The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-23
Also Contrasts the Hard Times of
1896 with the Prosperity Under
Republican Rule.
SPEECH AT GREEN RIVER
WHERE THE GOVERNOR COMPARES
THE MAN WITH THE NATION.
Some Moralixing on Dishonesty in the
Individual and Weakness I'm
the Government.

GREEN RIVER, Wyo., Sept. 22.-The
Roosevelt special train, on its journey
hither to-day. stopped at Evanston and
Green River, at each of which places the
Governor made brief speeches. At Evans
ton Governor Roosevelt said:
-Four years ago it was exceedingly diff
cult for man to get work; now there is
work in abundance and an ample supply
for all, so that the condition of the wage
workers, especially of the business men,
the farmer and the merchant, is consid-
erably improved. All over the country you
improvement now. / ask you to look
back to the prophecies made by our op-
ponents four years ago in speeches deliv-
cred at different places. Again and again
they said If Mckinley were elected the
wageworker would stand idle half the
,.me. that the farmer would see the price
of the goods he sold fall steadily lower;
that there would be tremendous diminu-
ton In the deposits in the savings banks
and increased failures among business
men. Now, there has not come true sim
gle prophecy made by Mr.. Bryan four
years ago; there was not a single prophecy
made that has not been falsified by events.
Don't take my word for it, but judge for
yourself: Compare the times now with
enough then for the men, but as always
the case in hard times, they were infinitely
harder for women and children. In your
votes this fall you should not indorse the
false prophecies, but rather indorse those
whose promises have been kept"
At Green River Governor Roosevelt said.
in part:
Under the administration of President
Mckinley there has been what we call good
times. l want you to compare the condi-
tions as they existed six or eight years ago
with the conditions as they exist now. Free
wool was one of the cries during the Cleye-
land administration Compare the price of
wool then and what it is now. Then We
were to have free wool, and, as some one
said to me the other day, we came within 6
cents of it. Things are different now. Let
every trainman or man who works in the
shops compare four years ago with the
present time as to the matter of getting
work. Then 1t was not easy TO get work;
now any man who wants work can get 1t.
You must decide for yourselves whether
the present conditions are to continue or
whether you want to take the chances of
going back to the old conditions. Let every
housewife and daughter that remembers
four years ago think of those four years
and state whether or not she wants to go
back to them
Governor Roosevelt said it was with ma
tional life as it was with the individual
life, and concluded as follows:
''The man who is simply a good man, but
who Is not brave, you regard with some
measure of contempt. If strong man Is
a bad man. then his strength only makes
him so much the more dangerous. He is
simply then a civic wild beast who should
be hunted down. / have no patience with
the man of mere smartness, and who is
INSCRIPTIONS in his dealings. You have
first to have a man of decency, a man of
clean life, in order to make a man worth
anything to the world. Better to have
man dead than to have him dishonest; bet
ter to have a man dead than to have
man, whether in public or private life, who
does damage TO his neighbors and his kind.
To be useful he must be q man capable of
affection; he must be kind man who does
no harm about him. He must be man
who can force his way through the diff
and to overcome them. The same qualities
are necessary in civic as well as in private
life. You want man who can force him
self along and play his part. That is ex-
our Nation to do justice at home an6 then
we will see IT honored and respected
abroad"