Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-03
ROOSEVELT IN CAIRO
President Receives Enthusiastic
 Welcome In Illinois.
DEFENDS FEDERAL CONTROL.
Chief Executive Explains His Policy In St. Louis Speech and Reiterates the Fact That Battleships Will Go to the Pacific.

Cairo, H., Oct. 3.-Accompanied by
 . great fotilla down the Mississippi
 from St. Louis, President Roosevelt
 arrived here this morning with Gov
 ernor Curry of New Mexico, who is
 travelling with the president to Mem
 phis, Tenn, where the latter will at
 tend the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Wa terways association convention.
 The steamer Mississippi, which car ried the presidential party, was fol lowed by the United States steamer Colonel Mackenzie, carrying the mem- bers of the inland waterways commits sion; the Alton, bearing the governors of fifteen states; the Tennessee, char tered for thirty-siX congressman, and sixteen other large steambOats and a host of smaller craft.
 AS the tlotilla passed Jefferson bar racks the soldiers quartered there stood at attention on the bank while the presidential salute was fired.
 Introduced by Governor Folk.
 As the president stepped ashore he was welcomed by state and city off cials and one of the largest crowds that ever assembled in Cairo. Mir Roosevelt showed no ill effects from the drenching which he received dur ing a heavy rain in St. Louis, where he addressed large and enthusiastic assembage He was introduced by Governor Folk. At the first mention of the presidents name 10000 people spontaneously sprang to their feet and began waving flags as they voiced their greeting by the full use of their lungs. The ovation continued for full three minutes.
 President Roosevelt stepped to the front of the platform, and the moment he began to talk the cheering again rose.
 With beaming smile he waited moment until quiet had been restored and then began the delivery of his ad- dress.
 The first part of President Roose velts speech was a powerful plea for the improvement of the republics in- land waterways, particularly of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. He declared these Improvements should be undertaken by the national govern ment and expressed the belief that bet ter waterways would prove an effec- tive check of the rapacity of. the rail roads He spoke of the progress on the Panama canal, which at the pres ent rate of work, he said, would be completed in five or six years. He de- clared he considered the development of the Mississippi river a necessary corollary of the completion of the Pan anna canal.
 Wants a Bigger Navy.
 Continuing, the president urged the enlargement of naval strength. we have definitely taken our place among the great world powers, and it would be a sign of ignoble weakness, having taken such place, to shirk its re responsibilities" he said. Therefore, unless we are willing to abandon this place, to abandon our insistence upon the Monroe doctrine, to give up the Panama canal and to be content to acknowledge ourselves weak and timid nation, we must steadily build up and maintain great fighting navy"
 Explaining the coming cruise of Ad- miral Evans to the Pacific. the presi- dent asserted that while our navy is no larger than at present 1t must be considered an elementary principle that the bulk of our battleship fleet should be kept together and that Call fornia. Oregon and Washington have a coast line as emphatically American as the coast line of New York and Maine, of Louisiana and Texas.
 Our fleet is going to its own home waters in the Pacific" he declared, "and after a stay there it will return to its own home waters in the At. lantic." Such cruise. he believed. was necessary to the proper training of naval officers and sailors.
 Railroad Regulation.
 Coming down to his favorite sub ject of government control of railroads and big industrial corporations, Mir. Roosevelt said:
 There are difficulties arising from our dual form of government. If they prove to be insuperable. resort must be had to the power of amendment Let us first try to meet them by an exercise of all the powers of the national government which in the Marshall spirit of broad interpreta- ton can be found in the constitution as it Is. They are of vast extent. One of the chief and probably the chief of the domes- tic causes for the adoption of the consti- tuition was the need to confer upon the nation exclusive control over interstate commerce. But this grant of power Is worthless unless it Is held to confer thor oughgoing and complete control over practically the sole instrumentalities of Interstate cOmmerce-the interstate rail- roads. The railroads themselves have been shortsighted in the rancorous Bitterness which they have shown against the resumption by the nation of this long power. Great capitalists. who pride themselves upon their extreme con- servatisn. often believe they are acting in he interests of property when following a course 30 shortsighted as to be really an assault upon property. They have shown extreme unwisdom in their violent Oppo- sition 10 the assumption of complete con- trol over the railroads by the federal gov srnmsnt- The American people will not tolerate the happy-go-iucky system of no 1 sontrOl over the great interstate raii- ! -oads. with the insolent and manifold i -rr -fg . 5anied it. Perzo-ally l firmly believe that there Ihouid be national legislation to control ] ITl industrial corporations doing an inter l tate business. including the control of , he oufpat of their securities. but as to hese the rec~=~ttr for sasSara5 control Is .sr urgent and immediate than is the