A ROOSEVELT SPEECH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 8, 4 October 1907, Page 5

A ROOSEVELT SPEECH.

PACIFIC CRUISE. JIONROEISM AND THE PANAMA CANAL. CONTROL OF TRUSTS. By.: ■ Tolcsraph—Association-Copyright. '(Roc. Oct. 3, 10.54 p.m.) Now York, October 3. President Roosovelt, addressing a gathering of 10,000 .it St. Louis, omphasised tho enormous iruportanco of improving tho facilities of transportation on tho River Mississippi. He' stated that tho construction of tho Panama Canal was proceeding apaco. At tho present late of piogress, tho actual digging of tho canal would be completed within five or six years. , Unless America was prepared to 'abandon tho Monroo Doctrino and tho canalj and to bo contented with tho rolo of. , "a weak, timid nation, sho must steadily build and maintain a great, fighting navy. Ho referred to the intended departure of the Atlantic fleet" for tho Pacific in December next, and; implied that it was a training cruise. -If'the present dual form of govern-ment-prevented the control of great corporations engaged in interstate business then, said tho President, the; constitution must, bo amended. "But," he added, "it is hotter first to.try tho effect of a broad interpretation of existing powers." JAPAN CONCILIATORY. Toliio, October' 3. Count Katsura, a mombcr of tho High.Military Council and a former Premier of Japan, interviewed, said that_ tho visit to Japan of Mr. Taft, ■ United. States Secretary for War, was an indisputable demonstrationof the friendly relations of. tho two nations, which- relations nothing can shake.