Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-09-21
President Roosevelt Well Started On Journey
to Nebraska and Iswa.
ARRIVAL PROMISES TO Be PUNcTUAL ONE
Train is Nsving as Scheduled and with
Only Few Stops,
PARTY TRAVELLING NOW THROUGH OHIO
Steps at Cincinnati and is Given an ovati'n
BY the People.
BUSINESS is SUSPENDED FOR THE DAY
Grand Military Parade and Civic
Procession Escorts the Chief Ex-
ecutive and His Party to
the Fall Festival.
PARTY TRAVELLING NOW THROUGH oHIt
BUSINESS is SUSPENDED FOR THE DA

CINCINNATI, Sept. 2o.-"Roosevelt day"
at the Cincinnati fall festival broke all
records of attendance at these annual car
nivals. The president was kept on his
feet and busy for over twelve hours with
the exception Of the time at the noon
luncheon and the evening banquet and even
then he was engaged in discussing matters
OF public interest with the guests of honor
at his table.
After the meeting the presidential party
was driven to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton depot direct, and their special train
left at midnight for Detroit. The party will
be Joined in Chicago by Secretary Shaw.
Secretary Wilson and others for the north
western tour.
Catastrophe Narrowly Averted.
The unusually successful celebration Of
the day came very near being marred to-
night with panic that would have caused
a countless loss of life. 1t is estimated
that there were over 5000 people packed
into the auditorium when the president
began speaking. At the same time the
adjoining exposition halls were crowded
with people viewing the exhibits as they
were unable to gain admittance into the
music hall. After the president had been
speaking about fifteen minutes there was
a great commotion in Mechanical hall, ad-
jacent to Music hall on the north. The
sparks from an electric light wire had set
a curtain on fire and the fire department
had been called to the scene. The police
and attendants NJ the exposition soon put
out the fire, but they had much more
trouble in controlling the alarmed crowd
and 1t was with great difficulty that Cap
tain j. B. Foraker. son of the senator, and
one of the officers of the day, headed of
the FIRE department from rushing into the
building. Happily one of the bands struck
up and those who left the auditorium we're
supposed to be going out to stop the band
rather than to head of a panic. Very
few in the auditorium where the president
was speaking knew anything about the Incl
dent and the president suffered only a
slight Interruption without knowing what
caused It. The aisfes OF the auditorium
and all OF the standing room about the
exits we're packed with people as we'll
as the great balcony and the gallery. Had
there been cry OF FIRE or any knowledge
of what was going on among those in the
auditorium the fatal results could not be
estimated.
lows:
TOQaY i WISH TO speak TO you on the SUD-
ject or group of subjects which we mean
when we talk of the trusts. The word is
used very loosely and almost always with
technical inaccuracy.
Evolution, Not Revolution.
In dealing with the big corporations we
intend to proceed not by revolution, but
by evolution. We will accept the facts,
declining to have our vision blinded either
by the folly of those who say there are no
evils, or by the more dangerous folly OF
those who either see or make believe that
they see nothing but evil in all the existing
system and who, II given their way. would
bringing ruin and disaster to the entire
country. The evils attendant upon over
sufficient to warrant far closer supervl-
sion and control than now exists over the
great corporations. Wherever a substantial
monopoly can be shown to exist we should
certainly try our utmost TO devise an ex-
pedient by which II can be controlled.
A remedy much advocated at the moment
is to take OFF the tariff from all articles
which are made by trusts To do this 1t
will be necessary TO first define trusts. The
language commonly used by the advocates
OF the method implies that they mean all
articles made by large corporations and
that the changes in tartn are to be made
corpora rations. OF course II the tariff Is to
be changed in order 10 punish them, IL
should be changed so as 70 punish those
that do i'll, not merely those that are
prosperous. 1t would neither be just nor
eXpedient to punish the big corporations
as big corpOratlOnSi Wnat We wish TO DO ls
to protect the people from any evil that
may grow out OF their existence or mall
administration. Some OF these corporations
do well and others do ILL., II in any case
the tariff is found to foster a monopoly
which does i'll why OF course no protection
ist would object to a modification of the
tariff SUFFICIENT TO remedy the evil. But in
very few cases does the so-called trust
really monopolize the market. Further
more, the products OF many trusts are un-
protected, and would be entirely unaffected
by any change in the tariff or at most very
slightly so. The Standard Oil company
offers a case in point and the corporations
which control the anthracite coal output
offers anOther-for there Is no duty what
ever on anthracite coal The trusts can
be damaged by depriving them of the bene-
fits of a protective tariff, only on condition
of damaging all their smaller competitors,
and all the wage workers employed IN the
industry. This point is very important
and IL IS desirable to avoid any save willful
Misunderstanding. l am not now consider
ing whether or not, on grounds totally un-
connected with the trusts, II would be well
to lower the duties on various schedules,
either by direct legislation or by legislation
or treaties designed to secure as an offset
reciprocal advantages from the nations
with which we trade. My point is that
changes in the tarin would have little ap-
preciable effect on the trusts save as they
shared in the general harm or good pro-
ceeding from such changes.