Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-06

Alter ADDRESSING CnOEHuOuS >
Crowd Trip to the South
is Continued.
Wheeling. w. Va, Sept. 6.-The pres
ident's train arrived at Wheeling at
$50 this morning. Senator Scott, O!
West Virginia, boarded the train AT
Benwood junction.. He was greeted by
q vast crowd at the depot and smiled
his appreciation despite badly diseol-
ored face His right cheek is rather
swollen and confused and his left eye
showed signs OF injury and dlscolora-
tion. Mayor Sweeney, President
I.aughlin and Secretary Hirsch. OF the
board of trade, Postmaster Hall ana
Councilman Waterhouse formed the
committee which received the presl-
dent, The entire party, when en-
bodied Secretary Cortelyou, secret
service men and staff correspondents
entered vehicles and We're driven "
the Mcclure House headed by the mll-
tary band. Thruout the entire route en-
thusiasm was rife and the streets were
lined with the people of western Penn
sylvania, eastern Ohio and West Nir-
cinia. AT the hotel the chief executive
met a delegation of prominent citizens
OF Wheeling, introduced by Senator
Scott. The president seemed In a very
ioyial humor and joked with his newly
made acquaintances. He addressed an
enormous crowd from the balcony ho-
tel.
The president said in part:
NV friends and fellow citizens: II
is a pleasure to come to your city,
wish to thank the mayor and thru the
mayor all OF your citizens for The Way
in which, upon your behalf he has
greeted me and | wish to state II is
special pleasure to be introduced by
my friend, Senator Scott, because when.
he gives you his word you don't nave
to think about 1t again.
Il am glad to have chance OF say
ing a few words here in this great iE'
dustrial center, in one of these cities
which has felt to a notable degree the
effect OF the great period of prosperity
thru which we are now passing. Proh =
ably never before in our history has
the country been more prosperous thar
it is at this moment and it is pros
perity which has come alike to the
tillers of the soil and to those connects"
with our great industrial enterprises.
Now gentlemen, every period mas Its
own trouble and difficulties. Periods
of adversity. of course, trouble us all
pn, there are troubles in connections
with period OF prosperity also. When
all things flourish it means there is a
good chance for things that we do not
like to have flourish just exactly as
have flourish and a period of great ma
tional material well being is unavoid
ably one in which human minds are
turned to the way in which those in
terested in the management of gigantic
eapitaliStic corporations, whose growth
have peen SO noted Il period the pas.
half century, flourish. We have growf:
to speak of certain corporations rathe.
loosely rs tr lists, Using the word in it's
usual and common significance of a big
corporation, usually doing 4 business in
several states at least, beside the state
in which it is incorporated. 1t seems
to me. in dealing With this problem,
of the trust (perhaps it would be more
correct to call it Il group of problems)
we have 10 class all our fellow citizens
One is composed Of those men who re,
fuse to admit there is any action nee
essary at all, the other is composed OF
those men who advocate some nom
effective action, or if effective, would
be effective only by destroying every
thing good and bad connected with ou,.
industrial development. In every gov
ernmental process, the aim that people
capable of self-government shoulo
oeed by evolution rather than by rev.
olution. On tn, other hand, every peo-
ple that has sself-government, must be-
ware OF this fossilization Of min.
which refuses to allow any change, as
conditions change.
Nov in dealing With the problem OF
the change in our great industrial civil
iZation, in dealing With the tendency
which has been accentLated to an eX-
4traordinary degree by sseam and cleo
tricity and by the tremendous upbuild-
ing of industrial enterprises, in dealing
with these problems l think we must
set ourselves to desire not to accept less
than the possible. and at the same time
not bring ourselves to complete
standsti!l by demanding the impossible.
1T is good deal as it is in taking
care thru engineers of The lower Mis-
sissippi river No one can dam the
Missssippi. If the nation started to
dam it, it's time would he wasted. 1t
would not hurt the Nlissssippi: it
would only damage the population
along the banks. You can not dam a
current You can build ievees and keep
the current within bounds and shane
its direction. Now. ] think that Is eX-
actly What we can do with these great
corporations, known as trusts We can
NOT dam Them We can not reverse the
sindustrfal tendencies of the age. If you
succeed in doing it, then cities like
Wheeling will have to so out of busi-
ress, remember, that. You can not put
!, stop to or reverse the industrial ten-
denotes of the age You can control and
,eg,,late them SO that they will do no
harm.
GAINESVILLE, O.. Sept 6.-The president
arrived at GAINESVILLE at | o'clock this
afternoon. There was a large crowd at
the depot. who surrounded his car and
cheered when he appeared on the rear
platform. The president spoke a few
words of greeting thanking the people
for their kind reception and stating he
! would return to Ohio on q later date