Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
ROOSEVELT IN MICHIGAN.
Crowds Greet Him at
Every Point.

Grand Rapids. Mich, Sept. 7.-Goyer-
nor Roosevelt arrived in his city at G
o'clock this evening and was accorded a
great demonstration. Tonight he spoke
IN the Auditorium. which was crowded
10 Its utmost capacity, and later made
a brief speech in Powers theater.
During his trip through Michigan to-
day Governor Roosevelt made eight
speeches., beginning at Bay City at $50
O'Clock this morning and ending at Hast
lngs at 5 o'clock. He spoke at Grand
Rapids in part as follows:
There are several issues at stake in
this campaign, but of all these, the
greatest issue of all is the issue of keep
ing the country on the high plane of ma
terial we'll being and honor to which it
has been brought into during the last
four years. I do not claim that Presi-
dent Mckinley's admirable administra-
ton and the wise legislation passed by
congress. which he has sanctioned, are
solely responsible for our present well
being, but 1 do claim that it is this ad-
ministration and this legislation which
have rendered it possible for the Amer
lean people to achieve such we'll being.
l insist. furthermore, that the n and
only way to insure widespread indus
trial and social ruin would be now to
reverse the policy under which we have
so prospered. and to try that policy of
financial disgrace and economic disaster
which we rejected in 90. Our opponents
now advance the most extraordinary ar
guments that have ever been advanced
in a presidential campaign by any party
on behalf of it's presidential nominee.
Ihey have reaftirmed specifically their
entire 1896 platform, and yet they insist
vigorously that all they considered of
most vital Importance in 90 shall now
be relegated to a subordinate place: and
more extraordinary still. they actually
ask that Mr.. Bryan and a democratic
house be elected, because the senate will
remain republican anyhow, so that the
president and the house won't be able
to do much harm. Think of it, gentle
men. This is the position actually taken
by not a few of u opponents. and espe-
clally by the men who know that Mr..
Bryan's financial policy is utterly ruin
out, but who want to give themselves
some excuse for voting against President
Mckinley, because, forsooth, Mr.. Nc
kinley has been too active in uphOlding
the honor of the flag.
Speaking of trusts, Governor Roosevelt
said that while the evils produced must
be eliminated, hasty and violent action
should be avoided, for it would either
be ineffective or it would aid in crush
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good. He recommended publicity as the
first and most potent remedy for the
trust evil. saying:
W must De able by law to find out
exactly what each corporation does, and
earns. This mere publicity itself will
effect something towards ~remedying
evils. Moreover. it will give us a
clearer idea as to what the remaining
evils are, and will therefore enable us to
shape our measures for attacking the
I n +or vr-s%l uo@l ~ -
He referred to the franchise tax estab-
lished in New York as a step in the right
Speaking of the war in the Philippines
he said:
"There is a close similarity between the
arguments used by the populistic democ-
racy at this moment and by their ma
lOgueS. the copperheadS of 1864; and ex-
actly is in 1854. so now W. appeal for
the support of all good citizens.
I'm 1864 the democratic platform de-
nounc the further prosecution of the
civil war just as the Kansas City plat
form the further prosecution
of the war in the Philippines today.
Moreover, in 1854. the platform contained
precisely the same frantic assertion that
civil liberty and private rights had been
trampled on n that justice and liberty
demanded an immediate effort for the
cessation of hostilities. Much of what is
put in the two platforms could be inter-
changed on this point. and in 1864 there
was the same hypocritical sympathy ex-
pressed for the soldiers and sailors that
is expressed again in 1900. In each case
the impression of sympathy for the SOL
diers, coming as a ...... to a declaration
of hostility to the cause for which the
soldier was fighting. a declaration which
was certain infinitely to increase the
work and danger of the soldier"
Governor Roosevelt declared that sue
cess for the Filipinos would not mean
liberty for all the inhabitants of the
islands, but only for a certain blood
thirsty section, who would Cypress
others. Letters and interviews of the
soldiers n others who have been in
the Philippines We're quoted to prove the
assertion.