Mr. Roosevelt paid a visit to Harvard, his old lJniver-
sity, last Saturday, and in the afternoon addressed a meeting of the undergraduates. Beginning with a defence of athletic sports, and especially football—so _ long as it was properly regulated—as tending to develop courage, the President then turned to the question of State rights and Federal control. Hq emphatically declared that a premium should be put upon the honest manage- ment of fair-dealing corporations, and that those who invested money in them should he amply protected. But those who involved the doctrine of State rights to protect State corporations in their "predatory activities" in other States were as short-sighted as those who once invoked the same doctrine to protect special slave-holding interests. "The States have shown that they have not the ability to curb the power of syndicated wealth; therefore, in the interests of the people, something must be done by national action States' rights should be preserved when they mean people's rights, but not when they mean people's wrongs."
