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26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1902. ____—_s__——__—___—____—_——__—_———————_—___———:——'—_b PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADVOCATES CONTROL OF TRUSTS BY THE GOVERNMENT AS A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM Notable Speech- Is Made by the Chief Executive at Wheeling During the First Day of His Tour in Southern States. e - EXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 6—Pres- sdent Roosevelt and party to-day ot passed through the States West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The receptions during the day in ‘West Virginia and Ohio were enthusiastic but uneventful and it nightfall when Kentucky was tpached. All were asleep before they crossed into Tennessee. Stops were made to-day rafton, Wheeling, Benwood, Cambridge, Zanesville, Newark, Colum- bus, W ton Courthouse, Wilmington, Midland City, Cincinpati, Lexington and Somerset | At Wheel the President made the only formal speech of the day, treating of the trusts and general industrial con- ditions. At Cambridge some one in the crowd | held up a ge picture of McKinley and called atte he anniversary of the | trageds o one year ago. This| incident was looked on by all with dis- vor. e President paid a touch- to McKinley and at all other the rest of the day, es- nati and Lexington, he pond at any length to the crowds at the depots. The was due in Chattanooga at o'clock to-morrow morning. A slow | schedule had been arranged for it. e WELCOMED AT WHEELING. President Delivers a Speech on the Trust Problem. \\) EELING, W. Va., Sept. 6.—Presi- t Roose nd party arrived over the at 8:30 o'clock this from Washington. He was a vast crowd at the depot and preciation, despite his bad- His right cheek was and contused and | showed signs of discoloration. which embodied Secre- ret service men and a | aff of correspondents, entered vehicles | n to the McClure House, ry band. Throughout | e route enthusiasm was rite, mfl streets being lined with the people from | Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and | Virginia. At the hotel the chief e met a delegation of citizens of ng, introduced by United States The President seemed in a humor and joked with his acquaintances. He addressed crowd from the balcony of the h from which he had a range of | four different States. He spoke long be- | yond scheduled time, which necessi- | ted the curtailment of the regular pro- | mme. PERIOD OF PROSPERITY. The President spoke In part as follows: fy Friends and Fellow-Citizens: It 15 2 pleasure to come to your city. I wish to thank the Mayor, and through the | Mayor all of your citizens for the wa: in which, upon your behalf, he has greet- ed me and I wish to state that it is a spe- cial pleasure to be introduced by my | friend, Senator Scott, because when he gives you his word, you do not have to think about it again. 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No. 727 WAsnan'rON rr Corner Brenham | things flourish, | succeed in doing it, f cles free sample. carefully sealed in a plain pack- | perous than it is at this moment, and if { man, but he would be a perfect miracle is a prosperity which has come alike to the tillers of the soil and to those con- nected with our great industrial enter- prises. “Now, gentlemen, every period has its own trouble and difficulties. A period of adversity, of course, troubles us all, but there are troubles in connection with the period of prosperity also. When all it means that there is a good chance for things that we do not like to have flourish, just exactly as there is for things that we do li to have flourish, and a period of gredt na- tional material well being unavoidably one in which human minds are turned to the way in Which those interested in the management of the gigantic capitalistic corporations, whose growth has been so noted; a period of the past half century flourish. We have grown to speak of cer- tain corporations rather loosely as trusts, using the word in its usual and common significance of a big corporation, usually doing business in several States at least besides the State ir which it is incorpor- ated. It seems to me that dealing with this problem of the trusts (perhaps it would be more correct to call it a group of problems), we have to classify all our fellow citizens. One is composed of those men who refuse to admit that there is any action necessary at all. The other is composed of those men who advocate some non-effective action, or if effective, would be effective only by destroying everything good and bad connected with our industrial development. In every governmental process, the aim that a people capable of self-government should steadfastly keep is to proceed by evolu- tion rather than by revolution. On the other hand, every people that has self- government must be of this fossilized state of mind which refuses to allow any | change as conditions change. Now, in | dealing with the problem of a change in our great industrial civilization, dealing ‘\\llh the tendency has been accentualed to an extraordinary degree by steam and electricity and by the tremendous up- building of industrial enterprises dealing with these problems. I think we must set before ourselves a desire not to accept less than the possible, and at the same time not to bring ourselves to a complete standstill by