Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-09-02
dustrial and social life must show just

The constant noise OF a steaming To-
connective made speaking very difficult
Tor the colonel, who protested.
1T is really an outrage he declared.
Il cannot talk TO that engine"
Then he told the crowd that an en-
CINE was "the only thing he could not
talk against" Inc the train moved off,
as some OF the men shouted, DO them
up in the convention, Teddy" Colonel
Roosevelt smiled broadly, but made no
reply.
Fully 5000 people greeted Colonel
Roosevelt when his special train ar
rived in Erie at 9:2S this morning. The
colonel spoke briefly, chiefly along the
lines of the earlier speech he made at
Buffalo regarding pure water in the
Great Lakes cities.
Conference with Congressman.
He was met at Dunkirk by a recep-
ton committee from Erie, consisting of
Congressman Arthur L. Bates; Frank
D. Schultz, president OF the chamber
Of commerce; X. c. Sturgeon, president
Of the board Of trade, and William B..
Trask.
Congressman Bates was a member of
the lower house during the seven and
one-half years that MIR. Roosevelt was
president. and q long conversation was
held in the private car as the train
rushed through the northwestern Penn
.~sylvania grape belt. At every town and
hamlet hundreds lined the tracks.
Hello, Teddy" was heard from the
sea Of humanity that lined the station
platform when the rain pulled into
Erie, and it was some minutes before
the %colonel's voice could be heard.
In an undertone to Congressman
Bates. who was on the rear platform,
the African hunter said;
II used to think 1t lowered nv dig
rtkxy 20 hoHYn fhnr~ nnl1 49, -
do you know, I am getting to like it
now"
His Advice at Buffalo.
Some OF the things Colonel Roose-
welt said in his speech in Buffalo fol-
low:
Il will plunge at once into a subject
that l know is Of the utmost interest
to you and ought to be Of interest TO
all of u people, and hat is keeping
the fresh water supply Of the Great
Lakes u~npolluted.
we claim to be a civilized people
and civilized people ought to know how
to dispose Of the sewage in some other
way than putting it into the drinking
water. We need action by both the
state and h nation to put a complete
stop to the pollution of the Great
Lakes, action by the state SO far as IL
own boundary is concerned, and action
by the llGl1Ou cCauSG OJnpr states be-
side our w are interested.
Our people must realize from now
on hat in addition to grasping after
new fields OF conquest they have got
to take care of the things that have
been conquered, that they have got to
attend to a number of things they have
left unattended.
TOO much in the past it has been
the habit of our country to let n
man do uyhnt ha uynntn1 without 70
gard to other men. We have got to
that state when we must consider the
interests Of all.
I'VE must keep the water supply
unpoliuted and to do that you must see
that ii is not polluted in the source.
In the same way we must keep the
standard Of public decencv high and
you canno do that unless the ipdivid-
ual citizen I'm the first place himself
keeps it high. l believe in party gov
eminent, but the moment q question of
honesty is involved 1 recognize no
party distinction. II l make any dis
tinction it is that it is a little more
my business to hunt out of public life
a crook who claims to belong to my
party than If he claims to belong to
another.
Man Himself Counts.
Tn order to do that you must keep
your eyes fixed not on the social and
financial status OF the man but on the
mans conduct, good or evil. Distrust
above all other men the man who will
,inVeigh against Crookedness only If he
finds ii connected with somebody not
connected with his party.
"Distrust the ~financier who cannot
see crookedness among ~financiers, but
only among the labor leaders, and dis
trust the labor leader who can see
crookedness only when it is by the
big financier. Attack a man because
he is crooked. If he is a poor man and
crooked, attack him. If he is a rich
man and crooked, attack him.
Personally, l would attack the rich
man who is crooked just a little strong
more Infamous in him. But l would
attack the other mar very strongly.
There is no royal road to learn
ing. Something can be one by good
laws or by a strict administration OF
Jaw, but in the last resort you must
have the average citizen with a live
conscience or you cannot expect the
public servants of that private citizen
to do their duty honestly and we'll
Betrayal for Corporations.
"Often you will find that men have
betrayed the interests of the people by
doing what is improper for some big
corporation. In that case try to get
ct them, and try &c get at the Bis COR
poration and all those responsible fer
its management. and I win help you
in every way hat / car. / have done
it in the past. ! will do ii just as we
did in connection with the sugar trust
do not let the mar feel that he Is
to be pitied rather than blamed for
yielding to the temptation offered by
the big corporation that tries to get
him TO go wrong. My experience is
that the Kind of man who will go wrong
when a big corporation tempts him is
a crook from the start, and goes wrong
because he is glad to go wrong. My
experience is that such man viii be
just as quick to blackmail q corpora
ton as he will to take money cor
ruptly.
IF the people fail to condemn the
man who Is crooked and who will
blackmail a corporation. they will have
themselves to thank when the black
mailer turns round and becomes a tool
OF the corporation, which he will do
when 1t is his interest to do so.
You are not going to get honesty
in a public servant IN behalf OF the
people unless you insist on that man
showing honesty to all with whom he
Is brought into contact.
II would fight for the rights OF the
htp man ii,St aS T would FOR tha piphts