The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-02
MISSOURI GIVES
THEO. ROOSEVELT
MIGHTY WELCOME
Strenuous Colonel Does His
Best TO Show Them ALI
About 1t
Corporations Must Be Made to
Keep Their Corrupt Hands
Off Legislation

lion were on the Englishman and the
lion had the mans head in his mouth.
THE German shouted and awakened
the italian. who leaped up and jumped
on the lions back. He jumped off
again and ran 10 the other end of the
car The lion had it's man and only
wanted TO get away with him. It
smashed its way through the window,
dragging the Englishman with it. and
all through the night the German and
TIE italian could hear the dreadful
pllrring of the lion as it ate the Eng
lisbman.f
The school children liked the col
oners stories so well that they did not
want him to stop. but he was late and
had 70 leave. Before he departed. how
ever. he gave them some advice. To
the girls he said:
ADVICE TO GIRLS
Il don't like to have q girl dance all
night, so that she will be tired next
DAY when her mother wants some
thing from the second story"
His advice TO the boys was given in
Terms Of football. 1t was:
Don't shirk, don't foul and hit the
line hard"
RooseveIt's speech in the Auditorium
was his principal address of the day.
He said that honesty should not be
made a party matter and that the first
men TO attack scoundrels should be
= the men In the scoundrel's own party.
lie spoke of corruption in New York.
mi
said that the duty of the people was
TO war with equal sternness against
the corrupt men Of great wealth and
the small man who makes trade of
q. corruption.
CURLING CORPORATIONS
We need laws which shall put the
corporations out of business so far as
concerns corrupting the servants of the
public and betraying the rights of the
people" he said. At another point in
his speech he asserted:
The people of this country will get
justice from the corporations only If
they do justice to them andl rigidly
exact IL from them"
In his speech at Kansas City Roose-
welt advocated the enactment of a fed
seral workmen,s compensation act.
GUEST OF CLUB
As the guest Of honor of the aKnsas
City Commercial club, Roosevelt today
drank a toast to the president, was
himself toasted as the first citizen of
the United States" and listened TO a
Tollicking song to the tune of "In the
Good Old Sumner Time" which ran
as follows:
at next election time
Al next election time.
Roaming round the woolly west,
Getting things in line;
For We like him snd he likes US,
And that's = very good sign
That he VIII be our president at next election
time.
the toast TO the president, but looked
statuesoue as the reference to himself
was made
Later when he was called upon to
speak he referred TO the song saying
that rone Of them was anxiously seek
ing the knowledge of my wherea bouts
Another song ending with the re-
frain. For he's insurgent through and
through" could have been improved in
technical accuracy if the word pro
gressiveH had been substituted for the
word .'Insurgent"
Don't get the bride off, said the
colonel, amid cheers.
Three hundred men attended the
luncheon and gave Colonel Roosevelt
a noisy welcome.
WAR ON REBATES
Colonel Roosevelt complimented the
people Of Kansas City upon the extern
siye improvements that have been
made TO their waterworks system. He
expressed his interest in the improve
merts OF the waterways, especially of
the Missouri river. .--
When / began. as president the
movement against rebates that were
universally demanded and given, the
practice was so general that the fact
OF giving them and asking for them had
become a purely conventional crime"
said Colonel Roosevelt
No one spoke of the giving of re-
hates as crime, and as that practice
was freely INDUCED in by the great
mass Of people, others were driven TO