The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-09-10
EOOSEVELT'S TRIP
TO THE SOUTH.
He Begins Journey in Happy
MOod-Ta1ks on Trusts and
Government Control.

Nnooo hdIhS vi lGttStS ana
Government Control.
President Roosevelt and his patty
left Washington for the "trip 70 Chat.
tauOOga, Tenn, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, and the ffst STOP was at
Wheeling, w. Va, where he was
aud smiled his appreciation, desnite
bis badly discolorcd face. His RIGHT
check was rather badly swollen ard
confused aod b's left eye showed slGr5
of d%iscoloratiOn.
The enti,e party, which emb )died
Secretary Cortelyou, secret service men
and a staff of correspondents, entered
vehicles and were driven 10 the Nc
Clule House, headed by a military
band. Throughout The entire route en-
thpsiasm was rife, the streets being
lined with people from Western Penn
%sylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Vir.
gipia. AT the hotel the chief executive
met a delegation of The prominent citi-
zens of Wheeling, introduced by Sena-
tor Nathan Scott. President Roosevelt
eeemed in a veiy jovial humOr and
joked With bis newly made acquain-
tances. He addressed an enormous
crowd from tho balcony of the hotel.
He spoke long beyond his scheduled
time, which nccessltaied the curtall-
ment of The regular progrem. The
President said /:
GA great period of great national
material well-heing is rnavoidal,ly one
in which human minds are turned TO
tbe way in which those interested in
tie management If the aigantic CAPT
tal's.ic corporations, whose growth has
beon SO noted a period of Tue past ha'f
cen.U!y, flourish. We have grown to
speak of ce,teiu corporations rather
loosely as truss, using The word in It's
usual and common significance of a
big co,po' alton, usually doing business
in seVelal STATES, al least, beside the
5 lie in which it is incorporated. 1t
seems TO me that in dealing with this
problem of the truss (perhaps it would
be more correct 10 call il a group of
problems) we have to class all Of our
fellow citizens. One is composed os
those men who refuse 70 admit That
there is any action necessary at all.
The other is composed of those me
who advocate some uon-effective action
or action which, If effective, would
be effective or'y by destroying every.
thing, good and bad, copnected with
our industrial development. In every
governmen Il process the aim that a
people capable of self-government
should keep in mind is 20 proceed by
evolution rather than revolution. On
the other hand, every people that has
self-government must beware of CHS !
of mind which refuses TO
allow OF any change as conditions
change. Now, IN dealing with the prob
OF a change IN our great industrial
in dealing with the ten.
aency which has been accumulated 10
an e1 raOrdipary degree by steam and
end by the tremendous up.
building of industrial enIerp. .ses-
with these problems, / think
must set before ourselves a desire
10 accept less than The possible and
IL the same time not to bring ourselves
o a complete standstill by demanding
he impos slbie.
"IL is a good deal Ike takir9 care,
though tbe engineers, of the lower
Mississippi River. No one can dam
ne Mississippi. If the nation starts
o dam 1t It's Time would be wasted. IL
you'd not i0jure the Mississippi; it
you'd only damage the population
long the bani.,. You caunot dam
lie current, SO you build levees o I'd
eep the 'urrenL within bounds and
bape its direction. Now, L think that
} exactly what We can do with these
eat corporations known. as trusts.
We cannot den Shem; we cannot le-
the industrial tendencies of the
Sc. You car control and res dlate
lem SO sbat .hey will do no harm.
We a do something. l believe
o can do a good deal, but our accom- !
what 1 expect TO see accom- !
ishod is conditioned upon fett'ng to ,
DIRK In q .pi IL ss fla. removed es pos I
ble f.om hyste.ia, a spirit of sober, i
caOsast, Indy Il want TO emphasize
word kindly deter animation not to 2
limit ID wrong ourselves and not 10 i
long Others. Not 10 intel iere with b
o 3tcat business development of he n
but at The same time so t., =
ape y les. slai ion and adminiss.9 6
10 re- ulate, &c we cannot remedy. y !
vicious features connected with d
It iudus rie' development. 1 am q =
mcieutly fortunate 10 be defending 81
w, as President, precisely The RENE.
that i advocated TWO o ago. o