The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1907-10-23
WILL Be NO LET Up.
Stock FIurries Won't Change
the Presidents Policy.
TO PURSUE THE DISHONEST
Mr.. Roosevelt Declares He Does Not
Think His Policy Caused the Finan'
ciaI Disturbance, But, If SO. 1t VIII
Not Be Altered.

Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 23.-President
Roosevelt. IN his speech at the Audi
forum here, referred to the stock
market troubles in the following
words:
There has been trouble in the
stock market; in the high financial
world. during the past few months.
The statement has frequently been
made that the policies for which l
stand. legislative and executive, are
responsible for that trouble. Now,
gentlemen these policies Of mine can
be summed up in one brief sentence.
They represent the effort to punish
successful dishonesty. l doubt II
these policies have had any material
effect in bringing about the present
trouble. but if they have it will not
alter In the slightest degree my de-
termination that, for the remaining liz
months of my term, these policies
shall be persevered in unswervingly.
IF to arouse that type Of civic man
hood in our nation it were necessary
to suffer any temporary commercial
depression, l should consider the cost
but small. All we have done has been
to unearth the wrong doing. 1t was
not the fact that it was unearthed that
did the damage. All did was to turn
on the light. I am responsible for
what the light showed. 1t Is impossi-
BILE to cut out a cancer without max
ing the patient feel for few days
rather sicker than he felt before.
mo material well-being can save
this nation If it loses the lift towards
higher things. l am well aware that
in any such movement as that in
which we have been engaged there
are sincere men who take advantage
of the movement to do away with the
wrongs of wealth. themselves to in
weigh against wealth.
There is nothing baser and meaner
than the hatred of the man who pros
pers honestly, simply because he has
prospered, and I challenge the spirit
of every good American when | say
the honest railroad man. the honest
banker, and the honest business man
is the man who makes fortune be-
cause his exceptional business ability
enables him to render exceptional!
service to the community. | challenge
the spirit of every good American cltl-
zen when | say he shall receive the
amplest protection and be safeguard
ed against all injustice.
mo man will stand more strongly
of "
so long as it honestly acquired and
honestly used. l will stand against
the poor man II he does wrong, just
as l will stand against the rich man
II he does wrong. l will stand against
crimes of brutal violence. just as I
stand against crimes of unscrupukous
cunning. A crime is a crime, aad 1t
makes no difference whether the
wrong is perpetratsd by plutocracy or
by q mob. by capitalist OK by a
wage worker.
There are certain gentlemen who
have affected to misunderstood my po-
sftion on that point, and to say that
l have talked against men Of wealth
as such; that | have melted, attacks
upon the class that owns great wealth.
Those gentlemen are blind If they
see the facts in that light. l will pro-
tect in every way in nay power honest
property. l will protect the honest
man of wealth to the extent of my
ability. And in no way can ultimate
" protect the honest man of wealth
so effectively as by doing everything
in nv power to bring to justice his
dishonest brother of wealth.
cit Is q difficult matter to punish
the crimes of INSCRIPTIONS cunning
committed by men of great wealth. 1t
II a difficult matter to punish as he
should be punished the man who, at
the head of great railroad, does
wrong to the whole body polite by
mismanagement; it is difficult be-
cause As yet We hardly have the proper
laws, and still more because the peo-
pie themselves do not fully realize
how serious the crimes are which are
committed in this fashion"