Evening star., 1900-10-10
Gov. Roosevelt P'.es..s. Moral Sid.
Of Campaign Issues.
MAKES APPEAb 10 YOUNG MEN
Reasons for Keeping the Philip
pines and Other Territory.
GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES

Governor Roosevelt spoke to q vast audi
eDce in the Exposition Coliseum in st.
Louis last night. He talked little more
than an hour. He was escorted from the
Planters Hotel In the evening by Mayor
Ziegenhein, National Committeeman Ker-
ems and other prominent republicans Of
Missouri, mounted regiment Of Rough
Riders and several thousand citizens in
carriages and on foot The route Of the
night parade was Illuminated with fam
beaux and colored fire. Arriving at the
Coliseum the governor was greeted with
tumuituous applause. He was introduced
by the mayor of the city, and was cheered
enthusiastically throughout his speech
The governor said in part:
Il appeal to you less as republicans than
as citizens of this great country, for feel
that in this year we have the same right
to appeal to all men without regard to
their political past, as we had in 1854, thir-
ty-six years ago. Then as now the issues
at stake were SO great that they super
seded all questions Of mere party aftiila-
tions.
Il have to ask you to look at just two
sides Of these issues-the material side, ana
what Is greater than the material slue'
the moral side; the side of the greatness
and honor of the nation.
Question of Free Silver.
''Take the question of free silver If any
of you are fortunate enough to know
whether Mr.. Bryan, If elected. will pay the
obligations of the nation in gold, or In
silver, ! wish you would divulge this knowl-
edge, for Mr. Bryan won't. There is no
doubt about where we stand. We are Tor
the gold standard, and We are for II on
the Atlantic seaboard and In the ROCKY
mountains alike. Some people say that the
silver issue is dead. Silver cannot be dead
when people are uncertain as to now a
candidate Of one of the two great parties
would pay the obligations OF the govern
ment. No issue is dead when you cannot
tell whether a creditor, or a pensioner,
whoever he may be, is to get AZ cents or
100 on the dollar 1t is dead to the extent
that nobody ventures to argue In It's De.
half But If they paid our debts In 4S-cent
dollars we would care little as to the
precise arguments by which they reacheo
the conclusion that warranted that con-
duct.
The last paramount issue that seems 10
have been developed on the other side is the
issue of trusts. The whole development OF
our highly specialized and highly complex
modern industrial civilization has tended TO
produce these great aggregates OF corpo-
rate wealth In their development there
has been good, and there has also been evil
The man who denies the eVll Is just as Iooi-
ish as he who thinks that II IS ali eVli.
There have been evils, and there are now
evils; they have got to be cut out, ana they
are going to be cut out, not by oratory. but
by common sense and resolution. lncdetl-
tally one of the first things to do is 10 make
up your minds that while getting rid OF the
cancer you wish to avoid killing the patient.
'The very fact that the problem Is com
pIex means that there can be no immediate
solution. There Will probably have to be
national action to cure 1t. At present II
has to be left largely to the different states
under decision of the supreme court In
,,r-t 1n r-in
poses of the constitutions the states now
have complete control of the corporations.
Let me point out the national attitude OF
the two parties on the trust question. AS l
saw at present the state alone has the
power to deal with them. The states can
not deal with them effectively; the nation
must join. It can only join by constitu-
tionai amendment. Such an amendment
was introduced into the last House OF Rep
resentat tives, about June 1 last 1t received
a vote of every republican but two ana
against 1t was cast vote OF every demo-
crat save six of the members of the House.
AS It needed two thirds vote 1t failed of
passage; and the democratic leader Mr.
Richardson, in opposing the passage OF the
amendment quoted with approval from
democratic paper. saying that the democracy
could not afford to pass that constitutional
amendment because If it did SO it would
take the trust Issue out of the coming cam
paign Applause)
Moral Side of the Issues.
NOW one moment, upon "ildl 10 Sicd'el
than the material side. 1t is great thing
to belong to a prosperous country, a coun-
try rich in mines, In factory, IN farm'
ranches and railroads.
..I aDpeal to the young men; l appeal to
those on the threshold Of their manhood
to bear themselves as their fathers and
grandfathers bore themselves IN the older
days I appeal to you to see that this ma
ton does not shrink from its destiny; that
il treads it's allotted path with courage
and firm step But, mind you, there are
two things to be kept in mind about that.
In the first place, we should tread that
path as Americans, in the spirit of true
Americanism. That is not the spirit that
depends upon color, creed or birthplace
1t depends upon accepting man on MS
worth as man. | see here, my comrade,
you of the dusky face, brother OF those
men with the white face, wearing the but
ton of the Grand Army. l saw men OF
your color in the 9TH and 10Th cavalry
fighting yaliantly at Santiago; and let
me here saw that l think if Mr.. Bryan
would devote less attention to the imag-
mary rights, or rather imaginary wrongs,
of the brown man VINO Is shoo'ihs at our
the wrongs of the men on whose breasts
may be seen the scars gained as they
fought for the flag, and who happen to
have been born in certain Of our own
states. I think If de would devote atten-
tion to the wrongs of the black American
here, rather than to the wholly fanclful
injuries done Tagal bandits on the other
side of the ocean that this work would
bear more useful fru1t.
I'VE cannot In honor shirk our work In
the Philippines. We are there and have
got to stay Peace has come through the
last century to large sections of the earth
because the civilized races have spread
over the worlds dark places. 1t is good
thing for the world that France should
be in Algiers, England in the Soudan and
Russia in Turkestan. 1t is good thing
for the world; and, above all, 1t is good
thing for the people of those countries.
Now, what Is our duty in the Philippines?
1t Is a duty to govern those islands in the
interest Of the Islanders, not less than in
accordance with our own honor and in
terest The islands shall have such liberty
as they could never know under the lead
ership of a syndicate of inconceivably cor
rupt and cruel halfbreeds. But it shall be
liberty in fact, and not travesty; 1t
shall be liberty with order"
MIR. Flint Defends the Trusts.
Industrial combinations were defended in
a speech delivered In Chicago last night by
Charles r. Flint Of New York, treasurer OF
the United States Rubber Company, better
known as the rubber trust. The address
was delivered at the meeting of the Illinois
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