The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-06
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III ROOSEVELT 81: Il:
\ Prudent Grabs Arm Of Mar
} xslls People Are Paying
1br Western Tour.

xVk Westeku- AVuk'
10, N. D.. Sept. GA man who
y ~ way TO ex-President Roose
IA called him . liar gave bad
vooterday to the crowd at Island
IN this city. Col. hooseveit
the man and helped to eject
lfom the platform.
4hting his way through the crowd.
nan reached the short flight OF
- 1eadinx TO the speakers stand.
Mounted the steps and stopped
10y he reached the top. Standing
t pjx feet from Col. Roosevelt,
0aIIod out once more:
have q question to ask you,
oeyelt"
- men and women on the stand
t silent. Col. Roosevelt turned
faced him. Waving one arm the
- shouted:
r want to know who is' paying the
oonDes Of this trip OF yours about
countryfs :.
rs question angered Col. Roosevelt
his face showed II. He advanced
I'D toward his interrogation ana
~ back his answer.
FL consider that to be an imperti-
~ question:" he said. However, |
~ no objection telling you" be ad-
that the expenses OF the party
~ being paid by the magazine OF
hoh / am one OF the editors"
You lie," the man shouted 80 loud
That hundreds of persons In the
|oWd could hear him.
- he spoke the words Col. Roose-
stepped forward quickly and
I'D His arm just above the elbow.
y explained later that he did not
10w who the man was or what MS
NATIONS we're, and that he had TAX.
hold of his arm as q measure OF
|lf-protection- He pushed the arm
ward, turning the man half around
that he was powerless to use the
~. II was an old trick OF self-de-
no which he had learned years ago,
q colonel said.
|His vigorous action did not deter
y man from finishing what he had
nv. He shouted out:
your expenses are being paid py
y people OF the United States"
Although Col. Roosevelt was the
- TO act, others ran quickly to as
= him, and even before the man had
n1nhed his remarks two men seized
-. The colonel did not release his
|tD until the stranger was moving
|1fdly from the stand. He was eject
from the platform and was swal-
Vod up in the excited crowd.
30 far as 1t known. there was no
Iuoe for the alarm felt by those who
re standing close to Col. Roosevelt,
e the story of Tho incident spread
llckly through thu" crowd and caus-
considerable excitement.
COL. Roosevelt managed to get to
2 automobile and was driven rapidly
Ia telling of the incident later the
|1ou2, said that he had no idea who
~ oefanger was.
~ hbers OF the labor organiza'
rn1 XAre came to me and told me
IT 10y did not know him." he said
FhcJ uaid that he had come from
at oftown."
Cox Roosevelt's speech here FOL
4 believe in the principle OF organ :
"a labor, and In the practice or col
G<1vof bArgatning, not merely as a DO
xab1o.t thing for the wage-earners. but
! Sornothing which has been demon
rated to be essential In the long run
THAR permanent progress.
TINS does not mean that uneQuivo-
~ indorse any or all practices that
lopt. or any OF all principles that
Nv may choose to enunciate. Labor
have the weaknosses and
Ioots common to all other forms OF
11nn11 Organizations- sometimes they
n VSfy well, and sometimes they act
ny badly; and / am for them whom
~ act well. and 1 am against them
kSn they act badly. / believe that
lofr existence Is a necessity; believe
~ their aims and purposes are gen.
ally. GOOD: and l believe that All OF
lem have occasionally made mistakes.
"a that some of them have been
n1lty OF wrong-doing. Just insofar
D they are strong and effective they
mt sdesianing men who seek to con-
~ them for their own interests, and
.lknulate the desires of ambitious
nderss who may be clever. crooked
|nn. or who may be honest but vision
~ and foolish. In other words. In
49atfug OF labor unions, as In treat
II OF corporations, or OF humanity
~ Abraham Lincoln's saying that
here. 10 deal of human nature in
Ianlkind" Whether In man or In
4 OrKanized body Of men. the power
DO rood means that such power may
) twisted into evil; and in proportion
d the power grows, so IL becomes
koadfly more important that II should
= handled Alright. Just In proportion
= In its proper function power is I'M
ortant to social progress, so In Its
Improper function IL becomes fraughf
dth social disaster.
Where men and women are worked
nder harsh and intolerable conditions
IA can secure no relief without a
(f1ke. or, Indeed. where the strike r.
Ieariy undertaken for things which
r. vitality necessary--and then only
= Z last resort---the public sympathy
FIJI favor the wage-workers: but II
HI not favor them unless such con-
1f1ona an these are fulfilled. and II will
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