Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-10
/. R. DEFENDS HIS
NEW NATI0NALISN
Colonel in Speech at Cincinnati
Declares Corporations Are
Forcing Federal Control
APPROVES TAFT'S APP0INTEES
Leader Cox Meets Former Presi-
dent at Reception Held in
LongWorth Home
APPROVES TAFT'S APP0INTEES
tAssocIated Pressl

Associated Pressl
CINCINNATI, Sept. g. Former
President Roosevelt defended his doc
trine of new nationalism" in a speech
at the Ohio Valley exposition here
today.
He also commended President Taft
for his appointments of two pubic
officers. -.
Colonel Roosevelt's day in Cincinnati
was one of the quietest he has had on
his western tour There were no bands
to meet him, and the people Of Clncln-
natl had not a chance to see him, ex-
cept when he was on the exposition
grounds in the afternoon.
The colonels tour has been a severe
one and it was at his own request that
the days program was simplihed.
The colonel left the train at Tor
rance Road station, a suburb, and
spent the morning at the home of Con-
gresham Longworth, his son-in-laW-
Then he went to the exposition
grounds looked at the exhibits, attend
ed luncheon and delivered an address
in the Music hall.
held reception.
COX ATTENDS
George b. Cox, leader of the Repub-
lican party of Cincinnati, was there
and met the colonel.
After dinner the colonel went to the
opera at the exposition grounds He
spent the night with the Longworths,
and is to leave early tomorrow for
Columbus and Pittsburg. He viii
speak in both cities. From Plttsburg
he will go to New York, winding up
his western trip Sunday morning.
Col Roosevelt, in defending new
nationalism," replied to those who op-
pose his plan of increasing the power
of the central government for the pur-
pose of dealing with conservation, the
control of corporations and other
questions.
"They say, DO not give the govern
ment too much power he SAID.
Certainly not. I do not want to give
the government any more power than
is necessary. You would not have TO
have so much power in the natlonai
government If you were dealing with
individuals, none of whom were very
rich, but when you get an aggregation
of rich. individuals you must master
them through the government.
GIVE GOVERNMENT A CHANCE
"Some of the people will say that
interferes with individualism. 1t does
not. 1t is giving the government
chance. The individual has no chance
If YOU permit q business monopoly to
be established or permit it to develop
so that a single man is poWerlesS
against 1t or can be crushed by II.
Under the law there has grown UP q
system of enormous monopoly which,
in fact, is the very negation of in
dividualism, and the government is re-
uured to regulate these great concerns
to permit the average Individual citizen
to retain his rights unimpaired.
"I am not speaking in hostility to
corporations l recognize the need or
the great corporation as a necessary
instrument In modern individualism.
Col. Roosevelt indorsed the appoint
ment by President Taft of President
Arthur T. Hadley of Yale university
as head of the commission to tnvesti-
gate the or rpitalization of railroads.
and of Joseph A. Holmes as chief OF
the bureau of mines.
After saying that men appointed TO
do work for the benefit of the people
should be chosen without regard to
political affiliations, he continued:
APPROVES APPOINTMENT
1--WE have bureau of mines, and
President Taft has recently appointed
as the head of that bureau the best man
that possibly could have been chosen
to fill the place-Mr. Holmes, man
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work, although / don't know his poll
tics.
II am exceedingly glad the president
has appointed a man like Mr. Hadley
of Yale to look into the question OF rail-
road capitalization. You will find some
worthy people who are willing to nave
the government look into this question
of capitalization, but they want 1t left
to the states to deal with.
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that run from Minnesota westward to
Puget sound, and they were violating
the laws OF the government, and V1o-
lating the laws of the states through
which they run. The government start
ed to bring suit against them 1t was
at once contended that it was a matter
for the states; but while the railroads
ran through Minnesota North Dakota,
Montana, Idaho and Washington, they
were incorporated in New Jersey, and
have not a mile of track in New Jer-
sew. There is but one power that can
deal with that railroad, and that is the
government There is but one power
that can deal with big corporations
that carry on interstate business, and
that is the government. Anything that
can be dealt with by the states l be-
lieve in carrying ie on that way. But
business is now centralized, and we
have to exercise authority to control
WATERWAYS
Col. Roosevelt also referred to the
deep waterway question. He said:
zone of the greatest difficulties in
the development of our waterways
hitherto has been the tendency for con-
gress each year to apportion number
OF pieces of work. not in accordance
with any one well settled scheme, but
in accordance with the exigencies, or
rather in accordance with the declam-
atory efforts of claimants and the per-
severance of the representatives, of the
several localities desiring Them
The great need of the future in the
matter of waterways Improvement, he
said. was the appointment of men of
unuuestioned integrity who would act
in the interest of the whole people"
Col. Roosevelt had fight with the
crowds when he tried to make the
rounds of the exposition grounds.
Everywhere he went he was followed
by a throng of people which the police
were not able to control.
More than 1000 persons attended the
reception at Mr.. Longworth's home in
the afternoon. After dinner Col Roose-
Welt stopped in at the lodge rooms of
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