Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-28
ALL 1ATO THE SEA
President Reaches the Ever
glade State.
WORST CITIZENS ARE DISHOyESTRICH
Roosevelt Would Not Limit Corpora
tions' Activities, but Control Them,
American Capital Now
seeks Foreign Outlets.

ed on his arrival by Jacksonyille's
most distinguished citizens, and on ev-
cry hand We're shouted words of vel
come that left no room for doubt of
their sincerity. The city is in gala at
fire, and business is practically sus-
pended
Numerous extra trains brought their
burden of excursionists from the sur
Founding country and cities, and it was
estimated that not less than $4,000 per-
sons saw and welcomed the president.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the presidential
party at Roswell Ga, the home of the
presidents mother. The party now
consists Of Secretary Loeb, Surgeon
General II. NJ Rixey of the navy, two
photographers, two secret service de-
tectives, two White House messengers
and the representatives of newspapers.
President Roosevelt at Atlanta, Ga,
delivered q speech, the third of his inn
portant addresses since leaving Wash
tngtOn on his tour of the south. He
confined most of ii to discussion of in
dustriai combinations, their dangerous
qualities and methods of controlling
them. lie also took up the problem of
Chinese trade as affected by boycott
Of American goods in China and the
exclusion of Chinese labor from the
United States.
There is every reason Mr.. Roose-
welt said, Ito be yigilant in searching
out what is wrong and unfinchingly
yesolute in striving to remedy it. At
the same time we must not blind our
selves to. what has been accomplished
for good, and above all we must not
lose our heads and become hysterical or
rancorOus in graphing with what is
bad
Take, for instance, the growth of
corporntions in this country This
growth has meant of course the growth
of individual fortunes Undoubtedly
this growth of wealth has had some
very unfortunate Accomplishments. but
1t seems to me that much the worst
damage that men of wealth can do the
rest OF us is not any actual physical
harm, but the awakening in our breasts
of either the mean vice of worshiping
mere wealth and the man of mere
wealth for mere wealth's sake or the
equally mean vice of viewing with
rancorous envy and hatred the men of
wealth merely because they are men of
wealth.
1--WE should not strive to prevent or
iinit corporate activity. We should
strive to obtain effective supervision
over it.
I'VE have made the terms not mere
ly hard, but often prohibitory, with
the result that American capital goes
into foreign countries.
1.-THE conscience of our people has
been deeply shocked by revelations as
to the way in which some great for
tunes have been obtained and used.
"There are men who do not divide
actions merely into those that are
honest and those that are not, but
create a third division-that of law
honesty, which consists in keeping
clear OF the penitentiary,
"The worst citizens are the men who
have achieved great wealth or any
other form of success in any save a
clean and straightforward manner"
The president was taken to the Pied
mont clubhouse, attended by a squad
ron from the Twelfth cavalry, which
was his constant guard through the en-
tire day John Temple Graves, editor
of the Atlanta Daily News, addressed
the president in personal welcome as
q man whom 1t was delight to meet
aside from his official character. He
referred to the president as "Georgia's
most illustrious grandson which the
president received with broad smile.
in closing Colonel Graves spoke of the
president MS "a man in whom the
statesman is greater than the politician
and the man greater than the presi-
dent" The illusions brought rounds of
cheers, and as the president arose to
reply he was greeted by the entire
gathering standing and waving their
napkins.
The president had urged and almost
forced Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle
Remus,'' to join him at the table seat
ing the author at his right.
Governor Hayward of South Carolina
added his welcome to the south. He
declared that nowhere could the presi-
than in the south, and he joined most
heartily with Georgia in honorlng the
president.
He proposed the health of Mrs Roose.
welt already on her way to Washing
ton, and the compliment was respond
ed to by the entire company standing.
During the dinner the band stationed
on the veranda played national airs,
including '"The Star Spangled Ban
ner." AS he recognized the familiar
strains the president sprang to his feet,
followed by all present, seemingly for
getful Of his surroundings. AS Dixie"
broke on the air he waved his hand in
time to the music and joined in the
cheers
From Jacksonville the president and
party will go down the coast to St Au-
Guotinm ovar GuuHav