The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-21
NO RELAXATION
IN ATTITUDE TO
CORPORATIONS. +.
President Roosevelt in
Ringing Actresses Pro-
claims His Position.
JAIL PENALTY IS
TO BE ENFORCED
Heads OF Corporations Violat-
ing Laws to be Prosecuted
Government Regulation
Like That of Banks
Pays a Tribute to
Puritans.

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PRov1DENcETowN. MASS. August
2o-The laying OF the corner stone OF
the Cape Cod Pilgrims Monument here
to-day gave President Roosevelt his
first opportunity of the summer to
break silence upon public questions,
and the forty-minutey speech which he
delivered from platform In top
of Town Hill was one of vigor and
directness unon matters of national
Importance.
The feature of his address was his
advocacy of national incorporation
law and his stand in relation to vio-
iators of the law. especially corpora
tions. With emphasis he declared that
the administration would not waver
/ in its determination ito punish certain
malefactors of great wealth." Contin.
uing, he said
There will he no change in the
policy we have steadily pursued: no
let-up in the effort to secure the
honest observance OF the law, for I
reSafd this contest as one to deter
mine who shall rule this government
the. people through their governmental
representatives, or a few ruthless and
determined men. whose wealth makes
they hide behind the hreastworks OF
corporate organizations"
The President declared that the gov
/ ernment would undertake no action Of
indicative type, and. above all, no
action which would inflict great or
unnerited Suffering upon innocent
stockholders and upon the public as
1 a whole. He said that the governments
policy in its ultimate analysis meant
! t.n -.
I business activities of honest business
men and honest corporations.,
at one point. President Roosevelt
! departed for moment from his adj
dress as originally prepared. to re-
mark. "All that have said as to de-
sirable and undesirable citizens re-
| mains true
/ Ten thousand persons were crowded
into the little town. and at least one-
third of them heard the Presidents
speech. At the conclusion OF the pro-
gram President Roosevelt was driven
to the wharf. where he boarded the
| Mayflower. which sailed at 4 o'clock
| on the return to Oyster Bay.
Text of the Speech.
! The President said:
| 1t Is not too much to say that the
| event commemorated by the monu-
| ment which we have come here to
| dedicate was one of those rare
/ events which can in good faith be
/ called of world Importance. The
/ coming hither of the Puritan three
| centuries ago shaped the destinies
| of this continent, and therefora pro-
foundly affected the destiny OF the
whole world. Men of other races.
1 the Dutchman. the German, the
| Scotchman, and the Swede. made
| settlements within what Ia now
the United States during the colo
1 to1 ,a,-tr >f hi tor and ha.
fore the Declaration of Indepen-
| dence; and since then there has
| been an ever-swelling immigration
| from Ireland and from the MAIN
| land of Europe; but 1t was the
| Englshman who settled In Vir-
gina and the Englishman who set
| tied in Massachusetts who did most
in shaping the lines OF our natlonal
development,
We cannot as nation be too
profoundly grateful for the fact
that, the Puritan has stamped his
influence so deeply on our national
| life We need have but scant pa
tience with the men who now rail-
at the Puritan sSfaults. They We're
evident, of course, for 1t is a quail
ity of strong natures that their
failings. like their virtues. should
stand out in bold relief; but there
is nothing easier than to belittle
the great men of the past by dwell
Ing only on the points where they
come short of the universally recog
| nzed standards of the present. Men
| must be judged with reference to
the age In which they dwell. and
tn, the work they hay have to do. The
continents; not merely to overrun 1t,
| but to settle It, to till 1t, to build, =
upon 1t a high Industrial and social
| life; and, while engaged In the
rough work of tanning the shaggy
Wilderness. at that very time also
to lay deep the immovable folin-
dations of our whole American sys-
ten tenn OF civil, political'5 and religious
liberty achieved through the order
ly process of law. This was the ii
work allotted him to do this Is
the work he did. and only mas
done 1t.
We have travelled far since his
day. That liberty of conscience
which he demanded for himself, we q
now realize must be as freely ae-
corded to others as II is sresolutely
insisted.Supon for ourselves. The
splendid qualities which he left to 5;
who are not Of Puritan blood also
| claim as our heritage. You,4 sons
| of the Purltans, and we. who are
descended from races whom the
Puritans would have deemed alien 9
we are all Americans together
ii We all feel the same pride In the
genesis. in the history, OF our peo-
nle; and therefore this Z, shrine 9f
gather TO pay homage, no matter *
from what country our ancestors
| sprang
Emulation, OF Purltan Urged,
WE have gained some things that
| the Puritan had not--lwe of this
generation, we of the twentieth IS
century, here In this great repub-
lie. hut we are also In danger OF
losing certain things which tho
Puritan had and which we can by
no manner OF means AFFORD to lose. y
We bave gained a JOY of liYing
which he had not and which 1t %
good thing for every. psopls -