The Washington times., 1912-09-18
ROOSEVELT WILL
VISIT CAPITAL
OCTOBER FIRST
Colonel Coming to Testify
Before Campaign Probe
h Committee.
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course, Colonel Roosevelt explained hi.
views on reclamation and conservation
The keynote of his Arizona addresses
will be remembered as the elabora tior
of his plan to call Congress into extra
session. IL he Is elected, and to urge the
enactment into law for the benefit OF
the District and of Alaska. thus setting
an example to the States themselves
the industrial and social justice planks
OF the Progressive party platform.
Colonel Roosevelt said:
Our opponents have said that these
are mainly State matters. Undoubtedly
they are both State and Federal mat.
ters, and we Progressives, wherever we
get the power, intend to apply it in both
State and nation.
But in the nation we have a chance
to set the example for all the States.
We have the District of Columbia, the
city of Washington, which we can make
model city. Then we have Alaska as
a Territory in which the Government
can build the railroads ana operate
them, and can keep possession of the
coal and the water power, leasing for
Immediate development both the coal
ana the water power on terms favorable
w tho pOopiC &c Il "hOict anu lOt IOT
the benefit of graspins corporations.
To Push Legislation.
III am elected President and I have
In Congress anything like a party that
will support me, II we come pretty near
securing a Progressive majority, then,
so that I can get enough recruits from
the other parties to help push the legis-
lation, I shall call special session to
be devoted exclusively to putting into
the Federal law every provision recom-
mended In the plank dealing with social
and industrial justice. in the plank deal
Ing with Alaska, and any other corre-
spending plank tending to round out
these two of the Progressive platform.
And the action of Federal Govern
ment should be along three lines In
the first place, the Government itself
should be made a model employer. we
should have a workman's compensate
act. an act providing for a living wage
for men and a minimum wage for
womsn Ssrsinv We should have proper safe
acts in short applied to the. Government
service, to the Navy Department, in
the Postoff,ce Department, at Panama,
everywhere.
I'm the second place. SO far as we
have the power over interstate COM
n1erce, the laws should be applied
thereto; that Is, to the men and the
worknaen engaged in interstate COM
merce.
Make Capital Model City.
I'm the third place. the city of Wash
ington should be made a model city.
I We should put a stop to doing what
has been done 30 far In Washington
that is. merely developing the bouIe-
wards for the benefit Of the wealthy
people in the suburbs, and especially for
the benefit of real estate spectators,
and should turn our attention to taking
care Of those people in Washington who
make UP the immense mass of popula-
ton by providing them small parks and
Fairgrounds. doing away with the al
leys, tenement houses, and applying
and enacting into law for the District
Of Columbia every proposition that the
Progressive platform holds as regards
social and industrial justice: so that,
instead of doing as we now have to do,
that Is, going to Germany and Denmark
for the successful working of these
measures, we shall be able to turn to
the District of Columbla-the Federal
District-and treat 1t as an experimental
laboratory in the social and industrial
science through which we intend to bet
ter and build np this nation as a
whole"
Colonel Roosevelt Is speeding to AL
burquerque, New Mexico. today. He
will reach there late this afternoon and
will then shoot directly eastward
through the Southern States The
colonel was greeted by typical western
crowds en- route across the alkali coun-
try today.
At this town on the arid Arizona
desert, the colonel today reiterated his