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to feel certain associations of reverence and regard 

 awakened when he treads the soil of Virginia, which 

 has taken so leading a part in peace and in war 

 throughout our history. 



AT MUSIC HALL, CINCINNATI, OHIO, ON THE 

 EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1902 



Mr. Mayor, and you, my Fellow- Americans: 



I shall ask your attention to what I say to-night, 

 because I intend to make a perfectly serious argu 

 ment to you, and I shall be obliged if you will re 

 main as still as possible ; and I ask that those at the 

 very back will remember that if they talk or make a 

 noise it interferes with the hearing of the rest. I 

 intend to speak to you on a serious subject and to 

 make an argument as the Chief Executive of a na 

 tion, who is the President of all the people, without 

 regard to party, without regard to section. I intend 

 to make to you an argument from the standpoint 

 simply of one American talking to his fellow-Ameri 

 cans upon one of the great subjects of interest to all 

 alike; and that subject is what are commonly known 

 as trusts. The word is used very loosely and almost 

 always with technical inaccuracy. The average man, 

 however, when he speaks of the trusts means rather 

 vaguely all of the very big corporations, the growth 

 of which has been so signal a feature of our modem 

 civilization, and especially those big corporations 

 which, though organized in one State, do business in 

 several States, and often have a tendency to mo 

 nopoly. 



