The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-02

velts speech, he was driven to the
Westport High school to make anoth-
er address.
Kansas City, Kan, Sept. 1. Theo.
dore Roosevelt delivered the follow.
Ing address in this city today:
There are certain matters which
should never be treated as party mat
terS; and foremost among these is
the great and vital virtue of honesty.
Honesty should be treated as a prime
necessity TO our success as a nation
The minute that n question Of hon.
esty as against dishonesty is involved
they we must all net together as Am.
ericans, without the slightest regard
to party affiliations Honesty Is not
a party matter; and the first man
to attack n Scoundrel OF any party
should be the honest men of that
party When in office, always pro-
ceeded upon the theory that there
would bd no need of my opponents
raising the cry of Turn the rascals
out" because I would turn them out
myself just as soon as. by ylgilant
and intelligent Industry, | could dis.
cover them. The present Senator
Bristow, for instance, was In the post
office department when Information
reached mo which convinced me that
there was extensive raScallty being
practiced in the department This
information came TO me through the
then First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
cral, Mr.. Wynne-an admirable man
whose honesty ! knew to be beyond
proof The active work of the in
yestiGatlon was done by another post
office official in whose honesty. cour-
age. and energy | had absolute conf
dence-the present Senator Bristow,
When he got through ] knew that all
rasCals whose rascality could be de.
tccted were out of office and that
all of them that had committed acts
which We could proceed against as
criminal were Indicted or imprisoned
AS we dealt with the crooked public
official. so we dealt with the crooked
private citizen; with the rich swlndler
in New York or Chicago as with the
horse-thief or homicide In Indian ter
rltory. We never attacked a man be-
cause he was a man of one political
faith or another. because he did or did
not possess wealth, and We never
rich. because he belonged to any par.
ticular church or to any, particular
party. But | also wish you especially
TO remember that we never hesitated
to shield him and stand up for him
once VIC were convinced that he was
improperly attacked There is no
greater foe OF honesty than the man
who. for any reason, In any capacity,
yI.
man for crime which he has not com
mitted Falsely accusing an honest
man of dishonesty Is an act which
stands on the same level OF infamy
with that Of the dishonest man him
self. and 1t is no higher duty TO at
tack the dishonest man than IL Is to
eXonerate the honest man falsely ac-
cused. and ] should be ashamed to
hesitate the fraction Of second long
er in one case than In the other.
Honesty Not Unilsternl.
Remember that honesty cannot be
unilateral Good citizens should cor
daily dstrust the man who can never
see dishonesty excepting in men of
the class he dlslibes. The reckless
ngitator who invariably singles out
examples OF dishonesty: and the equal
ly unscrupulous-bu no more unsCru-
who can see dis
honesty only in blacl'maIling poll
tician or A crooked labor leader; both
stand on the same plane of obnoxious
ness. You Will never get honesty from
politicians until you exact honesty
from business men; on the other hand
you brand yourselves as fools or as
hvpocrites If YOU say that the cor
poration owner. or the employer. is
always the dishonest man, and the
poor man never. that 1t is only the