Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-14
FOR SANE PROGRESS
Roosevelt's View Regarding
the Control Of Corporations.
ADMITS HE is RADICAL
Would Like to See Conservatives
Garry Out His Program.
FIRST SPEECH SINCE ELECTION
Addresses the New Haven Chamber
of Commerce-Gov.-E Bald
win Not Present.
FIRST SPEECH SINCE ELECTION

NEW HAVEN, Conn. December H.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt in his address
at the annual banquet of the Chamber
of Commerce last night explained and
defended his views regarding the regula-
ton Of corporations.
Bodies like this chamber OF COM
merce," said the colonel, ''have been in
dustriously taught to regard me as
kind of modified anarchist. AS matter
of fact L think that II you will read
what have said,> aud not what certain
representatives of the press have said
that have said, you Will see that have
tried to preach only the doctrines on
which the republic was founded.
II am radical. but I am q radical
who most earnestly desires to see a
radical program carried out by corserva-
tives. 1 wish to see great Industrial re-
forms carried out, not by the men who
will profit by them, but by the men who
lose by them: by just such men as you
around me. ! believe most emphaticaliy
in the progress which shall be sane
Regulation of Corporations.
Col. Roosevelt said he wished to see
the hand of the state and the nation
placed on the great corporations, to regu-
late them.
1.-THE rights Of man must be paramount
| in republic such as ours" he added.
Col. Roosevelt said corporations should
be treated with an exact measure OF
| justice.
"Your grocer must make a profit or he
| won't continue to sell groceries," he ex-
planned. but if you pay his bills with
out examining them you don't show that
you have q soft heart. You show that
| you have a soft head
The government, he declared, should
deal with corporations on the same basis
as a man deals with his grocer. in Civ
ing and exacting Justice.
Growth Not Innovation.
The effort to get more complete control
over the agencies Of interstate commerce
| for the federal government presented, he
| said, not an innovation which was not
| contemplated by the Constitution, but a
realization of the purposes Of the Con-
stitution A century and q quarter ago
| no such legislation was needed, he said.
| Now it was imperatively needed.
1.-THE forces striving for social and
economic betterment are certain to find
an outlet" he said. 1.-The question is,
Will it go forward wisely?
"Our fathers IN this country have
this generation have come other great
| questions. 1t rests with men like you to
determine whether they shall be solved
wisely and soon, or, when they are
solved, whether they shall bring with
the good, untold evil to the country"
Toasts President and Chief Justice.
| Col Roosevelt was greeted with cheers,
| which lasted fully a minute, when he rose
| to speak.
1T seems to me that nothing could be a
better augury Of the future OF his coun-
try" he said, than that q republican
| President should appoint q former Con-
| federate, of opposite political faith, chief
| Justice Of the United States Supreme
Court, and receive unanimous applause OF
his countrymen. With the permission of
| toasts: First, to President Taft. and,
second. to that learned jurist, Chief Jus
| tice White,
State Not Represented.
| Col Roosevelt sat at the table placed
| on a dais and the diners we're at small
tables, all conferred upon the dais. 1t
was noticeable that Gov. Weeks was not
present to represent the state, nor was
any member Of the congressional delega-
| ton present, but their absence was due to
| tending a reception at Meriden to the
| national commnder OF the Grand Army OF
the Republic. John f. Gilman.
| The dinner was served in the dining
| hall Of Yale University, known as com
MONS At the table with Col. Roose-
| welt were President Ullman. Charles E..
/ Julin, secretary Of the chamber; Presi-
| dent Hadley and Secretary Arson Phelps
| Stokes Of Yale, Chief Justice Frank B.
| Hall of the state supreme court Of err
| rors, Mayor Rice Of New Haven, and
former Cows. Rollin S. Woodruff and
Phineas c. Loundsbury.
Heartily Welcomed at Station.
Col. Roosevelt was escorted from New
York by a committee Of the chamber. and
upon his arrival at the station here q
very large and enthusiastic crowd was
in waiting. AS Col. Roosevelt showed
himself on the platform the men cheered
and the many women gave a chautauqua
salute.
| With a wave of his hat the colonel
acknowledged the greetings, and with a
hearty laugh he edged his way through
welt was driven to the home of Col /. NJ
Ullman, president of the chamber of COM
MERGE. where a small number of friends
| were waiting to greet him.
| Later Col. Roosevelt and President I'LL
| man went to Woolsey Hall. where a brief
! reception was held for the benefit Of the
members.
Interest in Judge Baldwin's Course.
The coming of Col. Roosevelt had given
| rise to speculation as to whether Judge
Baldwin. following his statement during
the election canvass that suit would
be brought against the colonel. having for
it's basis criticism contained in Col. Roose-
velt's Concord speech, would attempt to
serve papers In the action while Col
Roosevelt was in this state. At Judge
Baldwin's office earlier in the day it was
| said there was no reason to believe that
| any such step would be taken.
| Judge Baldwin was not present at the
banquet. and the place assigned to him at
the guest table bore mute evidence Of his
absence
Called Work Of the Devil"