The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-09
The address at Wheeling.
(Bv the Associated Press.)

Wheeling, W. Va, Sept. 6.-Presidcnt
Roosevelt and party arrived over the
Baltimore and Ohio at $50 this morning
from Washington. He was greeted by
a vast crowd at the depot and smiled his
appreciation despite his badly discolored
face. His right cheek was rather badly
swollen and confused, and his left eye
showed signs of di~scoloration.
Mayor Sweeney, President Laughlin
and Secretary Birch, of the Board Of
Trade, Postmaster Hall and Councilman
Naterhousc formed a committee which
received the President. The entire par
~, which embodied Secretary Cortclyou,
Secret Service men and a staff OF CORE
Spondcnts, entered vehicles and were
driven to the Mcclure House, headed by
q military band.
Throughout the entire route enthusiasm
was rife, the streets being lined with
people from western Pennsylvania. east
crn Ohio and West Virginia.. At the
hotel the Chief Executive met a dele
cation of the prominent citizens of
Wheeling, introduced by Senator Nathan
Scott.
President Roosevelt seemed in a very
JoVial humOr and joked with his newly
mad" acouaintanccs He addressed an
enormous crowd from the balcony of ihc
motel. He SPOKE long beyond his sched-
Hlcd time. which ncccssitated the cor
taflnont Of the regular program. The
President said:
"A great period of national material
Weli-hcing is unavoidably ono in which
human minds are turned to the WAY in
which taoso interested in the manage
1nent OF the gigantic capitaiistic CORPORA
'lons, whose growth has been so noted
a period of the past half century,. flour
lSh. We have grown to speak of certain
corporations rather loosely as trusts
using the word IN it's usual and conmon
significance Of a big corporation, usually
cong business in several States at least.
reside the state ii which IT is incorpOra-
ted. 1t seems TO M that in dealing with
lhlS problem Of the trusts (perhaps it
would be more correct to call It a grou2
of problems), we have to class all of cur
fellow citizens. One is composed Of those
men who refuse to admit that there is
any action necessary at all. The other
is composed of those men who advocate
some nOn-Gffcctive action or action
which If effective. would be affective only
by destroying everything good and bad
connected with our industrial develop
mont. In every governmental process.
the ann that a people capable of self
government should keep in mind. is to
proceed by evolution rather than by revo-
tuition. On the other hand, every people
that has sclf-goyernment must beware
OF this fossilization of mind which re-
fuses to allow Of any change. as condi-
TONS change. Now in dealing with the
problem of a change in our great indus
trial civilization in dealing with the ten
dency which has been accentuatcd to an
extraordinary degree by steam and cleo
trIcity, and by the tremendous uDbuiIding
of industrial enterprises, dealing with
these problems, | think we must set be-
tore ourselves, a desire not to accept less
than the possible, and at the same time
not TO bring ourselves to a complete
standstill by demanding the impossible.
1t IS q good deal like taking care.
through the engineers, of tho lower Mis-
si5sippi River. No one can dam tho Mis-