The Washington times., 1905-10-20
CRACKERS GREET
NATIONS CHIEF
President Warmly We'll
coined by Loyal Atlanta.
SPEECH AT FAIR GROUNDS
Roosevelt Reviews Troops and Hands
Out Glad Hand to the Patriotic
Georgians.
SPEECH AT FAIR GROUNDS

Ihe program of the Presidential party
kept the President as strenuous as even
ne could desire. and will keep him SO
until the time comes for his departure
for Florida Mrs. Roosevelt Will also
have her hands full.
Rooseveft's Reception.
The President was met at the de-
pot by Governor Terrell and the local
reception committee together with the
Fifth Regiment of the Georgia National
Guard. number Of companies from
other regiments, and large number OF
civic organizations. who will escort him
to the State fair grounds
Here there was a review of the
troops. and an address by the Presi-
dent.
The Presidents Speech.
When the President stepped to the
platform he was wildly cheered.
The President said:
Here in this great Industrial center In
this city which is a typical Southern
city, and therefore a typical American
city, ii is natural to consider certain
phases of the many-sided industrial
problem which this generation has to
solve.
In this world OF ours it is practically
impossible to get success Of any kind on
large scale without paying something
for II. The exceptions to the rule are
too few TO warrant our paying heed to
them: and as a rule it may be said that
something must be paid as an Offset for
everything we get and for everything
we accomplish.
This is notably true of our industrial
life. The problems which we of America
have TO face today are very serious, but
we will do well to remember that after
all they are only part of the price which
we have TO pay for the triumphs we have
won. for the high position to which we
have attained.
If we were backward and station
ary country we would not have to face
these problems at all; but I think that
most of us are agreed that to be BACK
ward and stationary would be altogether
too heavy a price to pay for the avoid
ance of the problems in question. There
are no labor troubles where there is no
work to be done by labor. There are
no troubles about corporations where
the poverty OF the community is such
that it is not worth while to form. cor
porations. There is no difficulty in regu-
lating railroads where the resources of a
region are so few that 1t does not pay
TO build railroads. There are many ex-
cellent people who shake their heads
over the difficulties that as a nation we
now have to face; but their melancholy
is not warranted save in a very partial
degree, for most of the things of which
they complain are the inevitable accom-
paniments of the growth and greatness
of which we are proud
Evils, and Unhealthy Signs
Now. / do not wish to be misunder-
stood i do not for one moment mean
TO say that there are not many and seri-
Gus evils with which we have to grapple,
or that there are not unhealthy signs in
the body social and polite; but 1 do
mean TO say that while we must not
show a foolish optimism We must no
less beware OF a mere blind pessimism.
There is every reason why We should De
vigilant in searching out what Is wrong
and unfiinchingly resolute in striving to
remedy II. But at the same time we
must not blind ourselves to what has
been accomplished for good. and above
ALI we must not lose our heads and be-
come either hysterical or rancorous in
graphing with what Is bad
Take such a question, for instance. as
the question, or rather the group OF
questions. connected with the growth Of
corporations in this country Ihis
growth has meant, OF course. the growth
Of Individual fortunes Undoubtedly
the growth of wealth In this country
has had some very unfortunate accom-
paniments, but 1t seems TO me that
much the worst damage that people OF
wealth can do the rest OF us is not any
actual physical harm. bet the awaken
ing in our breasts of either the mean
vice of worshiping mere wealth. and
the man OF mere wealth. for the wealth's
sake, or the equally mean vice OF view
ing with rancorous envy and hatred the
men of wealth merely because they are
men of wealth Envy is. OF course.
merely kind of crooked admiration,
and we often see the very man VINO IN
rublic is most intemperate in his denun-
citation of wealth, in his private life
most eager to obtain wealth, in no mat
ter what fashion, and at no matter
what moral cost
Government Regulation Needed.
Undoubtedly there is need of regula-
ton by the Government. In the interest
of the public. of these great corpora
tions which In modern life have shown