The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-31
For Corporate Evils OF the
United States
IS URGED BY ROOSEVELT
In a Speech at 0ssawatOmie, Kansas,
To-day--He Is Greeted with Loud
Acclaim by Thousands Of Peo-
pie at Celebration.

Ossawatomie, Kan, Aug, 3l.-Gatner-
ing insurgency across the long stretches
Of Kansas prairie, the Theodore Roose-
welt special pulled into ossawatomie-
the headquarters Of the insurgent move
mcnt, this forenoon. Pinchot and Gar
field are preparing to leave Teddy at
Kansas City, to 90 to Wisconsin to help
Senator Lafollette, whom Roosevelt is
to give lift in speech at Milwaukee
September 7. Governor Stubs and Sem
ator Bristow, and Representatives Muir
dock and Madison and William Allen
White, with thousands Of cheering
crowds. met Roosevelt, and the indica-
tions are growing that he viii be a
leader in the 1912 campaign SO far
Roosevelt has made no move that could
be construed as refusal.
On his arrival here, Teddy was taken
70 John Browns cabin through the taou-
sands who lined the streets and roared
applause. After luncheon, he reviewed
the parade and was then taken to the
John Brown battlefield, where began the
guerrilla warfare which brought on the
Civil war. There dedieatory exercises
that made the battlefield a memorial
park were held.
In the course Of his address, Col.
Roosevelt said-
"Ihe name of John Brown will be
forever associated with this second peri
cd Of the nations history; and Kansas
was the theatre upon which the first act
Of the second OF our great national
dramas was played. II was the result
OF the struggle in Kansas which deter
mined that our country should be in
deed as well as in name devoted to both
union and freedom. that the great ex-
pertinent OF democratic government on
4 national scale should succeed and not
fail II was heroic struggle; and, as
is inevitable with all such struggles,
It had also dark and terrible side.
Very much was done Of good, and much
also of evil; and, as was inevitable IN
such period Of revolution, often the
same man did both good and evil. For
our great good fortune as nation, We,
the people of the United States as a
whole, can now afford to forget the
evil, or at least to remember it without
bitterness, and to fix our eyes with
pride on the good that was accom-
plisned"
Turning to national problems OF the
present, the speaker declared.-
1--WE must have complete and effective
publicity Of corporate affairs, so that
the people may know beyond perad-
venture whether the corporations obey
the law and whether their management
entities them to the confidence Of the
public. It is necessary that laws should
be passed to prohibit the use Of corpor-
ate funds directly or indirectly for po-
litical purposes; it is still more neces-
sary that such laws should be thor
oughly enforced. Corporate expendi-
lures for political purposes, and especial
" such expenditures by public service
corporations, have supplied one of the
principal sources of corruption in our
political affairs.
ut has become entirely clear that we
must have government supervision of
the capitalization not only of public
service corporations, including particu-
larly railways, but Of all corporations
doing an interstate business. / do not
wish to see the nation forced into own
ership Of the railways if it can possibly
be avoided, and the only alternative &
thoroughgong and effective regulation,
which shall be based on full knowledge
of all the facts, including a physical val
nation Of the property. This physical
valuation il not needed, or at least Is
very rarely needed, for fixing rates; but
it is needed as the basis of honest cap
italization
eve have come TO recognize that
franchises should never be granted ex
cept for limited time. and never with
out proper provision for compensation
to the public. It Is my personal belief
that the same kind and degree of control
and supervision which should be exer
cised over public service corporations,
should be extended also to combinations
which control necessaries Of life, such as
meat, oil and coal, or which deal in
them on an important scale
II believe that the officers, and espe-
eialIy the directors, or corporations,
should be held personally responsible
when any corporation breaks the law"
Tonight Col. Roosevelt will be
guest at Gov Stubb's home in Law
renee.