The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-10
ROOSEVELT AT
 BIG EXPOSITION Former President Is Guest of
 Citizens of Cincinnati PROGRAMME : zxS,xs5,|MPLE ONE 
Visit Is Mas % Home of the Long, worths / 'Sc fter Trip to the Expc Q Cxo a Speech Is Made
 D Music Hall

| Cincinnati, September 9-Ex-President Roosevelt defended his doctrines of new
 nationalism" in speech at the Ohio
 Valley exposition here today He also
 commended President Taft for his ap- pointment of men to public offices. Colonel Roosevet's day in Cincinnati
 was one of the quietest which he has | had on his western tour. There were no
 bands to meet him, the people of Gin cinnati had little chance to see him. ex- | cept when he was at the exposition grounds in the afternoon. The colonels | tour has been severe one, and it was at his own request that the programme | for the day was made simple one. Con- gressman Nicholas Longworth, his son
 in-law, with whom he stayed, had several talks with the reception committee, and 1 the result was that there were no pa- rade and public demonstrations on the coonel's arrival. He left the train at
 Terrence Road station, suburb of Gin
 cinnati, on his arrival early In the day,
 and spent the morning with the Long
 worths. Then he went to the exposi-
 tion grounds, looked at the exhibits. at | tended a luncheon and delivered an ad- | dress in the music hall. Returning to | the Longworth home, he held recep- | ton. George B. Cox, republican leader | of Cincinnati, was there and met Colonel l Roosevelt. After dinner the colonel went | to the opera at the exposition grounds. I He spent the night with the Longworths and Is to leave early tomorrow morn l ing for Columbus and Pittsburg, in both of which places he Is to speak tomor-
 row. From Pittsburg he will proceed di-
 rectly to New York. winding up his west ern trip on Sunday morning.
 | New NntfonaIism
 | Colonel Roosevelt. in defending ''new nationalism," replied to those who op- posed his plan of increasing the power | of the central government for the pur- pose of dealing with conservation, the control of corporations and other dues- ttions whsess he. pelieves vitaiy concern' I the future of the nation.
 | They say do not give government too
 much power.' he said Certainly not. I 1 do not want to give the government any
 more power than is necessary. You would not have to have so much power
 in that national government if you were dealing with individuals, none of whom | was very rich, but when you get an ag | gregation of rich individuals you must
 master them through the government. Some people will say that is interfer- | ence with individuaism. It Is not. It is giving the individual chance. The in- dvidual has no chance if you permit a business monopoly to be established or permit it to develop so that a single man | S powerless against 1t or can be crushed by it., Under the law there has grown up a system of enormous monoplies which in fact is the very negation of individ- ualism, and the government is required to | regulate these great concerns to permit the average individual citizen to retain his rights unimpaired.
 Corporations Necessary
 'T am not speaking in hostility to cor pcrations," Colonel Roosevelt continued. "I recognize the great mead of the cor poration as a necessary instrument In modern indvidualism. Our conditions are new and we need this instrument of the corporation, but also we need another thing; and that is the complete control by the people through the government of corporations.
 Colonel Roosevelt indorsed heartily the appointment by President Taft of Presi-
 dent Arthur T. Hadley of Yale univer-
 sity as head of the commission to in vestigate the capitalization of railroads,
 
 bureau of mines.
 Speaking of railroad capitalization, Col onel Roosevelt said: You will find some worthy people who are willing to have the government look into this question Of capitalization but they want it left to the states to deal with.
 There is an insance of two railroads that run from Minnesota westward to Puget Sound and they were in violation of the laws of the federal government and violating the laws of the states through which they ran. The govern ment started to bring suit against them. It was at once contended that 1t was merely matter for the states, and while the railroads ran through Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana. Idaho and Washington, they were incorporated in New Jersey. They haven't mile of track within 1000 miles or New Jersey; There is only one power that could deal with that kind of a corporation and that Is the national government. There is only one power that can deal With Dig business carried on on interstate lines, and that Is the national government. Any thing that can be dealt with by the states favor dealing with in that way. | but big business Is now centralized. New York regulates business done in Colorado and throughout the country.
 Now that business has been central ized we have to centralize the authority | to control 1t.
 Deeper Waterways
 In his speech Colonel Roosevelt also re- ferred to efforts that had been made to obtain deeper waterways throughout the country He said: "One of the great difficulties of the development of our waterways hitherto has been the tendency of Congress each year to apportion a number of pieces of work, not in accord | ance with any one well settled scheme but in accordance with the declamatory effordts of claimants and the perseverance of the representatives of the several To- calities desiring them. I am happy to say that at the last Congress a compre- hensive plan was laid for the improve ment of the Ohio river from Pittsburg | to Cairo"
 These improvements he said, he hoped would bring about the revival of the old | water traffic of 60 or 70 years ago along the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers and between New Orleans and the cities along | the Ohio.
 matter of waterway improvement. he said, was the appointment of men of un- questioned integrity who would act in the interest of the whole people.
 Colonel Roosevelt had to fight with the | crowd when hr@tried to make the rounds of the exposition grounds Everywhere he went he was followed by throng of -
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