Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-04
4 DAY IN WISCONSIN
President Visits State Capitol
 and Soldiers Home.

Banquet Nm RooseveIt's Honor by
 Merchants and Manufacturers'
 Association Closed Day of Chill
 Air, but Warm Welcomes.
 MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 4.-Pres- ident Roosevelt was the guest of the Milwaukee Merchants and Manufac- turers' association at a banquet at the Plankinton House last night, the occa- sion being the climax of the presidents ten hour visit to Milwaukee. Covers were laid for 53O banqueters. A corps of skillful decorators had worked out a complete transforma tion of the ban quet room, which was fairly canopied with Alabama ssmilax, which, spread Ing from twelve chandeliers, radiated in graceful arches to all parts of the room. Lines of asparagus vines trailed from chandelier to chandelier, support ing at regular intervals fern balls GOV. cred with American Beauty roses, car- nations and other beautiful blossoms. A thousand electric lights lent beauty to the room.
 The president sat in the center of long table with other guests of honor. At his immediate right sat United States Senator Quarles, while E. A. Wadhams, president of the Milwaukee Merchants and Manufacturers associa- ton. and toastmaster of the occasion. was seated at his left. Extending in opposite directions from the presidents table were twelve other tables, at which the members of the association nd hat Fvio the banquet had been served Toast master Wadhams introduced President Roosevelt, who responded to the toast, The President of the United States" The president took occasion to give his views on the subject of trusts. Among sther things he said:
 I think speak for the great majority of the American people when I say that we are not in the least against wealth as that we merely desire to see any abuse of corporate or combined wealth corrected
 boon or oe Of hqd b ra .6enara,s .he as heinz I, many cases shisieTt and only desire to see them regulated to subserve the public good. We should De false to the historic principles of our government 1T we GlSCTlTn1ndLSQ either DY egislation or administration either for or against a man because of either his wealth or his poverty There is no proper man who uses the power conferred by his siciaes to enable him to, oppress and wrong m gogio ss agsitator r who, U Instead W of S attacking Abuses as all abuses should be attacked wherever found, attacks property, attacks as se hsy they 9aa veil pl co o m tka Ikpar yeoy oy lions upon which rest our national well
 Tn consequence Of the extraordinary industrial changes of the last half cen- jury and notably of the last two or three ty and corhplexity of our industrial growth,. we are confronted with problems known ov to ' our sft forsfathers. sss our great prosperity, with it's accompanying con- saentration aa of population ana of wealth, It's development of giant industrial lead- srs, has brought much good and some ls willfully to blind ourselves to the evil.
 The evil n, has been partly the inevitable 6 the, law, the only remedy lying in the n at sas we sq thf that es ea hs Eaise remedies, and and we are s against fl ali l violent radical and unwise change But Ne believe that by proceeding slowly, yet ton and also with. a firm determination hot to be swerved from our course either ster influence we can accomplish much for the betterment of conditions.
 Quoting former address, he said:
 There is but the scantiest Justification for most of the outcry against the men sf wealth as such, and t ought to be un- directly. or indirectly leads to, suspicion and hatred among ourselves, which tends the door Of success against poor men of talent and finally which entails the Eos- 1pon oT M r e # A eatizsnshp n onr she iols 1srests al message to congress for 1901 I said: non o h soaa sTes Woa ef the mhos Ps0Pe rs the tsslf also assume power power a Of supervision sur Vision ng an interstate business.
 The views thus expressed have now re- sad aet sas es the S anaata by congress at it's last session.
 The enactment of this law is one of the been made in our time toward the proper solution of the problem of the relations ana a corporats t combinations. co bin tons oofpof 'iohS
 But much though this Is it is only g part or what has been done in the effort to ascertain and correct improper trust or monopolistic practices. Some eighteen months ago the industrial commission, an able and nonpartisan body, reported to congress- the result of their investigation of trusts and industrial combinations One of the most important of their cop freight rates and facilities were granted that these discriminations clearly tended toward the control of production and prices in many fields of business by large combinations.
 That this conclusion was justidable was shown by the disclosures in the investiga- Lion of railroad methods pursued in the tall and winter of 1901-2. It was then shown that certain trunk lines had en- tered into unlawful agreements as to the transportation Of food products from the west to the Atlantic seaboard, giving a few favored shippers rates much below the tariff charges imposed upon the smaller dealers and the general public
 These unjust practices had prevailed to such an extent and for so long a time that many of the smaller shippers had been driven out of business until prac- Ideally one buyer of grain on each rail- way, system had been able by his illegal advantages to secure a monopoly on the made, this monopoly enabling him to fix the price to both producer and consumer.
 Many of the great packing house con- eerns were shown to be in combination with each other and with most of the great railway lines whereby they en- 5oyed large secret concessions in rates and thus obtained a practical nnOnopOly