Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-26

| Col. Roosevelt began with a refer
ence to the city as "a pretty wide
awake town" alluding to the early
hour. He continued:
Il will plunge at once into sub
| Ject that L know is of the utmost in
| terest to you and ought to be of in
terest to all of our people and that is:
Keeping the fresh water supply of the
Great Lakes unpolluted
We claim to be civilized people
and civilized people ought to know
| how to dispose of the sewage in some
| other way than putting it into the
| drinking water We need action by
| both the state and the nation to put
complete stop to the pollution of the
Great Lakes, action by the state so
| far as our own boundary is concerned
and action by the nation. because other
states besides our own are interested
Our people must realize from now
on that in addition to grasping after
| new fields of conquest they have got
| to take good care of the things thai
have been conquered, that they have
got to attend to a number of things
| they have left unattended. Too much
in the past it has been the habit of our
country to let any man do what he
| wanted, without regard to other men.
| We have got to that state when we
must consider the interests of all We
have go to do more in such manner as
to keep unpoluted the Great Lakes.
the most wonderful body of fresh wa
| ter in the country.
| We must keep the water supply un-
polluted. and to do that you must Sc"
'
| In the same way we must keep the
standard of public honesty and public
! decency high and you cannot do that
| unless the individual citizen in the
| first place himself keeps it high
II believe in party government. but
the moment a question of honesty is
involved. I recognize no party distlnc-
ton If / make any distinction. it is
that it is little more my business to
hunt out of public life a crook who
claims to belong to my party than if
he claims to belong to another.
"Distrust the financier who cannot
see crool1edness among financiers. but
| only among the labor leaders and dis
trust the labor leader who can see
crookedness only when it is by the
big financier Attack a man because he
is crooked If he is a poor man and
crooked. attack him. If he is rich
man and crooked attack him.
personally, | would attack the rich
man who is crooked just little strong
er because crookedness is just trlhe
more Infamous in HIM. But, l would
attack the other man very strongly.
often you will find that men have
BETRAYED the interests of the people by
doing what is improper for some big
corporation In that case. try to get
at them and try to get at the big cor
poration and all of those responsible
for it's management and | will help you
in every way that I can. | have done
it in the past I will do it just as we
did in connection with the sugar trust
inst as we did against the men in such
cases.
| DO not let the man fee! that he is
to he nitied rather than blamed for
Welding to the temptation offered bE
tho big corporation that tries to get
him to go wrong, My experience is
that the kind of man will go wrong
when the corporation tempts him, Is
, crook from the start and goes wrong
because he is glad to go wrong My
|
inst as quick to blackmail corpora
| ton as he will to take money corrup.-
" If he is crooked he will show his
crookedness as quickly on one slde as
he will on the other and if the people
fail to condemn the man VINO Is CROOK
cd and who will blackmail corpora
| ton. they will have themselves !"
thank when the blackmailer turns
round and becomes tool OF the cor
nor.tior which he will do when it is
his interest to do so
You are not going to get honesty III
a public servant on behait OF the peo-
pie unless you insist on that man
showing honesty to all with "hoih ie
is brought into contact
II would fight for the rights or tne
big man just as I would for the rlsh's
! of the small man and for the rights OF
all the people. if they want 10 De non
i est to the people themselves.
| The gathering of people at the std
tion had been considerably augmented
during the hour. Standing on the reai
platform of his car. Mr.. RooseNe'.
waved his hat as the train puileo OUT
westward shortly after 7.So A. NJ
When Colonel Roosevelt appeared on
the rear end platform at Dunklrk' A.
Y. ne was met by large gathering
Of railroad men. Near his car an en-
CINE was blowing off steam.
II can't talk against that protest
cd Colonel Roosevelt, nodding toward
erage American in our political, inous
trial and social life must show just
these traits."-The noise of this locomo-
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