demanding the impossible. NOT DAM, BUT CONTROL. “No one can dam the Mississippl. If the nation started to dam it,its time would be wasted. It would not hurt the Missis- sippi; it would only damage the popula- tion along the banks. You cannot dam the current, but you can build levees and keep the current within bounds and shape its direction. Now, I think that is ex- actly what we can do with the great corporations known as trusts. We can- not dam them; we cannot reverse the in- dustrial tendencles of the age. If we then the cities like Wheeling will have to go out of busi- ness—remember that. You cannot put a op to or reverse the industrial tenden- of the age. You can control and regulate them so that they will do not harm. Another thing: you do not build these levees in a day or a month. The man who tells you that he has a patent device by which in sixty days he would solve the whole question of floods along the great rivers would not be a wise @ it @ Some Phenomenal Memories. Many of the greatest men have had phenomenal memories. Caesar knew the names of thousands of soldiers in his le- gions. A modern man of science often | has a prodigious memory for speclal ter- | minology. Professor Asa Gray assured me that he could at once recall the names of something like 25,000 plants; Professor Theodore Gill can do the same for fishes. Our memory for mere words is itself much more extensive than is generally admitted. The average well-to-do child of two years has a vocabulary of some 500 words, and its father may have the command of 20,000 more. The 10,000 verses of the “Rig-Veda” have for 3000 years been accurately preserved in the memory of the one Brahmin alone but thousands can to-day recite it word for word. Thousands of Moham- medans, likewise, know the Koran by heart, as all learned Chinese know their classic books. The chiefs of Polynesia can and do repeat hundreds of thousands of words in their genealogles, taking days and even weeks for their recitation. Hundreds of pianists can play all day, and many days, by memory; and I have myself seen Von Bulow conduct Beetho- ven's Fifth Symphony without a score. Chess players have visualizing memory; musicians have an auditive and a motor memory, while arithmetical prodigles may have any one of the three, as we shall note in a future discussion of the subject, or & combination of all.—Profes- sor E. §. Holden, in Harper's Magazine. i <asla iy Women Captain on the Lakes. Chicago is about to have a woman cap- tain_on the lakes. She is Miss Stella Mayhew, and her recent application for membership nas caused much perturba- tion of mind among the members of that masculine institution. There is war against establishing such an unheard-of precedent as admitting women to the sacred precincts of the club, and in spite—or, perhaps, because— of that fact no provision,’ either for or against such a terrible contingency, has been made by the constitution or by- laws of the club. Miss Mayhew is building an $8500 yacht, and has entered upon a course of study marine engineering. When she has passed her examinations she will apply for pilot papers. The vessel will be man- s, womaned would be the y a crew composed, with two exceptions, the fireman and engineer, | entirely of women. | Chicago Is poking fun at the ambitious { little would-be captain the while it ad- | mires her pluc —_—————————— To Prevent Listing of Yachts. A Norwegian inventor seeks to over- come the list in safling yachts by means of a peadulum-suspended auxiliary keel, cn which the mast-is mounted. The keel of wisdom compared to the man who tells you that by another patent remedy he can bring the millennium in our fndus- trial and social affairs. ‘We can do something. I believe we can do a good deal, but our accomplish- ing what I expect to see accomplished is conditioned upon our setting to work in a spirit as far removed as possible from hysteria—a spirit of sober, stead- fast, kindly (I want to emphasize the word kindly) determination not to sub- mit to wrong ourselves and not to do wrong ourselves; not to interfere ‘with the development of the country, but at the same time so to shape our legisla- tion as to regulate, if we cannot remedy, the vicious features connected with that industrial development. Now I have said that there can be no patent remedy of- fered. There is not any one thing which can be done to remedy all the existing evils. There are a good many things which, if we do them, will, I believe make a /very appreciable betterment of ‘our existing condition. BIG CORPORATIONS. “Now, the big corporations, although nominally the creatures of one State, usually do business in other States, and in a very large number of cases the wide variety of State laws on the subject of corporations has brought about the fact that the corporation is made in one State but does almost all its work in entirely different States. It has proved utterly impossible to get anything like uniform- ity of legislation among the States. Some States have passed laws about cor- porations which, if they had not been in- effective, would have totally prevented any important corporate work being done within their limits. Other States have such tax laws that there is no effective effort made to control any of the abuses. As a result we have a system of dividend control—where the nation has something to say, but it is a little difficult to know exactly how much, and