Arizona republican., 1910-09-02
ALL THIEVESL00KALIKE
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| kCOnllnucu From IdSe One.) ! existence of combination of legiSlat- | DTS who blackmailed Fishermen along 1 a certain river, forcing them to pay | to prevent legislation which would 1 have interfered with their business.
 Now, scoundrels who do these kinds | of things are, of course, the very men i who, on the one hand. will biackmail
 q corporation, if they get a chance, and. on the other hand, will cheerfully, if l the chance occurs, sell themselves to that corporation against the interests of the public Their corruption is no more due to the action of the corpora tions than the corruption of the cor poratiOnS is due to their action; and | evil, and not good, is done by the hon est and misguided man who would per suade you that either fact is true. Our | duty is to war with equal sternness against the corrupt man of great wealth and the small man who makes a trade of corruption; our fight is against both the swindling corporation and the blackmailing or bribe- taking politician.
 We cannot afford to limit d cam
  happen to have certain social status. We need laws which shall put the cor poration out of business, so far as concerns corruption the servants of the public and betraying the rights of the public. I believe that the great issue now before the people is the doing away with the power of the big cor poration to control legislation in its interests and to interfere in politics in order to secure privileges to which it is not entitled.
 But I regard the essential factor in | this campaign as being an aroused civic conscience, which will unsparing | ly condemn dishonesty in every form, l and in every man, high or low. The reckless, would be reformer. who, who ! in speaking or writing seeks to per suade us that we need pay heed to cor ruption only when it shows itself in | the rich man, is doing as great a moral | wrong as the rich man whose low nor ! al standard tends to lower the moral 1 standard of the whole community. The people of this country will get justice from the corporations only if they both do justice to them and rigidly exact | it from them. Unless they do justice to rich men, they put premium upon injustice and dishonesty among rich men. Let us hold them to the strict est accountability for any wrong do f ing; let Us war on crOokedness of ev- cry kind in the man of small means |. as well as the man of large means. Let us judge each man by his conduct. and not by his social or financial con dition"
 Colonel Roosevelt made his way | through the surging crowd and was driven to the station. He left at late hour for Omaha, where he speaks to- morrow.
 An enjoyable part of the days en- tertainment was a Dutch luncheon giv en by Colonel William R. Nelson at his home to the visiting newspaper men and others of the Roosevelt party.
 ROOSEVELT'S STATUS.
 Roosevelt was told that che was an insurgent through and through in song which was sung in his honor at luncheon today. but he said it would be better to call him progressive. The members of the commercial club who were entertaining him, cheered his definition of his political status
 Although it was raining hard when Roosevelt, after stopping at Kansas City, Kas.. to make a speech. reached the city, thousands were at the station to cheer him. After a parade through the business section of the city and luncheon the colonel went to the West port school in the southern end of the city and talked to the pupils.
 The auditorium of tle high school was crowded with pupils when the col onel arrived and they stood up and gave him the Chautauqua salute while at the same time they shouted at the tops of their voices. As soon as they would let him speak, the colonel said he had a confession to make. that he was a little afraid of his audience be- cause half of it was composed of girls, whom he never knew how to handle.
 q have four boys of my own,' said he. and only two girls. The girls were both in charge of their mother until they grew up and then they took charge of me. They have treated me kindly, but firmly"
 Roosevelt told some sories of Africa, and then gave the boys and girls ad vice. To the girls he said, T don't like to have a girl dance all night, so that she will be tired the next day when her mother wants something from the second story.
 His advice to boys was given in -erms of football. Don't shirk, don't foul and hit the line hard'
 In his speech in Kansas City. Kas., Roosevelt advocated the enactment of | federal workmen's compensation act. ]
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