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Show x " '. ' - ' ' ' v, . v ' '!X9 ' WASHINGTON, May 30. President Roosevelt talks more and mora. W to visitors about tha man who run tha trusts and the used of curbing them, and about tha law-defying officers of great corporations and the W need of punishing them. X He said this week, to a Republican United States Senator, who Is himself a man of great wealth, and a director In many corporations: ffi "President Jackson fought ths money power. He was wrong, tout bo became famous. I am right and ' ' ' ' " - Ths President did not finish his sentence, but- he sent a cold hill down the spine of the plutocratir.Senator nevertheless, ? To another visitor this weak the President spoke of the revelations of graft and favoritism in the management of even the greater rail- W roads, as disclosed this week In the Pennsylvania railroad situation. and he said that ths managers had got to realise that therallroads were Indeed common carriers, nothing more, nothing less. They must , e) treat all customers alike, great and small. The - monopolist, the law- breaker, the corporation orruptlonlst, the bribe-taker, the drone, the w plutocrat and the. parasite must- be driven out. Then the President ut- tered this epigram: ' V. . '' X "This is the day for the man with a patch on his breeches to corns forward and for the man-of-the-dollar to g to the rear . |