Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-15
COl,ROOSEvELT
BREAKS SILENCE
PRESIDENT IN BANQUET
sPEEcH At NEW HAVEN
CITES HIS POSITION.
a SANE RADICAL
Says There Should b More RadieaIism
Among Conservatives; Declares
For Both state and Ma
tionaI Rights.

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 14.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt broke the silence
he had kept since the November cleo
tion, when he delivered an address as
the guest Of the chamber of commerce
here last night. The banquet was held
in the Commons" OF Yale university,
Colonel Roosevelt was greeted Win
cheers when he rose to speak. II
seems to me that nothing could be
better augury of the future of his
country" he said, than that repub-
lican president should appoint an ex-
confederate OF opposite political faltn
chief justice of the United States ana
receive unanimous applause OF MS
|countrymen.
with the permission Of your presi-
dent I shall propose two toasts: First,
ito President Taft, and second. to that
learned jurist. Chief Justice White.
Repeats Talks Of West.
After the toasts had been drunk
Colonel Roosevelt said he was glad
to say in New Haven precisely what
he had said to many former gatherings
in the west" Colonel Roosevelt SAID
that during the last half of the last
century people had concerned them
selves with the accumulation of ma
terial we'll being, thinking its distribu-
ton would take care Of itself. But the
people had come to see, he added, that
they must concern themselves with an
equitable distribution Of wealth.
Bodies like this chamber of COM
merce," said the colonel, have been
industriously taught to regard me as
kind of modified anarchist. AS mat
ter of fact l think that If you will read
what I have said, and not what certain
representatives Of the press have said
that 1 have said, you will see that l
have tried to preach only the doctrines
on which this republic was founded.
Radical, but Not Anarchist.
II am a radical. but am not radl-
cal who most earnestly desires to see
rational progress carried out by con-
seryatives. wish to see great IN
dustrial reforms carried out not by the
men who will profit by them but by
the men who lose by them; Dy Jus.
such men as you around me. believe
most alphabetically in the progress
which shall be sane"
Must Curb Corporations.
Colonel Roosevelt said he wished TO
see the hand Of the state and nation
placed on the great corporations, to
regulate them. THE rights Of man
must be paramount IN repuplc such
as ours" he added.
The colonel urged the passage OF
legislation to benefit labor.
In explaining his idea Of the square
DEAL" Colonel Roosevelt said:
II don't want the prize in the race
to 20 to the man who isn't fast enough
TO win It. Iwant them to start even.
Equal opportunity. he said. represented
the idea upon which the republic was
founded.
II care for the fact" he continued,
"aY,d not In the least for the form. You
hear good deal Of national rights and
of state rights. I'm for both
: He explained this by saying that he
was for national rights where they
would best serve the welfare of the
people and for state rights where their
exercises was most beneficial.
Sim Of '"ooft Heads"
Colonel Roosevelt said corporations
should be treated with an exact meas
ure Of Justice.
Your grocer must make profit or
he won't continue to sell groceries," he
explained. but il you pay his bills
without examining them you don't
show that you have soft heart. You
show that you have soft head"
The government. he declared. should
deal with corporations on the same
basis as a man deals with his grocer,
in giving and exacting justice.
The colonel said there had been "a
good deal OF loose talk about propos-
ed changes in forms Of government.
The effort to get more complete con-
troll over the agencies of interstate
commerce for the federal government
represents. he said, not an innovation
which was not contemplated by the
constitution but a realization Of the
purposes Of the constitution.
Go Forward Wisely, He Says.
A century and a quarter ago no such
legislation was needed. he said; now 1t
was imperatively needed.
re- fnS
economic betterment are certain to
find an outlet" he said. THE question
is. will 1t go forward wisely?
Our fathers In this country have
solved many great questions. To us
in this generation have come other
great questions. 1t rests with men like
you to determine whether they shall
be solved wisely and soon, or, when
they are solved, whether they shall
bring, with the good, untold evil to the
country"