AMERICA AND THE PRESIDENT'S DECLARATION.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12020, 22 August 1907, Page 3

AMERICA AND THE PRESIDENT'S DECLARATION.

Received August 21, 0.44>m. New York, August 21. President Roosevelt, in laying the corner stone of a monument at Princetown to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim iFathers, stated that the Government ought to control the railroad corporation like they supervised the national banks. He wad determined that none shall amass great fortunesby special privilege, chicanery, wiong-doing, or the use*of fortune for anti-social purposes. Something must be done to secure the conviction of Trust managers in criminal prosecutions, thus stamping out the evil. He admitted that the financial disturbances on Wall-street were attributable to the Government's determination to pun^ ish malefactors of great wealth, who brought financial stress in order W discredit tbe Government policy. It was hopeless for them to expect a reversal of poilcy during his tenure.