Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-10
EVIL: N OWNERSHIP
SAYS ROOSEVELT
NATIONAL SUPERVISION is ONT "
PROPER METHOD,
REMEDY WITH CONGRESS

~ontFo' OF tne 1reat Common Carriers
OF the Country Prevents Necessity
Of Considering Radical
! Theories.
The government ought not to con.
duct the business of the country, but
it ought to regulate it SO that it shall,
be conducted in the interests of the
public. To exercise a constant
| ly increasing and constantly more ef-
| ficient supervision and control over
| the great common carriers of the
country prevents all necessity for Sc
rious!y considering such project as
the government OWNERSHIP p Of railroads
"a policy which would be evil in ito
results from every standpont.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt.
Harrisburg, Pa.-President Roose-
welt broke the silence of several
| months to make an address at the
dedicatory exercises of the Pennsyl-
vania state capitol, paying especial at
tention to the problems involved in
| the Capitalization of wealth and of
corporate power.
The president talked strongly on
the subject of placing a curb on the
stupendOus fortunes of the country
50 far as they are given a free field
in the business world, and declared
for national control of the concerns
that do an interstate business.
But he made it quite clear that he
believes there is no necessity or rea-
son for applying the principles to the
! extreme of government ownership of
desirable and could only result in evil
under any circumstances. He con-
! tended that the restrictions imposed
| by correct and conservative national
supervision of these roads and of the
large corporations would correct OBJ
jectional acts and practices and make
government operation uncalled for.
Duty Is with Congress.
Surrounded by an assemblage of
distinguished citizens and officers of
the keystone state and talking to one
of the greatest audiences ever gath
cred at state capital, the president
spoke to the people of the country of
the noteworthy things Of the recent
past and of the impending problems
of the near future. The states, he
said. can do much to root out special
evils within their limits, but on the
big questions involving the union of
states the president asserted that
only careful and wise legislation by
congress could be effective.
While he said he abhorred class
hatred and despised the narrow hatred
of men of wealth because they are
wealthy, the chief magistrate asserted
it was the duty of the people to bring
about adequate supervision and con.
len fortunes of to-day" He continued:
''And also wisely to determine the
conditions upon which these fortunes
are to be transmitted and the percent
age that they shall pay to the govern
ment, whose protecting arm alone en-
ables them to exist. Only the nation
can do this worK.
ITO relegate it to the states is a
farce, and is simply another way Of
saying that it shall not be done at ALL
Federal Power Adequate.
The president said that under a wise
Interpretation of the interstate CON-
merce clause of the constitution he be.
lieved the national government has the
power to deal with all wealth that in
any way goes into the commerce be-
tween states. Therefore, while con-
gress should avoid any demagogic leg
islation, President Roosevelt had this
to suggest:
"But, on the other hand, it shall and
must ultimately be understood that
the United States government, on be-
half of the people of the United States,
has and is to exercise the power of
supervision and control over the bust
ness use of this great wealth-ln the
first place, over all of the work of the
common carriers Of the nation, and, in
the next place, over the work of all
the great corporations which directly
or indirectly do any interstate bust
ness whatever-and this includes al
most all of the great corporations.
President Roosevelt referred to what
already has been accomplished in this
respect and complimented Senator
Knox. of Pennsylvania, formerly at
torney general of the United States,
for the part he had played in prose-
cutting the big cases brought by the
government.
Praise for Keystone State.
The president opened his address
with an expression of his pleasure at
being invited to speak on an occasion
80 noteworthy, referring to the part
Pennsylvania had played in the ma
TONS history and complimenting its
people for their ruggedness of char
acter, their enterprise and their pa
triotism.
Kansas Pioneer Dead.
Kansas City, Mo.-William Weston,
a pioneer who held many municipal Of
fees here, died, aged Is years. Mr..
Weston, who served through the civil
war in a Kansas volunteer regiment,
came OF family of soldiers.
Parasites Destroy Boil WeeviI.
New Orleans.-That the boil weevips
progress northward will be delayed by