The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-31
Great Demonstration for Colonel
Roosevelt
AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
The Colonel Is Given Rousing Reception
on His First Public Appearance
Since the Shooting in Mil
waukee.

= New York, Oct 3l.A crowd thai
, jammed Madison Square Garden from
floor to roof and overlooked through
three blocks OF the surrounding streets
greeted the leaders of the Progressive
party last night at the mass meeting
marking the first public appearance OF
Col Roosevelt since the attack upon
him at Milwaukee Gov. Johnson, vice
presidential candidate, and Oscar S,
Straus candidate for governor of New
York, spoke before Roosevelt reached the
hall.
When the colonel appeared, the garden
became bedlam Of sound and mass
of waving color. The demonstration
lasted AZ minutes.
The colonel spoke as follows;
The Speech,
Friends, perhaps once in generation,
not more often, there comes a chance for
the people OF country to play their
part wisely and fearlessly in some great
battle OF the age-long warfare for hui
man rights. To our fathers the chance
came in the mighty days of Abraham
! Lincoln. the man who thought and toiled
and suffered for the people with sad,
patient. and kindly endeavor To our
forefathers the chance came in the trou-
bled years that stretched from the time
when the first continental congress gath
cred to the time when Washington was
inaugtuated as first president of the
republic,
ITO us in our turn the chance has
now come to stand for liberty and right
eousness, as in their day these dead men
stood for liberty and righteousness. Our
task is not as great as theirs. Yet it is
well nigh as important. Our task is TO
profit by the lessons of the past, and to
check in time the evils that grow around
us; lest our failure to do so may cause
dreadful disaster to the people. We
must not sit supine and helpless. We
must not permit the brutal seltishness of
arrogance and the brutal selfishness of
envy each TO run unchecked its evil
course. II we do so. then some day
smouldering hatred win suddenly kindle |
into consuming flame, aud either we
or our children will be called on to |
face crisis as grim as any which this |
republic has ever seen.
ut is our business to show that nine |
tenths of wisdom consists in being wise /
in time Woe to our nation if we |
LET matters drift, if in our industrial and /
political life we let an unchecked and /
utterly selfish indyidualistic material
ism riot to its appointed end That
end would be widespread disaster, for
it would mean that our people would
be sundered by those dreadful lines of
division which are drawn when the self
ish greed of the HAYES is set over against
tho selfish greeds of the have-nots.
There is but one way to prevent such
and that is to forestall ii by
the kind of movement in which we
IRE now engaged.
Progressive Cause Outlined.
Our movement IL one of resolute in ,
,isteney upon the rights, and full ac- /
of the duties, of every !
nan and every woman within this great
and of ours. We war against the forces :
Il evil, and the weapons we use are the I
of right. We do not set greed !
gainst greed, or hatred against hatred
lur creed is one that bids us be just to
ii, to feel sympathy for all and TO
trive for an understanding of the needs ]
j all. Our purpose is to smite down c
wrong. But toward those who have done '
he wrong we feel only the kindliest
harity that is compatible with causing I
he wrong to cease. We preach hatred e
0 no man, and the spirit in which we e
fork is as far removed from vindctive- n
css as from weakness. We are reso- n
ate to do away with the evil and we h
attend to proceed with such wise and il
autious sanity as will cause the very N
minimum of disturbance that is compat- n
BE with achieving our purpose. h
"Do not forget, friends, that we are p
OF proposing to substitute law for o
We are merely proposing to Il
uttress character by law. We fully nj
,cognize that, as has been true in the
asst, so it is true now, and ever will il
, true. that the prime factor in each q
an or woman's success must normally m
, that man or woman's own character al
character. the sum of many qualities, "
1T above all OF the qualities of honesty, W
courage and of common sense. Moth er
g will avail nation if there is not b
e right type Of character among the IA
-erage men and women, the plain peo- n
e Tue Hath N'lNlNE. AttthA ANihRs -
ght thinking people. who make up the ST
eat bulk of our citizenship. | know
Y countrymen; | know that they are in
this type. m
but it is in civil life a it is in war. ri.
war IL is the man behind the gun tic
at counts most. and vet he cannot do 10
5 work unless he has the right kind lie
gun. In civil life. in the everyday iu
e of our nation. il is individual char tic
ter which counts most; and yet the an
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