Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-14

I nous applause OF his countrymen.;Stltn
| the permission OF your. PRESIDENT
shall propose two toasts:. First, to Pres,
| ident Taft, and. second. to that learned
jurist, Chief Justice White. .
After the toasts had been drunk.
Col, Roosevelt said lie was glad TO say
in New Haven "precisccly what ne
| had said to many former gatherings IN
| the west"
Col. Roosevelt said that during the
! last half of the last century, people
had concerned themselves with the ac-
emulation of material we'll being. be-
lievfng that its distribution would take
care OF itself But the people had
come to see, he added. that they must
concern themselves with an equitable
distribution OF wealth.
Bodies like this chamber OF COM
merce." said the colonel have been In
dustrsously taught to regard me as Il
kind OF modified anarchist. AS a mat
Ter Of fact / think that il you will
read what ] have sa:G, and not what
certain representatives Of the press
have said I have said. You will see that
+ have tried to preach only the doc
trincs on which the republic was found
cd
II am radical. but I am n radical
who most earnestly desires to see
radical program carried out by con-
& tNdllNtS. WISH ~ SIT 81 chl
trial reforms carried out. not by the
men who will profit by them, but by
men who lose by them; by such men
AS surround me-"
CIRCULATION OF CORPORATIONS.
Col. Roosevelt said he wished to see
the hand OF the sta,c and the nation
placed on the great corporations to
regulate them.
at. ,,.,t la ,,,, .n
mount in a republic, such as ours" he
added
The colonel urged the passage oftleg-
isation to benefit labor. II was his
criticism of eX-Judge Baldwins atti-
tude toward such legislation which led
to their controversy.
In explaining his idea of the Square
deal" Col Roosevelt said
Il want the prize in the race not to
go to the man who Is not fast enough
to win 1t. I want them to start even"
Equal opportunity. he said. repre-
scented the idea upon which the repub-
lie was founded.
Il care for the fact" nc continued.
and not in the least for the form. You
hear a good deal of national rights and
Of states rights. I'm for both"
He explained this by saying that he
was for national rights where they
people and for states rights where
their exercise was mss: beneficial.
Col. Roosevelt said corporations
should be treated with an exact meas
ure Of justice.
Your grocer must make profit or
he won't continue to sell groceries,"
he explained. but il you pay his bills
without examining them you show that
you have soft head"
The government he said, should deal
with corporations on the same basis as
n man deals with his grocer, in giving
and exacting Justice.
The colonel said there had been a
good deal of loose talk" about pro-
posed changes in forms of government.
Tho effort to get more complete con-
troll over the agencies OF interstate
commerce for the federal government
represents, he said, not an Innovation
which was not contemplated by the
but n realization OF the
purposes of the Constitution.
"a century and quarter ago no
such legislation was needed" he said.
Now it was imperatively needed.
"The forces striving for social and
economical betterment are certain to
find an outlet" he said. THE question
is, will they go forward wisely?
''Our fathers in this country have
solved many great questions. To us in
this generation have come other great
questions. 1t rests with them 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 coun-
try"