The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-26
ROOSEVELT OH TRUSTS Devotes His Entire Address in Boston to Discussion
 of the Problem.
HIS DUTY AND THE PEOPLES
THE MAKING AND THE KEEPING
 OF PROMISES.

Those Made On or or the stump and the People should Not Want Any Im- possible of PerfOr Has No Patent Cure-AII-Question Made More Difficult by I4s International Aspect Desires Laws That VIII Enable the Government to Deal With the Matter Already Begun.
 Boston, Aug. 25.-The weeks work for President Roosevelt in his trip through New England began in earnest this afternoon when he departed from the beautiful summer home of the jun for senator of Massachusetts, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, at Nahant, and amid the enthusiasm of the greatest number of people he has faced since the Pittsburg visit on July 4, rode into Lynn under cavalry escort and spoke from a platform at city hall. Then he was taken to Boston by special train and on arrival went to Symphony hall, there addressing a great gathering of Boston business men numbering 5000. This was the speech of the day.
 With a few formal remarks Governor Crane introduced the president, who spoke forty minutes on the question of suppressing illegal combinations. At the outset he stated that he had not dis covered "a patent cure-all for the trusts A trust, he said, is 8 great and powerful artificial creation which has no creator to which 1t is responsible. The address Follows:
 Governor Crane. Mayor Collins, Men
 and Women of Boston:
 am glad to have the chance of say ing 8 few words to you this evening" There are several matters that should like to discuss, and can say in all sin $ cerity that when I come here to New England, when come to Boston, I like to go over as many subjects as possible so that I can get light on them.
 t I have great faith in your judgment. want to take up this evening the gen. eral question of our economic and social relations with specific reference to that problem with which think our people are concerning themselves-the prob lem of our complex social condition as intensified by the existence of the great corporations which we rather loosely designate as trusts. But wish to say one or two things as preliminary. Tn the first place have not come here to say that have discovered a patent cure-all for the trusts. Daughter and Napplause). When peoples minds are greatly agitated on any subject and es- pecially when they feel deeply but rath- CT vaguely that conditions are not right it is far pleasanter in addressing them to be indifferent as to what you promise but it is much less pleasant afterward. Daughter and applause). Of course the worth of a promise consists purely in the way in which the promise squares with it. That has got two sides to it. In the first place if man is honest he will try just as hard to keep a promise made on the stump as one made off the stump. In the second place, if the peo- pie keep their heads they wont wish promises to be made which are impossi- ble of performance. Daughter and ap- plause).
 Now you see that one side of that IS uuLy anu lIG JULIET sue is yours Mankind goes ahead but slow ly and it goes ahead mostly through each of us trying to do the best that is in him and doing it in the most intelli- gent and sanest way. We founded our republic on the theory that the average man will as rule do the right thing, that in the long run the majority are going to decide for what is sane and wholesome. If our fathers were mis- taken in that theory;,if ever events be- come such not occasionally but persist antly and the mass of the people do what Is unwholesome. what is wrong, then the republic cannot stand-I care not how good it's laws; I care not what in marvellous mechanism its constitu- ton may be embodied. Back of the law, back of the administration, back of our system of government lies the average manhood of our people. In the long run we are going to go up or go down as the average standard of our citizenship does or does not wax in growth and grace. Now, when we come to the ques- tion of good citizenship the first requisite is that the man shall do the homely, every day humdrum duties well. A man IS not a SOOu CltlZen, QO not care how lofty his thoughts are about citizenship in the abstract if in the concrete his actions do not bear them out. and it does not make much difference how high his aspirations for mankind at large are. If he does not behave we'll in his own family those as- pirations are not going to bear very visible fruit He has got to be a good bread winner: he has got to take care of his wife and children; he has got to be a neighbor for whom his neighbors can trust; he has got to act squarely in his business relations. In fact he has go to do all those every day, ordinary things first or he is not good citizen. But he must do more than that. In this country of ours the average citizen has got to devote good deal of thought and time to the affairs of the state as a whole or those affairs are going to 20 backwards. That time must be devot- ed steadily and intelligently. If there
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