Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-11-21
ROOT REPlYS
70 HARTMAN
Tells Him Railroads Must
be Curbed for Good
Of Public

Kansas city, Nov. 90 The most I'M
teresting feature 81 the commercial
club banquet last night had not been
announced beforehand, 1t being Ed
ward H. Harriman's criticism OF gov
eminent regulation Of railroads and
Secretary Of State Roots vigorous re-
ply. Mr.. Hartman III his address said:
IT saw In the papers shat President
Hill, OF the Great Northern, In an adj
dress before the commercial bodies Of
!! Chicago, said that the country needs
100000 more miles Of railways. feel
lsure Mr.. Hill was misQuoted. Two men
Ipow here who heard his speech. con-
firm me In this belief. Al they NM
derstand II. and as he probably said.,
the railroads need stdings, terminals
and double tracks, equal to 100000
miles Of railway.
Roads Hampsrsd, Says Hartman.
In his speech il Harrisburg re-
Gently President Roosevelt said that
the executive and legislative depart
ments Of the government, should be-
given additional power to deal with
lpublic organisations, II We are going
10 continue to prosper the power which
President Roosevelt desires added to
the government, hope. win b added
70 the other organisations, hops that
some OF It will come our way. It -
impossible for railway company or
large organization to carry on IT. bus
iness properly II the people are con-
stantly criticisfng and suspecting. In
the union Pacific ~ one man saya
what the company will ~ viii nct8
AZ. am untfring only because q
mpst be on hand 70 hear conferences
ana try to bring q body Of men to one
conclusion. It y not easy IL you An
ways have to turn to the leSAl de-
pertment ana find whether you may
o. may not. Fsss
Here Mr.. Hartman paused ana
turned to Secretary Root. who sat two
seats rearwarsl.
H. calls, Too, fsr Fsir PIay.
ri q often important to 4 city 81
= country whether We do certain
things, whether We develop = terri
Itory.'f Mr.. Harriman continued, .or
leave It dormant. OFTEN We can mt
give derslcpsSesit1 y start iecss,ss *
the actiOn of certain people Tor polst-
ieal preatige. belleye ther4 n 10 ~
IA change ~ attitndS which r. soon to
he felt. The people are coming ID b.
AeYss IN Ameficanisna and that means
fair play
SECRETARY Root accepted Mr.. Harri-
mans challenge promptly ana pre-
faced his prepared speech ~ saying:
before begin my talk on the
snh5ect which a. besn assigned to me,
desire to make = few remarks in
answer to Mr.. Hartman. Mr.. Harri-
man. believe, IN his speech tonight
would have " rive more power Z,
the railroads.
Nssd etrihpsnt Laws, Says Root.
The experience gained from u
knowledge OF railroad business In thu
state Of Missouri at time when tll.A
railroads were competing for business
led me to believe that the Just means
Of regulating traffic and railway AZ
q tlv .aal IS tne Il raiiWays tnem-.
49,. os'lsess y y Just to say THAT
VIE law Would De one that would
force the railroads to combine in keep
Ing the lava law that would pre-
vent the railroads from breaking the
law
n repeat that the best regulation
can be brought about BY the railroads
themselves. Il thew ..rtll c,,Iv -. q
supplemented BY government control,
doing wrong. It ~ doubtless the case