Arizona republican., 1902-08-26

difference is of very scant use Tn the world.
 Now, in the same way it is of no use to decline to go through all the or dinary duties oi citizenship for long space of time, and then suddenly get up and feel angry about something CT somebody not clearly defined in ones mind, and demand reform as if it were Q. concrete substance and could be handed out forthwith. Now this is preliminary to what I want to say to you about this whole question of cor porations as affecting the public. There ! are very many and very difficult prob lens with which we are faced as one of the results of the forces which, taken altogether, we speak of as prog ress.
 Tt is worse than useless for any of us to rail at or regret the growth in the industrial civilization Of the last 1 half century. Speaking mechanically, we can, according to our several tenn peraments, regret that old lights have vanished, or not, as we choose. Boston and the thriving cities oi Massachu setts have been built up as a result of those forces. There is but little use in regretting that things have not shaped
 
 thing to do is to face the conditions as they are, and see if we cannot get the best there is in them out of them We are net going to get any complete or perfect solution for all the evils which come to our minds when we think of the trusts, by any single action On our part. A good many different ways will | be required before we get many of those evils even partially remedied. We have got to, first of all, think clearly we have got to, probably, experiment somewhat. We must, above all, show by our actions that our interest be permanent and not spasmCdic, and we have got to see that all steps are taken toward solutions. Every one who thinks knows that the only way in which any problem of great importance was ever successfully solved was by consistent and persistent effort toward the given end, an effort that did not end with any one election, or with any enc year, but was continued steadily. tempera tely and resolutely.
 Ut would be very difficult for any set of laws on our part to deal com pletely with the problem which be- comes international in it's bearing, but great deal can be done in various ways now. A great deal is being done, and a great deal more can be done, if we can see that power is put some where to do it. On the whole our sys- tenn Of government has worked marvel ously well-the system of dividing the functions of government, arranging a scheme under which Maine. Louisiana, Oregon, Idaho. New York and South Carolina can come in altogether for certain purposes, and yet each be al- lowed to work out it's own salvation as it desires along certain lines. But while I most firmly believe in a fxity of policy, I do not believe that policy should be fossilized and if it is to be changed We must change our govern mental method to meet it.
 T believe with all my heart in the New England town meeting, but you cannot work the New England town meeting in Boston. You have got to try something else. Now, when this government was formed there were no great individual or corporate fortunes, and commerce and industry were being carried on very much as they had been from the day when Nineveh and Baby lon stood in the Mesopotamian valley. There was no particular thing
 
 the nation or state had control of cor porations. They were easy to control. Now, however, the exact reverse is the case, and remember I say corpora tions.' l do not say merely trusts, merely combinations, corporations CT corporations under certain peculiar conditions. For instance, some time ago the attorney general took action against a certain trust. There has been considerable discussion as to whether the trust aimed at would not seek to get out from under the law by becoming d single corporation.
 'I want laws to enable us to deal with it, no matter what shape it takes. get at it definitely, so that the action of the government cannot be evaded by any turning. within or without the federal or state statutes. At present 1 we have really no efficient control over the big corporation which does busi- | ness in more than one state.
 "Of course it is merely a truism that | the corporation is a creature of the | state; that the state is sovereign. Now i I want to make a real and not nom- | inal sovereign; to have some one SOW l ereign to which the corporation shall | be really and net nominally respon- l sible
 At present if we pass laws nobody | can tell whether they will amount to | Now that has two bad ef- | fleets. In the first place the corpora