Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
urges US. CONTROL
Roosevelt Favors Regulation
of industrial Combinations.
BUT LAWS SHOULD BE FAIR
Warns Southern Commercial Congress
Against Damagogues.
OBLIGATION OF THE SOUTH
Former President Says Purity in
Living Must Reach to All Parts
of Human Endeavor.
OBLIGATION OF THE SOUTH

| ATLANTA, Ga, March 1O-Strict gov
ernmental regulation of all industrial
| combinations, but to attain that end the
making Of laws which are not the result
! of half baked reforms and are not con-
ceived in the minds Of demagogues play
| ing to the clamor of ignorant agitators
and mfsled minority Of the people, was
urged by Theodore Roosevelt in his
speech before the Southern Commercial
Congress, now meeting in Atlanta. The
subject Of the former Presidents address
was THE South's Obligation in States
manship and Business Endeayor.''
| This was the first stop in the colonel's
great swing around the country, the very
| last, according to his own declaration,
| he will make. 4 crowd estimated at $500
filed the armory and adjacent halls
| Speaking as he said, as a half south
/ erner,'' Col. Roosevelt attempted to show
| the way for that great prosperity and
business awakening the commercial con-
gress has for its object. The gist of his
remarks along this line was that purity
! in living must reach to all parts of hui
man endeavor-poitical and business-if
| the south shall reap the benefits nature
| has bestowed and If the republic, which
he called the greatest experiment of gov
! eminent the world had SEEN was to
stand and reach the ideals of its founders
Combinations Natural Outcome.
! Combination of great capital, he de-
| clared. was the natural outcome of this
! day and age of great business, and also
was the proper thing. providing. how
| ever. that the men who directed the
affairs of those mammoth concerns did
! not use their power to initiate prices
! and work harm to the man in moder-
ate circumstances.
II do not approve he declared with
| vigorous gestures, "of certain forms
of legislation directed against indus
! trial combinations. Persons who trade
/ with merchant go to other mer-
chants if one does them wrong. Trades
men refuse to deal with those who will
not pay. When these merchants or
| these tradesmen control that which
i is necessary to comfort and combine
| in such way that they can dictate
| what the people shall pay there is
| on that state of affairs-;hat is, the
| government.
The railroads occupy a peculiar
position in this regard. They are stu
many cases ship through them alone
II you travel you must travel on
them. These have been fit objects of
federal regulation. Ultimately other
| great aggregations Of money will be
i regulated in the same way
The colonel mentioned the questions
/ asked him in Europe concerning
stories OF political and business cor
ruption in the United States. and de-
| clared they often were the subject of
| sneering mirth of those who predicted
the fall Of our scheme of rule.
Ovation to John Temple Graves.
An ovation was rendered John Tenn
pie Graves, editor of the New York
American and former Albanian, when
Power Of the Southern Press" and it
was several minutes before he could
proceed. He paid glowing tribute to
the southern newspapers for their
/ part in the upbuilding of the south
since the days OF the civil war Henry
Grady. Patrick Walsh and other great
ciared. set the example which has been
followed by the more modern papers.
and which has resulted in placing
southern newspapers in the forefront
of the journalism of today
! Other speakers of the evening were
Atherton Brownell Of New York,
American director for the Brazilian
Col. L. D. Tyson Of Knoxville, Tenn.
The importance Of the Panama canal
| to the commerce and industry of the
south was the subject Of addresses
yesterday. The speakers were John
Barrett, director Of the Pan-American
Union, and Bernard n Baker Of Bal
timore. who both advocated the ship
| subsidy proposition which was before
| the last Congress.