where the dif- ferent States have cach something to say, tut where there is no supreme power that can speak with authority. It is of course a mere truism to say that every corporation, the smallest as well as the largest, is the creature of the State. ‘Where the corporation is small there is very little need of exercising much super- vision over it. But the stupendous corpo- rations of the present day certainly should be under governmental super- vision and regulation. (Applause.) “The first effort to make is to give somebody the power to exercise that su- pervision, that regulation. We have al- 1teady laws on the statute-books. Those laws will be enforced and are being en- forced with all the power of the national Government and wholly without regard to persons. (Applause.) But the power is very limited. Now, 1 want you to take my words at their exact value. I think— 1 cannot say I am sure, because it has often happened in the past that Congress has passed laws with a given purpose in view, and when that law has been judi- cially interpreted it has proved that the purpose was not achieved—but I think that by legislation additional power in the way of regulation of at least a num- ber of those great corporations can be conferred. But, gertlemen, I firmly be- lleve that in the end power must be given, probably through a constitutional amendment, to the National Government to exercise in full the supervision and K swings so that the pressure of the wind upon the sails has no effect on the hull of the boat, as the ballast keel is inclined simultaneously, but in the opposite di- rection, and thus counteracts the inclin- ation of the sail, while the boat itself re- mains in its normal condition, and is only affected by the movement of the water. As the mast does not move in the longi- tudinal plane of the boat, the forwardly acting force of the wind on the sajls re- mains as effective as heretofore, and the swinging ballast keel, which is outside the boat, in no way interferes with the interior of the hull, as the only portion in ccnnecting with the keel which is inside the boat is the oscillating shaft. —— e ——— The insuring of one’s life is one of those things which one is most apt to put off. There are few, however, who postpone what ought to be the inevitable until so lete a period in life as did the tough old smack-owner of Grimsby. When he pre- sented himself at the insurance office he was naturally asked his age. His reply was ‘Ninety-four.” ““Why, my good man, we cannot insure you,” sald the com: pany. “Why not?” he demanded. you are 94 vears of age.” ihat?” the oid man cried. “Look at sta- tistics, and they will tell you that fewer men dle at 84 than at any other age.”— Lorden Business. —————— Quite a number of ‘churches now have safes in them; not necessarily to keep money_in, for church funds are usually kept elsewhere, but for the preservation of books and records. together with the silver plate that is often of great value. regulation of those great enterprises. (Ap- plause.) “That is not new doctrine for me. That is the doctrine I advocated on the stump two years ago. NATIONAL ACTION NEEDED. “Let me go back to my illustration of the Mississippi River. It took some time to build the levees, but we built them, and if we have the proper intelligence, the proper resolution and the proper self-re- straint, we can work out the solution along the lines that i have indicated. The first thing is to give the national Govern- ment the power. What power is given, I can assure you, will be used in a spirit as free as possible from rancor, but with the firmest determination to make big men and little men alike obey the law. What we need first is power. Having got the power, gentlemen, remember that the work won't be ended. It will be only fairly begun. And let me say again and again and again that we will not get the millenium. The millenjum is some way off. But we will be in a position to make long strides in the direction of securing a juster and fairer and more intelligent, more honest management of those corpo- rations, both as regards the general pub- lic and as regards their relationship among themselves. When we have the power I should earnestly advocate that it should be used with the greatest wisdom and self-restraint. The first thing would be to find out the facts. For that purpose it is absolutely clear that we need pub- licity, not as a favor from any one corpo- ration, but as a matter of right. The mere fact of the publicity itself will tend to stop many of the evils and it will show that some of the alleged evils are imag- inary. And finally in making evident the remaining faults, those that are not imag- inary and.are not cured by the light of day itself, it will give us an intelligent proposition as to the method to take in getting at them. ONE SOVEREIGN REQUIRED. “We should have, under any circum- stances, one sovereign to which the big corperations should be responsible—a sov- creign in whose courts the corporation’ could be held accountable for any failure to comply with the laws of the legisla- ture of that sovereign. I do not think you can accomplish that among the for- ty-six sovereigns of the States. I think that it will have to be through the na- tional Government. “Now, I want to draw one lesson from the experience of some of you whom I see mn the audience, who fought in the Civil War. You recollect it perfectly well, whether you wore the blue or the gray, how people who sat at iome were dead sure you ought to do everything quickly; vou, who wear the button which shows that you wore the blue, remember the days just before Bull n, when all the excellent pecple who were at home said it was your duty to go on at once to Rich- mond, and they demanded that it be done, They wanted it then within two weeks Then Bull Run came along and the move- ment was the other way, and then a lot of the same men who had been demand- ing at the tops of their voices that you should instantly go on to Richmond said that the war was over; it was done; noth- irg more to be accomplished. You and those like you did not think so. The men North and Solth were bullt of a different stuff. 