The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-03
ROOSEVELT MoRALIzES
UPON POLITICAL PROBLEMS

UPON POLITICAL PROBLEMS
i OMAHA. Neo. Sept 2.-Speaking to
five hundred business men. Theodore
Roosevelt today pointed out the interest
held by the people Of Europe I'm the sue
America and declared that reactiona ries
| abroad cast sinister eyes upon American
institutions. hailns with delight every
! story Of graft, scandal and mob ruc as
an evidence that government OF The peo-
| pie must fall.
Colonel Roosevelt also spoke contemp-
tuously Of the merely multi millionaire, 50
the men who, he said, we're a discredit
| typical American. He referred TO mob
rule bringing out characteristics OF
| cruelty equal to those which they seek
| to ayenge.
This speech. made at luncheon given
| by the Roosevelt reception committee at
the Omaha Field club, was frequently
applauded. Among those who listened
attentively TO the words of The colonel
were Governor ShallenberSer, Senators
Burkett and Brown OF Nebraska. Senator
Dolliver of Iowa, Mayor Dahlman. Victor
Rose%ater. Republican national commit
teeman, and Representative Walter l.
Smith of Iowa.
''l have always felt friendly TO foreign
nations said Colonel Roosevelt In be-
ginning his address. II have never be-
lieved that, In order TO show your love
for your own country II was necessary TO
be insulting TO the people OF another
country.
No Place Like America.
II have feeling of frlendliness for the
countries ! visited abroad, even greater
than | had before visiting them. But /
have come back feeling that there is no
place In the world to live except in the
United States.
''In the first place. there is a chance
here for the average man, such as there
is not anywhere else in the world. There
is not another country where the aver
age man (mcn who cannot expect to
his life with the success he can achieve
mere, In the second place. what is less
important and still very important, 1t
seems to me. there is no place in the
the top has chance to lead life so
attractive and full of interest In every
way as in the United States.
,oaS 0f course, Hg If man desires only to
good country for II. There is no good
country for II anywhere, for the simple
reason that OF all dismal careers. the
most dismal, the most empty. the least
worth living from any standpoint, Is the |
career of the man who seriously devotes |
himself as his sole object to pleasure.
Misdirected Energy.
First, to devote ones self to pleas |
ure as the sole object OF life. Is the sur
est way not to get IT, Any man above |
seeking pleasure and enjoyment, can
find here. as nowhere else in the world |
an opportunity to help worli out the |
great problems of the future and any
the most supreme pleasure over the fact
that he is given the opportunity to try
his hand TO help work out these
Everywhere l went abroad / was In
terested In finding that the leading
statesmen OF tho various countries were
were doing and were considering the
methods we had tried to solve the Diff
ferent problems before us. They said
that they were Interested In us because
the Things we were doing today were
the things they would have to do tonlor-
row or the day after.
You are the pioneers in solving So
cial problems In America and for the
whole world. II is for you TO solve these
problems In the spirit OF democracy.
need not say that that imposes a very
grave responsibility upon us.
Two other things Impressed me. One
was that the ordinary man. the man to
whom life was pretty bad was looking
TO us to realize the possibility of happl-
Justice is looking toward this country
as the place in which he would be
Iree from the pressure OF such injustice,
as the place where the ordinary man
could have chance In life.
The Multi Millionaire.
10 dHolUeT SlQc 10 tnlS PIC |
lure Everywhere I went there was
certain astonishmcnt mixed with much
ess pleasing feeling. over the accounts
u business and political color that come
America i think you will probably
lcquit me OF any. great admiration OF {
he mere multi millionaire at home But
ike him even less abroad.
II want TO call TO your attention that
have said the mere multi millionaire
ihere are good men in every walk Of
'an. who has done his duty and has
great fortune. is entitled 10 our hearty
,espect. and Il is unworthy OF any one
% deny IT to him II he deserves 1t.
Il am speaking OF the same class :
d d multi millionaires of whom It was ,
'asd two thousand years ago that 1t was
nore difficult for them to get to heaven ,
han for Q, camel to go through the eye
II e needle II is the rich man who
rusts TO his riches that I am speaking
~ the multi-milionaire whose sole title
multi millionaire. Such one is a poor :
,itizen and is n very Objectionable Amer ;
can exhibit abroad.
II was always ashamed when l saw :
hat type of men accepted abroad as the .
ypical American. and I felt even more =
lshamed when things happened here !
vnlch gave the impression abroad that r
orruption in business. In politics and |;
awIessness and brutal violence obtained =
'ere more than they did in any other
ountry.
Denouncoment of Mob.
Every corruption In our business or C
POLITICAL life and every deed OF Violence p
" mob Is blow at democracy: IL is a
blow at seIf-sovernmont. The mob in h
ynching criminal puts itself down on 9
he same level of infamy that the Grim /
nal stands on. The big man OF busi- a
iess VINO swindlcs the public or de-
auches a legislature. the graftIno noii. =
ician who blackmails corporation. are
ii enemies OF democracy and self-nov
rninent. Reports of such corruption and :.
awiessness bring JOY TO the hearts OF t
very reactlonary in Europe who wants :.
see popular government fail. and who 4
5 glad to see that government by the :.
eed." '"S :.