The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-08-26
PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
(Continued From Page Ten.l

of intelligent dealings by the state as
collective body with these great corpor-
ations Here ip Massachusetts you have
what regard as, on the whole, excellent
corporation laws. think that most OF
our diniculties-here. again. remember
am moth promising the millennium; II 10
not In my power to promise it-wouId be
In fair way OF solution If we had the
power TO put upon the national statute
books and did put on them laws for the
nation much like those you have here
on the subject OF corporations In Massa-
chusetts lApplause.l So you can see,
gentlemen. l am not advocating anything
very revolutionary. tLaughterl / am
advocating action to prevent anything
revolutionary. Loud applause.l I want
publicity as TO the essential facts I'm
which the public has an interest want
the knowledge given to the accredited
representatives OF the people OF facts
upon which those representatives can ~
they see ut. base their actions later The
publicity Itself would cure many evils.
Some or these things I have said can be
lone now. As far as the antitrust laws
., they will be enforced Now no suit
will be undertaken for the sake of SEEM
ing TO undertake IT, Laughter and loud
applausel Every suit that is undertaken
Will be begun because the great lawyer
ana upright man whom we are so fortu-
nate as TO have as attorney general. Mr.
Knox loud cheersl believes that there Is
a violation OF the law which we can get
at and when the suit is undertaken Il
won't be compromised excepting on the
basis that the government wins loud
and continuous applauss
LAWS MUST BE ENFORCED.
"Of course, gentlemen, no laws amount
TO anything unless they are administered
honestly and fearlessly. You have got TO
have the administration before the law
amounts TO that (snapping his finger)
Then, l believe, 1 am not going TO say I
am sure of Il. but believe IL Is possible
TO frame national legislation which shall
give US moro power than we now have
at any rate over corporations doing an
Interstate business.
Il cannot guarantee that, because in
the past IL has more than once happened
that We have got laws on the statue books
which those who made them Intended TO
mean one thing and when they came up
to decision II was found that the inten-
tion had not been successfully put into
effect. And when the power has been
conferred, then II will rest with the ma
tional government 10 exercise IL. At
present we are going TO do the best we
can with strawless bricks but remember
they are bound to be strawless
And, finally. men and women of New
England. men and women of q state that
represents so much. that has always rep
best in the spirit OF true Americanism
ask you TO remember that after all that
has been done. that can be done by gov
ernmental action, safter you have exer-
cised ~ I'm the most resolute and lofty
spirit. after you have given all the needed
power 70 the national government. and
after that power has been exercised IN
the wisest and most resolute fashion. Il
Will still mean that what has been done
f. not TO make everything smooth for
each man but simply 10 give n better op-
portunity for each man 10 work out hts
own future on good terms for himself
WHAT CAN AND WILL BE DONE.
"The state canhot do as much for you
as you can do for it Under no circum-
stance VIII IL be possible by law to shape
convictions ~ that each man shall sue
ceed. II the man has not got In him the
stun out Of which he cnn work success
the state cannot supply Il. What can be
done by the state, by the nation, 10
make the conditions such that each man
shall be able under the best circumstances
with everything most favorable 10 him 10
work ont his fate for himself will be done
II under those circumstances he fails /
am sorry for him. I VIII help him as far
as possible. I viii lift him up ~ he
stumbles. but I won't try to carry him.
for that IL neither helping him nor help
ing me" Long and continuous ap-
plause)
At the conclusion OF the address the
president and those with him left the hall
while the organ played The Star
Siangled banner" Although rain was
falling. largo crowds chcersd the pres-
dent on tho way 90 the Hotel TouTalne.
where he passed tho night.
DiNED WITH TIFF GOVERNOR.
81 the hotel The President was the
fvrnt of Gov. Crane nt dinner Tho
rrcsts numbered about 2b and included
Mayor Collins. Secretary Moody. Sena-
tor Lodge. Congressman end others This
morning az s.35 o'clock the residential
party left the city for Lowell. IN con-
tinuation OF his tour