The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-26
ROOSEVELT OH TRUSTS
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NCOnllnueQ rom H1fSL PaSe.
 is any one quality which is not admir- able, whether in a nation or in an in dividual, it is mysteries. The man or woman who makes up for ten days in difference to duty by an eleven days morbid reDentence about that indiffer- ence is of very scant use in the world. Slaughter and applause)
 Now iii the same way it is of no pos sfble use to decline to go through all the ordinary duties of citizenship for a long space of time and then suddenly get up and feel angry about something or somebody not clearly defined in ones mind and demand reform as if it was a concrete substance and could be handed out forthwith.
 Now this is a preliminary to what want to say to you about the whole question of corporations as affecting the public. There are very many and very difficult problems with which wa are faced as one of the results of the forces which, taken all altogether, we speak of as progress. It Is worse than useless | for any of us to rail at or regret the great growth in industrial civilization of the last half century. Speaking aca- demically we can according to our sev eraE temperaments regard that the old lights have vanished or not as we choose. Boston and the thriving cities of Massachusetts have been built up as result of those forces. There is but little use in regretting that things have not shaped themselves differently. The practical thing to do is to face the con- ditions as they are and see if we can not get the best there is in them out of them. We are not going to get any complete or perfect solution for all the evils which came to our minds when we think of the trusts by any single ac- ton on our part. A. good many actions in good many different ways will be required before we get many of those evils even partially remedied. We have got to first of all think clearly-we have got to probably experiment somewhat. We must above all show by our actions that our interest is permanent and not spasmodic and we have got to see that all the steps are taken toward the so- lution. Now of course, all that is per- fectly trying. Every one who thinks knows that the only way in which any problem of great importance was ever successfully solved was by consistent and persistent effort toward a given i end, effort that did not end with any one election or with any one year but that was continued steadily, temper ately and resolutely.
 It is a little difficult to set clearly before us all of the evils but I think that those gentlemen and especially those gentlemen of large means who deny that the evils exist are acting with great folly. I am far from being against property when I ask that the question of the trusts be taken up. 1 am acting in the most conservative sense in property's interest. When a great corporation is sued for violating 1 the antitrust law it is not move against property; it is move in favor of property for when you can make it evident that all men big and small alike have to obey the law you are putting the safeguard of the law around all men. Loud applause). When you make it evident that no man shall be excused for violating the law you make it evident that every man will be pro- tected from violation of the law. I am 1 inclined to think that much the greatest 1 trouble in any immediate handling of the question of the trusts comes from ! our system of government. Let me go | back one moment. want to guard | what I am saying. I want you to un- derstand that my words are being taken at their exact face value. Remember | that I am not saying that even If we had all the power we could solve the trust question. Gentlemen, if what we read in the papers is true they are speaking of a number of international trusts now. Oaughter and applause).
 It would be very difficult for any set of laws on our part to deal completely with problem which becomes interna- tional in it's bearings, but great deal can be done ill various ways now. A great deal is being done and a great deal more can be done if we can see that the power is put somewhere to do it. On the whole, our system of gov- ernment has worked marvelously we'll the system of dividing the functions of 1 government, of arranging a scheme by which Maine, Louisiana, Oregon, Idaho, New York and South South Carolina can all come in together for certain purposes and yet each be allowed to work it's salvation as it desires along certain lines.
 But while I most firmly believe in fixity of policy, l do not believe that that policy should be fossilized, and if it is to be changed we must change our governmental method to meet it. be- lieve with all my heart in the New Elnpland town meeting hut un11 cannot