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Call for free consultation. Office Hours—8 a. m. to 8 30 Sundays, 10 to L. o there by a patent device. That was Dot the way you got there., You got there by setting your teeth and making up your mind that you were in to see that fight through. Then you had to face defeat znd come up again, and il defeated to try again until out of defeat you wrested tri- umph. You made up your minds that you would win by the same qualities which have made good soldiers from the time that the world was young. “The men in blue and the men in gray who fought in the great Civil War had different weapons and were drilled in dif- ferent tactics from the soldiers who fol- lowed Washington and Greene and Mad Anthony Wayne, who fought under Ma- rion, who fought at Bunker Hill, who fought at Kings Mountain. You had dif- ferent uniforms, different weapons, differ- ent tactics, but the spirit that drove you forward was the same. MAN BEHIND GUN. “And now, if ever this country should be called, as I most earnestly hope and belleve it never will be called, to face a serious foreign foe, the men that fight will have high power, small calibred, smokeless powder rifles; they will fight in open order, instead of the old elbow to elbow touch; they will fight under en- tirely different tactics, under differ- ent cpnditions: but If they win they will win because they had in them the same stuff that their fathers had in the Civil War, their great-grandfathers in the Revolutionary War. (Applause.) “The weapon changes—the gun changes, but the qualities of the man behind the gun have got to remain the same. (Ap- plause.) “It is justice in dealing with these prob- lems of citizenship. The changed condi- tions mean that there must be change in the laws: change from time to time in the fundamental underlying law of the land, which we call the constitution. The law now and then has no change, but in the long run it is the man behind the law that counts. We need good laws; we need the very best laws; we need the best constitution, and need to amend it so as to keep it what it is—the best con- stitution. But no constitution, no law ‘will supply the place in the average indi- vidual of those qualities which in their sum make up good citizenship. It is just as it is in battle. I hate, and, if any national guardsman is hers he will ap- preciate what I say,I hate to see a nation- al guardsman armed with a black powder der musket. I would as soon see himx armed with a crossbow. 1 believe that for any man wearing the uniform which is ‘Uncle Sam’s’ or may be Uncle Sam’s in an emergency, the best weapon is none too good. (Applause.) But if you give a man the best weapon in the world and he himself is a pretty poor sort of a creature he will be beaten by a good man with a club. (Applause.) Now it is just so in the field of civil life. If our aver- age citizenship is low, no laws ‘will save us. There are other countries with al- most exactly our constitution, with al- most similar laws to ours, where never- theless the experience of free government has been almost a failure, because the men were not the same; because they did not have the same stuff for citizenship. In the last resort it must be the high average standard of citizenship upon which we will have to rely in this re- public. Something can be done by law; something can be done by honest and fearless administrgtion of the law, but most of all must fl}pend upon having the right kind of men,’ the right kind of wo- men, in this country. We need more than intellect; we need character—char- acter 'which counts most; that is what counts more than anything else in life. (Applause.) CHARACTER COUNTS. “Character, which counts for the indi- vidual in private life, which counts in the life of the State; character, which we want to see in our public men when they tackle the problems of the trust, or any- thing else; character, which is fundamen- tally composed of many elements, but which must command these three: Hon- esty, first; Ido not care how able a man is, if he is a scamp he is a danger. I do not care how honest a man s, if he is afraid he is no good; honesty first, then courage. And those two qualities are not enough; it does not make any difference how brave a man is, or how honest, if he was born foolish, scant will be the good you get out of him. We need then for our citizenship character; character into which -shall enter honesty, courage, and the saving grace of common sense.” (Applause). At the conclusion the party re-entered the train of carriages and were driven over the principal thoroughfares. The decorations were of an elaborate and fes- tive order. All along the route vast crowds cheered the President to the echo. The party was driven to the southern portion of the city, where the Baltimore and Ohio special was boarded and the trip to the South continued. ZANESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 6.