Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-10-06
HITS AT NEBRASKAN
Roosevelt For Regulating, Not
Owning, Railroads.
SPEAKS IN RAIN At HARRISBURG.


schemes Of Rerormers.
WASHINGTON. Oct 5. Il During
President Roosevelts flying trip to
| Harrisburg and York, Pa, he made a
speech in each city At both places he
wore a dark rain coat and spoke bare.
beaded In the rain Senator's Penrose
| and Knox Of Pennsylvania were Of the
party. He enjoyed the trip immense
", and except for slight hoarseness
he did not suffer from the storm. He
| said he had spent a most pleasant day.
At Harrisburg the president deliv-
cred the Grafton at the dedication of
the beautiful new state capitol, which
has just been completed at cost of
S13,000,000 to take the place of the
old statehouse, destroyed by fire in
1897.
His speech was regarded by many
who heard it as the first direct public
answer by the president to the beliefs
, set forth by William Jennings Bryan
in his Madison Square Garden speech
in New York, in which the Nebrasktn
came out squarely in favor of govern
ment ownership of trunk lines.
President Roosevelt began his adj
dress with eulogy Of Pennsylvania
on whose soil the Declaration of indie
pendence was signed and the consti-
tutional convention was held, where
Washington at Valley Forge saved the
republic and where Gettysburg saved
the Union. Pennsylvania was fittingly
called, he said, the keystone State
The president advocated an extern
sion Of the national power to oversee
and secure correct behavior in the
management of all great corporations
engaged in interstate business. The
government, he asserted. ought not to
conduct the business of the country,
but to regulate it so that it shall be
conducted in the interests of the pub
lie.
"Our civilization" he said, shall
not be the civilization of a mere plu-
tocracy, banking house, Wall street
syndicate civilization. nor yet can
there be submission to class hatred.
1T is our clear duty to see, in the
interest of the people, that there is
adequate supervision and control over
the business use of the swollen for
tunes of today and also wisely to de-
termine the conditions upon which
these fortunes are to be transmitted
and the percentage that they shall
pay to the government, whose pro
tecting arm alone enables them to
exist. Only the nation can do this
work. To relegate it to the states is
farce and is simply another way of
saying that it shall not be done at all
Under a wise and far seeing inter
probation of the interstate commerce
clause Of the constitution l maintain
that the national government should
have complete power to deal with all
of this wealth which in any way goes
into the commerce between the states
and practically all of it that is am
ployed in the great corporations q PES
thus go in. o
TRUSTS are not only evil in them
selves, but are also evil because they
furnish an excuse for agitators to in
flame we'll meaning people against all
forms of property and to commit the
country to schemes of wild, would be
remedies which would work infinitely
more harm than the disease itself
'Ihe government ought not to con,
duct the business of the country, but
ii ought to regulate it so that it shall
be conducted in the interest of the
public.
ut behooyes us Americans to look
ahead and plan ont the right kind of a
civilization as that which we intend tc
develop from these wonderful new con.
ditions of vast industrial growth