Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — SWINGS THE BIG STICK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SWINGS THE BIG STICK

President Informs the Bad, Cor* porations That It Is Still in Business. XAXEB A SIGNIFICANT REMARK Intends to Punish [Certain “Malefactors of Great Wealth.” Trust* Accused of Making Trouble on Wall Street to Lay It to Him— Pilgrim Monument Cornerstone Laid. Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 21.—The laying of the cornerstone of the Cape Cod Pilgrims’ memorial monument here gave President Roosevelt his first opportunity of the summer to break silence upon public questions, and the forty-minute speech which he delivered from a platform on top of Town Hill was one of vigor and directness

upon matters of national importance. Tlie feature of Ti-s address was his advocacy of a national incorporation law, and his stand in relation to violators of the law. especially corporations. With emphasis he declared that the administration would not waver in its determination “to punish certain malefactors of great wealth.” Fires One at Wall Street. This determination he said “has been responsible for something of the financial troubles, at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stress as they possibly can, in order to discredit the policy of the government and thereby to secure a reversal of that policy so that the/ may enjoy the fruits of their own evil doing. * * * 'I 10-rc is unfortunately a certain number of our fellow-countrymen who seem to accept the view that unless a man can be proved guilty of some particular crime lie shall be counted a good citizen, no matter how Infamous the life he has led. no matter how pernicious his doctrines or his practices. • * • License a Foe of Liberty. He said that “those professed friends of liberty who champion license are the worst foes of liberty and tend by the reaction their violence causes to throw the government back iuto the hands of the men who champion corruption and tyranny in the name of order.” No Let-Up In the War. Continuing he said: “There will be no change In the policy we have steadily pursued; no let-up In the effort to secure the honest observance of the law: for I regard this contest as one -ao« spn ejm ÜBfis oqai etipiuop>p oi eminent —the people through their governmental agents or a few ruthless and determined men whose wealth makes them particularly formidable because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organization,’’ The president declared that government would undertake no action which would Inflict great or unmerited suffering upon innocent stockholders and upon the public as a whole. At oue point President Roosevelt departed for a moment from his address as originally prepared to remark; “All that l have said as to desirable and undesirable citizens remains true.”

THE PILGRIM MONUMENT AT PROVINCETOWN.