The Washington times., 1912-09-17
CONGRESS WILL
Be CONVENED IF
COLONEL Wins
Roosevelt Assures Western
ers Special Session Will
Change Laws.
Continued from First Fage.)

precedent
their full effect can only be surm.sed.
Owing to the incapacity of the two
auditoriums in which Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke here. he was heard by a total of
only about $1,000 persons. More than
this number sought to enter the build
ings and could not. The coloners real
reception, therefore. was along the
streets during the automobile parade,
when II seemed that every inhabitant of
Los Angeles had turned out to cheer
him.
It was busy day for Los Angeles.
The g. A. r. encampment ended Sun
day: Barnum & Bailey's circus and the
colonel came yesterday. and there was
also promise of the celebration Of Mex
lean independence.
During his triumphal journey through
crowded streets Colonel Roosevelt was
the center Of waving sea of bandanas
and flags. business was at a standstill.
practically the entire police force of the
city was Required to prevent a stam-
pede. The reception only differed from
natured: for rlotous scenes were on
every side.
Goes. After Wilson Again.
In his speech last night Colonel Roose-
velt again handled without gloves the
academic doctrines of Gov. Woodrow
Wilson. and he was cheered to the
night.
Take Governor wilson's statement
before the United Press Club that the
history of liberty is the history of limi-
tauon OF government power. not to in
crease 1t, Colonel Roosevelt said. That
tained only by exclusive devotion to the
class room, and ii cannot be obtained
by man who has lived and worked
with his countrymen.
SO long as the government power ex:
listed exclusively for the campaign and
not at all for the people, then the his
tory Of liberty was a history of the limi-
tauons of governmental power, but that
doesn't doesn't apply today. 1t is worn out
The kings and barons of today are
In the industrial and not in the political
world. The Limitation of governmental
result only in benefit to the Rockefel-
iers, the Harrimans. and industrial
kings of that class. The extension of
the power of the government is the one
remedy needed today.
Blames His Inexperience.
Il want to be courteous to Mr. Will
son, and I don't know exactly how to
express this next thought. but 1 will
say this. If Governor Wilson were as
we'll acquainted with modern conditions
in actual life as am sure he is sincere
and intelligent. he would know that he
has taken an attitude which Is the at
titude Of every. crooked trust. of every
crooked financier, of every crooked
newspaper editor, of every crooked boss,
position which every man of that
stamp takes with regard to the powers
of the Government, 1t is the argument
of every corporation lawyer who de-
ment.
"Inexperience must have made Cover
nor Wilson take that position, for to
assume he was experienced and took
cerity and wisdom, and l think the
governor is sincere and intelligent.
Not one step in advance can be taken
without the increase of Governmental
powers"
The Progressive movement of today,
Colonel Roosevelt declared, with telling
effect, Is analogous to that of the fifties.
when Abraham Lincoln broke away
ceased to be responsive to the need Of
that time. In front of the colonel sat
number of civil war veterans, men
wearing the G. A. r. button, who nodded
their heads approvIngly when Mr.
Roosevelt compared the national crisis
of those days with that confronting the
people now.
Parallels Old Fight.
Interrupted by constant applause. the
colonel said:
"In that day Lincoln deserted the
party in which he had been brought up
when it became useless for the problems
of those times, when the Whig party
went off after strange gods in the
wilderness and we left the Republican
party only when 1t turned its back, on
the principles of Lincoln.
1T is curious how this fight parallels
&C.. 4f tro
was called a radical by the conserva-
tives. who would have wrecked the
nation. 1t was the radical, the wise
radical, who conserved the Union. 1t is
the man of wise progress who is the
real conservative; 1t is the safe-and-
sane radical who is the real conservator
OF our Institutions.
The copperheGds then said Lincoln
was destroying the. Constitution and
destroying the Constitution and dam
aging the courts.
I'VE are damaging the courts only
in the sense that Lincoln damaged
Chief Justice Taney's court after the
Dred Scott decision"
Discusses His Planks.
Mr.. Roosevelt took up the planks of
the Progressive platform dealing with
social and industrial problems such
as child labor, workmen's compen-
sation. the eight-hour day, and oc-
cupational disease. His whole heart,
the colonel said. was in these planks
and he asserted he would never cease
working for reforms of this nature.
He brought the lesson home by re-
calling how the New York court had
nullified laws there which sought To
bring about better working condi-
tions.
"The Judges were nice elderly gall
tlemeu," said Mr.. Roosevelt They
knew law, but little about human
life. They had never visited a tene-
.ment hol Sc, as / have and found two
families and a boarder living in one
sixteen-foot square room For thirty
years / have tried to study condi-
tions as they are in actual life, not
In books, and II / can get your help
! Will tight to the last for social and
industrial justice in this land Of ours