Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-23
Mr.. Roosevelt Delivers on Ad-
dress Before the Students OF
Harvard This Afternoon
cR,rlclsEs HIS OPPONENTS
Reviews the Accomplishments Of the
Nation During the Past Ten Years
and Holds UP to scorn Those Who
Have Been Stumbling Blocks to Pro.
oress-presented With Bronze Medal.

Boston. Feb. 23-The train with
President Roosevelt on board arrived
at $40, an hour and a quarter la'e'
The trip was uneventful
The president was driven TO tne
home OF DR.. w. S. Bigelow, college
classmate After breakfast he attend
ed the christening OF the son OF Cap
tain Guy Murchie, another classmate'
and then went to Cambridge, where ne
was the guest of undergraduates at
various fraternal society events. MIS-.
Roosevelt and daughter Ethel ana MRS.
Nicholas Longworth spent the morn
ing with Mrs. George Lee, leaving at
noon for Groton.
When the president reached the I'm
ion building at Cambridge ne vas
given an ovation by the assembled stu
dents. The board of editors presented
Mr.. Roosevelt with a bronze medal, fol-
lowing which Vice President White, OF
Harvard, introduced the president.
In his address before the Harvard
Union this afternoon, President
Roosevelt, after dwelling on the Vaiue
OF a college education, when properly
bestowed. reviewed the work OF the
nation during the past ten years anu
incidentally paid his respects 10 soine
Of his opponents. He said:
$50 1T is with the great questions
which group themselves round tne
control OF corporations in the interest,"
of the public. There has been curl
Gus revival OF the doctrine OF state
rights in connection with these ques-
tions. by the people who know that
the states cannot with justice to both
sides practically control the corpora
tions. and who therefore advocate such
control because they do not venture 10
express their real wish, which is that
there shall be no control atfall. Hon
est and fair dealing railway corpora
tions will gain and not lose by ade-
uuate federal control. But those VINO
invoke the doctrine of state rights 10
protect state corporate creations IN
predatory activities extended thru 9TH
er states are as short-sighted as those
who once invoked the same doctrine
to protect the special slaveholding IN
terest The states have shown that
they have not the ability to curb the
power Of syndtcated wealth, and.
therefore, in the interest of the people,
II must be done by national action
Our present warfare is against speciai
privilege. The men-many of them
am sorry to say, college men--who are
prompt to speak against every practi-
cal means which can be devised for
achieving the object we have in view
To cnrnrviSfnn
by the federal government of the great
corporations doing an interstate busi-
ness-are, nevertheless, themselves
powerless to so much as outline any
plan of constructive statesmansh1p
which shall give relief. ! have watched
for six years these men, both those IN
public and those In private life, and
tho they are prompt to criticise every
affirmative step taken, I have yet to
see one Of them lift a finger to remedy
the wrongs that exist. So it is in every
field of public activity. States rights
should be preserved when they mean
the peoples rights, but not when they
mean the peoples wrongs: not, for in
stance, when they are invoked to pre-
vent the abolition of child labor or to
break the force of the laws which pros
hibit the importation of contract labor
to this country; in short, not when
they stand for wrong or oppression of
any kind or for national weakness or
impotence at home or abroad. 1t is to
the men who work in practical fashion
with their fellows, and not to those
who, whether because they are imprac-
tical or incapable, can not thus work,
that wesowe what success we have had
in dealing with every problem which
we have either solved or started on the
path of solution during the last dec
ade.
1.-The last ten years have been years
of great achievement, for this nation
During that period we have dealt and
are dealing with many different mat
ters of great moment We have ac-
quired the right to build, and are now
building, the Panama canal. We, have
given wise government to the Philip
pines. We have dealt with exceedingly
complex, difficult, and important ques-
tions in Cuba and Santo Domingo. We
have built up the navy; our surest
safeguard of peace and of national
honor. We are making great progress
CATION and forestry, of preserving to
the public the rightful use of the public
lands and of the mineral wealth under
lying them; and with that group OF
vital questions which concern the
proper supervision OF the immense cor
porations doing an interstate business
the proper control of the great high
ways of interstate commerce, the
proper regulation of Industries which,
if left unregulated, threaten disaster to
the body polite. We have done many
other things, such as securing the set
tlement of the Alaska boundary We
have made progress in securing better
relations between capital and labor
justice as between them and as re-
CARDS the general public; and adequate
protection for wage workers. We have
done much i'm enforcing the law alike
against great and small; against crimes
Of greed and cunning no less than