Connecticut western news., 1906-10-11

Monopoies Evil In Themselves and Also as Arousins Agitation.
 Washington, Oct. 10.-During PreSi- dent Roosevelt's flying trip to Harris burg and York, Pa, ne made d speech in each city.
 At Harrisburg the president deliv- cred the oration at the dedication of the beautiful new state capitol, which has just been completed at a cost of $13,0oO,Oo0, to take the placeSf 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 Nebr.;skan came out squarely in favor of govern ment ownership of trunk lines.
 Praise For Pennsylvania.
 President Roosevelt began his ad- dress with eulogy of Pennsylvania on whose soil the Declaration of Inde
 
 tional 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 exten- sion of the national power to oversee and secure correct behavior in the of oll raf{ lone 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 public interest.
 Some of the statements made by the president i'll his Harrisburg address were as follows:
 Wants Fortunes Controlled.
 "All honest men must abhor and reprobate any effort to excite hostility to men of wealth as such. We shouli do all we can to encourage thrift and business energy, to put premium upon the conduct of the man who hon. estly earns his livelihood and more than his livelihood, and who honestly uses the money. that he has earned. But it is our clear duty to see, in the interest of the people, that there is ade- quate supervision and control over the business use of the swollen fortunes of today, and ,so wisely to determine the conditions upon which these for tunes are to be transmitted and the percentage that they shall pay to the
 ory1o alone enables them to exist. Only the nation can do this work. To relegate it 10 the states is a farce and is simply another way of saying it shall not be done at all.
 ''Under a wise and far seeing inter- pretation of the interstate commerce clause of the constitution I maintain that the national government should have complete power to deal with all this wealth which in any way goes in to the commerce between the states, and practically all of it that is en- ployed in the great corporations does thus go in.
 Ut shall and must ultimately be un- derstood that the United States gov ernment on behalf of the people of the United States has and is to exercise control over the business use of this wealth, in the first place over all the work of the common carriers of the nation and in the next place over the work of all great corporations which directly or indirectly do any interstate business whatever, and this includes almost all of the great corporations.
 Opposes Government Ownership.
 "To exercise a constantly increasing and constantly more efficient supervi- sion and control over the great com mon carriers of the country prevents all necessity for seriously considering such a project as the government own ership of railroads, q policy which would be evil in its results from every standpoint.
 eve have actually accomplished much, but we have not accomplished all nor anything like all that we feel must be accomplished. We shall not halt; we shall steadily follow the path we have succeeded in putting upon the statute books with absolute impartial. ity as between man and man and m resting in our enQeayOr 10 Strengrhen and supplement these by further laws which shall enable us in more etticien; and more summary fashion to achieve the ends we have in view.
 "It behooves us Americans to loob ahead and plan out the right kind of q civilization as that which we intend tC develop from these wonderful new con ditions of vast industrial growth. II must not be. 1t shall not be, the civili zation of a mere plutocracy, banking house. Wall street syndicate ciyiliZa ton. nor yet can there be submission tC class hatred. to rancor. brutality an( mob violence for that would mean thc end of all civilization.
 Trusts a Double Evil.
 Trusts are not only evil In them selves, but are also evil because they furnish an excuse for agitators to in flame well meaning people against al forms of property and to commit tho country to schemes of wild would he remedies which would work infinitely more harm than the disease itself"
 In his York address the president GU logized the spirit of thrift displayed by