Milford chronicle., 1907-10-04
PUNISH WEALTHY
VIOLATORS OF LAW
The President Declares BE Will Not
Change His Policy.
TRIED TO MAKE HIM STOP

Keokuk, Ia, Oct. 2.-Keokuk put on
gala attire to receive the president Of
the United States. The city was assist
ed in its reception of the chief magis-
trate by notable gathering of distin-
guished men, including the governors
OF more than a dozen states, members
OF both houses Of congress and the
inland waterways commission.
The occasion of the presidents COM
ing was the movement for a deep wa
terway down the Mississippi river to
the Gulf, and this city was selected as
the point of embarkation for his voy-
age down the river to Memphis, where
he arrives Friday.
The president did not deliver his
speech here Just as he had prepared It.
He frequently turned from his manu.
script 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 colloquialisms.
He dWelt on the necessity for self
mastery, declaring that every man
must have a master" and adding: 1T
he does not master himself, some one
else will do so"
Among his most emphatic utterances
regarding the policies OF his admins
tration were the following:
Il 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
common carriers that it now y
exercises over the national banks.
1.-THE average American citizen will
no more tolerate government by a mob I
than he will tolerate government by e
that he desires to see JUS :
lice done to and extracted from rich N
man and poor man alike.
Perhaps I am most anxious to get
1t the politician who is corrupt be- :
'ause he betrays a great trust; but as b
uredly I shall not spare his brother =
who shows himself a vi
in business life; and. accord
ne to our power, crimes of fraud and ", ="
INNING shall be prosecuted as relent- ~
essly as crimes of brutality and ply "
lcal violence.
"At intervals during the last few a. a.
lonths the appeal has been made to ~
he not to enforce the law against GER '"
lin wrongdoers of great wealth be- !.
ause to do so would interfere with 80
lie business prosperity of the country. -
nder the effects of that kind of fright VA
hich when sufficiently acute we call n
lnic, this appeal has been made to -
e even by men who ordinarily behave g.
decent citizens.
.ou.I,, as1ioIaa ~" ~ nss l1ooll KIN
ominence to the statement of a GER 90
in man Of great wealth to the effect -,
at the so-called financial weakness ~ ~
as due entirely to the admitted in 80
ation Of President Roosevelt to pun W.
/ the large mOneyed interests which -.
d transgressed the laws. 1 do not -
NIT that this has been the main - -
Use of any business troubles we have n
d; but 1t is possible that it has been ..
cause. If so, friends. 90
far as l am concerned It must be -.
.epted as a disagreeable but unavoid-
e feature in course of policy which n
long as 1 am president will not be 49,,
Lnged. .ui 9
Whenever a serious effort is made - y,
cut out what is evil in our political -
, whether the effort take the shape '---e'
warning against the gross and sor- ~,
forms Of evil in some municipality, o.,
it takes the shape of try ~ ~
to secure the honest enforcement ~
1.
- - 'oig PO"eiiui knoV
- =, .,i..,-,.,.1- az ~ HON
movement stop because it may -,
! business. In each case the an e &C.
r must be that we earnestly hope SoSo
believe that there will be no per- 1Np'
ent damage to business from the
ement, but that if righteousness
licts with the fancied needs of
ness. then the latter must go to tn.
wall"