Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
ROOSEVELT A GUEST
Quaker City Union Leaguers
 Banquet President.
CLUB POUNDED TO UPHOLD LINCOLN
Great President Taught Lessons by Which We May Proft-Federal Government should Control
 Large Corporations.

Large Corporations.
 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31. Presi dent Roosevelt was the guest of honor and principal speaker last night at the forty-second anniversary banquet of the Union League. The president came to this city over the Pennsylvania rail, road from Annapolis. An immense throng greeted Mir. Roosevelt.
 The banquet room was marvel of the decorators art. The national col. ors predominated in the floral and cleo 1rical effects, and the tables were des. l,nated by letters in red. white and blue. forming the name Roosevelt President Roosevelt occupied a seat in the center of the guests table, with President F. T. Stotesbury of the In, ion League on his right and United States Senator PenrOse on his left. Seated at the same table were former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. Congressman Bingham. Surgeon General Rixey. Brigadier General Fred erick D. Grant. Lieutenant General s. B. M. Young. retired: Governor Lea of Delaware. Governor Stokes of New Jersey and Mayor Weaver of this city. Governor PeInypacker of Pennsylva- mia was indispossd and could not at tend.
 When President Roosevelt arose to make his address he was greeted with long continued applause. Then the en- tire assembly stood and sang "The Star Spangled Banner"
 President Roosevelt in his address said in part:
 "TEis dub was founded to uphold the han1f of Abraham Lincoln when c sto.S. as the great leader in the struggle for union and liberty. We have Il right. therefore, to appeal 10 this club for aid in every governmental ar social effort made along the lines marked out . by Lincoln. The great president taught many lessons which we who come after him should learn. Among the most i'm portant of these was the lesson that for veal or for woe we are indissolubly bound together. in whatever part of the country we live. whatever our so- Cial standing. whatevcr our wealth or our poverty. whatever form of mental or physical activity our life work may assume
 The principles, which Lincoln ap- piled to the solution of the problems of his day are those which VIC must apply if we expect successfully to solve the different problems of our own day problems which are SD largely indus trial. Exactly as il is impossible to de- velop high morality unless we have ss a foundation those qualities which give at least a certain minimum of ma terial prosperity. SO ii is impossible permanently to keep material prosper ity unless there is back of it basis of right living and right thinking In tEc last analysis. cf course. tho dominant factor in obtaining this good conduct must be the individual character of the average citizen. Given this average of individual character. then wise laws snd the honest administration of ths laws can do much to supplement- it. If either the business world ar the world of labor loses it's head. then it has lost 0ometning which cannot he made good by any governmental effort. Our faith fin the future of the republic iS firm be cause we believe that on the whole ana in the long run our people think clearly snd act rightly.
 "CnQucsfionably. howeyer. the great development of industriaEism means that there must ,e an increase in the supervisiop exercised by the govern ment over business entcTTrriseS
 "All great huSiness concerns are en- gagged in interstate commerce. and it was beyond question ih. intention of the founders cf our government that interstate commerce in all it's branches snd aspects should lYe under national snd not state control
 At the present moment the greatest need is for an increase in tll. power cf the national government to keep the great highways of .-,mmerse open alike fo ali ou rcasoBaJle an.i equitable terms It is in the interest of the con ecientious and public spirited railway man that there should Iyc srris govern mental supervision of the railway trsf- fic of the country as to require from his less scruyusous competitors and from interruptions big shippers as well that heed to the public welfare which he himeesf vo-Ild willingly give and which F< .f -5fzT ssnsssI-sEre tc the small shippe-- Evesy important rail - . enEssed in interstate eeDDGee.