The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-20
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At Idaho Falls and B1ackfoot-


At idaho Falls and Blackfoot-
At Idaho Falls the train made a
short stop during which Governor
Roosevelt spoke in part as follows:
You should turn and laugh to scorn
the politician who tries to make you
turn your backs on the duties of an
American citizen by the cry of i'm
perialisn. l have yet to meet in this
country the first impenialist. I never
read of one except in Democratic plat
FORMS
AT BIackfoot Governor Roosevelt
made a speech in the court house
square, in which he said:
Some seventeen or eighteen years
ago L was here l lived in parts of the
west where it was middling rough and
where a man would occasionally escape
a licking if he accepted a kicking. He
could get peace on those terms, but it
was not permanent peace; because
a kicking easily, other people took a
part in the exercise. Now, if we had
let the southern states go, we would
have had war after war, and we would
have trodden bloody path in conse-
quenee. Exactly as the generation of
the past did its great work well, so we
have got to do our lesser work well.
When the men. of our nation cease to
give aid and comfort to our enemies
peace will come to the Philippines"
Speech at. Pocatel1o.
Governor Roosevelt addressed two
meetings at Pocatello this evening. one
at Pavilion hall and the other at
Lewis hall Both were largely attend
ed. The first speech was made at Pa
Vilion hall, which was q small place,
no more than 1000 persons being able
to get in. Lewis hall was still smaller.
Senator Carter also spoke at both
places At Pavilion hall Governor
Roosevelt said in part:
Il have been travelling all day along
the eastern border of your great state.
1 have been seeing what you done in
turning the wilderness into fruitful
fields. 1 have seen the gray sage brush
plains and the fields covered with the
yellow stUbble of harvest crops and
with growing alfalfa I cannot say
on this ground, that has grown from
the efforts of you men of the west,
whom I come to know so well some
years ago, when I, myself, lived up in
the cattle country in Montana
I'm speaking 10 you this evening I
want to talk especially from the stand
ard of the wage workers, and on the
question of trusts. Four years ago, L
am informed that the amount of wages
paid the wage workers here was much
less than they are receiving now. 1
learn that you had some 900 men en-
plOyed four years ago, whereas you
have 500 employed NOV, in the shops
here, and train men. Four years ago
the average wages of these men was
$50 a month, whereas they now get an
average of SS5 a month, in 1896 many
mechanics had TO be set at a lower
grade of work or do nothing, whereas
now men are employed at the highest
kind of work, at the wages I have
named. Your engineers four years ago
received an average of $50 a month
On 70 =
ffremen four years ago did not get but
about $50 a month on an average,
whereas now they get from $50 to $3.50
a month. Conductors were receiving in
the r1eighborhoOd of $50 a month and
now they get about $40 a month. The
wages of baggagemen have gone from
$40 to SEQ a month then to 500 month
now.
eff am in error about the figures,
you can look them uD easily enough
But substantially what / have told you
is the fact We have seen in four years
what has been the increase in wage
earning here.
Warns Against Hurting Trusts.
''All I ask is that in your effort to
cut down the trusts, you do not also
cut down the wage worker. You should
not vote so as to bring ruin upon the
wage workers wife and children, for
when hard times come, when disaster
and panic are abroad in the land and
times are hard, it may be hard for the
men, but it is harder still for the
women and children. it is harder for
those dependent upon him. Do not vote
to injure yourselves in your endeaVOr TO
get at the man you would like to get
ar, for l think we can get at them II
we go honestly, nationally and quietly
about it. The man of the trust will be
hurt great deal less than you, by any
great commercial disaster. The specu-
lator can do more to protect himself
He may be badly off but ne VIII not
be as badly off as the, others.
I'VE win find out how to get at the
trusts 1t is not easy to point out now
it can be done, but it is very easy TO
point out some way in which IL cannot
be done. The worst of these ways IS
to go into Mysteries NOBODY ever
gained anything by going into mysteries
yet, and il is bad for the person 1ndulg-
ing in them. Some times we nave leg
islation that verges on the nyster1caI
Just thing Of the amendments to the
antitrust laws that have been passed
during the past six or eight years ana
think how little most of them amount
30.
Compare the accomplishment with
the promises on the part or the people
who promised the most MT. Bryan
said four years ago. again ana again,
that unless you elected him, You would
have harder times than ever NOW l
ask what has been your experience l
asl9 you if wool did not sell at about
s cents five or six years ago, anu
r does not sell Tor apout
double that now? You may reInemper
the story of the farInes who voted ioI
free wool eight years ago. VINO Saiu