La Junta tribune., 1900-09-15
WHAT A DIFFERENCE.
THE SPEECHES OF BRYAN AND
ROOSEVELT ON LABOR DAY.


A Demasogic Partisan Appeal for the
Labor Vote. and Strong aud Sen.
sibie On-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
nificance because of the addresses tina,
Were made by Governor Roosevelt oi
New York and by Mr.. Bryan. t;reai
pains We're taken by the labor leaders
TO mike the observance of the day non
partisan. Representatives of both par
ties were invited to speak, but 1t was
expected. not that they would conduct
a joint political debate, but that they
would avoid partisaDship for the day,
and make addresses snitable TO the &C.
cnsion.
Very instructive is the difference be-
tween the addresses of Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Roosevelt. l presume you will
have in this issue OF your paper ex-
tracts 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 purposes of the organixa
tions. as he might have delivered be-
for the American Bar Association or
the National Medical Congress. There
was not word of politics, in the pnrti-
San sense. In the whole speech. The
keynote of IL may bc found in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
THE fundamental law of healthy po-
litical life in this great republic Is that
each man shall liz deet. 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 It's special interests;
and yet the higher. the broader and
deeper interests are those which apply
to all men alike. for the spirit OF broth
erhoOd In American citizenship, when
rightly understood and rightly applied,
is more important than aught else. Let
US scrupulously regard the special in
terest Of the wage worker the farmer,
the manufacturer and. the merchants,
giving to each mnn his due and also
seeing that he does not wrong his fel-
lows; but let us ever keep clearly be-
fore our minds the great fact TINT
where the deepest chords are touched,
the interest Of NIL 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. lie could not re-
sist the temptation to take advantage
of the occasion for a partisan campaign
speech. He took occasion to denounce
the trusts-with the implication, OF
course, that his party stands with the
lnbOring men against the trusts. He
declaimed Mt 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 bid for
the labor vote-the implication every
where was: Elect me president, and
all the evils which l denounce shall
be remedied 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 Inn
pOrtnnt when II 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 sweatAhops and to enforce
the factory inspection law. When be
says that the great need is that per-
formance shall square with the prom
tse OF good work. the laboring men
know, and every other man knows.
that Mr.. Roosevelt himself made his
Performance square with his promise
every time. He went to the I.egisla-
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. aud had said.
that efficiency. and not political pull.
should be the test to determine a DO
liceman's advancement. and before the
end Of his term the police force or
New York was on q new basis, and ev-
cry ofncer ON the force knew that he
would have s'aquare DEAL and that
II he did his duty, NO political psll
would upset him or advance Inferior
and inelicIent men over his head. Nj.
Roosevelt helped to ret the navy ready
for the war with Spain: he organised
Z reRiment and led It at the hattie 0f
6an Juan hill, and later, when be
thought there was need for criticism.
he criticised. and got the troops moved
away from Santiago when they needed
to be moved: a. governor, he has secn
TO 4 that things were done right In the :
state administrAtio
In Mr. Rrvnn,a raup vrnrs3a hava
ways been talker, not I does. lk ~
ever helped to frame Z DeGfG1Ak1ye -
actment, It was the Wileo& hfll shat
measure which was 20 comp ste = ~.
render Of the free-trnde 3neipaes for
which Mr.. Bryan has 61ood. and Of
which Mr. Cleve2Su s1in fhen thA