
*, .Ilk -Ji'^iMTIVE.
“If. under such circumstances, the govern
ment fowul out what had happened It
wonld have no alternative save to stop the
circulation of the counterfeit mousy, though
those possessing It were Innocent. |t
would, of ronrse, try to occurs the convlc?
flow of the thief, but If he lift'! escaped the
jurisdiction of the law. It Would neverthe
less l»c Impossible to let his Innocent vie-
tltns continue to pass his by no means Inno
cent counterfeit money. Well, Just tho
same thing Is trua when It comes to en
forcing the low against business men of
grant wealth who have violated It.
"People nre always beseeching me not to
enforce It against them, ItecaiMc Innocent
outsiders inay lw hurt, or. only to enforce
It with a gentleness that would prevent
onyl»ody, good or bo®, from Mng hurt. It
la not possible to comply with such re-
? nests, even whan they ore made In good
alth. »_
TMB LAW,
rermnent •„
great and small alike. I
, when It happen* that Mg
men who do wrong have Involved smaller
men with no bad Intentions to anrb an ex
tent that they snffer when we force the
mfftrlnf of thus#
55-S
Innocent outsider* lies, not with us who
put a stop to the wrong and punish the
wrongdoers, hut with theao wrongdoers who
mislead their victims.
“In conclusion, friends, 1st ma Impress
;»<>u you one thing. Good laws can do
much good; Indeed, they ore often Indlspen-
sable. There Is urgent need that we ahould
hnve honest and efficient legislation and .
honest and efficient action !>,v those whose
provlueo It Is to put the legislation Into ef
fect. Hut there Is luilultciy more need of
a high Jndlvldunl average of character.
The only permanent way to help nny nuin
Is to help him to help himself. To teach
him iierinnueiitly to depend on anything
save his own powers Is to do him harm and
not good.
CHARACTER.
“Let no man persuade you that law-a by
themselves, no mutter how* necessary and
ts'iifth-lnl. will moke any community happy
and prosperous, or be even the chief factors
In securing such hnpplness and prngjierlty.
In the Inst analysis the vital factor In each
man’s effort to achieve success in life must
be Ills ow’ii character, Ida own courage and
uprightness uml Intelligence.
“Id this nmllcnce nre many men who
wore the gray in the great Civil war. In
every audience I hnve spoken to oil this
trip there have been men w’ho fought In
either tho Union or ('onforiprate nrmy, nud
ofteu representatives from both armies.
LIKE THE 80LDIER.
“Now, you mea know that while la time
of war there Is need of good generalship,
,p' th xp;: 1
in
mining factor la the regiment, the brigade,
the army, la, and must ever be. the Indi
vidual character of the Individual soldier;
hla prowess, his hardihood, his unyielding
resolution, bis stsrn fidelity to duty, his ca-
MCllr to set on Ms own individual raspon*
slbllity when necessary, and yat to serve
over or under or with others In perfect
harmony and obedleuce.
runs# w hich primarily aercrmines, tm* i
urt» or yueecsa of bottle and campaign,
the great Civil wgr our armies. North
and Routheru alike, won their high posll
forever and all time In the undying regard
and admiration of their fellow-cttiscns, be
cause tho average man In the -rank*, tho
average mnn who carried saber of rifle, had
hla high standard of 4icrs®nal quality.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. .
Juat ns It was In time of war, so it la
now In time “f pegc#. If * man Mins not
got the right staff in him then no law ran
possibly get Jt out of him, because It Is not
there to get out. . • . .
“All that the law can do Is to punish
evil, to encourage what la good, and to
secure, so far ns Is i»o*#lhlc, an equality
The feipooiiblilty for the
young lady oiih morning. It was advertk
In the column of The Georgian h»
the afternoon aiid returned the next morn-
f’orty.eent box of Wiley’* best candy free
with each thlrty-cent , •watlt ,, a®.- In Satur
day’s Georgian,
Criminal Docket Large.
Special to The Georgian.
Perry, Ga., Oct. 4.—Houston superior
court will convene Monday. The civil
docket will occupy the flrat week. A
large criminal docket for the second
week will consume the week.
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