The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-23
LET US HAVE MORE SANITY
The Chief Executive Favors a Con
stitutional Amendment.
STATES MUST COMBINE, HE DECLARES
And The Easiest Way, Thinks the President, for
Them to do This is by Action Through
the National Govern.
meni.
(By the Associated Press.)

Cincinnati, o., Sept. Roosevelt
Day" at the Cincinnati Fall Festival
broke all records of attendance at these
annual carnicals. The weather was
and during the indoor receptions of the
morning, but exceptionally pleasant for
the afternoon and evening demonstra-
tions. President Roosevelt was the at
traction as well as the guest of honor,
and he served his hosts with untiring
willingness continuously from 10 a. m.
until 10 p. m, without consulting his
own convenience or comfort. The Pres
ident was kept on his feet and busy for
more than twelve hours, with the excep-
tiOn of the time at the noon luncheon
and the evening banquet. Among his
indulgences of the day was an hour or
more in the afternoon spent in sight-see-
ing at the Fall Festival After this ex-
perience he was escorted into the audi
forum of Music Hall and delivered an
address to an immense audience with
more than 1000 business men and man.
ufaeturers seated on the stage with him.
The Presidents address was of local ap-
plication. He was interrupted by en-
thusiastic demonstrations when he re-
ferred to the late President Mckinley
The crowd in the buildings and grounds
of the festival tonight was like those of
the afternoon. The President was greet
ed with loud cheering as his carriage APP
preached the entrance, and when he was
escorted into the auditorium the demon
stration continued for some time. After
being welcomed officially by Mayor Julis
Fleishmann and introduced, he was
greeted with such a demonstration that
the bands broke in to secure order. At
ter thanking Mayor Fleishmann and the
officers of the Festival for their courte-
sizes and the audience for its hearty
treating, the President especially re-
quested attention, as he proposed as the
chief executive of all the people without
regard to party, to make an argument
on a serious question. Silence then pre-
vailed until the first mention of the
trusts, when the applause broke out and
continued at frequent intervals. When
he was speaking about holding corpora
tions to the same responsibility as in
dividuals, he was interrupted by de-
smonstration of approval. There was
another marked demonstration when he
GQNOCdLSQ- SuCH COuSbltullOudl dACnQ-
ment as would give national control of
such corporations as had outgrown the
Jurisdiction of State.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
The President said in part:
s'In dealing with the big corporations
we intend to proceed not by revolution
but by evolution. We wish to face the
facts, declining to have our vision blinded
either by the folly CT those who say
there are no evils, or by the more dan
gerous folly of those who either see or
make believe that they see, nothing but
evil in all the existing system and who
if given their way would destroy the evil
by the simple process of bringing ruin
and disaster to the entire country. The
evils attendant upon over capitalization
alone are in my judgment sufficient to
warrant a far closer supervision and con-
troll than now exists over the great cor
porations Wherever a substantial M
nopoly can be shown to exist we should
certainly try our utmost to devise an
expedient by which it can be controlled
Doubtless some of the evils existing In
or because of the great corporations can
not be cured by any Legislation which
has vet been proposed and doubtless 9TH
ers. which have really been incident to
the sudden development in the forma-