Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-26
President Thinks Certain Peo-
pie, Some Moneyed, Are
Foolish in Denying it.
MORE NATIONAL POWER NEEDED
Better Laws to Meet Trusts, No Mas.
. ter How They Try to EVade Prcc.
ecution, Necessary-Visits Boston
Left for Maine Today.

Boston, August 26.-The weeks
work for President Roosevelt in his
trip through New England began in
earnest this week, when he departed
from the summer home OF the junior
senator of Massachusetts,, Hon. Henr.
Cabot Lodge, at Nahant, and, amid tn
enthusiasm Of the greatest number or
l,eople he has faced since the Pitts
burg visit on July 4, rode into Lynn
under cavalry escort and spoke from a
Iatform at city hall. Then he was
taken to Boston by special train and
on arrival went to Symphony hal.
there addressing great gathering CT
Boston business men. His speech
here was devoted almost entirely 20
consideration of the trust question.
From the hall the president went t.
Hotel Touraine, where little later :!
the evening he was the guest OF GOV
crnor Crane at dinner.
This morning. bright and early, tn"
presidential party will start for Maine.
In speaking Of the evils Of trusts.
President Roosevelt said in part:
No Use in Denying.
eft is a little difficult to set clearly
before us all CT the evils, but ! thi3 =
tnat those gentlemen, and especially
those gentlemen Of large means, whc
ceny that the evils exist, are acting
With great folly. am far from being
against property when | ask that the
question of trusts be taken up. | am
acting in the most conservative sense
in property's interest. When a great
corporation is sued for violating the
antitrust law, it is not move against
,ioperty; it is a move in favor OF
property, because 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
hat no man shall be excused for vio'
.ating the law, you make it evident
that every man will be protected from
violation of the law. I am inclined to
think that much the greatest trouble
IN any immediate handling OF the oues
ton OF the trust comes from our sys.
iem Of government. Let me go back
enc moment. l want to guard what |
am saying. I want you to understand
that my words are being taken at their
exact face value Remember | an
n I saying that even il We had all the
I.ower we. could completely solve the
lust question. Gentlemen. if what we
read in the papers is true, they are
sreaking Of a number Of international
trusts now.
Doing Much, Can do More.
"It would be very difficult for any
set Of laws, on our part, to deal com.
pletely with a problem which becomes
international in its bearings, but a
great deal can be done in various
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.
Cur system Of government has worked
11arvelously well, the system Of dl.
viding the functions Of government. Of
arranging scheme under which
Maine, Louisiana. Oregon, New York
and South Carolina can all come in to-
sether for certain purposes. and yet
each be allowed to work it's salvation
as it desires along certain lines. But
willie l most firmly believe in fixity
of policy, do not believe that that
policy should be fossilized, and if ii
il to be changed, we must change our
governmental method to meet IL.
Il believe with all my heart in the
New England town meeting. but you
cannot work the New England town
meeting in Boston. You have got to
try something else Now, when this
government was founded. there were
20 great individual or corporate for
tunes, and commerce and industry
were being carried on very much as
they had been from the days when
Ntnevah and Babylon stod in the
Mesopitamian valley. The wagon
train and the pack train and the sail
ing craft-these were the methods OF
commerce. Everything has been rev.
rlutionized in the business world
since, and the progress of civilization
trcn being q mere trickle has become
a torrent. There was no particular
thing at that time to bother as &c
whether the nation or the state had