—Presi- dent Roosevelt arrived at Zanesville at 1 p. m. There was a crowd at the depot, who surrounded his car and cheered when he appeared on the rear platform. The President spoke a few words of greeting, thanking the people for their kind reception and stating that he would return to Ohio at a later date. The train remained but a few moments. ALLUDES TO McKINLEY. Roosevelt Pays a Tribute to the Mem- ory of the Martyred President. COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 6.—In the Union depot here the President responded to calls of the crowd as follows: “It is just a year ago that Ohio’s great President was shot and it is an anniver- sary that is fitted to make all of us think very solemnly of what the country lost in his death and what the country owed to his life. President McKinley had be- come the President of the entire country so that Ohio could claim him no more than all the rest of us could claim him; and when he died his character and his policies had so impressed themselves upon the nation as a whole, that in the broad- est and fullest sense he had become the President of no party and no section, but of the people throughout the length and breadth of our nation. It is a good thing now for us, a year after he was shot, to think of what he did and try to keep our- selves up to his standard.” WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, Sept. 6.—One of the largest crowds that has greeted President Roosevelt on his southern trip was assembled at Washing- ton Courthouse when the train reached here at 3:15. The President spoke briefly from the rear end of the car and was heartily cheered. The President said he “HERES A MAN, could not make any speech at this time as he propcsed returning to Ohio at mo distant date. MIDLAND CITY, O., Sept. 6.—The Pres- idential train made a brief stop at Mid- land City at 4:10. A small crowd that had gathered cheered the President as he bowed from the rear platform. At Sa- bina, Wilmington and several other points crowds watched the train speed by. At Loveland a large number of flags were waved as the train passed. CINCINNATI, Sept. 6.—The Presidential party reached here at 5:20 and remained balf an hour. Most of the time was spent in the yards transferring to the Queen and Crescent tracks. The train was greeted with crowds at all of the suburban stations, and especially at Fighth street, where a short stop -was made. The run from Columbus, a dis- tance of.12¢ miles, was made in less. than three hours. The train was backed from the yards into the central station, whero a large crowd had assembled, Including the city officlais. President Roosevelt ap- peared on the rear platform of his car and In response to calls stated that he expected to be here on September 20 to deliver an address during the fall festival and begged to be excused at this time. The crowd contained many raflroad men and the President, in addressing himselt to them, stated that he was en route to Chattanooga to be with the firemen. The President shook hands with a number of acquaintances who pressed forward. —_— LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 8.—President Roosevelt reached hers at 8:45 p. m. A large crowd met him and during the short stop he spoke a few words of ap- preciation of the greeting. A brief stop also was made at Ludlow, Ky., and ths President addressed a few words to tha assembled crowd. BURGIN, Ky., Sept. 6.—The Lexington Drum Corps made more nolse than has been made In the State In twenty years as the President’s train drew into the station. The train stopped first in the yards. The President told the people there that the train was to move farther on, but that inasmuch as he might not have a chance to speak to them at the farther stopping-places, he desired to say that he had been in Kentucky before, and he appreciated to the full the pre- eminent qualities of Kentucky’s men, Kentucky’s women and Kentucky's horses. (Cheers and laughter.) The train moved on and the President made another speech to a crowd of 5000 at the station. He =aid: “Kentucky has ever borne more than her share in the heavy responsibility of the development of the nation. I wish very much that I might go through hera by dallight. (Cheers and shouts of “Come on round here again, colonel.”) “Times change, but the spirit of the na- tion does not change. Forty years ago the men/ who fought In our great Civil ‘War—whether they wore the blue or the gray, they fought well—were armed with black powder guns. A soldier to-day might as well—Colonel Wiliams, are your State troops armed with black powder guns still?” Colonel Williams—"They are, sir. look to you for relfef.” “You shall have all\I can give. We have got the law through the lower House. If only you can help me get it through the Senate, we will be all right. The man who has a black powder mus- ket might as well have a crossbow (laugh- ter), but if we ever have another waf, and I not only hope but I belleve that we will not in our time, we will find that the spirit of '76 and the spirit of "61-'65 lives. 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