UNITED STATES AFFAIRS.
REVIEW ED Bi THE PRESIDENT. RcceivtJ 3rd, 10.54, p.m. i>.-,.„ Xew iork > Uetobcr 3. President Roosevelt, addrcsling 10U00 people at St. Louis, after emphasising the enormous facilities for transporUtwn on {he Mississippi, stated the construction of the Panama Canal was proceeding apace, and at the present rate of progress Jigging would be completed within Ave or six yacrs. Unless America was prepared to abandon the Monroe Doctrine and the canal, and be content with the role of a weak, t&uid nation, she must, he said, steadily I build and maintain a great lighting navy.
He referred to the dopirture of the fleet for the Pacific in December, and implied that it was; for -a training cruise.
If the present dual form of Government prevented the control of the «reat corporations engaged in interbta;.- "business, then the Constitution must ue amended, but (better first to try the etfect of a broad interpretation uf existf ing powers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 October 1907, Page 3
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158UNITED STATES AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 October 1907, Page 3
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