The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-05
PRESIDENT AFTER TRUSTS
RESUMES HIS WAR FOR coy
 ERNMENT CONTROL.

Calls Attention in His Address at Har-
 risburg to the Dangers of the Use of
 Enormously Swollen Fortunes in Busi-
 ness-Makes Suggestion of Federal
 Inheritance Tax and Supervision of
 Corporations.
 Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 4.-President Roosevelt was the central figure to-day at the dedication of the new state cap itol, and delivered a carefully-prepared address in which he took occasion to reiterate his views on the need of gov- ernment supervision of large aggrega- tions of capital, and enlarged powers for the federal government. He also announced the determination of the ad- ministration to continue during the en- suing year it's prosecutions of violation of the law on the part of trusts and railways. In the course of his address the president used words which would indicate that he favors federal inher- itance tax. He said:
 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
 It is a real pleasure for me to attend these ceremonies at the capital of your great state. In every great crisis of our government the attitude of Penn sylvania has been of critical impor- tance, as the affectionate nickname of Keystone State" signifies. Pennsyl- vania has always lookt warily before she leapt and it was well that she should do so. But having finally made up her mind in each great crisis of our national history, her weight has been cast unhesitatingly upon the right side and has been found irresistible. This was true alike at the time of the Dec 1aration of Independence, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and during the terrible years when the issue was the preservation of the Un- ion.
 Pennsylvania soil Is historic. It was within Pennsylvania's borders that the contest opened which was to decide whether the valiant soldiers Of France would be able to bar this con- tinent against the domination of the people of the English-speaking colo- nies. It was on Pennsylvania s soil that the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitutional con- vention held. It was in Pennsylvania that Washington wintered at Valley Forge, and by keeping his army to- gether during that winter definitely turned the scales in our favor in the contest for independence. It was again on Pennsylvania soil, at Get tysburg, that the tide turned in the people, moreover, Pennsylvania has epitonized the composition of our Un- aon; for here many old world races have mingled their blood to make that ] new type, the American. Finally, in all branches of the public service. in peace and in war, the native or adopt ed citizens of Pennsylvania have at tained the highest enlinence.
 I do not, however, come here to-day | to speak only of the past, and still less to appeal merely to state pride. We |
 
 living force only by the way in which we handle ourselves in the present, and each of us can best show his devotion ito tis own state by making evident his | paramount devotion to that Union | which includes all the states. The study of the great deeds of the past is of chief avail in so far as 1t incites us [ Ito vgrapple resolutely and effectively with the problems of the present. We | are not now menaced by foreign war. Our Union is firmy established. But each generation has it's special and se- rious diff1oulties and we of this gen. eration have to struggle with evils sprfngfng from the very material slc- cess of which we are so proud, from k the very growth and prosperity of which, with justice, we boast. The extraordinary industrial changes of the last half century have produced to- tally new set of conditions, under which new evils flourish; and for these new evils new remedies must be de- vised.
 Some of these evils can be grappled with by private effort only; for we never can afford to forget that in the 1aast analysis the chief fastor in per- sonal success, and indeed in national greatness, must be the sturdy, self-re- liant character of the individual citi- zen. But many of these evils are of such a nature that no private effort can avail against them. These evils, therefore, must be grappled with by action. Tn some cases this government action must be exer- cised by the several states individual ly. In yet others 1t has become in- creasingly evident that no efficient state action is possible, and that we need thru executive ction, thru legisla- ton, and thru judicial interpretation and construction of law, to increase the power of the Federal government,
 If we fail to increase it, we show our impotence and leave ourselves at the mercy of those ingenious legal advi- sers of the holders of vast corporate wealth. who in the performance of what they regard as their duty, and to Serve the ends of their clients, invoke the law at one time for the confound- ing of their rivals and at another time strive for the utilization of the law, In order that they themselves may be left free to work their unbridled will on these same rivals or on those who la Dor for them, or on the general public. Tn the exercise of their profession and In the service of their clients these as-