Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-25
30 Says President Roosevelt In Speech
at Providence.
NATIONAL LAWS ARE NEEDED
While States Have Right to Control
These Gigantic Combinations, AS
herts President, Supervision Ii
u Neccssity-Nisits Newport.

President Roosevelt on trusts, which
he delivered from Il platform in front
of the city hail. Many thousands of
spectators were present from all parts
Of the state, and the crowd which gath
cred TO hear the presidents speech
is conservatvely estimated to have
contained more than $4,000 people.
Ovation after ovation had been the
order Of the day all along the line
through the various cities on the presi
dents route and the reception in this
city was Il fitting climax to the jour
ney from Hartford
In handling the trust question. which
will undoubtedly be the leading issue
in the coming fan campaign. the presi
dent went deeply into his subject.
showing that he had made a careful
study of the existing situation. He
said in part;
The Presidents speech.
Under present day conditions it is as
necessary to have corporations in the
business world as it is to have organza
ton among wage workers, but we have
a right to ask in each case that they
shall do good and not harm. Exactly as
labor organizations, when managed in
diligently and in a spirit Of justice and
fair play, are of very great service not
only to the wage workers. but to the
whole community, as the history of many
labor organizations has conclusively
shown, so wealth, not merely individual,
but corporate when used Alright is not
merely a benefit to the community as
whole, but Indispensable to the upbuild-
ing of the country under the conditions
which at present the country has grown
not only to accept, sbut to demand as nor
NAL.
Good. not harm, normally comes from
the piling up of wealth through business
enterprises Probably the most serious
harm resulting to us, the people of mod
crate means is when we harm ourselves
by letting the dark and evil vices of
envy and hatred toward our fellows eat
into our natures.
Still there is other harm of a more evil
dent kind, and such harm it is our clear
duty to try to eradicate II possible and
in any event to minimize. The corpora
tions--and therefore those great corpora
lions containing some tendency to monop-
oily which we have grown to speak OF
rather loosely as trusts-are the crea-
lures of the state. and the state not only
has the right to control them, but Is in
duty bound to control them wherever the
need for such control is shown. There is
clearly need of supervision
National Legislation Needed.
There is in our country a peculiar diff
fculty in the way of exercising such Sl-
pervision and control because or the Pc
cuiar division of governmental power.
When the industrial conditions were sim
ple very little control was needed and
no trouble was caused by the doubt as to
where power was lodged under the con-
stitution Now the conditions are COM
plicated and we find it difficult to frame
national legislation which shall De ade-
uuate while as matter of practical ex-
perience, state action has proved entirely
insufficient and in all human probability
cannot or will not be made sufhclent 10
meet the needs of the case.
Some of our states have excellent laws
laws which it would be we'll indeed to
have enacted by the national legislature,
but the wide differences in these laws,
even between adjacent states, and the
uncertainty of the power of enforcement
result practically in altogether INSULT
cient control. / believe that the nation
must assume this power of control by
legislation. and if it becomes evident that
the constitution will not permit needed
legislation, then by constitutional amend
ment. -
The immediate need in dealing with
trusts Is to place them under the real,
not nominal control of some sovereign 10
which as it's creature, the trusts SHAH
owe allegiance and in whose courts the
soyereign's orders may with certainty be
enforced This is not the case with the
ordinary so called trust today, for the
trust is a large state corporation gener-
allv doing business in other states also
and often with a tendency to monopoly
Such a trust is an artificial creature, not
wholly responsible to or controllable by
,ho1l1 sub tn
jurisdiction of any one court Some gov
ernmental sovereign must be given full
power over these artificial and very pow
erful corporate beings. In my Judgment,
this sovereign must be the national gov
ernment When it has been given full
power, then this full power can be used
TO control any evil influence, exactly as
the government is now using the power
conferred upon it under the Sherman
antitrust law.
The President at Newport.
A dispatch from Newport says:
"president Roosevelt closed his sec
ond DAVIS Journey through New Eng
land at Newport as the guest or VIM
thron CHAMBER. On the conclusion OF
his speech ut the city hall in Prov1-
dence he was driven to the dock, where
| he nOurueu private '">A AN' "
dence of Senator Aldrich at WARWICK
con arriving at Newport ne was at
once taken o the Chanler residence.
"The weather has been all that could
be desired, and the president has ire
ouently expressed his appreciation OF
the successful carrying out of the elaD-
crate plans for his reception and the
outpouring of the multitudes, all ahX-
ious to share in extending him hearty
welcome
At Willimantic, Conn, where the
president spoke from his carriage III
the public square. his remarks were re,
ferred to by several as heart to heart
talk. Perhaps the most enthusiastic
reception accorded to him by the small
or places where stops were made was
at River Point, r. l.. in the Pawtucket
valley. Pastime park, which adJons
the railroad track, was throngeu WIN
people, among them being hundreds OF
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