Cañon City record., 1900-09-13
WHAT A DIFFERENCE.
THE SPEECHES OF BRYAN AND
ROOSEVELT ON LABOR DAY.


A Demagogic Partisan Appeal for the
Labor Vote. and Strong and Sen
sible Non-Partisan Grafton, Backed
by Past Performance
Especial Correspondence
Chicago. ILL.,. Sept. 4.
The demonstration in Chicago on La
Dor Day was one of the greatest of the
kind that has ever been seen any
where. The event was of national sig
niticance because of the addresses that
were made by Governor Roosevelt of
New York and by Mr.. Bryan Great
pains were taken by the labor leaders
TO make the observance of the day nom
partisan Representatives of both par
ties were invited to speak, but ii was
expected, not that they would conduct
a joint political debate, but that they
would avoid partisanship for the day.
and make addresses suitable to the oc-
casion-
Very instructive is the difference be-
tween the addresses of Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Roosevelt I presume you will
have in this issue of your paper sx-
trncts from both speeches, and your
readers may verify my statements
from the text.
MIR. Roosevelt's speech was an ora
ton such as he might deliver before
any great body OF intelligent fellow
citizens-such an address, for instance,
with allowance for the difference in
the aims and pdrposes of the organixa-
tions, as he might have delivered be-
for the American Bar Association or
the National Medical Congress- There
was not a word of politics, in the paru-
san sense. in the whole speech The
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lowing paragraph:
THE fundamental law of healthy Do
litical life in this great republic IL that
each man shall in deed and not mere
ly In word be treated strictly on his
worth as man; that each shall do full
Justice to his fellow. and In return
shall exact full Justice from him. Each
group Of men has its special Interests.
and yet the higher. the broader and
deeper interests are those which apply
to all men alike. for the split OF broth
erhood In American citixenship, when
rightly understood and rightly applied.
is more important than aught else. Let
us scrupulously regard the special In
terest Of the waee-worker. the fArmer.
the manufacturer and the merchants.
giving to each man his due and also
seeing that he does not wrong his fel-
lows; but let us ever keep clearly be-
fore cur minds the great fact that
where the deepest chords are touched.
the interest of all are alike and must
be guarded alike"
Mr.. Bryan began his speech some
what in the same vein and on the same
plane. but before he had gone more
than half way through. he could not re
sist the temptation to take advantage
OF the occasion for a partisan campaign
the trusts-with the implication, Of
course. that his party stands with the
laboring men against the trusts He
declaimed at length on the dangers Of
Imperialism. made the usual quotation
from Abraham Lincoln. and denounced
the Porto Rican bill passed by the last
Congress. In fact, read between the
lines. the speech was simply q bid for
the labor vote-the implication every
where was: Elect me president. and
all the evils which l denounce shfu
be renedied by me and my party
That was one great difference be-
tween the speeches of the two candi-
dates; but there was another difference
even more radical. and even more i'm
portant when IL comes to deciding
which OF these two candidates Is the
better entitled to mems votes When
Mr.. Roosevelt says that the state has
the right to suppress sweat-shops and
to pass and enforce factory inspection
laws. he speaks from experience-he
has himself done more than any other
one man in New York state to sup
press the sweat-shops and to enforce
the factory inspection law. When he
says that the great need Is that per-
formance shall square with the prom
Use OF good work. the laboring men
4 h..r
that Mr.. Roosevelt himself made his
performance square with his promise
every time. He went to the Legisla-
ture with the idea OF helping along GER
tain reforms, and he did help them
along He took the office of police
commissioner in New York with the
idea that the laws on the statute book
should be enforced. and he had them
enforced. He thought. and had said.
that efficiency, and not political pull.
should he the test to determine po-
licemau's advancement. and before the
end OF his term the police force OF
New York was on a new basis. and ev-
cry officer on the force knew that he
would have square DEAL and that
IL he did his duty. no political pull
would upset him or advance inferior
aud inefficient men over his head Mr..
Roosevelt helped to get the navy ready
for the war with Spain; he organized
a regiment and led II at the battle OF
San Jlan hill. and later. when he
thought there was need for criticism.
he criticised. and got the troops moved
away from Santiago when they needed
to be moved; as governor, he has seen
to Ii that things were done right In the
atate administration.
In Mr. Bryan's case. words have new
er been backed by deeds. He has al
ways been a talke-. not a doer. IL he
ever helped to frame IA legislative en-
actment. IL was the Wilson biil-that
measure which was so complete SUR
render OF the free-trade principles for
which Mr.. Bryan has stood. and OF
which Mr.. Cleveland was then the
champion. that the latter as president
refused to give II his official sanction.
and It became n law without his sigma