The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-02
H1NEs7Y IS NOT 4
NATTER OF PARTY
BRINE Necessity to Cur Success
az Nation, Says Roosevelt.
ADDRESS At KANSAS CITY
A issue Declared to Be Doing
a,.ay with Special Privilege
Praise is Given Senator
BristoW.

v,nsas City, Mo-. Sept. 1.-Ex-
u,osident Roosevelt arrived here
.1o+lV after noon today, and spent
49, dav as the guest Of the CONNER
sloI club. The reception committee
and the Thirteenth regiment met
MIN at the station and there was a
.hort parade through the city to the
uo.el Baltimore, where luncheon was
carved Among the guests were Gov
arnor H&aley OF Missouri, Governor
s.ubbs Of Kansas, General Funston
and the senator's from Missouri and
Kansas
Makes a Lively Speech.
This evening, after dinner given
nv the officers Of the Commercial
elub COL Roosevelt delivered lively
address on honesty and corruption in
the public service. He said:
There are certain matters which
should never be treated as party mat
t,rs. and foremost among these Is the
Great and vital virtue OF honesty. Hon
saty should be treated as prime ne
ssssIty to our success as a nation. The
minute that a question OF honesty as
AGAINST dishonesty is involved then we
must all act together as Americans,
without the slightest regard to party
Affiliations. Honesty is not a party
matter: and the first man to attack a
scoundrei of any party should be the
honest men of that party. When in
office, always proceeded upon tho
theory that there would be no need
Of my opponents raising the cry Of
Turn the rasCals out" because l
would turn them out myself just as
soon as, by vigilant and intelligent in
dustry could discover them. The
present Senator Bristow, for instance.
was In the Post-Office Department
when information reached me which
convinced me that there was extensive
rsscality being practiced in the depart
mert This information came TO me
through the then First Assistant Post
master General. Mr. Wynne-an admir-
able man whose honesty l knew TO be
beyond proof The active work Of the
Investigation was done by another
post-ofice oficial in whose honesty,
courage, and energy I had absolute
conference.-the present Senator Bris-
tow When he got through I knew
that all the rascals whose rascality
could be detected were out Of office and
that all Of them that had committed
acts which we could proceed against as
criminal were indicted or imprisoned.
As we dealt with the crooked public
Official so we dealt with the crooked
private citizen; with the rich swindler
in New York or Chicago as with the
hofse-thiet or homicide In Indian Ter
htory. We never attacked a man be-
cause he was man of one political
faith or another, because he did or did
not possess wealth; and we never
shielded him because he was poor or
rich, because he belonged to any par
tlcular church or to any particular
party. But also wish you especially
to remember that we never hesitated
to shield him and stand up for him
once we were convinced that he was
Improperly attacked. There Is no
etSebSi LUG VI HOHS0ly INC Glhu
who, for any reason. in any capacity.
attacks. or seeks to attack, an honest
man for Q crime which he has not COM
nitted. Falsely accusing an honest
man Of dishonesty Is an act which
stands on the same level of infamy
with that Of the dishonest man him
sell; and 1t Is no higher duty to attack
the dishonest man than ii is to exoner-
ate the honest man falsely accused:
and should be ashamed to hesitate
the traction Of second longer in one
case than in the other
Honesty Is Not UniIateraI.
Remember that honesty cannot be
aniiaterai. Good citizens should cor
dlally distrust the man who can never
see dishonesty excepting In men of the
class ne dislikes. The reckless agi
ntor who invariably singles out men
wealth as furnishing the only ex-
smptes OF dishonesty, and the equally
unserupulous-but no more unscrupu-
discretionary who can see dishon-
ssV only in a Matchmaking politician
OF crooked labor leader; both stand
oh the same plane of Consciousness.
hCNSl Scl honesty from pom
aelans until you exact honesty from
BUSINESS men; on the other hand. you
brand yourselves as fools or as hypo-
vines II you say that the corporation
sxner' or the employer, is always the
si.aehest man, and the poor man
asyer, that it is only the wealthy
man who corrupts the politician and
asser the politician who blackmails
Tie corporation.
!. any man in his senses knows that
were are plenty of corporations in this
s ssy who prosper by bribing legis-
S,, salea JUST as they prosper by swim
ans the public; and any man in his
.sasss ought to know. in addition, that
s ssrs are plenty Of corrupt men of
s. aah means who. in legislative or
s.asf bodies. try to blackmail corpora
ii. ana Try to blaokmail other peo-
~ - Wen. II they doubt this, let
rrs.s look at the revelations Of cor
~, sss9n IN my own state-New York
MI ~ yours, my hearers-here in
assOarI' let them look at what has
s. ee In California and what has
.tss IN Illinois In Illinois, for in
n s one OF the rascaiities developed
s.,.. he recent investigation was the
a.. 'sace OF combination of legtsla-
~ao bfackmailed fishermen along
o, sssSaih river. forcing them to pay to
i nts,.a legislation which would have
.ee with their business.
NO Distinction Of Class.
), NV ny. scoundrels who do these kinds
WIN are. Of course, the very men
- 80 "a the one hand. will blackmail