What Mr. Roosevelt Said in 1903
The following is reported in the Circle for March, by Lindsay Denison, newspaper and magazine writer: “The radicals are almost half right. Corporations cunning has developed faster than the law of nation or state. It is undoubtedly true that corporations have found ways to steal long before we have found that they were susceptible of punishment for theft. “But sooner or later, unless there is a season of readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement. It is true that some great fortunes are being accumulated lawfully but dishonestly. It is true that other fortunes are being accumulated honestly but illegally. There must come, in the proper growth of this nation, a readjustment. If it is not to come by sword and powder and blood it must come by peaceful compromise.” And even so speaks the “more sure word of prophecy.”