The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-02
PREFERS NAME
PROGRESSIVE
ALTHOUGH ROOSEVELT DEcLAR.
ES HIMSELF AN OUT AND
OUT INSJRGENT.
HONESTY IN GOVERNMENT
Was Theme of Main speech-T Talked
To School Children About
kfrica--ln Omaha
Tcday.

Kansas City, S>rt, 1.-The peop.e
have kept up tie welcome to Roost-
welt everywhere in his wandefings
through the west Tae co!oael tcll
them he is an insurgent through ard
through, but he said it would be bet
ter to call him a progrcs sive. Mem
bers of the Commercial Club. which
was entertaining hin, s.heered his
definition Of his political status It
was raining natT when lie arrived at
Kansas~1'ity Kans.
After parade and luncheon the
colonel went to Westport high scaool
and talked to the pupils. He then
made speech at the auditorium.
This speech was about honesty in
public and private life
The colonel was cheered continu-
ously. At the school house the col
ohel told the pupils sone stories OF
Africa and talked abort liols. He
said:
when they were building the rail
road construction was stopped TWO
weeks because two lions ate up all
the men. think they ate about 100'
The caidren liked the colonel S
stories and did not want him tostop.
Roosevelts speech at Convention
Hall here tonight was the principal
address of the day, He said hoaesty
should not be made party matter,
and that the first man to attack a
scoundtel should be man in the
scound3el's own party. He spoke OF
corruption In New York, Missouri, III
inois California ana said the luty Or
the people was to war with equal
sternness against the corrupt man o,
great wealth and the small man who
makes a trade corruption,
He advocated the enactment of a
federal workmen's compensation act.
At the Commercial Club 300 attend
ell the luncheon. among the ggrests
were Gov, Tfadley Of Missouri, GE-
ford Pinchot, James r. Garfield, CO..
W. r. Nelson and Senator Stone.
Roosevelt left for Omaha tonight
There are certain matters which
should never be treated as party mat
ters; and foremost among these is
the great and vital virtue of honesty,
Honesty should be treated as a prime
necessity 10 our success as a nation.
The minute that question Of non
esty as against dishonesty is involved,
then we must all act together as
Americans, without the slightest re-
gard to party Affiliations. Honesty is
not a party matter; and the first man
to attack scounlrel Of any party
should be the honest man of that
party.
Remember that honesty cannot be
anilateral. Good citizens should cor
daily distrust the man who can never
see dishonesty excepting in men of
the class he dislikes The reckless
agtator who invariably singles out
men of wealth az furnishing the only
examples Of dishonesty and the equ.
ally unscrupulous-but no more un-
crupulous--reaction who can see
dishonesty only in blackmaiiing pol
itician or a crooked labor leader: both
stand on the same plane of obnoxious
ness. You will flever get honesty
from politicians until you exact hon
esty from business men; on the other
hand, you brand yourselves as fools
or as hypocrites If you say that the
corporation owner, or the employer.
is always the dishonest man, and the
poor man never, that it is only the
wealthy man who corrupts the politi-
clan and never the politician who
backmails the corporation.
Corporation Bribery.
Any man in his senses knows that
there are plenty Of corporations IN
this country who prosper by bribi1g
legislatures just as they prosper by
swnding the public; and any man
in his senses ought TO know, in ad-
ditto, that there are plenty of cor
rupt men of small means who, in leg
islatiye or other bodies, try to black
mail corporations-an try to black
mail other people as we'll. If they
doubt this, let them look at he reve-
lations of corruption in my own state.
Sew York-and in yours. my hear
ers--here in Missouri: let them look
at what has occurred in California
and what has occurred in Illinois. In
Illinois. for instance, one Of the ras'
calities developed by the recent in
yestigation was the existence of a
combination Of legislators who black
mailed fishermen along certain riv-
ers forcing them to pay to prevent
legislation which wouM have inter
fered with their bushes.
BlacgmaiIers.
Now scoundrels who do these Kinds
OF things are, OF course, the very men
who on the one hand, will blackmail