Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-14
He SPEAKS But
SAYS LITTLE
Roosevelt's First Expression
Since Election Totally Ig-
nores That Event.
PROPOSES TOAST TO TAFT
Judge Baldwin Adheres to Plan to
Snub Ex-President on Visit to
New Haven.

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 14.-Colo-
mel Theodore Roosevelt broke the 81
Ience he had kept since the November
elections when he delivered an address
as the guest of the chamber of COM
merce here last night. The banquet
was held in the commons" of Yale
university.
Colonel Roosevelt was greeted with
cheers, which lasted fully a minute,
when he rose to speak 1T seems TO
me that nothing could be a better
aueurv of the future of his country"
he said. than that republican presi-
dent should appoint an eX-confederate
of opposite political faith chief justice
Of the United States and receive unan-
enous applause of his countrymen.
: Toast to Taft and White.
with the permission of your presi
dent | shall propose two toasts: First,
TO President Taft. and second, to that
learned iurist, Chief Justice White"
After the toasts had been drunk Co
lionel Roosevelt said he was glad to
say in New Haven precisely what he
had said to many former gatherings
in the west" Colonel Roosevelt said
that during the last half of the last
century people had concerned them
selves with the accumulation of mater
ial well being. thinking its distribution
would take care of itself But the
people had come TO see he added, that
they must concern themselves with an
equitable distribution of wealth.
Is .NIod.fed Anarchist"
Bodies like this chamber of COM
merCe," said the colonel, have been
industriously taught 10 regard me as a
kind of modified anarchist AS a mat
ter of fact | think that if you will read
what | have said. and not what certain
representatives of the press have said
that | have said, you will see that |
have tried to preach only the doctrines
on which this republic was founded.
4 am a radical, but l am a radical
who most earnestly desires to see a
rational progress carried out by con-
servatives. l wish TO see great indus
trial reforms carried out not by the
men who will profit by them, but by
the men who lose by them; by just
such men as you around me. l believe
most emphatically in the progress
which shall be sane"
Must Curb Corporations.
Colonel Roosevelt said he wished to
see the hand of the state and nation
placed on the great corporations, to
regulate them THE rights Of man
must be paramount in a republic such
as ours he added.
The colonel urged the passage of leg
islation TO benefit labor
Il don't want the prize in the race
to go to the man who isn't fast enough
TO win it. l want them to start even"
Equal opportunity, he said. represent
ed the idea upon which the republic
was founded.
Il care for the fact" he continued,
and not in the least for the FORM
You hear a good deal of national rights
and of state rights. I'm for both
He explained this by saying that he
was for national rights where they
would best serve the welfare of the
people and for state rights where their
exercise was most beneficial
Sign of soft Heads
Colonel Roosevelt said corporations
should be treated with an exact meas
ure of Justice
Your grocer must make a profit or
he won't continue TO sell groceries,"
he explained, but if you pay his bills
without examining them you don't
show that you have a soft heart. You
show that you have soft head"
The government, he declared. should
deal with corporations on the same
basis as man deals with his grocer,
in giving and eXacting justice.
The colonel said that there had been
a good deal of loose talk about pro
posed changes in forms of government.
OLD MEN RETIRED.