CHAPTER II.

CHICAGO TO MILWAUKEE.

The President's train left Chicago at midnight, April 3, via the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for Madison, Wis., where he was met by a party of state, legislative and city officials, headed by Governor La Follette and Mayor Groves, and escorted to the capitol by the University Regiment, Company G of the First Regiment, W. N. G., and a mounted guard.

In a brief speech the President said, referring to the fact that the State University is located at Madison, he liked athletic working colleges, but that athletics must not interfere with the development of the mental faculties. It is a good thing, he said, to be a good half-back, but it is a mighty bad thing, if, at forty, all you can say of a man is that he was a good half-back. He spoke of the qualities necessary to good citizenship, saying that we need now the same qualities to

work out our salvation in peace as were needed to work out our salvation through war.

In order that the immense crowd of people in the capitol grounds might see the President, he was introduced from a stand erected at the entrance. He said:

"There will be ups and downs in prosperity, but in the long run the tide will go on if we but prove true to ourselves and to the belief of our forefathers. To win we must be able to combine in a proper degree the spirit of individualism and the spirit of cooperation. Each man must work for himself. If he cannot support himself he will be a drag on all mankind; but each man must work for the common good. There is not a man here who does not at times need to have a helping hand extended to him, and shame on the brother who will not extend the helping hand."

A short reception was then held by the President for members of the legislature and state officers, many of whom were accompanied by their wives.

The train reached Waukesha, Wis., at 12:50 p. m., and stopped for half an hour. A great throng was assembled at the depot and cheered the President when he was introduced by Mayor Harding.

The President said:

"I believe we are face to face with great world problems, and that we cannot help playing the part of a great world power. All we can decide is whether we can play it well or ill. I do not want to see us shrinking in the least bit from our duty. We have got to hold our own.

"I do not believe the United States should ever suffer wrong. I would be the first that would resent a wrong from the start, just as I should be the first to insist that we do not wrong the weak. I believe in the Monroe Doctrine, and, as long as I am President, it shall be lived up to. I do not intend to make that an excuse or fortification for being unpleasant to other powers. We want the friendship of mankind. We want peace. We wish well to the nations of man

kind. Don't boast. Don't insult anyone. Let us make up our minds coolly what is necessary for us to say, say it, and then stand to it, whatever the consequences may be."

At Milwaukee the President was received by a committee headed by Mayor David S. Rose and driven to the National Soldiers' Home, having as an escort Troop A., of the Wisconsin National Guards. He reviewed the veterans and addressed them. Returning to the city, the procession of carriages stopped at the Exposition Building, where the President was formally welcomed on behalf of the City by Mayor Rose. The President said:

"Woe will beset this country if we draw lines of distinction between class and class or creed and creed, or along any lines save that which divides good citizenship from bad citizenship."

Visits were made to the Deutscher Club and the Press Club. In the evening the President was the guest of the Milwaukee Merchants and Manufacturers' Association at a banquet at the

Plankinton House. Covers were laid for 530.

Introduced by the toastmaster, Mr. E. A. Wadhams, the President spoke on The Trusts, as follows:

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT MILWAUKEE, WIS., APRIL 3, 1903-THE TRUSTS. Mr. Toastmaster, Gentlemen:

To-day I wish to speak to you on the question of the control and regulation of those great corporations which are popularly, although rather vaguely, known as trusts; dealing mostly with what has actually been accomplished in the way of legislation and in the way of enforcement of legislation during the past eighteen months, the period covering the two sessions of the Fiftyseventh Congress. At the outset I shall ask you to remember that I do not approach the subject either from the standpoint of those who speak of themselves as anti-trust or anti-corporation people, nor yet from the standpoint of those who are fond of denying the existence of evils in the trusts, or who apparently proceed upon the as