The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-14
The following Is the address deliver.
Cd By Senator Beveridge ut the coli.
seum last evening:

ID By Senator Beveridge ut the COLI
senm last evening:
"Now, you soldiers have afforded
me the only inspiration for this cam
paign. ! see In the mighty movement
that 10 calling more people to the bal
lot box today than ever before merely
the same old struggle that in 1858
inspired you TO become followers of
Abraham Lincoln and in 1860 with
my father and my brothers TO go to
battle for 4 great ideal. What was
that ideal? Merely that in this coun-
try of millions Of people there should
not arise any power under the nag
greater than the flag itself. That is
the whole issue In this campaign.
You men. you women. you working.
men. you business men. you wives.
you daughters and all OF you. the
question is whether or not you are
sufficiently interested in that nag to
rise to the present emergency.
There are mighty interests as Col
Roosevelt has told OF today. awful in
forests that are robbing the people.
Greed is at the root OF most OF our
evils and the question is whether or
not citizens are going to be sufficient
ly alive to preserve their rights or
whether these great interests are 60
ing to be mighty enough to rob the
people OF their rights. However that
that battle ends. I tell you. whether II
means victory or whether II means de-
feat. ! am against the interests that
would rob the people and for the
people who are being robbed. Now
this IL not a pleasant task. men and
women. where the path OF preferment
lies the other way. where II had TAX
ena different course might have had
the mighty powers Of earth back OF
me.
Takes the Right Path.
II gladly chose to take the other
path. Why? Merely because II might
possibly injure my political prefer
ment? The chances were that 1t
would not. Why were my brothers
and father willing to be shot to
pieces. merely for An ideal that could
not do them any good. but that could
do humanity great deal of good.
How then could possibly be untrue
10 them? How could I possibly be un.
true To you? Now there are a great
many things In this country today.
trace them all to greed. I traced them
all n long time ago to greed. You
men and you women who have bought
food that poisoned you. and meat that
poisoned you. and tobacco that robbed
you-that was being done by great
financial interests that thought more
Of the rotten dollar than they do OF
human life. ! preferred to stop them.
and with the aid Of Theodore Roose-
welt. we stopped them. But we have
got only your strcngth-you common
citisens. The common citizen Is the
strength Of this republic.
II see here tonight n great many wo-
men. want to tell you women that
the only thing I am doing this cam
psisn 10 to appeal to the voter to vote
for you. to vote for your Preside.
want to talk very earnestly for n
moment about subject that think
uVVGsy NouSGiuc you, Will tdhc
the smile on your lips and put an un.
quenchable IRE In your heart. or all
the great evils that afflict us ! think
that tho most Infamous Is the evil OF
child slavery. Here are these old SOL
diers. they went to battle fifty years
ago-what for? To end manhood slav-
cry. What are we confronting today
white childhood slavery.
Talked Of Child Slaves.
Il want you to know that while
nm speaking tonight. right this min
ute. scores Of thousands OF little
girls from seven TO twelve years old,
scores Of thousands Of little boys from
seven to twelve years old. now. this
minutc---not tomorrow. not next
month. not next year. but now. are
working on their feet, standing before
mighty machines. crashing and rumb
ling. How long do you think those
little tots have been working now
Since 4 o'clock tonight. Don't tina,
touch your woman's blood? And how