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PEOPLE MUST rule
declares ROOSEVELT
IN PRovINcETowN SPEECH, HE
SHOWS NECESSITY OF CHECK
ING CRIMINAL TRUSTS.


ING CRIMINAL TRUSTS.
NEEDED LEGISLATION
Is CLEARLY SET FORTH
The President Makes 1t Plain That
the Government Plans to Punish
Only the Guilty-lnnocent Cor
porations Need Have No Fear.
Provincetown, Mass, Aug 21.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt delivered an address
here Tuesday at the celebration i'll
commemorataion of the first landing
of the pilgrims on the American con-
tinent After he had paid a lofty
tribute to the forefathers, Mr.. Roose-
welt turned to the question of check
ing corporation abuses and made it
evident that there is to be no coun-
ter march in the governments at
tempt to punish wrongdoers, no mat
ter what their personal and financial
station in life.
There was reiteration in the chief
executives address, however, of the
determination of the authorities that
no legitimate business interests are
to suffer and that the only ones who
have cause to fear are the breakers of
the law
Innocent Will Not Suffer.
In its main points, while firm in
the purposes expressed on other occa-
sions, the presidents speech was re-
assuring to those who have feared
that in the general scheme of Mr..
Rooseyelt's policies the innocent might
be involved with the guilty.
Mr.. Roosevelt gave his direct sane
ton to a national incorporation law
for concerns doing an interstate bust
ness, saying that it is his belief that
such corporations can be controlled
by the federal government under the
Interstate commerce clause, and, if
necessary, under the post roads clause
Of the constitution.
An earnest word was spoken for
legislation which will conserve the
rights and interests Of wage-earners
employed by corporations engaged in
interstate commerce. Mr.. Roosevelt
said that if the law enacted last win.
ter limiting the hours of work of rail-
way employees was not strong enough
it must be strengthened.
For Strong Employers Liability Law.
Declaration was made that a more
far-reaching and thorough-going en-
ployers' liability law must be passed.
The president said: ut is monstrous
that man or a woman who is Grip
Pied in an industry, even as the re-
suit OF taking. what are the necessary
risks of the occupation, should be re-
CURED to bear the whole burden of
the loss. BY making the employer
liable the loss will be distributed I'LL
timately among all the beneficiaries
OF the business"
Touching the matter ofreceiverships
for trusts that are guilty of wrong
doing Mr.. Roosevelt said that the de-
sire to do something effective and
that moreover, when we thus take
action against the wealth which works
iniquity We are acting in the interest
OF every man of property who acts de-
Gently and fair by his fellows, and
We are Strengthening the hands of
those who propose fearlessly to de-
fend property against all unjust at
taeks.
Disaster in Socialistic Panacea.
Concerning individualism and So
cialism the president said: 1T will
be highly disastrous if we permit our
selves to be misled by the pleas Of
those who see in an unrestricted indi-
yidualism the all-suf1cient panacea for
social evils. but it will be even more
disastrous to adopt the opposite pana-
cea of any Isocialistic system which
would destroy all individualism. which
would root out the fiber of our whole
citizenship
An echQ Of his recent undesirable
citizen" pronouncement is to be found
in this passage from Mr.. Rooseyelt's
speech: There is unfortunately a
certain number of our fellow country.
men who seem to accept the view that
unless man can be proved guilty Of
some particular crime he shall be
counted good citizen, no matter how
infamous the life he has led, no mat
Ter how pernicious his doctrines or
his practices. This is the view
announced from time to time with
clamorous insistence, now by group
OF predatory capitalists, now by a
group Of sinister anarchistic leaders
and agitators.'
Supervise Railways Like Banks.
In touching upon the railroads the
president declares: 1.-THE national
government should exercise over them
q supervision and control similar to
that which is now. exercised over ma.
tional banks. We can do this only
by proceeding farther along the lire
marked out by recent national legis-
lation"
Concerning the matter of national
control as it might conflict with the
rights of the states Mr. Roosevelt
said:
1t seems to me that such cues.
lions as national sovereignty and
states rights need be treated not EN-.
pirically OF accidentally, but from the
standpoint of the interests of the peo-
pie as a whole. National sovereignty
is to be upheld in SO far as it means
the sovereignty of the people used for
the real and ultimate good of the neo.
pie; and states rights are to be up