The Holly chieftain., 1902-09-12

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kooestek nnd pnft lFstSsS ~ "a
BAltilAdxs = Ohio af o1
mekning frum Washiagfon f f1ii8iSl
gteete4 ~ vast crowd y ~ e
and s1hlf4d his appreciAtto tfs|
his hAdly Aisce)Ured face. AZ Steht
cheek was rather baslly SNAilen sad
contNssd, au4 his left ~, sAswsd
siGns cf discclofAtion. 81
The entire party entered vehicles
and wene driven % the Mcclure house,
beaded by Z military baud. The Pres
ident addressed m enormois crowd
from the balcony Of the hotel 81
spoke long beyond his scheduled tins
which necessitztsd the curtailment Ut
tie regular progfaH The FrcssdeAt
sAid In pett:
r In every eovernn1entAI ptceess thu
AaaA that q people capable ~ aslf.yov.
ernment should stea(lfastiy keep In
mind ID to proceed by evolution rather
than by revolution.
No one can dam the Mississippi. II
the nation started to dam It Its time
would be wasted. 1t would not hurt
the Mississippi; 1t would only damage
the population along the banks. You
cannot dam the current; but you can
build levees and keep the current
within bounds and shape Its direction.
Now, l think that is exactly what we
can do. with the great corporations,
known as trusts. We cannot dam
them, we cannot reverse the industrial
tendencies Of the age. II you succeed
In, doing It, then the cities like Wheel
ing will have to go out Of business,
remember that. You cannot put .
stop to or reverse the industrial ten
dencies of the age.
You can control and regulate them
80 that they will do no harm. Another
thing, you do not build these levees
in day or month. The man who
tells you that he has a patent device
for which, In sixty days, he would
solve the whole questions of foods
along the great rivers would be wise
man, but he would be perfect mir
acle of wisdom compared to the man
who tells you that by another patent
remedy he can bring the millennium In
NVr {v,d ri f~1 -
I'VE can do something. believe w
can do good deal, but our accom-
plishing what expect to soc accom-
pllshed is conditioned upon our setting
to work in a spirit as far removed az
possible. from hysteria. A spirit Of
sober, steadfast, kindly II want to en-
phasize the word kindly, determine.
ton not to submit to wrong ourselves
and not to wrong others. Not to In
terfera with the great business devel.
opment Of the country, hut at the Aame
time so to shape our Legislation and
administration as to regulate, II we
cannot remedy, the vicious features
connected with that Industrial devel-
opment.
''Now, have said that there can
be no patent remedy offered. There
is not any one thing which can BE-
done to remedy all the existing evils.
There are good many things which,
IL we do them, will, believe. make
very appreciable betterment Of our
existing condition.
NOW, the big corporations, al.
though nominally the creatures Of one
state, usually do business in other
states, and in large number Of cases
the wide variety Of state laws on the
subject Of corporations has brclght
about the fact that the corporation ID
made In one state, but does almost all
Its work In entirely different states. It
has proved utterly impossible to get
anything like uniformity Of registra-
ton among the states. Some states
have passed laws about corporations
which, II they had not been ineffective
would have. totally prevented any In
portant corporate work being done
within their limits. Other states have
such lax laws that there is no effect
i've effort made to control any Of the
abuses. As result we have 4 system
Of divided control-where the nation
has something to say, but II 10 q little
difficult to know exactly how much,
and where the different states have
each something to say, but where there
is no supreme power that can speak
with authority,
"It ~ OF course Mexe truism to
say that every corporation, the small.
est as well a. the largest, 10 the Great
ure Of the state. Where the corpora.