io6 Presidential Addresses 



lie has concern. Daylight is a powerful discourager 

 of evil. Such publicity would by itself tend to cure 

 the evils of which there is just complaint; it would 

 show us if evils existed, and where the evils are 

 imaginary, and it would show us what next ought 

 to be done. 



Above all, let us remember that our success in 

 accomplishing anything depends very much upon our 

 not trying to accomplish everything. Distrust who 

 ever pretends to offer you a patent cure-all for every 

 ill of the body politic, just as you would a man who 

 offers a medicine which would cure every evil of 

 your individual body. A medicine that is, recom 

 mended to cure both asthma and a broken leg is not 

 good for either. Mankind has moved slowly up 

 ward through the ages, sometimes a little faster, 

 sometimes a little slower, but rarely indeed by leaps 

 and bounds. At times a great crisis comes in which 

 a great people, perchance led by a great man, can 

 at white heat strike some mighty blow for the right 

 make a long stride in advance along the path of 

 justice and of orderly liberty. But normally we 

 must be content if each of us can do something 

 not all that we wish, but something for the ad 

 vancement of those principles of righteousness which 

 underlie all real national greatness, all true civiliza 

 tion and freedom. I see no promise of any imme 

 diate and complete solution of all the problems we 

 group together when we speak of the trust question. 

 But we can make a beginning in solving these prob 

 lems, and a good beginning, if only we approach the 



