The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-07
PUBLICITY is NEEDED
THAT is WHAT THE PRESIDENT
SAYS IN DISCUSSING TRUSTS.
HE TALKS ABOUT REMEDIES.
PUBLICITY WOULD TEND TO STOP
EVILS OF TRUSTS.

Right to Get Facts From the Great
COrporatiOns-Ascer These
Facts Is as Far as He Gets in His
PropOsaI to Remedy Trust Evils.
Thinks Trusts Cannot Be stopped,
nut That They Can he Regulated
nv the Government.
Wheeling, w. Va, Sept. 6.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived over the
baltimore and Ohio at $50 this morn
ing from Washington. He was greet
ed by a large crowd at the depot and
smiled his appreciation, despite his
badly discolored face. His right cheek
was rather badly swollen and con-
fused. and his left eye showed signs
of discoloration.
Mavor Sweeney, President Laughlin
and Secretary Birch of the Board of
Trade. Postmaster Hall and Council
man Waterhouse formed a committee
which received the President. The en-
tire party, which embodied Secretary
Cortelvou, secret service men and a
staff of correspondents, entered We
hicles and were driven to the Mcclure
House. headed by a military band
Throughout the entire route enthus-
iasm was manifested, the streets being
lined with people from Western Penn
sylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Vir-
ginia. At the hotel the President met
delegation of prominent citizens of
Wheeling, introduced by Senator Scott.
President Roosevelt seemed in very
jovial humor and joked with his visit
ors. He addressed a large crowd from
the balcony of the hotel. He spoke
long beyond his scheduled time, which
necessitated the curtailment of the reg
ular programme. He said:
Must Classify Citizens.
"A great period of great, national,
material well-being is unavoidably one
in which human minds are turned to
the way in which those interested in
the management of the gigantic cap
italistic corporations, whose growth
has been so noted during a period of
the past half century, flourish. We
have grown to speak of certain cor
porations rather loosely as trusts, using
the word in it's usual and common
Significance. of a big corporation, usual
Nv doing business in several states at
least, beside the state in which it is
incorporated
ut seems to me that in dealing with
this problem of the trusts (perhaps it
would be more correct to call it
group of problems), we have to class
all of our fellow-citizens. One is COM
posed of those men who refuse to ad-
NIT that there is any action necessary
at all. The other is composed of those
men who advocate some non ineffective
action or action, which, if effective,
would be effective only by destroying
everything good and bad connected
with our industrial development.
Can't Dam, But Can Control.
In every governmental process, the
aim that a people capable of self
government should keep in mind is to
proceed by evolution, rather than by
revolution. On the other hand, every
people that has self government must
beware of this fessilization of mind
which refuses to allow of any changes,
as conditions change. Now, in dealing
with the problem of a change in our
great industrial civilization, in dealing
with the tendency which has been ac-
centuated to an extraordinary degree
by steam and electricity and by the
tremendous upbuilding of industrial
enterprises, dealing with these prob
lens, I think we must set before our
'NANCH d u6SlT6 IlOl 10 dCC6pt less lldI
the possible, and at the same time not
to bring ourselves to d, complete stand
still by demanding the impossible.
1t is a good deal like taking care,
through the engineers, of the Lower
Mississippi river. No one can dam the
Mississippi. If the nation started to
dam it it's time would be wasted. 1t
would not injure the Mississippi; it
would only damage the population
along the banks. You cannot dam the
current, so you build levees and keep
the current within bounds and shape
lts direction. Now, think that is ex-
actly what we can do with these great
corporations, known as trusts. We
cannot dam them, we cannot reverse
lhe industrial tendencies of the age.
You can control and regulate them SO
that they will do no harm.
Trusts Can BE Regulated.
We can do something. ! believe we
can do great DEAL but our accom-
pushing what 1 expect to see accom-
pushed is conditional upon setting to
work in spirit as far removed as pos
slnte from hysteria; a spirit of sober,
Steadfast, kindly q want to emphasize
the word kindly determination not to
submit to wrong ourselves and not to
wrong others; not to interfere with
the great bushes development of the
10 shape our legislation and admins
ration to regulate, if we cannot rem
Guy, the vicious features connected
with that industrial development.
am sufficiently fortunate to be de-
lending now, as President, precisely
me remedies that I advocated two
Years ago. l am advocating them not
~ any partisan spirit, because, gentle
men, this problem is a problem which
Affects the life of the nation as a
whole. / am advocating them simply
as an American citizen. who for the
uine being stands as the chief execu-
i've and the special representative of
ms fellow American citizens of all
PARTIES.
A quarter of a century ago, there
mad been no development of industries
auch as to make 1t a matter of the
Itast Importance whether the nation
on the state took charge of the great
operations and regulated the great
BUSINESS and Industrial organizations.
some OF my ultra-conservatiye friends
nave professed TO be greatly shocked
my advocating governmental con-
u4i Of corporations. / would explain
~ those gentlemen once for all that
'hey err when they think that advo-
.tie on the stump anything / Will not
Wy 10 put into effect after election.
Throw Light on the Evils,
Now, the point is made that work.
,hE along these lines viii take time.
- y viii. The first thing IL 20 give
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