Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-10-01

Roosevelt began his trip down the
Mississippi river from Keokuk tc
Memphis this morning. He arrived al
$40 o'clock and was met at the sta
ton by the governors of Iowa, Flori
da, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska
both Kakotas, Oregon, Wyoming and
Illinois, and by several companies OF
state troops. The morning was fair
but there was a sprinkle OF rain
shortly after the presidential party
started for the band park where the
chief executive delivered a speech.
Following the address, which was
heard by 10000 people, the President
was driven to the lower lock of the
government canal and boarded the
steamer Mississippi for his trip to the
South. In the speech delivered here
the President spoke in part as follows:
The Presidents Speech.
Men and Women of Iowa: an
, glad indeed to see you and to speak
to you in this thriving city of youl
great and prosperous state. believe
with all my heart in the people OF
Iowa, for | think that you are good
typical Americans, and that among
you there has been developed to a
livery high degree that body Of charac
lteristics which we like to regard as
Idistinctiyely American.
During the last few years we OF
the United States have been forced to
consider very seriously certain eco
nomic problems. We have made a
beginning in the attempt to deal with
the relations of the National Govern.
ment--that is, with the relItiupg Of
the people Of The country--'to the huge
| land wealthy corporations, controlled
for the most part by few very rich
men, which are engaged in interstate
business especially the great railway
corporations. You know my views on
this matter. You know that believe
that the national government, in the
interests of the people, should assume
much the same supervision and con.
troll over the management of the in
terstate common carriers that now
exercises over the national banks. You
know furthermore that / believe that
this supervision and control should
be exercised in spirit of rigid fair
ness toward the corporations, exacting
justice from them on behalf of the
people but giving them justice in re-
| turn.
The Need of Wise Laws.
Therefore we need wise laws, and
We need to have them resolutely ad-
ministered. We can get such laws and
such administration only if the people
are alive to their interests.
"One way of exercising such con-
troll is through the laws of the land.
Ours is a government of liberty, but
lit is a government of that orderly lib
erty which comes by and through the
honest enforcement of and obedience
to the law. At intervals during the
last few months the appeal has been
made to me not to enforce the law
against certain .wrongdoers OF great
wealth because to do so would inter-
fere with the business prosperity OF
the country. Under the effects of that
kind of fright which when sufficiently
acute we call panic, this appeal has
been made to me even by men who
ordinary behave as decent citizens
One newspaper which has itself
strongly advanced this view gave
prominence to the statement of a
certain man of great wealth to the ef-
feet that the so-called financial weak
ness was due entirely to the admitted
intention Of President Roosevelt to
punish the large moneyed interests
which had transgressed the laws l
do not admit that this has been the
main cause of any business troubles
we have had; but it is possible that
it has been contributory cause. Ii
so, friends, as far as l am concerned
it must be accepted as a disagreeable
but unavoidable feature in a course of
policy which as long as l am Presi-
dent will not be changed. In any
great movement for righteousness,
where the forces of evil are strongly
|intrenched, 1t is unfortunately newt
able that some unoffending people
should suffer in company with the
real offenders. This Is not our fault.
It is the fault Of those to whose decep.
tive action these innocent people owe
their false position. A year or two
ago certain representatives of labor
called upon me and in the course of
a very pleasant conversation told me
that they regarded me as the friend
Of labor ] answered that certainly
was, and that would do everything In
my power for the laboring man ex.
cept anything that was wrong. have
the same answer to make to the bust.