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The man who talks ill of his neighbors, the man who 

 invites trouble for himself and them, is a nuisance. 

 The stronger, the more self-confident the nation is, 

 the more carefully it should guard its speech as well 

 as its action, and should make it a point, in the inter 

 est of its own self-respect, to see that it does not 

 say what it can not make good, that it avoids giving 

 needless offence, that it shows genuinely and sin 

 cerely its desire for friendship with the rest of man 

 kind, but that it keeps itself in shape to make its 

 weight felt should the need arise. 



That is in substance my theory of what our for 

 eign policy should be. Let us not boast, not insult 

 any one, but make up our minds coolly what is neces 

 sary to say, say it, and then stand to it, whatever the 

 consequences may be. 



AT MILWAUKEE, WIS., APRIL 3, 1903 

 Mr. Toastmaster, Gentlemen: 



To-day I wish to speak to you on the question of 

 the control and regulation of those great corpora 

 tions which are popularly, although rather vaguely, 

 known as trusts ; dealing mostly with what has actu 

 ally 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 Fifty-seventh Congress. At the out 

 set I shall ask you to remember that I do not ap 

 proach the subject either from the standpoint of 

 those who speak of themselves as anti-trust or anti- 



