Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
AMUsEs SCHOOL CHILDREN

zone day while I was riding up the
railroad to Nairobi telegraph COM
munication was interrupted" he went
on. THAT was because herd of
giraffes had cantered across the tracks
and pulled down the wires with their
necks."
The school children liked the coloneps
stories so well that they did not want
him to stop, but he was late and had
to leave. Before he departed how
ever, he gave them some advice
To the girls he said: II don't like to
have a girl dance all night, so that she
will be tired next day when her mother
wants something from the second
story"
His advice to the boys was given in
terms of football. It was: Don't
shirk, don't foul, and hit the line
hard"
Col. Roosevelts speech in the Audi
torium was his principal address OF
the day. He said honesty should be
made a party matter, and that the
first men to attack scoundrels should
be the men in the scoundrels' own
party. He spoke OF corruption in New
York. Missouri, Illinois and California.
and said the duty of the people was to
war with equal sternness against the
corrupt man of great wealth and the
small man who makes trade of cor
ruption.
1--WE need laws which shall put the
corporations out Of business, so far as
concerns corrupting the servants of the
public and betraying the rights of the
people," he said.
At another point in his speech he
asserted: "The people of this country
will get Justice from the corporations
only IL they do justice to them and
rigidly exact it from them"
HONESTY NECESSARY TO SUCCESS
"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 prime
necessity to our success as a nation.
"The minute that a 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 a scoundrel of any party
should be the honest men of that
party. When in office, always pro-
ceeded upon the 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 vlgilant
and intelligent industry, could dis
cover them.
LAS we dealt with the crooked public
official whether in Kansas or Okla
homa, so we dealt with the crooked
private citizen; with the rich swindler
in New York or Chicago as with the
horse thief or homicide in Indian Ter
ritory. We never attacked a man be-
cause he was a 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
ticular church or to any particular
party. But 1 also wish you especially
to remember that we never hesitated
to clield Linn and stand up for him
once we were convinced that he was
improperly attacked.
There is no greater foe of honesty
than the man who, 1or any reason, in
any capacity, attacks, or seeks to at
tack, an honest man for a crime which
he has not committed. Falsely ac-
cusing an honest man of dishonesty
is an act which stands on the same
level of infamy with that of the dis
honest man himself; and it is no high
er duty to attack the dishonest man
than it is to exonerate the honest man
| falsely accused; and 1 should be
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