Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-12-04
ROOSEVELT TO CONGRESS
His Annual Communication Upon Questions
of Importance to the Nation.
VIEWS ON TIE TRUSTS AND TARIFF
"A Lowering of Import Duties Would Not Remedy the
Evils OF Observation-Disclosures a Tariff Com
misson-Much That Is Good in Labor
Unions and Corporations-Many
Needs of the Nation

TO the Senate and House of Representa-
tives: We still continue in a period OF
sru run prosperity, This prosperity IS
THE laws under which we work have been
instrumental in creating the conditions
which mace it possible, and by unwise leg
IT. There will undoubtedly be periods OF
oppression The wave will recede; but the
tide will advance. This nation is seated on
~ is composed of men the descendants of
sPioneers. or in a sense. pioneers them
,SelFes; OF men winnowed out from among
.poldness, and love of adventure found in
ithelr own eager hearts. Such nation, SO
Iplaced, will surely wrest success from for
!, AS people we have played large part
i'm the world and we are bent upon making
our future even larger than the past. In
detey decdsd ha aS for wye or
tine nations. We may aye either he fail g sr
the rom with eher fs
sure or great success must come. Even if
rye ~ Wou1d, we cannot play a small part.
dgnobly and Shamefully.
Causes of Prosperity.
NO country has ever, occupied higher
plane of material well-being than ours
at the present moment This we'll being
rs due to no sudden or accidental causes,
ibut to the play of the economic forces
IN TINS country for over century; to
policies; above all, to the high individ-
quail average Of our citizenship. Great
fortunes have been won by those who
nave taken the lead in this phenomenal
1ndustrlal development, and most of these
fortunes have been won not by doing
evil, but as an incident to action which
has has benefited the community, as a whole.
been so widely diffused among our peo-
.ple. Great fortunes have been accum-
Iulated. and yet in the aggregate these
pared to the wealth of the people as a
whole. The plain people are better off
lthan they have eyer been Before. The
,,tically mutual benefit societies especial
ly helpful to men of moderate means
represent accumulations of capital which
are among the largest in this country
There more deposits in the savings
banks. more owners of farms, more we'll
paid wage workers in this country now
than ever before in our history Of course,
when the conditions have favored the
growth of so much that was good, they
have also favored somewhat the growth
tof what was evil. 1t is eminently neces-
sary that we should endeavor to cut out
proportion; let us not in fixing our gaze
upon the lesser evil forget the greater
them are menacing. but Ut they hey s are the he
outgrowth, not of misery or decadence
but of prosperity-of the progress of our
gigantic industrial development. This
industrial development must not be
checked. but side by side with it should
go such progressive regulation as will
diminish the evils We should fail in
our duty if we did not try to remedy the
evils, but we shall succeed only if we
proceed patiently, with practical common
sense as we'll as resolution. separating
the good from the bad and holding on to
the former while endeavoring to get rid
of the latter.