The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-02

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corporations out of business, SO IA
las concerns corrupting the servant
iof the public. aud betraying tho right
lof the people" he said.
At another point In his speech h
inserted: "The people OF this countr.
3 will get justice from the corporation
5only. if they do Justice to them an
rigidly exact 1T from them"
prinlss Toast to President.
as the guest OF honor OF the kansa'
Y President: was himself toasted as thu
'.'frst citizen OF the United states.
I'M istenea ,S rolieking song I,
"At next election time.
'et AT next election time.
Roaming round, the woody West
Getting things in line;
For we like him. and he likes MS.
And that's very good sign.
That he will be our President
At next election time
The Colonel responded heartily Ia
1.-THE toast to the President, but looked
ion atatuesque as the references to him.
kself were made
A song. ending with the refrain:
For he's Insurgent through and
could have been improved in technical
tnccuracy If the word progressive" had
!. been substituted for the word "insur-
gent.
Don't get the bride of" said the
Three hundred MEN attended the
luncheon and gave Colonel Roosevelt a
NOISY welcome.
Before the guests We're seated for.
mer Representative William S. Cow
herd. who was POSTMASTER, said.
ut is always the custom oil the COM
inercial clubs to drink the first toast
to the President OF the United states
Every one Joined in drinking tho
toast
Among the guests were Governor
Hadley, OF Missouri; Governor Stubns.
of Kansas; Clifford Pinchct, James r.
Garfield, Colonel w r Nelson, proprl-
Brlstow and Representative Madison
of Kansas
Fight Against Rebates.
When began as President. the
Universally demanded and given. the
practice was so general that the fact
Of giving them and asking for them
had become purely conventional
no one spoke Of the giving OF re-
bates as a crime, and as that practice
was freely INDUCED In by the great
mass of ne,ople, others were driven
tentative OF being ruined by their com
petitors II they did not get them. The
shippers demanded rebates of the rail-
roads and the railroads granted re-
bates to certain shippers until they
got in a network of preferences from
which they We're unable to extricate
themselves by any individual action
on their part. After some difficulty.
accompanied by the usual statement
that I was running the business inter-
ests of the country. we got the re-
bate practice definitely stopped.
"0f course, no great change Of that
kind has ever been made without IN.
cidental hardships being suffered by
many good people, You cannot make
change ond not suffer from the dislo-
cation. Some good people and some
communities did suffer. and l think
that Kansas City was the community
that for the time being suffered con-
siderabIy Kansas City had rebates
that think at times We're as high as
35 per cent. and ] was quite prepared
for an outburst of dissatisfaction from
Kansas City. But it is Immensely t
your credit that l received unanimous
approval. Your people said that Thu
change was right, and the thing ough
to be done, and that they We're for it
II think 1t was as fine an exemplif
cation as one could desire of the vii
lingness of your people squarely t,
face a moral ISSUE"