The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-28
STATEATTORNEYS
s. s. Gregory OF Illinois De-
HVers Pleasing Address.
Thanks Kansas for Sending
Peek to Chicago.
THE TRUST PROBLEM.
The Meeting the Largest Ever
Held Here.
Programme Continues Today
Banquet Tonight.
THE TRUST PROBLEM

BY maintaining that everything per
tsfniug 10 National Sovereignty Is
embodied in Theodore Roosevelt. Hon
8 s. Gregory. one of the leading at
torneys Of Chicago and Illinois. and a
life long Democrat concluded schol-
arIy address before the Kansas state
Bar association last night on the sub
Ject National Sovereignty"
After all that has been said. and
that justly can be said in criticism Of
him. I firmly believe that Theodore
Roosevelt is today the most popular
man in the United States and not IN
Justly So" said Nj Gregory
He has re-inspired and re-viraIized
our national ideals: he has been an i'm
portaut-perhaps the Ieading-factor IN
reseuerating our political life In stand
Ing for honesty. integrity and loyalty
In public service, his power comes not
alone from his office not alone from
his undoubted and marked abilities;
but as well from that cordial popular
support which has come 10 him as a
those things which lie close TO the
heart Of the American people. and IN
which they believe with a political
faith Almost religious
BOQuets for Kansas.
In the Introductory Of his address,
people. her state university and the
state university law school especially
And he also paid a. marked compliment
to that former distinguished Kansau.
under special obligations 10 Kansas"
said Mr.. Gregory For she has given
Us one who was one Of her best and
trUest-soIdier. orator, lawyer and
more than al. a big hearted. warm
hearted. broad minded man Those or
US who know him well feel that We can
never be sufficiently grateful to you for
letting US have George R. Peck"
This address was one of the best ever
delivered before an annual session OF
the Kansas State Bar association Mr.
Gregory Is a scholarly thinker as well
sS lawyer with large practice,
which has made him known in every
part Of the nation He treated his sub
ject in mastery manner His address
contained nothing superhuOUs and
nothing uuiuterestiug
Mr. Gregory traced certain steps of
DEVELOPMENT of the American indus
Try at large The railroads and their
development were dwelt upon This
country a century ago without rail-
roads has grown until it Is one OF the
biggest railway nation in the world /
Then the speaker cited the needs Of
legislation ever changing as the rail |
road problems changed with the lapse
of years
EaVOrS Control OF Railroads
He Is d warm advocate Of the inter- |
state commerce commission and its
control OF railroads. And this he thinks |
Is the only solution of the many prob |
lens He is radical opponent of state
legislation for lines within the state /
for with forty-sTx different methods of
dealing with the railroad lines which
located within 4 state. the scope of the
interstate commerce commission is
necessarily narrowed and shortened
The agitation against child labor
found a warm champion last night in
the speaker Of the evening. who COM
plimented in uurnistakabIe words Of
approval the intense interest displayed
million children Of the country who
ara forced to work in factories and like
institutions
The trust problem was treated at
length by Mr.. Gregory. He is of the
opinion that trusts can only exist as
long as they can give more for less
money to the consumer than he can
otherwise secure Should the time ever
come when the reverse would be true.
regulating rates, the same method en- (
pIoyed by the interstate commerce
commission in its dealings with the
railroads He did not declare himself
enphaticaIIy on the tariff question in
connection with the trusts but sug-
Eested that whenever II would be
shown that the tariff favored the
mouOpoIies It should be revised
The People Do Rule
The people rule said Mr. Gregory
They sometimes make mistakes in the
men they select as their agents; their