AMERICAN POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13887, 23 October 1905, Page 7

AMERICAN POLITICS.

SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT. United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 21. President Roosevelt, speaking at Atlanta, said that tho Federal control of corporations was necessary. Referring to tho insurance scandals, ho said'that the public conscience bad been shocked by the revelations of the way in which some great fox-tunes had been obtained and used. Congress must assist towards ending the Chinese boycott. “ Wo come short of our duty towards China,” lie said. “Wo ought to operate the exclusion law with as little harshness as xmesible, shelving every courtesy, consideration and encouragement to the Chinese, and guaranteeing all, except coolies, the same right of entry and the same treatment as wo guaranteed to the citizens of any other nation.”