Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-23

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quit up and kept built up to the high
:s' point OF ehlciency. l ask that, not
IN the interest of war but as a guar
antee of peace.
| Il believe in the Monroe Doctrine. T
believe in the building and maintain
ehce OF as an open highway for the
nations of mankind the Panama canal
! had great deal rathe: see this coun
| Try abandon the Monroe Doctrine and
| give up all thought of building tn
Panama canal than see it attempt to
maintain the one AMI construct the
| other and refuse to provide for Itself
| the means which can alone render its
| attitude as 4 nation worthy of the re-
| spect of the other nations of mankind
| Keep on building ami maintaining at
'hc highest point of efficiency the Unit
eu states navy or quit trying to be a
Dig nation. Do one or the other"
In discussing the great industrial
combinations the President said:
| Il trust that in the end means will be
| found by which the exercise of control
over all the great industrial corpora
IONS Which are really engaged in and
DONG an Interstate business, will be
| lodged in the hands of the national
government. AS the first step to that
hope to See the passage of legislation
which will give. as an executive. not
as a Judicial function, to the national
government, the supervision of the
railroads of the United States which
| are engaged in Interstate commerce.
with the power when Il rate is com
| planned OF as improper and unjust to
examine that rate and if they think the
| rate should be changed, to change it
| to n given rate, and to have that given
| rate take practically immediate effect
| NOW | am perfectly we'll aware that
| there are objections to the proposed
change In my Judgment they are in
| fnit 'ly outWcighed by the objections
attendant upon not making the change
| The view expressed by excellent people
| who no donht feel it genuinely that
| you could not get Il commission who
| would lin al the rates of the railroads
of the country is to my mind much as
if You should express fear that you
| could not get supreme court justices
| who would be able to fix the laws. |
expect tliHt the commission will be able
tn pass upon 4 given rate brought be
fore. it, lust as the supreme court
passes upon Il given question of law
| brought before. it, ana one will prov"
to b.. rs feasible the other has
proved feasible That system should be-
and in my judgment will be introduced
Il am going to Illustrate what |
mean by some work now being done in
the department of justice and in the
bureau of corporations, at the head Of
fall Inn, ann
James Garfield Resolutions have been
passed by very important bodies de-
manding the investigation of what is
called the Beef Trust and of the stand
ard oil 90. The Beef Trust had to be in
vestigated partly by the department of
Justice acting through the district at
torney of Chicago. The commissioner of
corporations was to report upon the
fact of the case and the district attor-
Iney was to act on the legal evidence he
could obtain. If the district attorney
lean collect legal evidence which Will
Ishow that there has been willful and
intentional violation of the law by any
man. no matter how high he stands So
ciaily and financially, he Will be in
ldicted and if possible convicted. If he
ldoes not secure such legal evidence no
Iamount of popular feeling is To be al
Ilowed to be substituted for the legal
evidence.
$50 in Investigating the Beef Trust
land the Standard Oil Co. / have been
content to leave it absolutely i'll the
hands Of Mr.. Garfield, because l knew
THAT he was incapable of being swerNed
Iby popular demand on the one hand as
hv any sympathy on the other; that in
conducting his Investigations he would
40 his simple elementary duty by find
ing it guilty or not Of the specified facts
lallcg, not with regard to whether he
personally did or did not like the cor
poratiru. hut in accordance with the
Ieyidencc produced before him and OBJ
Itaincd by him 10 show the corporations
act on the points complained "1.
"The same spirit must be shown i'll
appIying the laws dealing with all cor
porations if, as hope, W" get the sc"p"
OF those laws sufficiently lodged.
At the conclusion of the exercises the
audience was dismissed by President
Hopkins.
The trustees, college faculty and some
lof tbo ,uosts retired ana the President.
passc,i down the aisle of the church 10
the steps from which point he adj
dressed n large gathering of citizens OF
Willamstown.
: The President spoE" Of the cor'halitE
| Of the reception given him wherever ne
, went. North. South. East or West. tie
| said he WAS especially pleased on ms
recent Southern trip to find the same
+ cordiality extended by those VIII" wore
| the gray AS by those who Wore the
+ blue. He made no reference to local
conditions.
At the close of his address To the
public. the President had luncheon ana
= | shortly aft-rward boarded his Spcci'i
ltrain for North Adams.
i Short Stop at Adams.
North Adams, Mass, June 2o.-The
= Presidents train arrived here ut l.4o
IP. NJ, six minutes behind schedule
time. There was a pouring ram when
the train drew into tn" station, but the
| program as planned was carried out