The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-26
IT is TIME TO ACT
ONLY PERSISTENT EFFORT WILL
REMEDY THE TRUST EVIL.
TO CRY mo EVIL" is FOLLY.
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT CAUSES
DIFEICULTY.

tn N y.
suficing for All Needs at First,
The system HaIts Before the Mann
moth Evil of To- day-COrporation
Find 1t Easy to Outyit State Laws.
National Government Must Be
Given Power to ResuIate-knox
viii Enforce the Law.
Boston, Aug. 25.-The weeks work
for President Roosevelt in his trip
through New England began in earn
est this afternoon when he departed
from the summer home of Senator
Lodge. at Nahant, and amid the en-
thusiasm of the greatest number of
persons he has faced since the Pitts
burg visit on July 4, rode into Lynn
under cavalry escort and spoke from
a platform at City Hall.
Then he was taken to Boston by
special train, and on arrival went to
Symphony Hail. there addressing a
great gathering of Boston business
men, His speech was devoted almost
entirely to consideration of the trust
question. He said:
action Needed, Not Regret.
TT is worse than useless for any of
us to rail at or regret the great growth
in industrial civilization of the last half
century. The 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 of the evils which come
to our minds when we think of the
trusts by any single action on our part
"A good many actions of a good many
different ways will be required before
we get many of those evils even par
TALLY remedied.
I'VE have got to first of ALL think
clearly-we have got to, probably, ex-
pertinent somewhat. We must above all
show by our actions that our inter-
est is permanent and not spasmodlc,
and we have got to see that all the
steps are taken toward the solution
Everyone who thinks knows that the
only way in which any problem of
great Importance was ever successful
ly solved was by consistent and per-
sistent effort toward a given end. effort
tslat did not end with any one election
or with any one year, but was con-
tinued steadily, temperately and reso-
lutelv.
TO Deny Trust Evils, Is Folly.
at is a little difficult to see clearly
before us all of the evils, but l 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 be-
ing against property when 1 ask that
the question of trusts be taken up. l
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
property; it is a move in favor of
1t 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
that no man shall be excused for vio-
l9ting the law you make it evident
th'.t every man will be protected from
violation of the law.
II am inclined to think that much
the greatest trouble in any immediate
h7'dlin9 of the Con of the trust
comes from our system of government
Let me go back one moment. / want
10 guard what l am saying. ! want
yon 20 understand that my words are
being taken at their exact face value.
Remember 1 am not saying that even
II we had all the power we could COM
pletely solve the trust question. Cen
ternen, if what we read in the papers
is true they are speaking of a num-
Der of international trusts now.
Grea1 Deaf Can BE Done.
1T would be very difficult for any
set of laws, on our part, to deal COM
petely with a problem which becomes
International in it's bearings, but
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 some
Where TIC do it. On the whole, our sys-
tenn or government has worked mar
Nelously we'll, the system of dividing
Inc functions of government, of ar
ranging scheme under which Maine,
louisiana, Oregon, Idaho, New York
ana South Carolina can all come in
tHSather for certain purposes, and
yet each be allowed to work out its
SS,alVatfon as it desires, along certain
lines But while l believe in fixity
Vi policy, l do not believe that that
pollcy should be fossilized, and if it
10 be changed we must change our
governmental method to meet it.
- believe with all my heart in the
New England town meeting, but you
Sdhnot work the New England town
.4neetng in Boston. You have got to
ny something else. Now, when this
government was founded. there were
~. .io great individual or corporate for
.anes' There was no particular rea-
III at that time to bother as to
"nether the nation or the state had
'ohtfol of the corporations They were
Easy to control. Now, however, the
tsAdet reverse is the case-and, remem-
nel, l say corporations 1 do not say
lneTely trusts, merely combinations of
ooiipofatlons, or corporations under GER
''ih peculiar conditions.
beef Trust Not to Escape.
For instance, some time ago the
Alorney General took action against
certain trust. There has been con-
,r Die discussion as to whether the
auSt aimed at would not seek to get
ton va
p, want laws TO enable us to deal
TilH IT, no matter what shape II takes
want TO see the government able to
at II definitely, so that the action
tne government cannot be eVaded by
e turning, within or without fed
" or state statutes.
81 present we have really no enl-
NJ control over a big corporation
s,n,Ch Goes business IN more than one
r ,a,e' Frequently the corporation has
tlhg whatever TO do with the state
90 "hlch II Is Incorporated except 20
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