The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-20

pedo boat destroyers as escort, and
within Gordon OF warships awaiting
her arrival. Immediately the crowd of
small boats surrounded her, coming as
near as the police boats would permit
them.
At the last minute change was made
in the programme, and instead of march
ing in the parade the marines and jack
les from warships lined the routes Of
march along Proyincetown's long street
from the wharf to the town hall, where
the ceremonies of laying the corner stone
Of the Pilgrims monument occurred.
The president, who was escorted by a
platoon of Provincetown and Boston po-
lice, rode in carriage with Selectman
George Allen. Following him came the
carriages containing Governor Guild,
Senators Lodge and Crane, James Bryce,
British ambassador, Congressman Low
ering, Admiral Davids, officers Of the Pill
grims' Memorial society, Grand Master
j. Albert Blake Of the Massachusetts,
Grand Lodge Of Masons, and other digni-
taries.
Nearly 10000 people watched the cere-
monies from the stands on Town hill.
The corner stone was laid with Ma.
sonic rites, after which President j.
Henry Sears of the Pilgrim society i'm
troduced Governor Guild, and later Pres
ident Roosevelt, who said in part:
President ROosevelt's Speech
The president paid glowing tribute
to the Puritan spirit and character, CON
eluding his speech as follows:
The spirit of the Puritan was the
spirit which never shrank from regula-
tion of conduct if such regulation was
necessary for the public veal; and this
is the spirit which we must show today
whenever it is necessary.
The utterly changed conditions of our
national life neeessitates changes in
certain of our laws, Of our governmental
methods. Our federal system Of gov
Fanment is based upon the theory of
having each community to each state,
khe control over those things which affect
tnly its own members and which the
people of the locality themselves can
best grapple with, while providing for
national regulation in those matters
which necessarily affect the nation as
a whole. It seems to me that sueh
questions as national sovereignty and
states rights need to be treated not
empirically or academically, but from
the standpoint of the interests of the
people as a whole. National sover-
eighty is TO be upheld in so far as it
means the sovereignty of the people
used for the real and ultimate good Of
the people; and states rights are 10 be
upheld in so far "A they mean the peo-
pies rights. Especially is this true in
dealing with the relations Of the people
as whole TO the great corporations
which are the distinguishing feature Of
modern business conditions
Experience has shown that 1t is nee.
essary 10 exercise a far more efficient
control than at present over the busi-
ness use Of those vast fortunes, chiefly
corporate, which are used (as under
modern conditions they almost in.
yarably are) in interstate business
When the Constitution was created none
OF the conditions Of modern business
existed.
Most large corporations do business
that Il not confined to any one state
Experience has shown that the effort
TO control these corporations by mere
state action can not produce whole
some results In most cases such ef-
fort fails to correct the real abuse Of
which the corporation is or may be
Ruiltyj while in other cases the effort
is apt to cause either hardship 70 the
corporation itself or else hardship To
neiahboring states which have not tried
10 grapplc with the problem in the same
manners and Of course we must be "a
scrupulous TO safeguard the rights Of
che corporations as TO exact from them