Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-04-04
CAIN L71 Nssdoi Ame ,ding and Congress-
Did that We Last sossi n
NEW ACTS WILL Be STRICTLY ENFORCED
Attorney General has Powers He Waited
anI Hil Use Them
Roos WELT TOURS IN WISCONSIN
Visits Madison, Waukesha and Mil
YANKEE, BEING Greeted by
Crowds Anxious to See and
Hear Him Everywhere.

MADISON, wis. April :.-The special
train carrying President Roosevelt and
party arrived here at o'clock this morn
ing.
The president remained on the train, rest
ing until o'clock, when he was met by a
party Of state legislators and city officials,
headed by Governor La Toilette and Mayor
Groves, and escorted to the capitol.
At 500 o'clock the president was ushered
into the assembly hall of the capitol,
where he addressed the legislature in joint
session and about 700 guests invited by
card. The president made a second ad
dress to a large crowd not able through
lack of room to gain admittance to the
building, from a stand erected at the en-
trance.
At the conclusion of the second speech
the president was taken to the executive
once, where tor twenty minutes he held
reception for members of the Legislature
and state of1cers. At 10:45, with the same
escort Of soldiers and officials, the presl-
dent returned to the special train, which
pulled out for Milwaukee at Ii o'clock.
Talks of Foreign Policy
wAUKEsHA, Wis, April 3--The weather
today was not such as would have been
chosen by citizens Of Waukesha county at
the time Lney were 10 WelCOmS fTbBluGul
Roosevelt, nevertheless the greeting
corded him on his arrival at 1850 was Of an
enthusiastic nature He was received by
delegation of citizens, headed by Mayor
George Harding.
The president said he was sorry to see
reflections in the press or elsewhere from
America on any foreign nation. II don't
believe the United States should ever suffer
wrong" he continued. II would be the
first that would resent a wrong from the
strong, just as would be the first to in
sist that we don't wrong the weak. 1
believe in the Monroe doctrine and as long
as l am president It shall be lived UP to-
but want the friendship Of mankind. We
wish we'll to the nations of mankind"
Reception at Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE. April s.--The presidents s
special train reached Milwaukee at this
afternoon. Is A receptions committee. headed
by Mayor Rose received the distinguished
guest and his party, who we're Immediately
driven to the National Soldiers Home,
where the 1000 veterans we're reviewed by
the president, who afterward addressed
them from a bandstand
After leaving the Soldiers Home the
procession returned cityward, coming to a
stop at the exposition building, where the
president was formally welcomed on behalf
OF the city by Mayor Rose. Ten thousand
people had gathered to welcome him here.
Later he was driven to the Deutscher club,
where he was rendered a reception, then he
went to the Press club, where he inscribed
his autograph in chalk on one of the panels
OF the wainscoting, where are the names
OF many other notable men, and was made
an honorary member of the club.
Defines Position on Trust EVIL.
In the evening he was the guest Of the
Milwaukee Merchants and Manufacturers
association at banquet at the Plankinton
house, where, responding to the toast 1.-The
President of the United States" took oc-
casion to enter somewhat fully into the
trust problem. He said in part:
To-day / wish to speak to you on the
question of the control and regulation oi
those great corporations which are popu-
larly, although rather vaguely, known as
trusts dealing mostly with what hes actu-
ally been accomplished in the way of leg
islation and in the way OF enforcement o.
legislation during the Fifty-seventh con
gress. At the outset / shall ask you to re
member that do not approach the subjec
either from the standpoint of those whit
speak Of themselves as antitrust people
or from the standpoint OF those who ar
fond OF denying the existence Of evils in tn
lIuSls, oT WHO dppdIeully pToCtcu upon IN
assumption that II a corporation is larg
enough II can do no wrong
"In consequence OF the extraordinary in
dustrial changes of the last half century
and notably of the last two or three de
cades, changes due mainly to the rapidit
ana complexity of our Industrial growth
we are confronted with problems which Il
their present shape were unknown to ou
torefathers. Our great prosperity, with It
accompanying concentration nf populatio
and OF wealth, Its extreme specialization
OF faculties, and its development OF gian
industrial leaders. has brought much goo
and some evil, and IT is as foolish to ignor
the good as wlfuly to blind ourselves I
the evil.
social Change IntensIhes EVIL.
'The evil has been partly the ineyItabl
accompaniment OF the social changes an
where this Is the case 1t can be cure
neither by law nor by the administratio
OF the law, the only remedy lying in III
slow char ye Of character and OF econom
environment, But for a portion of the evi
at least, we think that remedies can /
found We know well the danger of falls
remedies, and we are against all violen
radical and unwise change. But we b,
leve that by proceeding slowly yet rest
lutely, with good sense and moderatio
and also with firm determination not
be swerved from our course either by foo
sh clamor or by any base or sinister II
nuence, we can accomplish much for Il
betterment of conditions
"In its wisdom congress. at
last session, enacted the importa
law providing department
commerce and labor and further pr
viding therein under the secretary Of cor
merce and labor for a commissioner
corporations, charged with the duty
supervision of and OF making intellige
investigation into the organization and co
duct Of corporations engaged in intersta
commerce. HIS powers to expose illeg
or hurtful practices and to obtain all 1
formation needful for the purposes OF fu
lher intelligent legislation seem adequat
and the publicity justihable and prop