The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-05

corded Chlet Executive on HIS Ar
rival in Springfield.
Fitchburg, Mass, Sept. 3.-The first
important stop of President Roosevelt
after he had resumed his travels
through Massachusetts today was at
this city, where he found the people
keeping a general holiday. A stop of
an hour was made and the president
delivered an address. The president
had a restful night at Mortified. He
o o his train promptly at 500. The
first speech of the day was at Millers
Falls. At Athol and Gardner speeches
also were made. AT the latter place fully
10 1000 people greeted him. Harvard
flags were everywhere in evidence, and
as the president assembled the platform
a number of boys gave college yells.
He spoke OF the necessity for good citi-
Zenship in order to be successful in life.
President Roosevelt in his address at
Fitchburg devoted himself almost ex-
clusively to the trusts, which he intend
ed as an answer to his critics. He said
in part:
IF some of those who have seen cause
for wonder in what | have said this fall
on the subject of the great corporations,
which are popularity though not techni-
cally known as trusts, would take the
trouble to read my messages when | was
governor, what | said on the stump two
years ago and what | put into my first
message to congress, | think that they
would have beer less astonished. | said
nothing on the stump that | did not
think | could make good and shall not
hesitate now to take the position which
| then advocated. | am even more anXi
Gus hat you who hear what | say
should think of it than that you should
applaud it. / am not going to try to
define with technical accuracy what
ought to be done when | speak of a
trust. But if by trust we mean merely
a big corporation. then / ask you to
ponder the utter folly of the man who
either in spirit or rancor or in a spirit
OF folly says destroy the trust without
giving you an idea of what he means
really to do. | will go with him if he
says destroys the evil in the trusts glad
ly. (Applause.)
Il will try to find out that evil. | will
seek to apply remedies, which | have
already outlined in other speeches. But
if his policy from whatever motive.
whether hatred, fear, panic or justice or
otherwise, is to destroy the trust in a
way that will destroy all of our pros
perity, no. Those men who advocate
wild and foolish remedies which would
be worse than the disease, are doing all
in their power to perpetuate the evils
against which they are nominally at
war, because if we are brought face to
face with the naked issue or either
keeping or totally destroying a pros
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in which some share improperly, why,
as a sensible man, we must decide that
it would be a great deal better that
some people should prosper too much
than that no one should prosper
enough. So that the man who advo-
Gates measures which would paralyZe
the industries of the country is at best
a quack and at worst al enemy to the
republic"
Referring to the conditions existing
in 1898. he said:
There was no trouble about every
body making too much money then.
The trusts were down, but the trouble
was that we were all of us down. Moth
ing but harm to the whole body polite
can come from agitation carried on
partially against real evils, partly
against imaginary evils, which would
substitute for the real evils, evils just
as real and infinitely greater Those
men, if they should succeed. could do
nothing to bring about a solution of the
great problems with which we are o n
cerned. If they should destroy certain
of the evils at the most of over throw
ing the well-being of the entire coun-
try, it would mean merely that there
would come a reaction in which they
and their remedies would be hopelessly
! discredited.'
In the afternoon at Worcester the
president lunched with Senator Hoar.
At Springfield another hearty greeting
was given President Roosevelt. An ad-
dress there was followed by a brief Wis
it to the National arlnory. On the way
10 the train the presidents carriage
stopped in front of the Veterans
Memorial home. and he spoke a few
words to the old soldiers who were
drawn up in front of the house.
In the course of his tour of the New
England states the president has avail
ed himself of each opportunity to make
complimentary references to the mem
bers of his official family. Tonight Sec
rotary Cortelyou came in for praise. At
Westfield, the scene of the boyhoOd
laws of the presidents helper, a stop
of half an hour was made. The APP
plause was loud and continuous when
he mentioned the secretary's name.