The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-26
But New Statutes Are Necessary for
the Regulation of Monop-
oIies
SAYS THE PROSECUTIONS
ARE NOT MAKE-BELIEVES
Declares That Reforms Are Not
Brought About by spasmodic Ef-
forts, but by Constant striving-Na-
tionaI Government Should Be CIoth-
ed With Additional Power.

In his trip through New England be-
gan in earnest this afternoon, when he
departed from the summer home of
the Junior senator of Massachusetts.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, at Nahant.
and, amid the enthusiasm Of the
greatest number of people he has fac
ed since the Pittsburg visit on July
4, rode into Lynn under cavalry escort
and spoke from a platform at the CITY
hall. Then he was taken to Boston by
special train and on arrival went to
Symphony hall, there addressing a
great gathering Of Boston business
men. His speech here was devoted
almost entirely to consideration of the
trust question.
From the hall the president went to
Hotel Touraine, where a little later in
the evening he was the guest Of Gov.
Crane at dinner. Tomorrow morning
the presidential. party will start for
Maine.
At the Hub.
brisk shower of rain failed to dis
courage the crowds that stood along
the streets of Boston through which
President Roosevelt passed on his way
to symphony hall, where he addressed
an audience of 5000 persons. From
the moment of the presidents arrival
at the North union station from Lynn
at 4:40 o'clock he was warmly ac-
claimed He was officially welcomed
by Gov. Crane and Mayor Collins. The
party was escorted to carriages and
guarded by the first battalion of cav
airy, proceeded to the hall. Here ey-
cry seat and every inch of standing
room had been taken. To the strains
Hail to the Chief played on the great
organ, the president appeared on the
stage, but the organ was soon silenced
oy the spontaneous wave of greeting.
With few formal remarks Gov.
Crane introduced the president. who
made a forty minute discourse on the
question Of suppressing illegal COM
olnat1ons. The address follows:
Hasn't Found cure-AU,
I want to take up this evening the
general question of our economic and
social relations with specific references
TO That problem with which I think our
people are greatly concerning them
selVes-the problem of our complex So
clal condition as intensified by the ex-
IStence of the great corporations which
we rather loosely designate as trusts.
l nave not come here to saw that
have discovered patent cure-aE for
me trusts. When peoples minds are
greatly ag1tated on any subject. and
when they feel deeply but
rather vaguely that conditions are not
right, 1t is far pleasanter in addressing
them to be Indifferent as to what Won
promise, but it is much less pleasant
or course the worth of a promise
consists purely in the way in which the
performance squares with it. That has
two sides to it. In the first place, if a
man is honest he will try just as hard
TO keep promise made on the stump
as one made off the stump. In the sec
ond place, If the people keep their
headS they won't wish promises to be
made which are impossible of perform
ance.
Back of the law, back of the ad-
back of our system of
government lies the average manhood
OF our people. In the long run we are
going to go up or go down according
as the average standard of our citizen-
snip does or does not wax in growth
and grace.
Good Citizenship.
A man is not good citizen, / do
not care how lofty his thoughts are
about citizenship in the abstract. if in
the concrete his actions do not bear
them out. If he does not behave well
IN his own family his aspirations for
mankind at large are not going to bear
very visible fruit He has got to be a
good bread winner; he has got to take
care of his wife and children; he has
got to be a neighbor whom his neigh
Oors can trust; he has got to act
squarely In his business relations; in
fact, he has got to do all those every
lay, ordinary things or he is not a
good citizen.
:, But he must do more than that. In
his country Of ours the average citi-
zen has got to devote good deal of
thought and time to the affairs of the
state as a whole or those affairs are
going to go backwards. That time must
De devoted steadily and intelligently.
The man or woman who makes up for
.en days Indifference to duty by an
eleven days morbid repentance about
hat Indifference is of very scant use
n the world.
''Now, in the same way 1t Is of no
possible use to decline to go through
Ill the ordinary duties of citizenship
or long space of time, and then sud-
ienly get up and feel angry about
something or somebody not clearly de-
1ned in ones mind and demand re-
orm as If 1t were a concrete sub
stance and could be handed out forth
With.
Face Things as They Are.
"It is worse than useless for any Of
is to rail at or regret the great growth
n Industrial civilization of the last
lalf century Speaking academically,
We can, according to our several tenn
,eraments regard that the old lights
lave vanished or not as we choose. The
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