The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-11

that America citizens could agree
with him lin the mighty struggle he is
making for purity in private life and
more honesty in public life.''
He is fighting for the common good
of the country the Governor contin-
ued, land in that fight every man
on this continent ought to give him
his moral support. He ought to have
the support of every lover of liberty,
of every lover of fair play. That he
has more executive force than any
other man before the American peo-
pie today is obvious to ALL"
In his speech. Colonel Roosevelt said:
Fundamentally the welfare of all of
us depends more upon the welfare OF
the farmer than uponlthat of any other
man, and we should all of US join in
doing whatever can be done for build
ing up the man who lives on the farm
in the country.
1T is Just as foolish for the farmer
today to say he will not adopt new
methods because his father did not use
them, as it would be foolish for the
national guard of Arkansas to say that
it would not use repeating rifles be-
cause the men of the civil war did not
have them.
THE only man whom I have ever
found that nobody could teach was
fool
Colonel Roosevelt then spoke of the
reclamation of swamp lands and con-
tinued:
Furthermore, don't forget that the
policy of conservation of the forests is
of vital concern to the future of your.
people. Timber should berhandled like
any other crop.
Conservation means use, but use in
such fashion that your children shall
have the capital after you; you shall
use the interest, but your children shall
have the capital. We cannot afford to
rob our children.
Defines New NatiOnaIism.
Friends, the governor has spoken of
certain things in public life I am try
ing to do, the things that have been
spoken of as the new nationalism.
"Wen, as l said the other day in
Atlanta, the new nationalism simply
means the efficient application of old
moralities to new conditions.
New conditions have arisen and the
kind of legislation that was employed,
sufficient to meet the needs of a hun
dred and thirty years ago. when our
constitution was formed and our people
gained their national existence, is no
longer adequate
THE spirit of justice, the spirit of
common sense. the spirit of insistence
upon right and high performance of
duty, that spirit we must keep as our
forefathers kept it. But we need the
trade of citizenship. just as the soldier
needs the new tactics and the new
weapons that modern conditions have
rendered necessary.
Men of wealth, as much as some of
our private citizens now possess, are
economically and industrially of such
overgrown size that it is unsafe to
leave the average individual at their
mercy. They may behave we'll; very
possibly, but I want to see that they
behave we'll not as favor, but be-
cause they have to.
THAT is all that side of the new ma
tionalism means. 1t does not mean an
archy, and it does not mean socialism,
and it does not mean attacking men of
wealth.
What we are striving to do is to Sc
cure equal rights; that is, to eliminate
special privileges; to try to start all
men in the race of life on a reasonable
equality"
Colonel Roosevelt took luncheon with
Lieutenant Jack Greenway, of Hot
Springs, Ark, a Rough Rider. The col
onel left at $50 O'Clock for st. Louis.