The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1907-10-02
NO CHANGE IN POLICY
President Will Continue to Pun.
ish Wealthy Wrong-Deers.
TRIED 10 MAKE HIM STOP

Gets Pleas to Stop Prosecutions, But
Turns Deaf Ear to All of Them
Honesty Above Business - Going
Down the Mississippi.
Ksokuk, Ia, Oct 2-Keokuk put on
sala attire to receive the president OF
the United States. The city was assist
ed In its reception of the chief mag1s-
t1ate by q notable gathering OF dlstln-
xuished men, including the governors
q more than a dozen states, members
of both houses of congress and the
inland waterways commission.
fAs occasion of the presidents com.
Ing was the movement for deep wa
tsrway down the Mississippi river to
the Guk, and this city was selected as
the point of embarkation for his voy-
are down the river to Memphis, where
he arrives Friday.
The president did not deliver ms
speech here just as he had prepared 1t.
He frequently turned from his manu-
seriDt to interject extemporaneous re-
MARKS for emphasis and elaboration.
HIS theme was the similar treatment
for rich and poor, and again he found
occasion to point his story with IA
miliar eelloQuialisns.
He dwelt on the necessity for SELF
mastery, declaring that every man
must have a master" and adding: If
AA Aoes not master himself, some one
else will do So"
Among his most emphatic utterances
REGARDING the policies of his admaa1s-
tration were the following:
81 believe the national government In
the interests of the people should as
sumo much the same supervision ana
control over the management OF the In
terstate common carriers that 1t now
exercises over the national banks.
1.-THE average American citizen will
no more tolerate government by mob
than he will tolerate government by
plutocracy; that he desires to see JUS
tice done to and extracted from rlch
man and poor man alike.
perhaps l am most anxious to get
ct the politician who is corrupt be-
cause he betrays a great trust; but as
suredly I shall not spare his brother
corruptionist who shows himself a
svindler in business life; and, accord
ing to our power, crimes of fraud and
cumming shall be prosecuted as relent-
lsssly as crimes of brutality and ply
steal violence.
Eat intervals during the last few
months the appeal has been made to
me not to enforce the law against GER
tain wrongdoers of great wealth be-
cause to do so would interfere with
the business prosperity of the country.
Under the effects of that kind of fright
which when suficiently acute we call
panic, this appeal has been made to
me even by men who ordinarily behave
~ decent citizens.
"One newspaper which has itself
strongly advanced this view gave
prominence to the statement OF GER
-tsil 1laur.iof great wealth to the effect
MAT the so-called financial weakness
was due entirely to the admitted In
tention of President Roosevelt to pun
ish the large moneyed interests which
had transgressed the laws I 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
q contributory cause. If so, friends,
a far as 1 am concerned it must be
accepted as disagreeable but unavoid-
able feature in course Of policy which
~ long as I am president will not be
changed.
Whenever a serious effort is made
to cut out what is evil In our political
life, whether the effort take the shape
Of warning against~the gross and sor-
did forms of evil in some municipality,
or whether it takes the shape of try
ing to secure the honest enforcement
Of the law as against very powerful
and wealthy people, there are sure to
be certain individuals who demand that
the movement stop because 1t may
hurt business. In each case the an
6wsr must be that we earnestly hope
and believe that there will be no per-
manent damage to business from the
movement. but that if righteousness
conflicts with the fancied needs OF
business, then the latter must go to
ths wall"