The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-10
Combination Of Capital
Natural Outcome Of
Great Age.
REGU LATTON
WHERE NEEDED
Colonel Roosevelt, in Addressing
Commercial Congress, Sounds
Warning Against the Dcma-
gogue-First Speech Of His
Last Great Swing Around
the Country.

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the Country.
Atlanta. Ca. Marcel, 9.--Strict gov
crnmental regulation OF all Industrial
combinations was urged tonight by
Theodore Roosevelt in his speech here
! before the Southern Commercial Con-
! Srcss. But to attain this end he advo-
Gated the enactment OF laws which are
not the result Of alt-bukcd reforms
or conceived in the minds Of Jcma-
SoE les, playing 10 the camor Of the liz :
norant and n ,nisled minority or the
people. The subject Of his address MAS
THE South's obligation in Statesman
ship and business t.ndeavor.''
'Thc Very Inst.
Ibis was the first stop in the colo
ncls great swing around the country
ana tie very last. according 10 his own
declaration. he Will make. 4 crowd
estimated at 5000 filled the arniory and
adjacent halls.
Speaking, AS he said as a half
tempted 10 show how tina, great pros
pcrity end business awakening the
Commercial Congress has for lis object
might be attained. lie declared thai
purity In living must reach 10 ali parts
Of human cndearor. political and bus
mess. u the South shall reap the ben
, Gifts nature has bestowed, and if tile
repuoic, which he called the greatest
Experiment OF government the world
has seer. was 10 stand ana reach the
ideal Of its founders.
Combination o. great capital, he de-
| ciared, was the natural outcome of this
day and age CT great business and
also ives the proper thing, providing.
however, that the men WHO directed
thei- affairs did not use their power TO
in'ia.H prices and work harm TO the
man In moderate circumstances
! II do not approve he declared .'or
certain forms of leSislatio directed
against industrial combinations. But
tome. legislation lis absolutely rneces-
sarr. Persons who trade with mer-
chant go TO other merchants ii one
| does them wrong. Tradesmen refuse
10 deal with those who Will not pay
When these merchants or these trades
men control that which is necessary for
comfort. and combine in such a way
, mat they can dictate what the people
shall pay. there is only one thing which
can call halt on that state of affairs
that is the government
Peculiar Position.
The railroads occupy II peculiar -po-
siiion IN this regard They are stu
ateil SO that ii YOU ship you must, in
many eases, ship through them alone:
II yon travel YOU must travel on them.
These have been ii objects Of Federal
regulation. Ultimately. other great
agsrega tons OF money will be rcgu-
latcd in the same way
beware OF those persons who und,lly
attach wealth Beware Of those who
constantly launch TRADES against the
"lckeaness OF one class OF people. Be
ware Of the dcmagoguc.''
i,aI al
asked him in Europe concerning sto.
| ries of political and business corrun-
ton In the United States, and declared
they often were the subject of sncerinr
! mlrth OF those who predicted the rail
| of our scheme Of rule. :
Let this be a warning lie declared.
! N this colossal experiment in gov
eminent is to stand. we must stand To-
sether ana develop evenly, and we
| right GU GU
lie predicted that the greatest deyei-
opnnent in future years would be In the
ooutn and called all to forget the ma ST
| olspntes and sectional strife
| Ovation for Graves,
/ IN ovation was rendered John TEN
PIE Graves, editor of the New York
american. and former Albanian. when
nc -, rose 10 speak on The Promotive
| = - - si'N' 'oou liieIii PRESS He naiI
glowing tribute to the Southern
! newspapers for their part in the IN.
building of the South since tho d,xs
of the Civil War. -
io-morrow President Taft will, 70
view the business forces of the Sonth
a. ut ! ne morning session Of the congress
ne congress will close with tho .a,,
aress by President Taft on "a Greater
NATION Through a Greater South"
TO-
Sahal 70 the commerce and Industry
OF me South was the subject of tho
morning session. The speakers we're
oohn Barrett, director Of the pan
american Union, and Barnard y.
ia kcr. of Baltimore, who advocated
/ me snip subsidy proposition which was
before the last Congress-
! Charies II. Sheriff., United States
| munster to the Argentine Republn.
spoke on foreign trade reIation.
navid H. Francis, former Governor Of
Missouri, and Secretary of the In
terror in President Cleveland's Cabi-
net presided at to-day's sessions.
| Inc nominating committee decided
upon the following to be officers for
ncNi year: President. Senator Duncan
| Y Fletcher, Florida; Vice President
John NJ. Parker. New Orleans; Second
tcc-President. General Julian S. Carr.
| North Carolina; Secretary. Edwin y
| Quaries, Washington, -. c.; MANAGING
i Director. G. Grosvcnor Dave, Wash.
I. ington. y. -