COMBATING AMERICAN TRUSTS
STRONG SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. United Press Association—Copyright Received August 21, 10.44 p.m. NEW YORK, August 21. President Roosevelt, in laying the corner-stone of a monument at Princetown to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, stated that the Government ought to control all road corporations like they supervised the national baiik6, and determine that none shall amass great fortunes 1 special privilege, chicanery, wrongdoing, or the use of fortune for antisocial 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 disturbance ill Wall-street was partly attributable to the Government’s determinations to punish malefactors of great wealth who brought about financial stress in order to discredit the Government’s policy’. It was hopeless for them to expect a reversal of policy during his tenure.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2165, 22 August 1907, Page 2
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