The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-28
President at Ellsworth.

schedule time. After a speech at the de- l pot the President was driven from the station to The Pinea the home of Senator Hale. by the senator himself.
 A little later the President sat down to dinner in his honor at which were Gov ernor Hill, Congressman Burleigh and Congressman Powers, Chief Justice Wise well and Justice Emery of the Maine supreme county bench, President Hyde of | Bowdoin college, Col H. D. Hamlin and Judge John A. Peters, Jr.
 In his speech at the railroad station the President said:
 'Mr. Senator, and you. my friends and fellow citizens, I have thoroughly en- Joyed the two days that I have spent in your beautiful state. I have enjoyed see- ing the state and have enjoyed the most meeting what really counts in any state the men and women (applause.) I think that the more one studies the problems of life and of civilization the more one realizes the infinitely greater importance or the man than of his physical surround ings. Of course, one has to have certain physical advantage in order to exercise to the best advantages ones own quali- ties, but 1t Is the last that counts. There are other countries than ours just as fitted oy nature to be agricultural com mercial, industrial centers and they fail to reach the height that ours has reached because they have not the same men to take advantage of the conditions Now we ought not to say that in any spirit Of boastfulness. We ought to say 1t as reminder to us. for we are not to be ex- cused in the future any more than we have been in the past.
 There are plenty of problems ahead of us. We stand on the threshold of a new century. No one can say what trial will be before this nation during the cen hut hot may be sure. No nation can face great ness without having to face trials, exact ly as no man can deliberately enter upon career which leads upward and onward without making up his mind that there Will be roughness for him to surmount Whether We will or not. we must here after play in the world the part of a great power We can play that part i'll or we can play 1t well, but play 1t some how we must (Applause) We have to race difficulties at home and abroad for the great problems always before any nation are the problems of keeping up its honor in international affairs and when there is armed assault from without. I can say in all sincerity, that I believe there Is but small chance of our having to face trouble abroad; but we shall avoid It. not by blindly refusing to admit thai there ever might be trouble but by safe guarding against 1t. And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adeouate and highly efficient navy
 In Home of Chairman.
 T am glad to speak in the home os the chairman of the senate committee on naval affairs. (Applause). 1 do not SUD- pose It Is necessary to tell any audience which has thoroughly good common school education, that you do not win vic- tories merely on the day on which the battle IS fought. You have got to pre- pare for them in advance When Ma nila and Santiago were fought, great glory came to the men aboard the ships who did the fighting, but an equal amount of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance Dewey's ships won their great victory under the Presi- dency of Mckinley, but they were built under Presidents Arthur. Cleveland and Harrison. The men and the officers aboard them were able to do what they did because through months and years of patient practice, often under officers to whom 1t was denied to be in actual battle, they were trained to the point of efficiency.
 The men in congress such as my host of this evening, and his fellow congress- men who saw the need who voted for the ships, and who voted for the guns, are the men who rendered that victory pos- sible. Now 1t is the work that is being done in the navy which will render that navy fit to respond to any call that may be made upon 1t if, which heaven forbid, such call shall ever be made.
 ''So much for what is our duty in refer ence to matters without. Even more im- portant is 1t to deal well and wisely with affairs within our own borders. No great 1 benefit can come without bringing at- tendant problems of one kind or another We are rightly proud of our great ma | rfoI
 many problems in It's train.
 Now, there is not any patent way of solving all these problems. Funuamental- ly you must approach the new problems in the spirit with which our fathers ap- preached the problems Of their day, if you are going to get a satisfactory solu- ton.
 Word Trust Used Loosely.
 Take the evils that come up to our mind when we speak of the trusts The word trust Is used very loosely. In the ordinary significance it means simply a large corporation created in one state, probably doing business in other states and usually with an element of monopoly pertaining to 1t. Now, some or the evils alleged are imaginary. others are very real. Certainly the change produced along a number of lines by the increase of power of these corporations. by their increase in magnitude, Is not a change that most of us welcome. There is every reason why we should find out which Of the evils are real and which imaginary, and to find out what legislative or ad- ministrative expedients can be employed to minimize or to do away with these evils. But the one thing sure Is that If we try to apply those expedients which In any way border upon the hysterical we are going to fail You are perfectly well reduce the prosperity of the trusts by reducing the prosperity of everybody. In 1893 no trust misunderstanding flour ished But we want to devise some method by. which we can minimize any evil they do without interfering with the general prosperity, which Is a benefit to all (applause). On the one hand believe that the men of great means should un- derstand that when we demand some method of asserting the power of the na- ton over all corporations we are acting, not against their interest. but in their in terest.
 When we make the law obeyed by the man of means we are not acting against him, we are acting for him. His safety lies in the law, and the worst of all possi- ble lessons to teach would be to teach our people as a whole that the law did reach him. We must reach him to make him obey it. exactly as 1t reaches him to protect him from the wrong doing of others
 '.If we are going to solve this problem alright 1t will be because we approach 1t with all the sanity, with all temperate ness, the sound intelligence that there is at our command. But the minute that we N-A k~.-