The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-26
TO ENTER MAINE.
President Roosevelt Leaves BOs-
ton on Early Train
For a Trip Through New hamp-
shire to Pine Tree Capital.
HIS TALK ON TRUSTS.
He Has No Potent Remedy to
Offer For the Affection.
Cure Can Come Only by Long
and Persistent Effort.

and Persistent EnOrt.
Boston, Aug. 2e.-After a night of re-
freshing sleep at a hotel in this city,
President Roosevelt left at 1885 O'Clock
over the Boston & Maine road to con-
tinue his tour of New Engiand. his
first stop will be at Lowell, Mass.
He will traverse New Hampshire to-
day. speaking at Dover, and going to
Maine as far as Augusta, where he VIII
be the guest of Governor Hill tonight.
The weeks work for President Roose-
welt in his trip through New England
began in earnest, when he departed
from the summer home of the Junior
senator of Massachusetts, Henry CABOT
Lodge, at Nahant, and, amid the en-
thusiasm of the greatest NUMBER OF
people he has faced since the P1ttsburg
visit, on July 4, rode into Lynn under
cavalry escort and spoke from a plat
form at the city hall Then he was
taken to Boston by special train, and,
on arrival, went to symphony nan.
there addressing a great gathering OF
Boston business men. His speech mere
was devoted almost entirely to con-
sideration of the trust question.
From the hall the president went to
Hotel Touraine, where, little later IL
the evening, he was the guest OF Cover
nor Crane at dinner.
President RooSevelt'S speech mere was,
in part, as follows:
Il want to take up this evening the
social relations, with specific reference
to that problem with which l think our
people are greatly concerning them
selves-the problem of our complex So
cial condition as intensified by the ex-
iStence of the great corpora tons, which
we rather loosely designate as trusts.
But 1 wish to say one or two things
as preliminary. In the first place,
have not come here to say that 1 have
discovered a patent cure-al for the
trusts
1T is worse than useless for any of
us to rail at or regret the great growth
in Industrial civilization of the last half
century. The practical thing to do is to
face the conditions as they are and see
If we can not get the best there is III
them out of them. We are not going to
get any complete perfect solution for
all of tse evils which come to our minds
when we think of the trusts by any
single action on our part good many
different ways will be required before
we get many of those evils even par
TALLY remedied. We have got to, first of
all, think clearly-we have got to, prob
ably, experiment somewhat We must,
above all, show by our actions that our
interest is permanent and not spas
nodic, and we have got to see that all
the steps are taken toward the solution
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 a given end, effort that did not
w
one year, but was continued steadily.
temporarily and resOlutely.
1T is little difficult to set clearly
before us all of the evils and | think
that those gentlemen, and especially
those gentlemen of large means. who
deny that the evils exist, are acting with
great folly. am far from being against
property when 1 ask that the question
of trusts be taken up. l am acting, III
the most conservative sense, in prop
erty's interest. When a great corpora
law 1T is not a move against property,
1t is move in favor of property, be-
cause when you can make it evident
that all men, big and small alike have
to obey the law, you are putting the
safeguard of law around all men. When
you make it evident that no man shall
be excused for violating the law you
make it evident that every man will be
projected from viola ton of the law.
Il am inclined to think that much the
greatest trouble in any immediate hand
ling of the question of the trusts comes
from our system of government. Re
member, am not saying that, even if we
had all the power, we could completely
solve the trust question. Gentlemen, if
what we read in the papers is true, they
are speaking OF a number of interna-
tional trusts now. 1t would be very
difficult for any set of laws, on our part,
to deal completely with problem
which becomes international in its bear
Ing, but great deal can be done in va
r1Ous ways now.
"A great deal is being done and a
great deal more can be done if we can
see that the power is put somewhere to
do it On the whole, our system of gov
eminent has worked marvelously we'll
the system of dividing the functions OF
government, of arranging a scheme I'M
der which Maine, Louisiana, Oregon.
Idaho, New York and South Carolina
can all come in together for certain
purposes, and yet each be allowed to
work out its salvation as it desires
along certain lines RJlf while 7
firmly believe in fixity of policy, I do
not believe that that policy should be
Iossllzed, and If 1T is to be changed We
must change our government method
to meet it.
II believe with all my heart in the
New England town meeting. but you
meeting in Boston. You have got to
try something else Now, when this
government was founded there were nc
great individual or corporate fortunes
and commerce and industry were being
carried on very much as they had been
from the days when Nineveh and
Babylon stood in the Mesopotamian val
ley. The wagon and the pack train anc
the sailing craft-those were the meth
DDS of commerce. Everything has beer
revolutionized in the business worlc
from being a trickle, has become tor.
rent There was no particular thing a.
that time to bother as to whether the
nation or the state had control of tn,
corporations. They were easy to con,
troll.
Now, however, the exact reverse is
the case, and, remember. 1 say corpor-
ations. 1 do not say merely trusts
merely combinations of corporations OF
corporations under certain peculiar con
ditions.
For instance, some time ago the at
torney general took action against
certain trust. There has been consid
cradle discussion as to whether the trus
aimed at would not seek to get gu
from under the law by becoming a sin
gle corporation. / want laws to enabl,
us to deal with it. no matter wha,
shape it takes. 1 want to see the gov
eminent able to get at it definitely. 81
that the action of the government can
not be evaded by any turning, within
or without federal or state statutes
'At present. we have really no eff
Gent control over a big corporation
which hrrc IN, <t,or