The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-23
President Roosevelt Reached
There This Morning
AND SPEAKS. AT HARVARD
The Federal Express Was an Hour and
Quarter Behind Schedule Visits
His Son at Groton
School.

Boston, Feb. a3.- The Federal ex-
press, bearing the President and com.
pany arrived at the Back Bay station
at sit0 this morning, an hour and u
quarter behind schedule. The President
Immediately entered carriage with
DR.. William S. Blgelow, an old Harvard
friend and drove To his home, 60 Beacon
street, where he had breakfast and re-
manned until III, when he attended a
christening at the home Of Capt. Guy
Murclie, a former Rough Rider at
SIS Mt Vernon street The President
stood godfather for Murchie's year-old
son, Donald, with Capt. Frank R. Nc.
Coy, military aid, who acted as substi-
tute for Cen. Leonard Wood. Bishop
Lawrence officiated,
The presidents private car, Sphinx,
was transferred to the Boston and AL
bany and was taken to Chestnut hill,
bearing Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs
Longworth and Miss Ethel Roosevelt.
There they took breakfast with Mrs.
George G. Lee, Mrs. Longworth's grand
mother, leaving at noon for Gr0ton
where they visited Kermit Roosevelt at
school.
This afternoon the president went to
Cambridge where he delivered an adj
dress at the Harvard Union.
In thn rottran of hfa addfou, prautJn,,
Roosevelt said:
During the past few years much good
has been done to the people of the Phil
ippines; but this has been done, not BY
those who merely INDUCED in the per-
sonal luxury Of advocating for the ISL
ands a doctrinaire liberty which would
have meant their immediate and ire
triable ruin, but By those who have
faced facts as they actually were, re-
Imembering the proyerb that teaches us
that in the long run even the most un-
comfortable truth il safer companion
than the pleasantest faisehood. 1t Is
these men the men who with shortcom-
ings and stumbling yet did the duty
OF the moment. though that duty was
hard and often disagreeable. and not the
men who confined themselves to idle
talk of no matter how high sounding a
nature, who have done real good to the
Islands. These ale the men who have
brought justice as between man and
man; who are building roads; who have
introduced schools; who, gradually with
patience and frmness, are really fitting
the islanders for self.governmeHt.
$50 it is with the great questions
(which group themselves around the con-
troll of corporations in the interest of
the public. There has been curious
revival OF the doctrine of state rights
lin connection with these questions, By
! the people who know that the states can
mot with Justice to both sides practi-
/ eally control the corporations, and who
therefore advocate such control because
1 they do not venture to express their
real wish, which is that there shall be
no control at al.
Railway corporations win gain and
not lose by adequate federal control:
most emphatically, it is both the duty
and the interest Of our people to deal
fairly with such corporations and 10 see
that premium is put upon the honest
management OF them and that those
who invest in them nre amply protected.
But those who invoke the doctrine of
state rights to protect state corporate
creations in predatory activities extend
/ cd through other states, are as short
sighted as those who once invoked the
same doctrines to protect the specla'
tslave-holding interests. The states have
SHOWN that they have not the ability
to curb the power Of syndicated wealth
and therefore. in the interests of the peo-
pie, is must be done by national action
Our present warfare Is against special
privilege The men many Of them,
am sorry TO say, college menwho are
prompt to speak against every practical
means which can be devised for achiey.
ing the object we have in yiew-the
proper and adequate supervision by the
federal government Of the great corpora.
/ tions doing an interstate business-are
lneyertheless, themselves powerless to SO
much as outline any plan Of constructive
statesmanship which shall give relief
have watched for six years these men
both those in public and those in private
life, and though they are prompt to
criticise every affirmative step taken
! / have yet to see one OF them lift d
finger to remedy the wrongs that exist
So it is in every field of public activity
States rights should be preserved wher
they mean the peoples rights, but not
when they mean the peoples wrongs
not, for insatnce, when they are in
voked to prevent the abolition Of child
labor, Or to break the force OF
the laws which prohibit the impor
Itation OF contract labor TO this country
in short, not when they stand for wrong
or oppression Of any kind or for nationa
weakness or impotence at home o.
abroad 1t is to the men who work il
practical fashion with their fellows, anc
not to those who, whether because they
are impractical or incapable, cannot thus
work, that we owe what success we have
had IN dealing with every problem whicl
we have either solved or started on thi
path Of solution during the last decade"
Eagles Attention.