The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
Roosevelt Boldly
 Opposes Judges No More Afraid, He Says, Than to Oppose Labor Unions When They're
 Dead Wrong
AND HE'S FOR THE UNIONS
Suffragettes Create a Storm at the Close of His Carne- gie Hall Speech-Audi- tOrium Packed,

New York, Oct. 21-There were not enough tickets to go around among those who went to Carnegie Hall last night to hear Col. Roosevelt talk about the conservation of women and chil- dren under the auspices Of the Civic Forum and the Child's Welfare Lea que. After all the seats had been sold and chairs had been put in the isles of the auditorium the box office was closed and several hundred men and women were turned away.
 The speech was not on the whole so much about women and children as it was about Col. Roosevelt's "ene- mies'' and "critics' and the Judges of the various courts whom he flayed time and time again in his written manuscript, and in special interpola- tions, put in to emphasize his objec- tlons. The women and children he discussed figured principally in judi cial decisions upon laws passed for the regulation of working hours for women. This gave the Colonel an op- portunity to say what he thought about the Judges who made the deci- sions he discussed.
 Some men went there to Question the Colonel at an opportune time. They had been promised a chance at the opening of the Colonel's speech, but were denied it when the speech was done, the reason given being that the hour was rather late for a long de- bate. Before the final dismissal of the audience by a wave from Col. ROosevelts hands, several ushers had started forward with questions, the rule having already been announced that no questions except those present cd in wrtfinr yuO171d 10 CiHorn6
 Suffragettes Make Noise
 Elizabeth Freeman, an American girl who has worked among British suf- fragettes, that she was not going to have the promised chance to heckle the ex-President, she crowded for ward with a group of her suffragette sisters. They utilized chairs from the press tables and the tables them selves in getting to the stage, and then they shouted and trilled, "Votes for Womenr Votes! Votes! Votes for Women!' The Coloners retreat from, the stage, surrounded by stalwart committeeman, was made in a din of the suffragette cries.
 One woman worker for the ballots had a place on the stand close to Col. Roosevelt. She was Mrs. A. Arthur Alfred Brooks, President Of the Gotham Club. AS soon as heshad announced that he was finished with his audience and it could go without waiting to hear his answer to questions, she step ped toward him, took a large rosette of white ribbon from her breast, pin ned it on his breast, and left dangling down from it a ribbon streamer bear ing the legend, Women Want the Ballot"
 Several men and a score Of women pressed close to Col. Roosevelt to put their questions in his hands, but all were pressed back by committeeman. One question, said to have been sub- mitted by Samuel Untermyer read:
 Do you believe in the recall of JudgeS?''
 Principally Suffrage Questions
 Most of the other questions had to do with Col. Roosevelt's attitude to, ward women's suffrage. While he was very explicit in announcing his "com- plete belief in the principle of trades unions-especially trades unions for women,' he remained silent about the question of votes for women, and he did not say what should be done with the Judges whom he bitterly assailed.
 "Let me say in conclusion" were his final words, that what I say is not radicalism, it is conservatism of the highest order.' The end of the meet ing was an appeal from Elgin R. s. Gould, the meetings Chairman, ad- dressed eSQecldIly CO Ino newspapers. It besought the editors not to distort, as the Colonel said he knew in ad- vance they. would, what he said con- servatively into something which did | not seem conservative, but radical and | revolutionary.
 When Coi. Roosevelt started his speech he faced the audience with a | voluminous stack of manuscript. As | he finished with each page he let it l fall from his hand. When he had con- cluded with his critics of the past, future critics on account of what he was saying, he was standing in a litter of manuscript.
 Warns Up to Subject
 Of constructive legislation the Col onel urged that bureau of child's welfare be added to the Government at Washington, and that a. State commission be appointed in this State to collect such data in sup port of laws already passed and de- clared unconstitutional that no Judges will again dare to apply 'the mis- chievous reasoning" which has at tached to their conduct in the past.
 "It is folly" declared the Colonel, as he brought his right hand down iii a smashing blow upon his left, "to say that there is any direct cure-all for the evils that beset us. In this we have one set of men-en- tirely we'll meaning men-who insist that our system is as perfect as hu- man nature is capable of making it. Another set declare that if capitalistic exploitation of the masses can be stopped, then our troubles will all be cured I wish the apostles of both schools could look across the Pacific to China, where the worst plaques of