The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
! SHEDS NO LIGHT.
Colonel Roosevelt in His Speech
at New Haven
Makes No Reference to Recent
Elections.
HE PROPOSES A TOAST
TO President Taft and the New
Chief Justice.
Stands Pat ON What He Said i'm
the Camuaipn.
HE PROPOSES A TOAST

last night at dinner given him by the
New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
He made no reference to the recent
elections o. to current political sub
jects. He confined himself to a reiter
alton of the broad political doctrines to
which he gave expression many times
IN his speaking. trips last summer, say
ing he was glad to make in Connecti
cut just such speech as he had made
to former gatherings in the west.
Governor-elect Simeon E. Baldwins
place at the banquet table was vacant.
He remained at home. retiring early.
There were no developments in Colonel
Roosevelt's controversy with Judge
Baldwin during the colonel's stay here.
Colonel Roosevelt defined his atti-
tude in politics in these words:
Il am a radical, but I an. a radical
who earnestly desires to see a radical
program carried out by conservatives"
He again declared his faith in eff
cient regulations of corporations by the
federal government, and defended his
attitude by asserting he sought not to
controvert the constitution. but to help
In bringing about the fulfillment of its
purposes.
Colonel Roosevelt departed for Bos-
ton, where he will speak tonight.
The Colonel's Address.
Colonel Roosevelt was greeted with
cheers which lasted fully minute
when he rose to speak. 1T seems to
me that nothing could be a better
augury of the future of his country"
he said, than that a Republican
president should appoint an ex-Con-
federate of opposite political faith
chief justice of the United States SUI
preme court and receive unanimous
applause of his countrymen. With the
permission of your president, l shall
propose two toasts: first to President
Taft and second to that learned juriSt
Chief Justice White
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 themselves with the ac-
emulation of material we'll being, be-
lieving that it's distribution 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 a
matter of fact, I think that If you will
read what L have said, and not what
certain representatives of the press
have said that I have said. you will
see that I have tried to preach only
the doctrines on which this republic
was founded.
OF am a radical, but I am q radical
who most earnestly desires to see a
radical program carried out by con-
servatives. 1 wish to see great indus
trial reforms carried out, not by the
men who will profit by them, but by
the men who lose by them; by just
such men as you around me. I be-
Ieve most emphatically in the progress
which shall be sane"
Colonel Roosevelt said he wished to
see the hand of the state and the ma
ton placed on the great corporations,
to regulate them. 1.-The rights of man
must be paramount in a republic such
as ours he added.
Urges Labor Legislation.
The colonel urged the passage Of
legislation to benefit labor. It was his
criticism of ex-Judge Baldwin's atti
tuda toward such legislation which led
to their controversy.
In explaining his idea of the square
deal,'' Colonel Roosevelt said:
II don't want the prize in the race to
go to the man who is not fast enough
to win it. I want them to start even"
Equal opportunity, he said repre-
| scented the idea upon which the republic
was founded.
ct care for the fact he continued,
land not in the least for the form.
You hear a good deal of national rights
and of states 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 states rights where
their exercise was most beneficial.
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 if you pay his bills
without examining them you don't
show that you have a soft heart. You
snow that you have soft head
The government, he said, should deal
with corporations on the same basis as
man deals with his grocer, in giving
and exacting justice
The colonel said there had been q
good deal of loose talk about pro-
posed changes in forms of government.
The effort to get more complete con-
trol over the agencies of interstate
represents, he said, not an innovation
which was not contemplated by the
constitution but a realization of the
purposes of the constitution.
a century and a quarter ago, no
such legislation was needed he said,
now it is imperatively needed.
The forces striving for a social and
economic betterment are certain to find
an outlet he said. 1.-The question is.
will it 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
Why Baldwin Did Not Go.
New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 14.-An
explanation is now given out which
bears upon the absence last night of
Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, the COVER
nor-efect, at the chamber of commerce
dinner at which Colonel Roosevelt
spoke.
The invitation extended to the judge
/ read:
ITO meet the Hon. Theodore Roose-
veIt.''
AS there had been a failure to adj