Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-06
FOR SQUARE DEAL
SAYS PRESIDENT
WOULD RESTRAIN THE RAIL
ROADS. NOT HARAss THEM.
ENEMY OF STOCK GAMBLER
Favors Senator Ia Foliette's Plan for
Physical valuation-To Prevent
Abuse of Power by Either Copper
alton or Government-Hunt Out
the corruptionist and Blackmailer.

Indianapolis. Ind, May 31.-.1 en-
phatically believe that positive re-
straint should be imposed upon rail-
way corporations, and that they
should be required to meet positive
obligations in the interest of the gen.
eral public. | no less emphatically be-
lieve that in thus regulating and con-
trolling the affairs of the railways it
an immense outlay of money from pri-
vate sources, and the certainty that
this will not be met without the as
surance of sufficient reward to in
duce the necessary investment. 1t is
plainly inadvisable for the government
to undertake to direct the physical OPP
GRAFTON of railways, save in wholly ex-
ceptional cases; and the supervision
and control it exercises should be
both entirely adequate to secure its
ENDS, and yet no. more harassing than
is necessary to secure such ends
Such was the sturdy declaration of
President Roosevelt in an address de-
livered here on Memorial day. In the
opening of his address the president
said that there is no other class of
our citizens to whom we owe Sc
much as to the veterans of the great
war To them it was given to per
form the one feat with which no
other feat can be compared, for to
them it was given to preserve the
union Moreover, you men who wore
the blue, blessed beyond the victors
in any other war of recent times, have
left to your countrymen more than
the material results of the triumph,
more even than the achieving the
triumph itself. You have left q coun-
try so genuinely reunited that all OF
us now, in whatever part of this union
We Hive, have right to feel the
keenest pride, not only in the val6r
and self-devotion of you, the gallant
men who wore the blue but also in
the salor and self-devotion of your
gallant opponents who wore the gray
Discusses Present Problems.
Reviewing then, briefly. the historic
events of the civil war period and de-
claring that If we wish to show our
selves worthy heirs of the men of the
civil war, we must do our tasks with
the thoroughness with which they did
theirs. Mr.. Roosevelt returned to a
consideration of the present great so
cial and industrial problems which
confront U.S. He said that these ques
tions demand for their solution an un-
faltering courage, and yet a wise,
good natured self restraint; SO that
on the one hand we shall neither be
daunted by difficulties nor fooled by
those who would seek to persuade us
that the difficulties are insuperable;
while on the other hand we are not
misled into showing either rashness
or vindictiveness.
He discussed the rights of property
and declared that these can only be
preserved if we remember that they
are il less jeopardy from the socialist
and the anarchist than from the pred
atory man of wealth. II has become
evident that to refuse to invoke the
power OF the nation to restrain the
wrongs committed by the man OF
great wealth who does evil is not
only to neglect the interests Of the
public, but is to neglect the interests
Of the man of means who acts honor
ably by his fellows. The power OF
the nation must be exerted to stop
crimes of cunning no less than crimes
of violence. There can be no halt
ia the course we have deliberately
elected to pursue, the policy of assert
ing the right of the nation. so FAR as
It has the power, to supervise and
control the business use OF wealth, es
peciaily in its corporate form. Today
| wish to say word to you about the
first and most important feature OF
this task. the control OF the common
carriers doing an interstate business:
a control absolutely vested in the ma
ton. while in so far as the common
carriers also transport the Hidio ~
is in my opinion probable that whether
their business is or is not Interstate
it q to the same extent subject 70
federal control. under that clause oil
the constitution granting to the ma
tional government power to establish
post roads and therefore by necessary
implication power to take all action
necessary in order to keep them at
the highest point OF efficiency.
The movement to regulate railways
Sy law has come to stay. The people
OF this country have made up their
minds-and wisely made up their
minds-to exercise a closer control
over all kinds Of public service cor
porations. including railways. Every
honestly managed railway will. said
the president. gain and not lose by
the policy The men more anxious to
manipulate stocks than to make the
management Of their roads efficient
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