The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-09

sissippi. If the nation starts to dam it.
its time would be wasted. 1t would not
injure the Mississippi, it would only
damage the population along the banks.
You cannot dam the current. SO you
build levecs, and keep the current within
bounds and shape its direction. Now, ]
think that is exactly what We can DO
with these great corporations, known as
trusts. We cannot dam them, we cannot
reverse the Industrial tendencies of the
age. You can control and regulate them
so that they will do no harm.
1--WE can do something. ! believe We
can do a good deal, but u accomplish
ing what [ expect to see accomplished is
conditional upon setting to work
in a spirit as far removed as is possible
from hysteria. A spirit of
sober. steadfast, kindly Ct want to en-
phasiZe the word kindly, determina-
ton not to submit to wrong ourselves
and not to wroag others. Not 70 interfere
with the great cuisines development Of
the country, but at the Same time so as
to shape our legislation and alminIstra-
ton to regula1e, il we cannot remedy
the vicious features connected with that
industrial development. [ am sufflcleCt-
lv fortunate 10 ba defending now IS
/ IRS1QtlIy ~ ttioElN lhI II ''N1
| advocated two years ago. | am adNo-
eating them not in any partisan spirit,
because, gentlanra, this is a problem
which affects the life of the nation as q
whole. / am alTnc1tins tl@m simply
as an American citizen, who for the time
being stands as the CHIEF executive ana
the special rep:ns ertatiye If his fellow
American citizens of all parties. A
I,,or+or Of n anvf11rV 400 there had
been no development OF Industries such
as to make it a matter OF the least i'm
portance whether the nation or the State
took charge OF the great corporations
and supervised the great business and
industrial organizations.
"Some of my ultra-conservative friends
have professed to be greatly shocked at
nv advocating governmental control or
corporations. | would explain TO those
gentlemen once for all that they err
whenever they think that I advocate on
the stump anything I will not try to put
into effect after election. Now the point
is made that working along these lines
will take time. So it Will. The 1lrst
thing is to give the National Govern
ment the power. What power is given,
I can assure you, will be used in a spirit
as free as possible from rancor, hut with
the firmest determination to make big
men AMI little men alike obey the law.
The first thing would be to find out the
facts. For that purpose | am absolutely
clear that We need publicity, not as a
favor from any one corporation, but as
a matter of right. The mere fact of the
publicity itself will tend to stop many
of the evils, and it will show that some
of the alleged evils are imaginary. Ana,
finally, in making evident the renain-
ing faults, those that are not imaginary,
and are not cured by the light OF day
itself, it will give us an intelligent
proposition as to the methods to take IN
getting at them Applause).
At the conclusion of the speech the
party rc-entered the train of carriages
and were driven over q route OF the
principal. thoroughfares of the city. The
decorations were of an elaborate and
festive order. All along the route vast
crowds cheered the President 20 the
echo. The party was driven to the
southern portion of the city. where tn"
Baltimore and Ohio special train was
boarded and the trip to the South con-
tinued.