A WARNING TO WEALTH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2 October 1907, Page 5

A WARNING TO WEALTH.

• IDE ROOSEVELT GOSPEL. TO. DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. BUT NOT ITS WRONGDOING: ' By Tciegrapli—Association—Copyright. (Received October 1, 11.4-1 p.m.) Cicvj York, October 1. President Roosevelt, speaking at the inauguration of a memorial at Canton (Ohio) to President M'Kinlcy, referred to the necessity of discouraging envy of. wealth, and said it was still more important to discourage dishonest business chicanery and wrongdoing on tho part of tho wealthy. " The Government," said tho President, " while they are tho best friends of the man of property and tho stauncliest upholders of tho rights of property, set their faces like flint against thoso who are doing wrong in order to acquire great wealth, or who aro using wealth as a help to wrongdoing."

The same note was struck by President Roosevelt in his great speech at the tercentenary,celebrations at Jamestown. He cojidemmle plutocracy and mob rule in the one breath, as follows:—"We show ourselves tho truest friends of property when we make it evident that wo will not tolerate the abuGes of property. Wo aro steadily bent on preserving tho 1 institution of private property; wc_ combat every tendency toward reducing tho people to economic servitude; and we care not whether the tendency is due to a sinister agitation directed against all property, or whether it is due to the actions'of thoso members of .the predatorv classes whose anti-social power is immeasurably increased becauso of the very fact that they possess wealth."