The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-01

TELLS PART or pLArFORm
impatient WIN ths coufuslo1
Arising from Divisions
Of Authority.


Na,ionalisn va horn to-day Theodors
Roosevelt. speaking IN ths town whsgs
John Brown stood agAins, ths Missouri
/ raiders In 100. delivered him seR % uftar-
ancss which are oons.rus here a. shs
most radical hs has ever H. -.
Mr. Roosevelt will 20 along on hia
own hook and the regulars can follow h'm
Il they want IN. Ne stated part % HE
Z platform to-day
Mr. Roosevelt declared that tho Amsri-
. new Nationalism, wiuhout which they
cannot hope 70 deal with new problems.
/ He also declared that the new NationAliauf
puts The national need before section OF
pers> aal need Ne said that Il IL I'M
patient Of the utter confusion that results
from local legislatures attempting TO
treat national issues a. local issues.
A crowd Of redhot Kansas insurgents
heard the Colonel make this imprisoned
speech and they yelled for all they wers
worth. They heard Mr.. Roosevelt discuss
ISSUES Of the moment and the future.
Some Of these things he h a. said before.
Others he has not. Before long he win
have more 10 say in regard to his plat
70 nm.
The Colonel piled point upon point
in his address and when ne had finished
hs said no had nothing to add because
his remarks speak for Themselves
II was put up To him that he had
preached socialism. hut he merely smiled.
His unmistakable threat 20 break down
the business Of the land IL il will not be
good was simply a repetition Of things he
has said before on this trio. His break
with the President was confirmed without
a shadow Of doubt He il az thick with
the insurgents and progressives NJ the
mud j. in the streets of OSawatomie
Mr. Roosevelt had lunch with Dr Uhll
AZ the State Insane Asylum to-day. From
there he went - John Brown Park ard
began his Spee~h. Gov. Stubbs Senator
| Bristow. Congressman Madison. James
| r Garfield Clifford Pinchot and William
Allen White were with him. They led
the applause Whenever they got the
chance They were in hearty sympathy
with the Colonel's declarations.
-Equalizs opportunity Mr.. Roosevelt
began. Destroy privilege While he
stands for the square deal under the
present rules ~ the game. he stands for
having those rules changed. That was
the frat spark that was calculated 20 get
the Kansans going and il did. They shook
the trees with their shodI.
The Colonel then got into the heart Of
the matter He discussed railroads. cor
porations. tarih. the income tax and pub
licity 81 campaign funds. He-intimated
that he favors the recall. He showed
mighty clearly that on a good many
matters he does not agree with President
Taft and II he does he did not take occa-
sion 10 say 50. That came in regard %
the tariff
Mr.. Roosevelt did not spare the mem
hers of Mr. Taft's Cabinet. He took issue
with certain things that Attorney General
WickerSham has done. Just as the insur-
gents took issue He backed up the
theories of his friends Garfield and
Pinchot Herfrrnanded the invest igaton
of our financial system and he demanded
that il be investigated right away. What
Wall Street thinks of These notions Mr..
Roosevelt does not care a whoop.
One 81 the things that created deep
impression on the men who listened %
Mr. Roosevelt to-day was his remarks
concerning the relations Of property to
human welfare
The man who wrongly holds that every
human right is secondary to his profit
he shouted. must now give way to tbs
advocate Of human welfare who rightly
maintains that every man holds his
property subject 20 the general right
Of the community 10 regulate ifs use to
whatever degree the public welfare may
require it,
And when he went further and admitted
the right 10 regulate the terms q and
conditions Of labor they were even more
deeply impressed. There were no cheers
then
MIR Roosevelt set forth his belief In
a graduated income tax ON swollen for
tunes and a graduated inheTitance tax
on big fortunes. 1t should be properly
safeg,Iarded against invasion he said.
and shoaiId increase rapidly in amount
with the size of the estate
There must be Government super
vision Of capitalization. he tsid. not
only Of public service corporations but
Of all corporations doing an interstats
business. He said that he did not wish
20 Sc the nation forced into the owner
ship 81 RAILWAYS u IL can he avoided.
hut ha does want a physical valuation
This u necessary. he declared. not 50
much for rate fixing. but a. basis Tor
honest capitalization. This h an inciorse-
ment ~ the la Follette amendment 20
tho recent railway ball which was rejected
in conference.
In regard 20 tho tarih Mr.. Roosevelt
expressed Decentralization ~ the method
81 revising II ne said that u u the duty
u Congress TO provide a method by which
the interest of the whole people shall
be- all that receives consideration. He
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