The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-26
Says There is a Remedy and
 t VIII be Found
MUST BE VERY DELIBERATE
The President Pays Tribute to Attor- ney General Knox and States That He Will Bring Suits Whenever
 the Law Is Violated.

Boston, August 25.-The weeks work for President Roosevelt on his trip through New England begun in earnest this afternoon when he departed from the summer home of the junior senator of ssachusetts, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, at Nahant, and amid the cnthusi- ssm of the greatest number of people he has faced since tfe Pittsburg visit on July 1, rode into Lyrn under cavalry es- oort and spoke from a platform in front of the city hell. ] hen 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 almost en- tirely devoted to the trust question. From the hall tho President went to the Hotel Tourain, where, little later in the evening, he was the guest of Cover nor Crane at oinner. Tomorrow morning bright and early the presidential party will start for Maine.
 MT. Roosevelt spoke as follows on the trust question; ,
 Roosevelt's Speech
 Governor Crane, Mayor Collins, Men
 and Women of Boston:
 q am glad to have the chance of say ing a few words to you this evening. There are several matters that I should like to discuss. and I can say in all sin cerity that when I come here to New England when I come to Boston, I like to go over as many subjects as passible so that I can get light on them.
 q have great faith in your judgment. I want to take up this evening the gen. eral question of our economic and social relations with specific reference to that problem with which I think our people are greatly concerning themselves-the problem of our complex social condition as intensified by the existence of the great corporations, which We rather loosely designate as trusts. But l wish to say one or two things as preliminary. In the first place I have not come here to say that I have discovered a patent cure-all for the trusts.
 When peoples minds are greatly agi- tated on any subject, and especially when they feel deeply but rather vaguely tbat conditions are not right, it is far pleas anter in addressing them to be indifferent as to what you promise, but 1t is much less pleasant afterwards.
 "Of course the worth of a promise con sists purely in the way in which the per formance squares with 1t. That has got two sides to it. In the first place if a man is honest he will try just as hard to keep a promise made on the stump as one made off the stump. Tn the second place, if the people keep their heads they won't wish promises to be made which are im- possible of performance.
 The Two Sides.
 Now, you see that one side of that question Is my duty and the other side is yours. Mankind goes ahead but slowly and it goes ahead mortally through each of us trying to do or at least through the majority of us. trying to do the best that is in them, and doing 1t in the most in- telligent and sanest way. We founded our republic on the theory that the aver age man as a rule will do the right thing: that in the long run the majority are go- ing to decide for what is sane and whole some. If our fathers were mistaken in that theory, if ever the mass of the peo- pie do what Is unwholesome, what is wrong, then the republic cannot stand. care not how good its laws; 1 care not in what marvellous mechanism it's consti- tuition may be embodied Back of the law, back of the administration, back of our system of government lies the aver age manhood of our people. In the long run we are going to go up or go down, according as the average standard of our citizenship does or does not wax in growth and grace
 '1t is worse than useless for any of us to rail at or regret the great growth in industrial civilization of the last half century. Speaking mechanically we can. according to our several temperaments. regard that the old lights have vanished or not, as we choose. Boston and the thriving cities of Massachusetts have been built up as a result of those forces. There Is but little use in regretting that things have not shaped themselves dif- ferently.
 Must Face Conditions.
 'sThe practical thing to do Is to face the conditions as they are and see if we cannot get the best there is in them out of them We are not going to get any complete or perfect solution for all the evils which come to our minds when we think of any single action on our part. A good many actions in good many different ways will be required before we get many of these evils even partially remedied. We have got to. first of all, think clearly-we have got to probably experiment somewhat. We must above all show by our actions that out lnleTcSl IS anu Hot spasmodic and we have got to see that all the steps are taken toward the solu- tion. Every one who thinks, knows that the only way in which any problem of great importance was ever successfully solved, was by consistent and persistent effort toward a given end, effort that did not end with any one election or with any one year.. but was continued stead fly, temperately and resolutely.
 Tt Is a little difficult to set clearly be- fore us all of the evils, but I think that those gentlemen, and especially those gentlemen of large means. who deny that the evils exist are acting with great folly. I am far from being against prop erty when I ask that the question of trusts be taken up. I am acting in the most conservative sense in property's interest. When a great corporation is ---~--
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