The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
GOVERNMENT
SUPERVISION.
President Roosevelt Says 1t
Must BE Applied More
To the Regulation OfIndustries
of the Country.
HE MAKES AN ADDRESS
Before the Union League Club
at Philadelphia.
Guest Of Honor at 42nd Ami
Versary Banquet.
HE MAKES AN ADDRESS

Philadelphia, Jan. 31.=President
Roosevelt was the guest of honor and
principal speaker last night at the
fOrty-seeond anniversary banquet of
the Union League. The president
came to this city over h Pennsyl-
vania road from Annapolis, where he
the exercises incident TO the
graduation of the senior class of
cadets. A immense thronS greeted
Mr.. Roosevelt at the railroad station
and he received an ovation on his
way to the Union League. At the
clubhouse he passed through two ines
of cheering members to the reception
room where, from 6:15 to Z O'Clock,
he stood and shook hands with several
hundred prominent citizens. h First
troop, Philadelphia city cavalry, acted
as the presidents escort while he re-
manned in the city.
The banquet room was a marvel of
the decorators art The national col
ors Dredominated in the floral and
electrical effects and the tables were
designated by letters in red, white and
blue, forming the name Roosevelt
President Roosevelt occupied a seat
at the center of the guests table with
President StOtesbury, of the Union
League, on his right and United States
Senator enrOs on his left Seated
at the same table were former Post
AtldSACL 0EilCIdl ALldI1ES EAllOLy 0AAAllAA
Congressman Bingham, Surgeon Cen
eral Rixey, Major General Frederick
D Grant. Lieutenant General 5. B. NJ.
Young, Governor Lea. of Delaware,
Governor Stakes, of New Jersey. and
Mayor Weaver of this city. Governor
P-ennypacker, of Pennsylvania, was in
disposed and could not attend
Former General Smith
was also one of the speakers of the
evening.
In introducing President Roosevelt
Mr.. Stotesbury referred to him as the
only vice president who, having sue
ceeded to the Office of president
through the death of his predecessor,
retained that office through the votes
of the people
When President Roosevelt arose to
make his address he was greeted with
long continued applause. Then the
entire assembly stood and sang 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner" accompanied /
by the First Regiment band, N. G. P.
President Roosevelt in his address
said:
This club was founded to uphold
the hands of Abraham Lincoln when
he stood as b great leader in The
struggle for union and liberty. We
have a right, therefore, to appeal to4
this club for aid in every govern
mental or social effort made along the
ines marked o Il by Lincoln. The
great president taught many lessons
which We who come after him should
learn Among the most important of
THESE was the lesson that Tor veal or /
for woe we are indissoIubly bound to
gether, in whatever part of the coun-
try We live. whatever our social stand
ing whatever our wealth or our pow
erty, whatever form of mental or
physical activity our 2ife work may
assume. Lincoln, who was, more en-
phatically than any other president we
have ever had, the president of the
plain people, was yet as far removed
as Washington himself from the
slightest faint of demagogy. With his
usual farsighted clearness of vision he
saw that in a republic such as ours
permanent prosperity of any part of
our people was conditioned upon the
prosperity of all; and that on the other
hand any effort to raise the general
level OF happiness by striking at the
Wel-being of a portion of the people
could not but be in the end disastrous
to all.
The principles which Lincoln ap-
piled to the solution of the problems
of his day are those which we must
apply if we expect successfully to
solve the different problems of our
largely Industrial. Exactly as it is inn
possible to develop a high MORALITY
unless we have as a foundation those
qualities which give at least a certain
of material prosperity. so it
Is impossible permanently to keep ma
terial prosperity unless there is back
of it a basis of right living and right
thinking. In the last ANALYSIS. of
course, the dominant factor in oh
tanning this good conduct must be the
Individual character of the average
citizen If there is not this condition
of individual character in the aver
age citizenship of the country all effort
to supply its place by the wisest Iegfs-
latOn and administration will in the I
prove futile. But given this aver
age of individual character, then wise
laws and the honest administration of
the laws can do much to supplement
If either the business world or the
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lost something which can not he
good by any
effort Our faith in the future of the
republic is firm. because we believe
IN the whole ana IN the long run
our people think clearly and act
rightly
'Unquestionably. however. the great
development of ndustrialism means
that there must be an increase in the
supervision exercised by the govern
ment over business enterprises. This
supervision should not take the form of
and ill-advised interference.
and assuredly there is danger lest If
take such form if the business leaders
OF the business community confne ,
themselves to trying to thwart the eff
at regulation instead of guiding IL
Alright Such men as the member OF
this club should lead in the effort to
proper supervision and regula-
ton OF corporate activity by the gov
eminent, not My because it is for the
OF the community as a whole
there should be this SUPERVISION
and regulation. but because in the long
run it Will be in the interest above all
Of the very people who often betray
alarm and anger when the proposition
is first made
Neither this people nor any other
free people will permanently tolerate
use OF the vast power conferred by
vast wealth. and especially by wealth
In its corporate form. without dodging
somewhere in the government the sin
nfGh6T mower of seeing that fhf- D1---..
In. addition to being used in the interest
IF the -indiNidnaI or i-ndiuidna,S -.